[Chorus]
Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry

When you're soaked in tears for years, it never airs out
When you make pain look this good it never wears out
This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry


[Verse 1]
While my sister was on stage, killing it like a motherf-cker

I was enraged, feeling it like a motherf-cker
Bird in a cage, you would never know what I was dealing with
Went out separate ways, but I was happy she was killing it

Bittersweet, she was up, I was down
No lie, I feel good for her, but what do I do now?
Forget the records

Off the record, I was going through some bull%#@!
Post-survivor, she on fire, who wanna hear my bull%#@!?
Meanwhile, this ^!$$% putting his hands on me

I swear y'all don't know the half of this industry

[Chorus]

Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
When you're soaked in tears for years, it never airs out

When you make pain look this good it never wears out
This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry


[Verse 2]
And it's almost been a decade
I'm behind them black shades

Roll up like it's all good, right up out that escalade
Fix my make-up, ?get it together, Kelly, get it together?
Then we make up, ?well get it together, ^!$$%, get it together?

Kinda lucky, I was in her shadow
Phone call from my sister, ?what's the matter??
She said, ?Oh no, baby - you gotta leave!?

I'm on the kitchen floor - he took the keys
I was mad at everybody, I mean everybody
Yeah, her, her, her her everybody

Five years later, I got my %#@! down pat
Think I had it good, and they don't know how bad
Fooled everybody, except myself

Soaking in this hurt, bathing in the dirt

[Chorus]

Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
When you're soaked in tears for years, it never airs out

When you make pain look this good it never wears out
This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry


[Verse 3]
So here I am in the spin cycle
We're comin and we're goin

Nobody can know this
And I was trapped in his house, lyin' to my mama
Thought it could get no worse as we maximize the drama

Started to call them people on him
I was battered
He hittin the window like it was me, until it shattered

He pulled me out, he said, ?Don't nobody love you but me
Not your mama, not your daddy and especially not Bey?
He turned me against my sister

I missed ya

[Chorus]

Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
Let's do this dirty laundry, this dirty laundry
When you're soaked in tears for years, it never airs out

When you make pain look this good it never wears out
This dirty laundry, this dirty laundry