Over 130 songs sung by females that narrate fury and frustration from many perspectives. The List purposefully excludes topics of jilted lovers, cheaters, or lover's revenge because those songs, the ones in which the female singer is still the object, are already well known. Consider this a list of songs that would hope to pass a version of the Bechtel Test. This list invites the female-identified to find their inner "fuck you." Use that anger. Make it work for you. Change the world with it. The songs have been curated to be played in the order listed.
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MILCK :
I’ve been watching this song blossom on its own, way beyond me. This started off as my song, but it’s not my song. It’s our song. People have taken it on, and I have been watching all of this in awe. It’s almost like a spiritual experience as well and it reminds me of the power of the song. Music is such a great way of bringing people together. There’s choirs in Ghana singing it. Sweden and Australia. Philly. New York. Los Angeles. And these women are also messaging me their stories of survival and also their concerns about their particular governments. I feel like I’m getting this really unique perspective, because I’m constantly getting reminded how similar we all are around the globe. It’s nice, because I’ve always believed that. We’re all the same. We all have a desire to be loved and to be cared for. We just want to do good. That’s what I believe. And it’s constantly getting reaffirmed. And I’m stoked, because the people who are attracted to the song, are my favorite types of people. They’re hopeful, they promote love and they’re a smart bunch of people. I love it. Read More: How an unknown song harmonized the Women’s March
MILCK + Choir! of 1300 - Can’t Keep Quiet!
LYRICS: Put on your face
Know your place
Shut up and smile
Don't spread your legs
I could do that
But no one knows me no one ever will
If I don't say something, if I just lie still
Would I be that monster, scare them all away
If I let them hear what I have to say
I can't keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
I can't keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
A one woman riot, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
I can't keep quiet
For anyone
Anymore
Cuz no one knows me no one ever will
If I don't say something, take that dry blue pill
They may see that monster, they may run away
But I have to do this
I can't keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
I can't keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
A one woman riot, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh I can't keep quiet
Let it out, let it out now
Let it out now
There'll be someone who understands
Let it out, let it out now
Let it out now
Must be someone who'll understand
Let it out, let it out now
Let it out now
There'll be someone who understands
Let it out, let it out now
Let it out now
I can't keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
Let it out, let it out now
Let it out now
I can't keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
Let it out, let it out now
Let it out now
I can't keep quiet
No, I won't keep quiet
LYRICS: Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I'm not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I'm still waiting
I'm through with doubt
There's nothing left for me to figure out
I've paid a price
And I'll keep paying it
I'm not ready to make nice
I'm not ready to back down
I'm still mad as hell and I don't have time
To go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
Cause I'm mad as hell, can't bring myself
To do what it is you think I should
I know you said
Can't you just get over it?
It turned my whole world around
And I kinda like it
I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don't mind sayin '
It's a sad, sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they'd write me a letter sayin' that I better
Shut up and sing or my life will be over
I'm not ready to make nice
I'm not ready to back down
I'm still mad as hell and I don't have time
To go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
Cause I'm mad as hell, can't bring myself
To do what it is you think I should
I'm not ready to make nice
I'm not ready to back down
I'm still mad as hell and I don't have time
To go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
Cause I'm mad as hell, can't bring myself
To do what it is you think I should
What it is you think I should
Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I'm not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I'm still waiting
Tacocat - Men Explain Things to Me
LYRICS: Explain it to me
Explain it to me
Explain it to me again
Though I know all about
The words you're spitting out
The floor is yours without a doubt
I already know
How this is gonna go
How this is gonna go
Tell me to calm down
Tell me to calm down
Tell me to calm down again
Don't tell me what to do
My feelings won't subdue
Just because you told them to
You're a cliché
Useless in every way
You're a cliché
Take up the whole sidewalk
Take up the whole sidewalk
Take up the whole sidewalk again
L7 - Shitlist
