I Came So Far For Beauty

Song I Came So Far For Beauty
Artist Stina Nordenstam
Album People Are Strange

Lyrics

[00:10.17] I came so far for beauty
[00:14.98] I left so much behind
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[00:19.73] My patience and my family
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[00:25.54] masterpiece My unsigned
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[00:29.18] I thought I'd be rewarded
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[00:33.62] For such a lonely choice
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[00:39.18] And surely she would answer
[00:42.55] To such a hopeless very voice
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[00:55.74] I practiced all my sainthood
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[01:00.76] I gave to one and all
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[01:06.76] But the rumours of my virtue
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[01:12.76] They moved her not at all
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[01:30.56] I changed my style to silver
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[01:35.85] I changed my clothes to black
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[01:41.66] And where I would surrender
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[01:48.79] Now I would attack
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[02:04.92] I stormed the old casino
[02:09.16] For the money and the flesh
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[02:16.77] And I myself decided
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[02:21.39] What was rotten and what was fresh
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[02:28.33] And men to do my bidding
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[02:33.96] And broken bones to teach
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[02:39.69] The value of my pardon
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[02:44.65] The shadow of my reach
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[03:03.10] But no, I could not touch her
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[03:08.47] With such a heavy hand
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[03:14.21] Her star beyond my order
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[03:20.02] Her nakedness unmanned
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[03:27.65] end