FIONA APPLE: PAPER BAG.

FIONA APPLE is an american singer-songwriter who started her career in the middle of the nineties. She has published three albums to date and got a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance at the 40th Grammy Awards with her song "Criminal" from Tidal (1996). Today we have chosen PAPER BAG from her second album "When the Pawn..." (2000). A great song with a very interesting Clip directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, 1999).

LYRICS

I was staring at the sky

Just looking for a star

To pray on, or wish on

Or something like that

I was having a sweet fix

Of a daydream of a boy

Whose reality I knew

Was a hopeless to be had

But then the dove of hope began its downward slope

And I believed for a moment that my chances were

Approaching to be grabbed

But as it came down near, so did a weary tear

I thought it was a bird, but it was just a paper bag

Hunger hurts, and I want him so bad, oh it kills

'Cause I know I'm a mess he don't wanna clean up

I got to fold 'cause these hands are too shaky to hold

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love

And I went crazy again today, looking for a strand to climb

Looking for a little hope

Baby said he couldn't stay, wouldn't put his lips to mine,

And a fail to kiss is a fail to cope

And I said, "Honey, I don't feel so good, don't feel justified

Come on put a little love here in my void"

He said, "It's all in your head"

And I said, "So's everything'" but he didn't get it

I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy

Hunger hurts, and I want him so bad, oh it kills

'Cause I know I'm a mess he don't wanna clean up

I got to fold 'cause these hands are too shaky to hold

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love

Hunger hurts, but I want him so bad, oh it kills

'Cause I know I'm a mess he don't wanna clean up

I got to fold because these hands are just too shaky to hold

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love

Oh hunger hurts, but I want him so bad, oh it kills

Because I know that I'm a mess that he don't wanna clean up

I got to fold because these hands are just too shaky to hold

Hunger hurts, but starving it works, when it costs too much to love

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