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MARY JANE: Yes.

FRANKIE: My sweater is on backwards and inside out¹ / And you say “how appropriate.”

NICK: She didn’t mention your sweater...

MARY JANE: I don’t like to dissect everything today / I don’t mean to pick you apart you see / But I can’t help it

STEVE: You said you were gonna try.

FRANKIE: And there I go jumping before the gunshot has gone off / Slap me with a splintered ruler / And it would knock me to the floor if I wasn’t there already / If only I could hunt the hunter²

MARY JANE AND STEVE: And all I really want is some patience / A way to calm my angry voice

FRANKIE/CHORUS: And all I really want is deliverance

FRANKIE/MARY JANE: Ah

CHORUS: Ah ah

MARY JANE/CHORUS: Do I

MARY JANE:
Wear you out
You must wonder why I’m
relentless and all strung out
I’m consumed by the chill
of solitary

FRANKIE: I’m like Estella³
I like to reel it in
And then spit it out
I’m frustrated by
your apathy

And I am frightened by
the corrupted ways of
this land
If only I could meet the maker
And I am fascinated by the
spiritual woman

FRANKIE/CHORUS:
Do I

Wear you out

CHORUS:
Ahh...
I’m like Estella
I like to reel it in

Your apathy,
your apathy
Your apathy,
your apathy...
Ooh...
Ooh...

Ooh...
Ooh...

1 “I really did wear my sweaters backward and inside-out, but not intentionally or anything. I was just a happy little mess, completely disheveled, writing songs in Canada.”

2 “This lyric is about empowerment in a world of sexual, emotional, and financial predation. ’Hunt the hunter’ is me turning it around, saying, ’I know what your agenda is. I know your strategy. I know you want money from me. I know these [record] contracts are unconscionable. I wanted to turn the tables and just say, “You know what? I’m after you now.’”

3 “I was reading Great Expectations at the time, and I just really related to Estella. And Wuthering Heights and Kate Bush—I was just kind of obsessed with that haunted thing. I still am, actually.”