In Laurie's Brain - We Are Forty(-ish)

I Am Woman
Words and Music by Helen Reddy and Ray Burton

We Are Forty(-ish)
Words by Laurie Ransonette Anderson

We are forty. We are bored.
Let’s go out drinking. Say the word.
Then, we’ll go and shake our asses in a club.
We need a break. We need a drink.
My fucking nerves are on the brink.
We’re gonna flirt with every guy inside the pub.

CHORUS
Oh, yes, we look good
But we’re over twenty-four.
The men here like them young,
And they’re looking for a whore.
Yes, they want sluts, who will do anything.
We are bored.
We are invisible.
We are forty.

We will shake the breasts God gave us,
And we'll dance upon the tables.
Our hotness surely no man will resist.
But now we're here at this back booth
As we drink gin and vermouth.
Like Bruce Willis in Sixth Sense, do we exist?

CHORUS
Oh, yes, we look good
But we’re over twenty-four.
The men here like them young,
And they’re looking for a whore.
Yes, they want sluts, who will do anything.
We are bored.
We are invisible.
We are forty.

Now the hour's getting late
The dicks who couldn't get a date
Come back to where we sit drunk on our asses.
But we didn't take the bait
With these pricks we wouldn't mate
Even if they flaunted Lakers season passes.

CHORUS
Oh, yes, we look good
But we’re over twenty-four.
The men all like them young,
And they’re looking for a whore.
Yes, they want sluts, who will do anything.
We are bored.
We are invisible.
We are forty.