Cyndi Lauper

She's just a product of misery...

Everyday she'd go around
Everytime I see that frown
Broken down and down and out
The drudgery goes on and on
Oh I just want to say
I ain't gonna live that way 'cause

She's just a product of misery
I don't want to live like that
Just a product of misery
I don't want to live like that

Like her mother and hers before
She left her heart out by the door
Everybody passed it by
They never bothered asking why
She stayed looked up inside
Watching as the world turns by

Now she's just a product of misery
I don't want to live like that...
Just a product of misery
I don't want to live like that
I don't want to live like that !
Hey, like that ?!
I don't want to live like that...
Just a product of misery....

...Annie said she must confess
She never came and never left
Never could communicate and
Now the time is much too late
Passions laid to rest
Buried with her wedding dress

Now she's just a product of misery...
I don't want to live like that
I don't want to live like that...
Just a product of misery

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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