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