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I guess you could call it textbook I was looking for the father I wanted back And I thought I found it in Brentwood It seemed only appropriate you'd easily had my back And then there was the issue of her I didn't even like myself, or love the life I had And there you were with shinin' stars standin' blue with open arms You touched the detriment most of the friends I knew already had You've got a Thunderbird, my daddy had one, too Let's rewrite history, I'll do this dance with you You know I'm not that girl, you know I'll never be Maybe just the way we're different could set me free There we were, screamin', "Black Lives Matter" In a crowd, by the Old Man River And I saw you saw who I am God, I wish I was with my father He could see us in all our splendor All the things I couldn't want for him I screamed for them, oh, oh I screamed for them, ah-ah Could we do this dance again? Do you think if I go blonde we could get our old love back? I guess this is really the end I never felt jealous before this year, but I'm jealous now People say we're too much alike But maybe, finally, that'll make it right in the end Of all these sleepless nights Other men I met felt right Would smile at you and stick a knife in your back Finally, I met you, so I'm not wonderin' why You've got a Thunderbird, my daddy had one too Let's rewrite history, I'll do this dance with you You know I'm that not that girl, you know I'll never be Maybe just the way we're different could set me free There we were, screamin', "Black Lives Matter" In a crowd, by the Old Man River And I saw you saw who I am God, I wish I was with my father He could see us in all our splendor All the things I couldn't want for him I screamed for them, oh, oh I screamed for them, ah-ah Old Man River keeps rollin' With or without him Old Man River keeps rollin' Without him, oh, my old man Old Man River keeps rollin', oh