squint your eyes and look closer
  I'm not between you and your ambition
  I am a poster girl with no poster
  I am thirty-two flavors and then some
  and I'm beyond your peripheral vision
  so you might want to turn your head
  cause someday you're going to get hungry
  and eat most of the words you just said
    both my parents taught me about good will
  and I have done well by their names
  just the kindness I've lavished on strangers
  is more than I can explain
  still there's many who've turned out their porch lights
  just so I would think they were not home
  and hid in the dark of their windows
  til I'd passed and left them alone
    and god help you if you are an ugly girl
  course too pretty is also your doom
  cause everyone harbors a secret hatred
  for the prettiest girl in the room
  and god help you if you are a pheonix
  and you dare to rise up from the ash
  a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy
  while you are just flying back
    I'm not trying to give my life meaning
  by demeaning you
  and I would like to state for the record
  I did everything that I could do
  I'm not saying that I'm a saint
  I just don't want to live that way
  no, I will never be a saint
  but I will always say
    squint your eyes and look closer
  I'm not between you and your ambition
  I am a poster girl with no poster
  I am thirty-two flavors and then some
  And I'm beyond your peripheral vision
  So you might want to turn your head
  Cause someday you might find you're starving
  and eating all of the words you said