I’m good at cooking.

Yeah, the furikake salmon that I make is the best.

Not half-bad looking,

even though sometimes I need half the afternoon to get dressed.

They say I look best in red,

but I would rather rock a purple or a jewel-tone blue.

Take the right side of the bed,

because the left’s where the alarm is set for you-know-who.

I can have lots of fun

doing simple dates like dinner and an action movie.

Adored by everyone,

so, where the fuck’d you get off thinking you could come “improve” me?!

You don’t care at all about the band I’ve got, and don’t like who I’m kissing.

So focused on the myriad of shit I’m not, you don’t know what you’re missing!

I am slowly getting even less impressed the more I learn about you.

I’m not remotely feeling even kinda stressed; I’m doing fine without you!

I can understand that you’ve been at a loss. I know that you don’t get me.

But maybe realize that you are not my boss, ‘cause fuck, you’ve barely met me!

You don’t know me,

so don’t think that you get to judge!

You can complain about me endlessly,

but you’re never, ever, ever gonna get me to budge!

No, no!

I don’t know you!

What makes you think that you get a say?

I’m gonna show you what this girl can do

when I’m tuning out the noise and doing it my way!

Hey!

My life is moving forward at the speed of sound.

You’re never gonna slow me!

‘Cause you decided that you didn’t want me around,

and that’s why you don’t know me!

I write curses

in the words to almost every single one of my songs.

The crowds love my verses,

so please, stop thinking you can tell me that I’m doin’ it wrong?

You don’t approve it.

I know that every time you see me up here singing, it hurts.

Hate how I move it,

and how my temper’s even shorter on most days than my skirts!

I’m not a lady.

You can’t stand the way I spend my time out rockin’ in bars,

but hey, just maybe,

it’s where orphan girls like me go when they wanna be stars?

I know that you think that I’m a laughingstock, some dumb attention-seeker.

I guess you haven’t seen ‘em lining up around the block to hear me blowin’ out the speakers!

My songs are playin’ loud on every radio. They love how I design ‘em.

People waving photos at me everywhere I go, just hopin’ that I’ll sign ‘em!

I don't really think I'm gonna pass your test, your dumb evaluation,

but the thing is, I’ve already been told I’m the best by the charts in several nations!

You don’t know me,

so don’t think that you get to judge!

You can bitch about it constantly,

but you’re never, ever, ever gonna get me to budge!

No, no!

I don’t know you!

What makes you think that you get a say?

I’m gonna show you what this girl can do

when I’m tuning out the noise and doing it my way!

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Hey!

My life is moving forward at the speed of sound.

You’re never gonna slow me!

Yeah, you decided that you didn’t want me around,

and that’s why you don’t know me!

I’m athletic.

Yeah, I’m pretty fucking good at some obscure martial arts.

It’s poetic

that now, instead of breakin’ boards, I’m up here breakin’ boys’ hearts.

Don’t do much fighting,

but I’ve found a better way to go deliver a strike.

Crowds delighting

watchin’ me takin’ you apart with just a wink and a mic!

Yeah, I mastered

dozens of techniques that I hope never to use,

‘cause you let that bastard

burn through everything that I had to lose!

I know that I’m not what you had hoped to find. I’m not what you expected.

But just ‘cause I have been completely redefined, don’t mean I need corrected!

Pretty sure it’s been at least eleven years since I’ve even got a letter,

so don’t think you’ll just show up and shed a couple’a tears, and tell me you know better!

You swear to me you really care for me, but if you did, you’d know that

the time I really needed you there for me was fifteen years ago, and…

you don’t know me,

so don’t think that you get to judge!

You can go ahead and threaten me,

but you’re never, ever, ever gonna get me to budge!

No, no!

I don’t know you!

What makes you think that you get a say?

I’m gonna show you what this girl can do

when I’m tuning out the noise and doing it my way!

Hey!

My life is moving forward at the speed of sound.

You’re never gonna slow me!

‘Cause you decided that you didn’t want me around,

and that’s why you don’t know me!

I’m graduating.

Even though I won’t be at the top of my class,

I’m celebrating

because I made it through three years of lessons kicking my ass.

Yeah,

my friends love me.

My classmates clear a path for me when I walk down the halls.

Posters of me,

my face a meter high, hung up on everyone’s walls.

And,

I’m cheerleading.

Yeah, and I’m the first in seven years to land a quadruple twist!

I keep succeeding,

rackin’ up all these achievements in a life that you missed!

I’ve got four badass sisters and an awesome mom. You’ll never meet her, but her name is Hana.

She built me a stage so I could drop this bomb, with lyrics sharper than your dumb katana!

You thought that you could change me in a couple’a days. It never really fazed me.

But if you were so determined to help set my ways, you probably should have raised me!

I was really hoping I could earn your backing, but on second thought, just don’t bother.

I think it’s probably time for me to send you packing, just like I did my father!

You don’t know me,

so don’t think that you get to judge!

Haven’t found a thing you like in me,

but you’re never, ever, ever gonna get me to budge!

Fuck no!

I don’t know you!

What made you think that you got a say?

You think there’s a million things a girl like me can’t do,

but just back off, and watch me anyway!

My life is moving forward riding waves of sound.

I’ll never let you slow me!

‘Cause I’ve decided that I really don’t want you around,

and that’s why you won’t know me!