Gaslite by Emma Copp Lyrics

Please fuck this up, I'm begging you--
I can't take another nice apology
Prove me right, I dare you now
No more soothing it, smoothing it out
Let me raise my voice at some indignity

Put down the paper you've been cutting with--
Take a knife and go on, slice me deep
I won't even be surprised
Just finally justified
Let me know this once that I'm deserving

'Cause I've been cute as a button
And just as full of holes
Been ground down with a squish and not a crunch
Can't find a single villain
'Mong the decent men I've chosе
And I can't find one who hasn't made me shrunk
Thеy don't ask me
They don't know it
They won't ever understand
And I resent every good man
Don't ask me to my face
But I resent every good man
Please fuck this up, I'm begging you--
There's a fight inside that's simmered on low heat
I've backpedaled and calmed down
Compensated, frustrated and cowed
And appeased until I'm not sure it's defeat

Just fuck this up, you owe me that--
I can scream and cry and settle up a score
Every time you've turned the tide
Accommodated and shifted aside
Settling for less instead of more

And I've been cute as a button
And just as full of holes
Been ground down with a squish and not a crunch
Can't find a single villain
'Mong the decent men I've chose
And I can't find one who hasn't made me shrunk
They don't ask me
They don't know it
They won't ever understand
And I resent every good man
I'll back down if you press
But I resent every good man
And much to my contempt
I swoon and bend to every good man