[Hook]
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Let’s do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
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Let’s do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
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When you’re soaked in tears for years, it never airs out
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When you make pain look this good it never wears out
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This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
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[Verse 1]
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While my sister was on stage, killing it like a motherfucker
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I was enraged, feeling it like a motherfucker
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Bird in a cage, you would never know what I was dealing with
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Went out separate ways, but I was happy she was killing it
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Bittersweet, she was up, I was down
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No lie, I feel good for her, but what do I do now?
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Forget the records
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Off the record, I was going through some bullshit
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Post-survivor, she on fire, who wanna hear my bullshit?
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Meanwhile, this nigga putting his hands on me
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I swear y’all don’t know the half of this industry
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[Hook]
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[Verse 2]
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And it’s almost been a decade
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I’m behind them black shades
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Roll up like it’s all good, right up out that escalade
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Fix my make-up, “get it together, Kelly, get it together”
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Then we make up, “well get it together, nigga, get it together”
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Kinda lucky, I was in her shadow
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Phone call from my sister, “what’s the matter?”
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She said, “Oh no, baby – you gotta leave!”
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I’m on the kitchen floor – he took the keys
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I was mad at everybody, I mean everybody
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Yeah, her, her, her her everybody
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Five years later, I got my shit down pat
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Think I had it good, and they don’t know how bad
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Fooled everybody, except myself
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Soaking in this hurt, bathing in the dirt
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[Hook]
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[Verse 3]
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So here I am in the spin cycle
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We’re comin and we’re goin
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Nobody can know this
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And I was trapped in his house, lyin’ to my mama
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Thought it could get no worse as we maximize the drama
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Started to call them people on him
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I was battered
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He hittin the window like it was me, until it shattered
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He pulled me out, he said, “Don’t nobody love you but me
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Not your mama, not your daddy and especially not Bey”
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He turned me against my sister
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I missed ya
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[Hook]
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Dirty Laundry
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| Kelly Rowland |
