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Artist: Fiona Apple
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Hot Knife
Read Hot Knife lyrics by Fiona Apple on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Hot Knife
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If I'm butter, if I'm butter
If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife
He makes my heart a cinemascope screen
Showing a dancing bird of paradise
If I'm butter, if I'm butter
If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife
He makes my heart a cinemascope screen
Showing a dancing bird of paradise
He excites me
Must be like the genesis of rhythm
I get feisty
Whenever I'm with him
If I'm butter, if I'm butter
If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife
He makes my heart a cinemascope screen
Showing a dancing bird of paradise
I'm a hot knife, I'm a hot knife
I'm a hot knife, he's a pad of butter
If I get a chance, I'm gonna show him that
He's never gonna need another, never need another
I'm a hot knife, I'm a hot knife
I'm a hot knife, he's a pad of butter
If I get a chance, I'm gonna show him that
He's never gonna need another, never need another
(And you can and you can and you can relax around me)
(If I'm butter, if I'm butter
If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife
He makes my heart a cinemascope screen
Showing a dancing bird of paradise)
(And you can and you can and you can relax around me)
I'm a hot knife, I'm a hot knife
I'm a hot knife, he's a pad of butter
If I get a chance, I'm gonna show him that
He's never gonna need another, never need another
(And you can, and you can, and you can relax around me)
(Maybe he could teach me something
Maybe I could teach him, too
Even just a reach is a triumph and
Now I've even got a hold on you)
He excites me
Must be like a genesis of rhythm
I get feisty
Whenever I'm with him
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