1 [Chorus]
2 Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
3 Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
4 When you're soaked in tears for years, it never airs out
5 When you make pain look this good it never wears out
6 This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
7 [Verse 1]
8 While my sister was on stage, killing it like a motherf-cker
9 I was enraged, feeling it like a motherf-cker
10 Bird in a cage, you would never know what I was dealing with
11 Went out separate ways, but I was happy she was killing it
12 Bittersweet, she was up, I was down
13 No lie, I feel good for her, but what do I do now?
14 Forget the records
15 Off the record, I was going through some bullshit
16 Post-survivor, she on fire, who wanna hear my bullshit?
17 Meanwhile, this nigga putting his hands on me
18 I swear y'all don't know the half of this industry
19 [Chorus]
20 Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
21 Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
22 When you're soaked in tears for years, it never airs out
23 When you make pain look this good it never wears out
24 This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
25 [Verse 2]
26 And it's almost been a decade
27 I'm behind them black shades
28 Roll up like it's all good, right up out that escalade
29 Fix my make-up, "get it together, Kelly, get it together"
30 Then we make up, "well get it together, nigga, get it together"
31 Kinda lucky, I was in her shadow
32 Phone call from my sister, "what's the matter?"
33 She said, "Oh no, baby - you gotta leave!"
34 I'm on the kitchen floor - he took the keys
35 I was mad at everybody, I mean everybody
36 Yeah, her, her, her her everybody
37 Five years later, I got my shit down pat
38 Think I had it good, and they don't know how bad
39 Fooled everybody, except myself
40 Soaking in this hurt, bathing in the dirt
41 [Chorus]
42 Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
43 Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
44 When you're soaked in tears for years, it never airs out
45 When you make pain look this good it never wears out
46 This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
47 [Verse 3]
48 So here I am in the spin cycle
49 We're comin and we're goin
50 Nobody can know this
51 And I was trapped in his house, lyin' to my mama
52 Thought it could get no worse as we maximize the drama
53 Started to call them people on him
54 I was battered
55 He hittin the window like it was me, until it shattered
56 He pulled me out, he said, "Don't nobody love you but me
57 Not your mama, not your daddy and especially not Bey"
58 He turned me against my sister
59 I missed ya
60 [Chorus]
61 Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
62 Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
63 When you're soaked in tears for years, it never airs out
64 When you make pain look this good it never wears out
65 This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry