Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
If you've ever wondered why
Disney tales all end in lies
Here's what happened after all their dreams came true
I loved being princess down in this beautiful ocean blue
But mermaids are going missing they end up in someone's stew
So just try to put yourself into somebody else's gills
You're killing my ecosystem with fishing and oil spills (oh, no)
Thank you BP (thank you BP), thank you BP (thank you BP)
The British are killing, oil is spilling
Now I can't see, my eyes!
China men feast on Flounder's fins
Plus the Japanese killed all my whale friends
Oceans are browning
I think I'm drowning
Thanks to BP
You suck!
Hey, I'm OK, but I'm slightly scared
My husband's a mark for the War on Terror
Aladdin was taken by the CIA
We're not Taliban
You've got the wrong man
In Guantanamo Bay
Prince Ali, where could he be, drowning in wawa
Interrogation from the nation of the "free"
Bin Laden's taken the fall
We're not trained pilots at all
Jafar went crazy and no one put up a fuss
We're for freedom, Genie can vouch for us
Bush was crazy, Obama's lazy, al-Qaeda's not in this country
Set free my Prince Ali
A whore, a whore!
A whore, a whore, a whore!
This town's gone wild since I married Adam
They think I'm going straight to hell (she'll burn bottom in hell)
But the charges laid on me
Of bestiality
Could wind up getting me thrown in a cell (she is a witch)
Oh, no, I'm overrun by mad men (we're all crazy)
I hear they plan to burn me at, at the stake (the witch will fry, that Belle must die)
They legit believe I'm Satan
And now I hear that PETA's gonna take my beast away
After John Smith traveled back to England
I helped my people cultivate the fields
More English, French and Spaniards came to visit
And they greeted us with guns and germs and steel
They forced us into unknown lands of exile
They pillaged, raped and left us all for dead
So now I'm far more liberal with a weapon
When I separate their bodies from their heads (wait, what!?)
(Oh, no!) have you ever held the entrails of an English guy?
(We're dead!) or bit the beating hearts of Spanish men?
Can you shoot an arrow in some French guy's eyeball? (sacré bleu!)
Can you paint with the red colors in these men? (adiós, amigos)
I can murder if I please
'Cause I'm dying of disease
I can paint with the red colors in these men
Thanks to BP
Where's Prince Ali?
Bestiality
I've got STDs
Waaah waaaaah wah wah waaaaaaaah
Disney tales all end in lies
Here's what happened after all their dreams came true
I loved being princess down in this beautiful ocean blue
But mermaids are going missing they end up in someone's stew
So just try to put yourself into somebody else's gills
You're killing my ecosystem with fishing and oil spills (oh, no)
Thank you BP (thank you BP), thank you BP (thank you BP)
The British are killing, oil is spilling
Now I can't see, my eyes!
China men feast on Flounder's fins
Plus the Japanese killed all my whale friends
Oceans are browning
I think I'm drowning
Thanks to BP
You suck!
Hey, I'm OK, but I'm slightly scared
My husband's a mark for the War on Terror
Aladdin was taken by the CIA
We're not Taliban
You've got the wrong man
In Guantanamo Bay
Prince Ali, where could he be, drowning in wawa
Interrogation from the nation of the "free"
Bin Laden's taken the fall
We're not trained pilots at all
Jafar went crazy and no one put up a fuss
We're for freedom, Genie can vouch for us
Bush was crazy, Obama's lazy, al-Qaeda's not in this country
Set free my Prince Ali
A whore, a whore!
A whore, a whore, a whore!
This town's gone wild since I married Adam
They think I'm going straight to hell (she'll burn bottom in hell)
But the charges laid on me
Of bestiality
Could wind up getting me thrown in a cell (she is a witch)
Oh, no, I'm overrun by mad men (we're all crazy)
I hear they plan to burn me at, at the stake (the witch will fry, that Belle must die)
They legit believe I'm Satan
And now I hear that PETA's gonna take my beast away
After John Smith traveled back to England
I helped my people cultivate the fields
More English, French and Spaniards came to visit
And they greeted us with guns and germs and steel
They forced us into unknown lands of exile
They pillaged, raped and left us all for dead
So now I'm far more liberal with a weapon
When I separate their bodies from their heads (wait, what!?)
(Oh, no!) have you ever held the entrails of an English guy?
(We're dead!) or bit the beating hearts of Spanish men?
Can you shoot an arrow in some French guy's eyeball? (sacré bleu!)
Can you paint with the red colors in these men? (adiós, amigos)
I can murder if I please
'Cause I'm dying of disease
I can paint with the red colors in these men
Thanks to BP
Where's Prince Ali?
Bestiality
I've got STDs
Waaah waaaaah wah wah waaaaaaaah
Lyrics submitted by HellGirlLuv
After Ever After Lyrics as written by Jon Cozart
Lyrics © TUNECORE INC, TuneCore Inc.
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