LYRICS:
When I get mad and I get pissed
I grab my pen and I write out a list
Of all the people that won't be missed
You've made my shitlist
For all the ones who bum me out (shitlist)
For all the ones who fill my head with doubt (shitlist)
For all the squares who get me pissed (shitlist)
You've made my shitlist
Shitlist
Shitlist
When I get mad and I get pissed
I grab my pen and I write out a list
Of all you assholes that won't be missed
You've made my shitlist
Marianne Faithfull - Brain Drain
LYRICS: Well I know that you're tired of living this way
We've been trying to get high without having to pay
The walls are all empty, it's not a permanent state
Just let me tell you that it's not too late
You're a brain drain
You go on and on like a blood stain
You're a drain brain
You go on and on like a blood stain
Well, you know I ain't selfish, there's always a way
If a thing ain't worth having, you're having to pay
You're a brain drain
You go on and on like a blood stain
You're a train brain
You go on and on like a blood stain
Got so much to offer, but I can't pay the rent
I can't buy you roses 'cause the money's all spent
Well, you sat in my car, you drank my champagne
You stole all my silk but you gave me no change
You're a brain drain
You go on and on like a blood stain
You're a train brain
You go on and on like a blood stain
Got so much to offer, but I can't pay the rent
I can't buy you roses 'cause the money's all spent
Well, you sat in my car, you drank my champagne
You stole all my silk, you left me no change
You're a brain drain
You go on and on like a blood stain
You're a train drain
You go on and on like a blood stain
Björk - Army of Me
LYRICS: Stand up
You've got to manage
I won't sympathize
Anymore
And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me
And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me
You're all right
There's nothing wrong
Self-sufficience please!
And get to work
And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me
And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me, army of me
You're on your own now
We won't save you
Your rescue-squad
Is too exhausted
And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me
And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me
And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me
And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me, army of me
Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddam
LYRICS: The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddam
And I mean every word of it
Alabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
Can't you see it
Can't you feel it
It's all in the air
I can't stand the pressure much longer
Somebody say a prayer
Alabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
This is a show tune
But the show hasn't been written for it, yet
Hound dogs on my trail
School children sitting in jail
Black cat cross my path
I think every day's gonna be my last
Lord have mercy on this land of mine
We all gonna get it in due time
I don't belong here
I don't belong there
I've even stopped believing in prayer
Don't tell me, I'll tell you
Me and my people just about due
I've been there so I know
They keep on saying "Go slow!"
But that's just the trouble
"do it slow"
Washing the windows
"do it slow"
Picking the cotton
"do it slow"
You're just plain rotten
"do it slow"
You're too damn lazy
"do it slow"
The thinking's crazy
"do it slow"
Where am I going
What am I doing
I don't know
I don't know
Just try to do your very best
Stand up, be counted with all the rest
For everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
I bet you thought I was kidding, didn't you
Picket lines, school boycotts
They try to say it's a communist plot
All I want is equality
For my sister, my brother, my people, and me
Yes, you lied to me all these years
You told me to wash and clean my ears
And talk real fine just like a lady
And you'd stop calling me Sister Sadie
Oh but this whole country is full of lies
You're all gonna die and die like flies
I don't trust you any more
You keep on saying "Go slow!"
"Go slow!"
But that's just the trouble
"do it slow"
Desegregation
"do it slow"
Mass participation
"do it slow"
Reunification
"do it slow"
Do things gradually
"do it slow"
But bring more tragedy
"do it slow"
Why don't you see it
Why don't you feel it
I don't know
I don't know
You don't have to live next to me
Just give me my equality
Everybody knows about Mississippi
Everybody knows about Alabama
Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
That's it!
Ani DiFranco - Evolve
LYRICS: I walk in stride with people
Much taller than me
And partly it's the boots but
Mostly it's my chi
And i'm becoming transfixed
With nature and my part in it
Which i believe just signifies
I'm finally waking up
And there's this moth outside my kitchen door
She's bonkers for that bare bulb
Flying round in circles
Bashing in her exoskull
And out in the woods she navigates fine by the moon
But get her around a light bulb and she's doomed
She is trying to evolve
She's just trying to evolve
Now let's get talking reefer madness
Like some arrogant government can't
By any stretch of the imagination outlaw a plant!
