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Biography Of A Good Girl

from Sticker Collection by Lauren Best

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  • The Compact Disc comes in a high-quality digipack with a 15.5"x15.5" fold-out poster with collage by Sandra Rojas on one side with liner notes and all lyrics on reverse.

    This package ships includes a 100% organic cotton Me To We t-shirt (in Pale Yellow) with original artwork by Moira Campbell. NEW update: Heather Blue now available (organic cotton/recycled polyester blend).

    "Me to We Style is a new social enterprise that is committed to providing ethically manufactured, quality apparel for the socially-conscious consumer. Our product line is domestically produced, sweatshop-free and made using certified organic cotton.
    In addition, 50 per cent of our profit goes to our charity partner, Free The Children, to support development projects in rural and impoverished areas across the globe."

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lyrics/music L.M. Best
horn arrangement by Tyler Wagler

lyrics

I’ve never understood
How I’ve always been so good
And they’ve never seen that I was just scared
How I rarely was denied
And always seemed to try
Unless something caught me unprepared

It’s this feeling of resentment that I can’t seem to escape
And the chance to fuck it up that I always want to take
I’ll make so many well-placed mistakes
Spice up my history with every pill I take

Being good was never good enough for me
Being a good girl don’t make for much mystery
Self-loathing, self-help and a little self-pleasuring
Is what gives a young lady a best-selling biography

I know I’d let you down
If I ever hit the ground
So I learned how to discreetly hover
Keep my problems perfect
The sort that will be worth it
Once I become that excellent daughter, mother, lover

It’s forming bad habits that I know that I can shake
Making little promises I know that I will break
Stay when I should leave, and leave when I should stay
Spice up my history with every woman I lay

Being good was never good enough for me
Being a good girl don’t make for much mystery
Self-loathing, self-help and a little self-pleasuring
Is what gives a young lady a best-selling biography

I could never be amazed
I could never be a disgrace
Playing out exactly according to script
Not too normal
But not too much of a performer
Just the right amount of insecurity to be hip

It’s soiling my own destiny with every move I make
Planning out the moments that I’ll let my façade break
I’ll be everything I hate
Spice up my history with each wrong word I say
Spice up my history with every breath I take

credits

from Sticker Collection, released January 11, 2011
Lauren Best: vocals
Rebecca Campbell: background vocals
Michael Fonfara: piano, organ
Archie Alleyne: percussion
Gary Taylor: percussion
Tyler Wagler: upright bass
Kevin Barrett: electric guitar
Eric Woolston: marimba
Bob Rice: trumpet
Steve Donald: trombone
Colleen Allen: tenor saxophone

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Lauren Best and The Renegade Company: Lyrical alt-pop, revealing a quirky singer-songwriter with diverse influences. "Thinking and feeling music" with jazzy grooves and reflective lyrics that speak to audiences of all ages. Small-town sensibility with big-city flavour. ... more

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