Little Black Dress Lyrics
Just different wrapping around it
No need to soften your words, they’re still gonna hurt
So don’t pull punches
I tried to be everything you’d ever want
And sometimes I even stood on my heart and stomped
Now I’m finally alone and dressed for the show
But going nowhere
They don’t need to see me crying
And if I put on my favorite song
I’m gonna dance until you’re all gone
I’ll get my little black dress on
Now I’m fighting to find the ground again, to steady my feet
Get up off my knees and just remember
That I am more than just somebody’s puppet
I can find the cord and then I’ll cut it
I stand a pretty good chance to dust myself off and dance
And if I put on my favorite song
I’m gonna dance until you’re all gone
I’ll get my little black dress on
I got my little black dress on
And if I tell myself that nothing’s wrong
This doesn’t have to be a sad song
Not with my little black dress on
And paint it with the colors of everything I ever was
Return to the scene of the crime, the day I let the music die
And rewrite the final lines cause this time I
And if I put on my favorite song
I’m gonna dance until you’re all gone
I’ll get my little black dress on
I got my little black dress on
And if I tell myself that nothing’s wrong
This doesn’t have to be a sad song
Not with my little black dress on
It's about getting over a breaking up - going out, looking your best, and holding your head up until you actually start to feel better.
“Little Black Dress” must be the song that came from Sara’s heart when she “stood on her heart and stomped.” This is a song of empowerment, emphasizing the invincibility behind wearing a little black dress, a metaphor for a personalization of the universe. What I mean by this is that, in putting on the little black dress, she is requestioning values, replacing a surrounding world’s facts with her personal truth, and deciding to enjoy the music she hears. In other words, she is writing her own destiny as one who chose to be wrapped in a little black dress, a color commonly connotated negatively. She’s daring to be different.
The stompiness of the lyrics (think stubborn refusal to do something) comes out in the song’s rhythmical divisions, as if the message were like blood veins pulsing with what goes on inside them.