Cyndi Lauper

Released: April 4, 2016

Songwriter: Marty Robbins

Producer: Tony Brown Cyndi Lauper

I left you this morning
Couldn't take anymore
You laughed and you dared me
To walk out the door
You said that I'd come back
You knew what I'd do
And you know you were right cause
I'm back here tonight
Begging to you

I won't disappoint you
I'm begging to stay
That's what you wanted
To hear anyway
It must make you happy
To make me so blue
What a pitiful sight
I must be tonight
Begging to you

You don't want my loving
But you let me stay around
I guess just to walk on
So you won't touch the ground
To you it don't matter
What you cause me to do
As long as you keep me
Begging to you

[Instrumental]

What a pitiful sight
I must be tonight
Begging to you
Oh, you don't want my loving
But you let me stay around
I guess just to walk on
So you won't touch the ground
To you it don't matter
What you cause me to do
As long as you keep me
Begging to you
As long as you keep me
Begging to you

An 80’s pop starlet that skyrocketed her way to the top of the mainstream game, Cyndi Lauper has made her mark as an artist both socially and musically.

Beginning her solo career in the 1983 with hit debut album She’s So Unusual, Lauper came to be a household name with the four top-five hits that came with the record, including breakthrough single “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and the visceral, chart-topping “Time After Time”. Her camp attitude, electrifying vocals, and unrelenting earworms made an impression on the general public, and she would take home Best New Artist and Best Album Package at the Grammy’s for She’s So Unusual, amidst 4 other nominations. Lauper would never reach the same sort of stardom again musically following She’s So Unusual, but her legacy was far from over.

She’s So Unusual set the ground for her next True Colors. Released in 1986, the album most notably contained title-track “True Colors”, which would grow to become a primary anthem of the gay rights movement. Lauper would later serve as a key advocate of the LGBT community, and she has fairly consistently addressed homophobia throughout her career.

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