this time baby, I'll be...bulletproof!

I've found a lot of solace singing to this particular La Roux song. it's sung with as much vitriol that can come out of a woman who's been jilted. TBH there just aren't enough songs out there today that don't sound all jokey when a woman is saying, "look, I loved you once and I may have cried over you at one point. but damn it, I'm not going to let you hurt me anymore. I'm going to hold my head up high and I WILL get over you."

at some points this song makes me cry b/c golly gee whiz, I wish I could have said something similar to someone who was important to me in a past life.

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been there, done that, messed around,
I'm having fun don't put me down
I'll never let you
sweep me off my feet.

I won't let you in again,
the messages I've tried to send,
my information's just not going in.

burning bridges shore to shore,
I'll break away from something more
I'm not turned on to love
until it's cheap.

been there done that messed around
I'm having fun don't put me down,
I'll never let you
sweep me off my feet.

This time baby I'll be bulletproof,
This time baby I'll be bulletproof.

I won't let you turn around
And tell me now I'm much too proud
to walk away from something
when it's dead.

do do do your dirty words
come out to play when you are hurt?
there's certain things
that should be left unsaid.

tick tick tick tick on the watch
and life's too short for me to stop
oh baby, your time is running out.

I won't let you turn around
and tell me now I'm much too proud
all you do
is fill me up with doubt.

this time baby I'll be bulletproof.

ignore the '80s stylising in the video, it's all a bit much.