Pretty Gardens - Róisín Murphy

Here I am, as you made me, telling barefaced lies

Look at me all naked, I let my pretty garden grow wild

It’s free to look upon me, and see the tears I cried

This is me with no makeup, falling like a fool out of pride

You need to like an asymmetric body

You’re smiling at my crooked smile

I never thought that I was perfect in the fucking first place

I’m alright in your eyes

I just want you to look upon me, and see the good inside

What do you see when you look upon me, telling barefaced lies?

Naturally I’m not a blondie, not every hair is dyed

All stripped back

Bare, clean scrubbed face

Sliding out of place

You made me feel

I could be an honest lass

Just like in the past

Any lingering doubt 'bout your love is just irrelevant now

At the worst of my worst you didn’t leave me, are all my imperfections allowed?

You’re a fool to always forgive me, and see the good inside

It’s cruel to make you feel guilty, when I let my pretty garden grow wild

Told barefaced lies

Tried to hide behind the dishonesties

Made a mockery when my life is blessed

With a lazy eye and a crooked smile

These things now are superfluous, would be perfectless

Looking straight at me, there’s no symmetry

Even getting dressed

There’s a lazy eye

So I’ll be brave, I’ll stay here to face myself

Looking straight at me, there’s no symmetry

There’s a lazy eye, and a crooked smile

No artifice to this, just an honest kiss

Looking straight at me, there’s no symmetry

There’s a lazy eye, and a crooked smile