Vienna Teng - Grandmother Song lyrics
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Oh girl you think you got time<br>
You're gonna get 'round to it way down the line<br>
But one step, two step, you fall behind<br>
So you better have a good plan<br>
Oh girl you think you got time<br>
You're gonna get 'round to it way down the line<br>
But I'm telling you no matter what you have in mind<br>
You're still gonna need a man<br>
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Take it from your grandmother I've been 'round<br>
No one's gonna take care of you<br>
In that world you've got yourself into<br>
All the good boys, oh baby they're in grad school<br>
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Oh girl your story's all wrong<br>
Your dream'll be a nightmare before too long<br>
Turning thirty and still trying to sing your songs<br>
Come on who do you think you are<br>
Oh girl it's too heavy a load<br>
Your mama and your baba they are worried souls<br>
How you gonna raise a family when you're on the road<br>
With some tattooed boy with a guitar<br>
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Take it from your grandmother I've been 'round<br>
This music career isn't real life<br>
It won't see you through to when you're sixty-five<br>
When the tide turns you won't survive<br>
You'll sit on the banks and cry<br>
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Oh girl you've never know war<br>
When they come in the night and knock on the door<br>
You can go from the high life to dirty poor<br>
And lose everything you knew<br>
But the one thing they can't take away from you<br>
Is your mind and the education you've been through<br>
O you find a man who understands that too<br>
Make sure that he stays true<br>
Gives respect where its due<br>
Make sure he knows what he's got in you<br>
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Because a woman isn't just for cooking meals<br>
Scrubbing floors, making babies<br>
A woman's got ambitions same as he does<br>
Maybe more<br>
When the sirens wailed and the bombs fell<br>
We ran from the schoolyard into hell<br>
And what we could've been time will never tell<br>
'cause we never had your chances<br>
The advantages that you've been handed<br>
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Take it from your grandmother I've been 'round<br>
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<i>[Thanks to Jon Wieber for these lyrics]</i><br>
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