#1 Must Have Lyrics

Bearer of the flag from the beginning
Now who would have believed this riot girl's a cynic
But they took our ideas to their marketing stars
(Everywhere you go they say, hello)
Now I'm spending all my days at girlpower.com
(Weren't you the one that sold your soul?)
Trying to buy back
(Every time you leave the say, "Oh no")
A little piece of me
(Why did you ever let us go?)

And I think that I sometimes might have wished
For something more than to be a size six
But now my inspiration rests
In between my beauty magazines and my credit card bills

I've been crawling up so long on your stairway to Heaven
And now I no longer believe that I wanna get in
And will there always be concerts where women are raped
(Everywhere you go teenage is the rage)
Watch me make up my mind instead of my face
(Inside your pants, it's on the front page)
The number one must have
(Everywhere you go it's die or be born)
Is that we are safe
(If you can't decide then it's your own war)

And I think that I sometimes might have wished
For something more than to be a size six
But now my inspiration rests
In between my beauty magazines and my credit card bills

No more, no more, no more
And for all the ladies out there I wish
We could write more than the next marketing bid
Culture is what we make it yes it is
Now is the time, now is the time
Now is the time to invent, invent, invent
Invent, invent, invent

Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One

May 2000

1. The Ballad Of A Ladyman
2. Ironclad
3. All Hands On The Bad One
4. Youth Decay
5. You're No Rock N' Roll Fun
6. #1 Must Have
7. The Professional
8. Was It A Lie?
9. Male Model
10. Leave You Behind
11. Milkshake N' Honey
12. Pompeii
13. The Swimmer