I'm just here for dictation
I don't want to be a sensation
Bein' on 60 Minutes
Wasn't worth your 15 minutes

Don't touch my breast
I'm just working at my desk
Don't put me to the test
I'm just doing my best

Shopping at MaxFields
Power for you to wield
Dreams of going to the Grammys
Till you poked me with your whammy

You spin the discs,
Now you're moving your wrist
I'm just from Encino
Why are you so meano?

I'm just here for dictation
And not your summer vacation
You really like to shmooze
Well now you're on the news

I'm from Sherman Oaks
Just a wheel in the spokes
But I ain't giving you head
In a Sunset bungalow

Roshumba, Judith, Paulina, Kathy,
Vendella, Naomi, Ashley, Angie, Stacey, Gail
I'm swimming
I'm swimming
I'm swimming


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    The lyric at the end is definitely "I'm swimmin'". The correct lyrics are up on the SY website.

    It seems pretty clear that this song is a rebellion against the image of the modern woman as a means and not an end in herself, as an object and not a person.

    sygirl10on March 13, 2008   Link

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