[Verse 1]
Pearl pen on the paper
Ink stains on my kid gloves
I sit in the corner
Quiet
While the ton falls in love
Fan hides my small smile
As my words light the room
They’re sipping their scandal
From a silver-plated spoon
[Pre-Chorus]
I’ve been watching every curtsy
Every trembling gloved hand
Soft voice at the supper
Sharp eyes on the dance
[Chorus]
I am the rumor in the ballroom
I am the gasp behind the glass
You feel my words like crashing chandeliers
Every waltz could be your last
I am the whisper in your drawing room
Your secret signed in careful crown
Who writes your rise
Your grand undoing?
It’s me
It’s Lady Whistledown
[Verse 2]
Names folded in ribbon
Sealed edges
Soft wax
A smile from a viscount
Can’t rewrite the facts
You toast to your fortunes
Lift crystal
Clink pride
But the smallest of wallflowers
Is the storm you can’t hide
[Pre-Chorus]
I tuck truth into the margins
Lace daggers in lace gowns
A gentle
Genteel sentence
Can turn empires upside down
[Chorus]
I am the rumor in the ballroom
I am the gasp behind the glass
You feel my words like crashing chandeliers
Every waltz could be your last
I am the whisper in your drawing room
Your secret signed in careful crown
Who writes your rise
Your grand undoing?
It’s me
It’s Lady Whistledown
[Bridge]
[gang vocals
Stomps and claps]
You want a name? (Say it!)
You want a face? (Name her!)
You want the ghost to step
Into the crown-lit crowd?
One more column (read it!)
One more cut (bleed it!)
Tonight the mask falls
Hear me say it loud—
[gang vocals
Huge]
I am the hand that holds the quill
I am the girl you never crowned
I am the wallflower at your window
I am the thunder in this town
I am the truth beneath your titles
I am the ink you can’t wash out
I am the one you’ve always hunted—
I am Lady Whistledown!
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