Lana Del Rey
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This Is What Makes Us Girls

This Is What Makes Us Girls lyrics by Lana Del Rey. Remember how we used to party up all night Sneaking out and looking for a taste of real life Drinking in...

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This Is What Makes Us Girls

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Remember how we used to party up all night

Sneaking out and looking for a taste of real life

Drinking in the small town firelight

(Pabst blue ribbon on ice)

Sweet sixteen and we had arrived

Walkin' down the streets as they whistle, hi, hi!

Stealin' police cars with the senior guys

Teachers said we'd never make it out alive

There she was my new best friend

High heels in her hands, swayin' in the wind

Oh, she starts to cry, mascara running down her little bambi eyes

Lana, how I hate those guys

This is what makes us girls

We all look for heaven and we put our love first

Something that we'd die for

It's a curse

Don't cry about it, don't cry about it

This is what makes us girls

We don't stick together, 'cause we put our love first

Don't cry about him, don't cry about him

It's all gonna happen

And that's where the beginning of the end began

Everybody knew that we had too much fun

We were skippin' school and drinkin' on the job

(With the boss)

Sweet sixteen and we had arrived

Baby's table dancin' at the local dive

Cheerin' our names in the pink spotlight

Drinkin' cherry schnapps in the velvet night

Yo, we used to go break in to the hotel

Glimmering and we’d swim

Runnin' from the cops in our black bikini tops

Screaming "get us while we're hot"

Get us while we're hot

(Come on take a shot)

This is what makes us girls

We all look for heaven and we put love first

Something that we'd die for

It's a curse

Don't cry about it, don't cry about it

This is what makes us girls

We don't stick together, 'cause we put our love first

Don't cry about him, don't cry about him

It's all gonna happen

The prettiest in crowd that you had ever seen

Ribbons in our hair and our eyes gleamed mean

A freshmen generation of degenerate beauty queens

And you know something?

They were the only friends I ever had

We got into trouble and when stuff got bad

I got sent away, I was wavin' on the train platform

Crying, 'cause I know I'm never comin' back

This is what makes us girls

We all look for heaven and we put our love first

Something that we'd die for

It's a curse

Don't cry about it, don't cry about it

This is what makes us girls

We don't stick together, 'cause we put our love first

Don't cry about him, don't cry about him

It's all gonna happen

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