There is no way I'm looking for a boyfriend
There is no way I'm looking for a scene
I need to save some dough, I'm a working girl you know
I'll fend attention off, I keep to myself

I love my room, I'm getting used to sleeping
Some nights I really like to lie awake
I hear the midnight birds, the message in their words
The dawn will touch me in a way a boy could never touch
That promise never meant so much to me

You have been warned, I'm born to be contrary
Backward at school, I wrote from right to left
Teacher never cared for me, preacher said a prayer for me
"God help the girl, she needs all the help she can get"

I'll sit for hours just waiting for his phone call
I'll eat the chocolate hidden in the fridge
I'll play his messages, analyze his intonation
Please stop me there, I'm even boring myself

I think of him when I'm doing the dishes
I think of him while looking in the sink
This ain't no play on words, my love for him's absurd
If he gave me a sign I'd think about for a week
I'd build it up and then I'd turn him down

You have been warned, I'm born to be contrary
Backward at school, I wrote from right to left
Teacher never cared for me, preacher said a prayer for me
"God help the girl, she needs all the help she can get"