Dinner Parties

Dinner parties
And a cotton candy dress
Cream puff pastries
And a game of chess

Soft composure
Calm like lilies on the pond
A hunt for closure
And an iron bond

It's delicate when it needs to be
It's a relic of her history
It's a butter knife with a dagger's blade
A sophisticated masquerade

It's long nights with bow ties
It's scheming behind doe eyes
It's a ribbon-wrapped Trojan horse
It's all

Girlhood
Girlhood
It's girlhood, girlhood
Mmmm
It's girlhood

Dinner parties
And a pale pink chiffon cake
Sparkling bubbly
In a glass that breaks

Bows and arrows
Stored in wardrobe armories
Choirs of sparrows
Cunning reveries

It's delicate when it needs to be
It's a relic of her history
It's a butter knife with a dagger's blade
A sophisticated masquerade

It's long nights with bow ties
It's scheming behind doe eyes
It's a ribbon-wrapped Trojan horse
It's all

Girlhood
Girlhood
It's girlhood, girlhood
Mmmm
It's girlhood

You'll never know, we'll never tell
We'll teach our daughters every spell
The secret is safe like pearls in a shell
The feminine urge to decorate hell

You'll never know, we'll never tell
We'll teach our daughters every spell
With rubies and pearls and towers of tulle
There's nothing more lethal than a beautiful little fool

Girlhood
Girlhood
It's girlhood, girlhood
Mmmm
It's girlhood