PERFECTLY FLAWED
Writers: Otep Shamaya/ Holly Knight
If you do this you’ll never have a chance to try again.
If you do this you’ll never have a chance to try
It’s the same sound same sting
The same collapse of everything
It’s the same slice same blade
The same lie same old vein
My weight my face my height my race I’m a mistake
My weight my face my height my race I’m such a disgrace.
You’re perfectly flawed
You’re perfectly incomplete
Like cracks in the glass and faded photographs
You’re perfectly flawed
You’re perfectly incomplete
Let them condemn
Imperfections make you unique
Nothing left to lose just try again
Nothing left to lose just try again
Its the same doubt the same dream
It’s the same sabotage cause I’m the enemy
It’s the same night same day
It’s the same parasite feeding on the betrayed.
My weight My face My height my race I’m a mistake
My weight my face my height my race I’m such a disgrace
You’re perfectly flawed
You’re perfectly incomplete
Like cracks in the glass and faded photographs
You’re perfectly flawed
You’re perfectly incomplete
A work in progress
Imperfections will keep you unique
A disguise of self-deception hides my secrets perfectly
I’m rejecting my reflection cause I hate the way it judges me
Don’t you do it you’re not even you yet
Don’t you do it you’re not even you yet
You’re perfectly flawed
You’re perfectly incomplete
Like cracks in the glass and faded photographs
You’re perfectly flawed
You’re perfectly incomplete
A work in progress
Imperfections make you unique
1. PERFECTLY FLAWED
‘My manager Alia, was the first person to tell me about OTEP. I figured out right away that OTEP is an anagram for POET, and thats exactly what she is. A performance artist with an uncanny sense of rhythm and plenty to scream about. Marilyn Manson has said that even he finds her scary, but I just think she’s an incredibly intelligent force to be reckoned with. She’s just extreme and committed. You want to see a hard rock band with a serious frontman, she’s the real deal.
Otep wanted to expand her repertoire and write something more harmonic than she’s known for. She told me was tired of being perceived by her record label as the girl who goes ‘grrr’and nothing else, and so we met. I have a very organic approach to the way I write with her. She sends me a recording of her singing her lyrics a capella on a cell phone or something of equally shitty quality and I write the song around it. Then we get together and record it. All the lyrics are her’s and I never alter them, which is how it is when I work with certain artists…they are just so clear on what they want to say. I love that’. – HK
