[Intro] [Live crowd, distorted synth rise] [Lexi - whisper] You wanted pretty. You got hungry. [Thadiwe - growl] No apologies. [Verse 1 - Lexi] I was too loud, too much, too strange Too sharp to fit inside your frame Too full of teeth, too fond of night Too hard to shame, too built to bite You called me wrong, I called it stage You called me sin, I called it rage You wanted cute and underfed I came back singing from the dead [Verse 2 - Zahra] I carry warmth you tried to stain A sacred hunger without shame My body knows what yours denies That love can wear a monstrous size Do not ask me to be small Do not ask me not to call The hidden ones, the starved, the wild The grown-up ghost of every child [Pre-Chorus - All] Too hungry Too pretty Too loud Too alive [Chorus - All] Monster girls don’t apologize We bare our teeth and harmonize Too much heart, too much desire Too many mouths to kill the choir Monster girls don’t kneel or hide We sing with hunger open wide If we are nightmares in your eyes Monster girls don’t apologize [Verse 3 - Eléonore] You loved the myth in velvet dress Until it learned to want no less You praised the beast behind the glass Then feared her when she chose to pass A lady may have claws concealed A smile may be a sharpened shield Refinement is not being tame It is devouring with a name [Verse 4 - Ji-Yeon] I giggle sweet, I dance too bright I make your panic taste like light You think the cute ones never know How deep the secret cravings go I’m sugar, glitch, and fang and spark A little snack that loves the dark So clap along and don’t act shy I saw you stare when I walked by [Verse 5 - Thadiwe] I am the breath behind your back The drumbeat in the panic track The body speaking through the floor The thing you wanted, then ignored I do not soften for your peace I do not leash my own release You made a cage, I made a sound Now hear the whole damn thing break down [Breakdown] [All - shouted] Too hungry! Too pretty! Too loud! Too alive! [Lexi] Say freak! [Thadiwe] Say beast! [Ji-Yeon] Say sweet! [Eléonore] Say feast! [Final Chorus - All] Monster girls don’t apologize We bare our teeth and harmonize Too much heart, too much desire Too many mouths to kill the choir Monster girls don’t kneel or hide We sing with hunger open wide If we are nightmares in your eyes Monster girls don’t apologize [Outro] [All - crowd chant] No shame! No cage! No leash! No apologies!
