Joanna Perricone - Past Life Lyrics

Sometimes I think I used to be a flapper girl in L.A.
Short dress, short hair put it all on display
I'm talking back to the Roaring Twenties, post World-War
'Cause I'm in 2015, but I love what they wore
And I think I went to parties calling everybody, "Darling"
And known in the community as somebody that's charming
Don a fur coat and had a ruby on my finger
Always on the prowl, so I know I was a swinger
Loved Jazz music, always felt that soul
Liquor in the glass and a room full of smoke
Somebody go and turn the phonograph up louder
Last dance then I gotta get my nose powdered
T-Model in the streets with a black interior
And smack any man that says that women are inferior
Got the right to vote, can't tell us nothing
See all the suffering finally turned into suffrage

I was just as stunning in my past life
I was just as cunning in my past life
Still up to no good, got a soul on fire
Leave my mark on the world like my past life
I was just as daring in my past life
Everybody staring like my last life
Still up to no good, got a soul on fire
Leave my mark on the world like my past life

The Prohibition Era, but we still partied
And the way I did the Charleston in a sea full of bodies
Corner of my eye, a broad mouths, "etiquette"
Stuck up, I bet she hails from Connecticut
I'm the greatest thing since sliced Wonder Bread
Even with the war I seemed to always look ahead
They say the market's going down, Titanic
And even if it's true, I don't care I'll manage
Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin
And I'm Ms. Perricone if anybody's asking
Well behaved women rarely make history
Oh, Mr. Officer I swear it wasn't me
Had to push the boundaries, had to test the water
And I hope I have, I hope I have the same kind of daughter
Play my hands well, even if the card's are all stacked
And when I died I had a grin because I knew I'd be back

I was just as stunning in my past life
I was just as cunning in my past life
Still up to no good, got a soul on fire
Leave my mark on the world like my past life
I was just as daring in my past life
Everybody staring like my last life
Still up to no good, got a soul on fire
Leave my mark on the world like my past life

And the times have changed
But I still feel the same
I swapped out the name
Modern woman I became
Must admit I am a hazard
And I tend to follow patterns
Put in predicaments where I don't know the outcome
Sense of insecurity, I guess I do without one
Took the path and I just blazed it
The bar they set, I just really had to raise it
Call me what you like, you could call me what you like
But fair warning, I don't bark I got a whole lot of bite

I was just as stunning in my past life
I was just as cunning in my past life
Still up to no good, got a soul on fire
Leave my mark on the world like my past life
I was just as daring in my past life
Everybody staring like my last life
Still up to no good, got a soul on fire
Leave my mark on the world like my past life