Yes, their supposed authority over nature is a dream
C'mon people, We've got to come clean
Cuz they are locking our sons
And our daughters in cages
They are taking by the thousands
Our lives from under us
It's a crash crash course in religious fundamentals
Now let's all go to war
Get some bang for our buck
Yes i am trying to evolve
I'm trying to evolve
I am trying to evolve
I'm trying to evolve
Gunnin for high score in the land of dreams
Morbid bluish-white consumers ogling luminous screens
On the trail of forgetting
Cruising without a care
The jet set won't abide by that pesky jet lag
And our lives boil down to an hour or two
When someone pulls a camera out of a bag
And i am trying to evolve
Trying to evolve
I'm trying to evolve
Trying to evolve
So i walk like i'm on a mission
Cuz that's the way i groove
I got more and more to do
I got less and less to prove
It took me too long to realize
That i don't take good pictures
Cuz i have the kind of beauty
That moves
I am trying to evolve
I'm trying to evolve
I am trying to evolve
I'm trying to evolve....
Alice Phoebe Lou - She
LYRICS: She, she
...She, she
She caught a hole in the fence and she ran
She left her troublesome prison behind
She didn't wanna fuel the fire
She didn't wanna lose her desire
She, she...
She, she
She looked out out to the horizon
She didn't have much left to see
Greed had taken the trees away
She had taken the bees away
She, she...
She, she
She don't know where she gonna go now
She looked up to and it should've been stars
She said I wanna go to Mars
This this planet, it ain't ours
She said...I wanna go to Mars
And this this planet ain't ours
M.I.A. - Borders
LYRICS: Freedom, 'I'dom, 'Me'dom
Where's your 'We'dom?
This world needs a brand new 'Re'dom
We'dom - the key
We'dom the key'dom to life!
Let's be 'dem
We'dom smart phones
Don't be dumb!
Borders (What's up with that?) Politics (What's up with that?) Police shots (What's up with that?) Identities (What's up with that?) Your privilege (What's up with that?) Broke people (What's up with that?) Boat people (What's up with that?) The realness (What's up with that?) The new world (What's up with that?) Am gonna keep up on all that
Guns blow doors to the system
Yeah fuck 'em when we say we're not with them
We're solid and we don't need to kick them
This is North, South, East and Western
Guns blow doors to the system
Yeah fuck 'em when we say we're not with them
We're solid and we don't need to kick them
This is North, South, East and Western
Queen (What's up with that?) Killing it (What's up with that?) Slaying it (What's up with that?) Your goals (What's up with that?) Being bae (What's up with that?) Making money (What's up with that?) Breaking internet (What's up with that?) Love wins (What's up with that?) Living it (What's up with that?) Being real (What's up with that?)
Guns blow doors to the system
Yeah fuck 'em when we say we're not with them
We're solid and we don't need to kick them
This is North, South, East and Western
Guns blow doors to the system
Yeah fuck 'em when we say we're not with them
We're solid and we don't need to kick them
This is North, South, East and Western
We representing peeps, they don't play us on the FM
We talkin' in our sleep, they still listen on a system
We sittin' on a stoop
Where we get a scoop
This is how we keep it cool
This is how we do
We representing peeps, they don't play us on the FM
We talkin' in our sleep, they still listen on a system
We sittin' on a stoop
Where we get a scoop
This is how we keep it cool
This is how we do
Egos (What's up with that?) Your values (What's up with that?) Your beliefs (What's up with that?) Your families (What's up with that?) Histories (What's up with that?) Your future (What's up with that?) My boys (What's up with that?) My girls (What's up with that?) Freedom (What's up with that?) Your power (What's up with that?)
Guns blow doors to the system
Yeah fuck 'em when we say we're not with them
We're solid and we don't need to kick them
This is North, South, East and Western
Guns blow doors to the system
Yeah fuck 'em when we say we're not with them
We're solid and we don't need to kick them
This is North, South, East and Western
We representing peeps, they don't play us on the FM
We talkin' in our sleep, they still listen on a system
We sittin' on a stoop
Where we get a scoop
This is how we keep it cool
This is how we do
We representing peeps, they don't play us on the FM
We talkin' in our sleep, they still listen on a system
We sittin' on a stoop
Where we get a scoop
This is how we keep it cool
This is how we do
Gonna keep up on all that
Gonna be doing it like that
I know why the caged bird sings - Maya Angelou and Branford Marsalis
Queen Latifah "U.N.I.T.Y." 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Concert
LYRICS: Uh, U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity
U.N.I.T.Y., love a black man from infinity to infinity
(Who you calling a bitch?)
