Cyndi Lauper

Released: December 2, 1993

Songwriter: Nicholas Holland Cyndi Lauper

Producer: William Wittman Cyndi Lauper

[Verse 1]
I was folding up your letters, unpacking winter clothes
Searching for my hat, I thought I'd left it by the door
So I tore around the room like a bird without a head
I saw your picture waving back at me from underneath the bed
From a long, long time ago

[Chorus 1]
When all I had was a hat full of stars
The one I'll always treasure
The one that you wore
You loved the look but you never looked inside
You would have seen us there
You could've seen far
You should've seen the magic
In my hat full of stars

[Verse 2]
I'm trying to live in the present, but I keep tripping on the past
Finding out reality - well, clarity, comes in drips and drabs
No, we never had the time for everything we had
So it felt like we had nothing, that's what makes this hat so sad
It was a long, long time ago

[Chorus 2]
When all we had was a hat full of stars
The one I'll always treasure
The one that you wore
You loved the look, but you never looked inside
You would have seen us there
You could've seen far
You should've seen the magic
In my hat full of stars

[Bridge]
Now whenever I'm alone and I think I might forget
I wear my lucky hat just like a crown up on my head

[Chorus 3 + Outro]
'Cause all I had was a hat full of stars
The one I'll always treasure
The one that you wore
You loved the look, but you didn't look inside
If you could see me now
You would've seen far
You should've seen the magic
In my hat full of stars
In my hat full of stars
In my hat full of stars
In my hat full of stars

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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