Amy Arena Excuse Me Lyrics

Excuse Me Lyrics

Excuse me 
If I don't get up
Excuse me 
If I'm an unwed
mother
Excuse me 
If I don't have a job
Excuse me 
If I'm a
gap-toothed woman

Excuse me 
If I don't stink of Chanel No. 5 
And
I don't drink champagne and I loathe caviar
Excuse me 
If I get bored
easily when men start talking about their jobs 
And their money 
And
their ex-wives and ex-girlfriends
And their trouble with their mothers and
their bosses
And their alimony payments and their goddamned visitation
rights

Excuse me 
If I don't have a boyfriend and I don't want a
boyfriend 
And I don't get wet when foolish men touch me 
And invite me
into the back seat of their expensive cars
Excuse me 
If I'm not an
ordinary girl or an average girl or like the girl you imagine next door
And
I like the color black and naugahyde that is black and whips and chains and use
coffee filters for toilet paper when I run out of toilet paper
And White-Out
for nail polish because I like it
Excuse me!
Excuse me?

Excuse me

If I don't eat meat 
And I'm against cruelty to animals 
And I'm
anti-vivisection 
And I eat ice cream with nuts from the rainforest

Because I support the rainforest
Excuse me 
If I scare you by the way
I dress 
And by my direct language that's never used in the universities or
your senile boardrooms 
Because I'm a product of the '90s
I'm a woman of
the '90s
I'm my own person and I'm not a victim 
And I've risen above the
garbage heap I was born in 
And I look down on you who've never seen a
trashcan in your life 
And I don't need your approval or
applause

Just excuse me
Excuse me!
Excuse me

Excuse me

If I don't get up
Excuse me
If I'm an unwed mother
Excuse me

If I don't have a job
Excuse me
If I'm a gap-toothed
woman

Life is just one damned thing after another
Life is just one
damned thing after another