Wicked Girls Saving Ourselves

Bm A Bm Wendy played fair, and she played by the rules that they gave her; Bm A E F# They say she grew up and grew old—Peter Pan couldn't save her G Bm They say she went home, and she never looked back A F# Got her feet on the ground, got her life on its track G D A She's the patron saint priestess of all the lost girls who got found Bm E Bm And she once had her head in the clouds, but she died on the ground Bm A Bm Dorothy just wanted somethin' that she could believe in Bm A E F# A gray dustbowl girl in a life she was better off leavin'... G Bm She made her escape, went from gray into green A Em F#m She coulda got clear, and she coulda got clean G D A But she chose to be good and go back to that gray Kansas sky B Em Bm Where color's a fable and freedom's a fairy tale lie G D Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane Em Bm Susan and Lucy, we're calling your names G D All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain Em F#m And chose to go back on the shelf G D Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree A Bm You have to break rules if you want to break free G D So do as you like—we're determined to be Em G A Wicked girls saving ourselves Bm A Bm D Alice got lost, and I guess that we really can't blame her; Bm A E F#m They say she got tangled and tied in the lies that became her... G They say she went mad, and she never complained A Em For there's peace of a kind in a life unconstrained G D A She gives Cheshire kisses, she's easy with white rabbit smiles B E F# Bm And she'll never be free, but she's won herself safe for a while Bm A Bm Susan and Lucy were queens, and they ruled well and proudly Bm Em F#m They honored their lord and their land, rang the bells long and loudly G Bm And they never once asked to go back to their lives A F#m G To be children and chattel and mothers and wives G D A But the land cast them out in a lesson that only one learned; Bm And one queen said, "I am not a toy!", and she never returned G D Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane Em Bm Susan and Lucy, we're calling your names G D All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain Em F#m And chose to go back on the shelf G D Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree A Bm You have to break rules if you want to break free G D So do as you like—we're determined to be Em G A Wicked girls saving ourselves Bm A Bm Mandy's a pirate, and Mia weaves silk shrouds for faeries Bm A B F#m Deborah will pour you red wine pressed from sweet poisoned berries G B Kate poses riddles and Mary plays tricks A Em F# While Kaia builds towers from brambles and sticks G D And the rules that we live by are simple and clear: Em F# Be wicked and lovely and don't live in fear — G D Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane Em Bm Susan and Lucy, we're calling your names G D All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain Em F#m And chose to go back on the shelf G D Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree, A Bm You have to break rules if you want to break free G D So do as you like—we're determined to be Em F#m Bm A Wicked girls saving ourselves Bridge/Outro G D For we will be wicked and we will be fair Em Bm And they'll call us such names, and we really won't care G D So go tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes Em F# There's a place they can go if they're tired of chains G D And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost A Bm But we'll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost Em F# We won't take our place on the shelves G Bm It's better to fly and it's better to die Em F#m G A Say the wicked girls saving ourselves Em F# Bm A We're wicked girls saving ourselves