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So, I'm a Long Island girl |
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Long Island, New York. |
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And I went to uh, thank you. |
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I went to New York University and I studied theater. |
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And I took this class down in the village, |
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Lafayette and Asterplace |
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It was a musical theater workshop thing |
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And they called it song interpretation |
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I had this huge crush on my professor, who was gay |
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But freshman girls in college never know that |
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I don't know why but he gave us this assignment |
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to bring a Cole Porter song to class |
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and approach it like a monologue |
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So I picked the sexiest Cole Porter song I could find |
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Which was Love For Sale |
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I figured I was gonna kill two birds with one stone |
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I'm going to seduce my teacher and fulfill the assignment sometime |
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So I get up in front of class and I've worn |
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You know, we used to get really seriously back |
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then so I dressed for the role, |
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I wore some sexy lingerie under my college clothes |
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and I wear some trashy makeup |
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and I get up in front of class and I start singing |
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and I get just a couple lines in |
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and he abruptly stops me and says, |
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"Woah, what are you doing?" |
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And I just stood there and I said, |
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"I'm singing Love For Sale Cole Porter", |
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and he says, |
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"Have you even given any thought to what this song is about? |
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What the lyrics are saying?", |
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and I thought I was just gonna burst into tears and he said, |
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"This is about a woman |
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who's out on the street in the middle of the night being objectified |
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and harassed and God knows what with all of these men, |
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she doesn't know where she's gonna get her next meal from |
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or how she's gonna pay her rent, she's lonely, |
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she's desperate and she's scared" |
