Should grow so jealous of Eve And in the face of the great farce Of the nuclear age Feminism ain't about equality It's about reprieve
I will not lie down On the wrongful groundwork laid While it's still a radical sound Just to call a spade a spade Dear friends, women and men Please
You start tripping And I start slipping away I was taught to zip it If I got nothing nice to say And down in the Texas of my heart Driving a really big
When the joy had left your body And you were locked in, to your own thoughts You used to love to sit by the water And watch it lapping on the rocks And
Millennium Theater Get out there and buy that water and gas Ramadan, orange alert Everybody put on your gas mask First, leak it out about the president
Such an intent stare One eye at a time Your talons like fish hooks You are a rare bird The kind I wouldn't even mind Writing in the margins of my books
Step up and forfeit Your frontal lobe To the sexed up strobe Of celebrity Never mind that The nanoseconds in between Are some of the darkest darkness
I had to leave the house of fashion Go forth naked from its doors 'Cuz women should be allies Not competitors And I had to leave the house of God 'Cuz
So that's how you found me Rain falling around me Looking down at a worm With a long way to go And the traffic was hissing by And I was homesick and I
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On one hand, I'm walking The way that I do Looking like I'm lost in thought But I'm looking for you It's so subconscious The way that I feel Too bad
He had all kind of reasons Why she was unable to love him She was just too young She was too high strung She was afraid of commitment But all of the
I hate you sometimes But I love to be your queen You are my muse Got me smoking nicotine I watch you sometimes From oh so far away But I can't forget
grow so jealous of eve And in the face of the great farce of the nuclear age Feminism ain't about equality, it's about reprieve
Vertaling: DiFranco, Ani. Uitstel.
When the joy had left your body And you were locked into your own pulse You used to love to sit by the water And watch it lapping on the rocks And every
I will not lie down On the wrongful ground or play While it's still a radical sound Just to call a spade a spade Dear friends, women and men Please check
Step up and forfeit your frontal lobe To the sexed up stroll of celebrity Never mind that the nanoseconds in between Are some of the darkest darkness
