squint your eyes and look closer 
I'm not between you and your ambition 
I am a poster girl with no poster 
I am thirty-two flavors and then some 
and I'm beyond your peripheral vision 
so you might want to turn your head 
cause someday you're going to get hungry 
and eat most of the words you just said 
 
both my parents taught me about good will 
and I have done well by their names 
just the kindness I've lavished on strangers 
is more than I can explain 
still there's many who've turned out their porch lights 
just so I would think they were not home 
and hid in the dark of their windows 
til I'd passed and left them alone 
 
and god help you if you are an ugly girl 
course too pretty is also your doom 
cause everyone harbors a secret hatred 
for the prettiest girl in the room 
and god help you if you are a pheonix 
and you dare to rise up from the ash 
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy 
while you are just flying back 
 
I'm not trying to give my life meaning 
by demeaning you 
and I would like to state for the record 
I did everything that I could do 
I'm not saying  that I'm a saint 
I just don't want to live that way 
no, I will never be a saint 
but I will always say 
 
squint your eyes and look closer 
I'm not between you and your ambition 
I am a poster girl with no poster 
I am thirty-two flavors and then some 
And I'm beyond your peripheral vision 
So you might want to turn your head 
Cause someday you might find you're starving 
and eating all of the words you said