Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
When you're soaked in tears for years it never airs out
When you make pain look this good it never wears out.
This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
While my sister was on stage, killing it like a motherfucker,
I was enraged, feeling it like a motherfucker,
Bird in a cage, you would never know what I was dealing with
Went our separate ways, but I was happy she was killing it.
Bittersweet, she was up, I was down
No lie, I feel good for her, but what do I do now
Forget the records. Off the records was going through some bullshit
Post-survivor, she on fire, who wanna hear my bullshit
Meanwhile this nigga putting his hands on me
Swear yall dont know the half of this industry
Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
When you're soaked in tears for years, it never airs out
When you make pain look this good it never wears out.
Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
And its almost been a decade
I'm behind them black shades
Roll up like its all good, right up out that escalade
Fix my make-up, Get it together, Kelly, get it together
Then we make up, well get it together, nigga, get it together
Kinda lucky, I was in her shadow
Phone call from my sister, what's the matter
She said, Oh no baby you gotta leave
I'm on the kitchen floor he took the keys.
I was mad at everybody I mean everybody
Yeah, her, her, her, her everybody
Five years later, I got my shit down bad
Think I had it good, and they dont know how bad
Fooled everybody, except myself
Soaking in this hurt, bathing in the dirt
Dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
When you're soaked in tears for years, it never airs out.
When you make pain look this good it never wears out.
Dirty laundry, laundry
So here I am in the spin cycle,
We're comin and were goin
Nobody can notice
And I was trapped in his house,lying to my mama
Thought it could get no worser as we maximize the drama
Started to call them people on him..
I was battered
He hitting the window like it was me, until it shattered
He pulled me out, he said, don't nobody love you but me
Not your mama, not your daddy and especially not Bey.
He turned me against my sister
I missed ya.
Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
When youre soaked in tears for years, it never airs out
When you make pain look this good it never wears out.
Let's do this dirty laundry, dirty laundry
Love is pain, and pain is love
He had me fucked up
Love is pain, and pain is love
He had me fucked up