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Remember that Halloween when you were nine
You wore a fairy queen costume of your own design
Well look at you now
and you put on rouge and lipstick though it wasn't allowed you were so proud
and daddy said wash your face
you look like a whore
That's what he said no more
and so you went up stairs washed your face
took off your dress through it away
got into bed as though it were the end of an ordinary day
and outside the moon continued to shine
Remember that Halloween when you were nine
Well damn you daddy
look at your little girl now
She feels twitch and bitchy and manic
calm and collected no sign of panic shes alive shes alive shes alive
so alive
i'm wound up like a spring thats been tightened
dreamy and dizzy but not a bit frightened
I'm alive i'm alive so alive
Everybody loves a winner but nobody loves a flop
no one worries how you got there once your standing on the top
So i feel up and together and steady
Eager excited so come on i'm ready
Ready for the climb
Baby its my time
You believe it I'm alive
Alive!