U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity (You gotta let him know)
(You go, come on here we go)
U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black woman from (You got to let him know)
Infinity to infinity (You ain't a bitch or a ho)
U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity (You gotta let him know)
(You go, come on here we go)
U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black man from (You got to let him know)
Infinity to infinity (You ain't a bitch or a ho)
Instinct leads me to another flow
Every time I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho
Trying to make a sister feel low
You know all of that gots to go
Now everybody knows there's exceptions to this rule
Now don't be getting mad, when we playing, it's cool
But don't you be calling out my name
I bring wrath to those who disrespect me like a dame
That's why I'm talking, one day I was walking down the block
I had my cutoff shorts on right cause it was crazy hot
I walked past these dudes when they passed me
One of 'em felt my booty, he was nasty
I turned around red, somebody was catching the wrath
Then the little one said, "Yeah me, bitch," and laughed
Since he was with his boys, he tried to break fly
Huh, I punched him dead in his eye
And said, "Who you calling a bitch?"
U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity (You gotta let him know)
(You go, come on here we go)
U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black woman from (You got to let him know)
Infinity to infinity (You ain't a bitch or a ho)
U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity (You gotta let him know)
(You go, come on here we go)
U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black man from (You got to let him know)
Infinity to infinity (You ain't a bitch or a ho)
I hit the bottom, there ain't nowhere else to go but up
Bad days at work give you an attitude and you erupt
And take it out on me but that's about enough
You put your hands on me again I'll put your ass in handcuffs
I guess I fell so deep in love I grew dependency
I was too blind to see just how it was affecting me
All I knew was you, you was all the man I had
And I was scared to let you go
Even though you treated me bad
But I don't want my kids to see me getting beat down
By daddy smacking mommy all around
You say I'm nothing without ya, but I'm nothing with ya
A man don't really love you if he hits ya
This is my notice to the door, I'm not taking it no more
I'm not your personal whore, that's not what I'm here for
And nothing good gonna come to ya til you do right by me
Brother you wait and see (Who you calling a bitch?)
U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity (You gotta let him know)
(You go, come on here we go)
U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black woman from (You got to let him know)
Infinity to infinity (You ain't a bitch or a ho)
U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity (You gotta let him know)
(You go, come on here we go)
U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black man from (You got to let him know)
Infinity to infinity (You ain't a bitch or a ho)
What's going on in your mind is what I ask ya
But like Yo-Yo, you don't hear me though
You wear a rag around your head
And you call yourself a "gangsta bitch"
Now that you saw Apache's video
I saw you wildin', acting like a fool
I peeped you out the window jumping girls after school
But where did all of this come from?
A minute ago, you was a nerd and nobody ever heard of ya
Now you a wannabe... hard
You barely know your ABC's, please
There's plenty of people out there with triggers ready to pull it
Why you trying to jump in front of the bullet (Young lady)
Uh, and real bad girls are the silent type
Ain't none of this worth getting your face sliced
Cause that's what happened to your homegirl, right?
(Barking with no bite!)
She got to wear that for life
(Who you calling a bitch?)
U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity (You gotta let him know)
(You go, come on here we go)
U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black woman from (You got to let him know)
Infinity to infinity (You ain't a bitch or a ho)
U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity (You gotta let him know)
(You go, come on here we go)
U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black man from (You got to let him know)
Infinity to infinity (You ain't a bitch or a ho)
LYRICS: I aint gonna be no farmers wife
I’m moving to the city
I’m bound to be a lint head gal
I’m gonna change my world
I’m picking up, I’m putting down
I’m factory educated
I never tried to be civilized
But I can change my world
Aint got a ma, aint got a pa,
Aint got no blood related
I once had a man, but away I ran,
He couldn’t keep me satiated
Love is over rated
Yeah I can see right through the mud,
Right through the bone and marrow
I’m getting back down where the blood hits the ground,
I’m flying like a sparrow
I’m flying like a sparrow
My hands are hard as any mans
My head is even harder
I don’t make the rules, don’t you suffer fools
I got a razer in my garter
I aint your little Omie Wise
I’m not your Pretty Polly
I’m not your God Damned Lint Head Gal
I’m Gonna Change My World
The sun is gone, the dark sets in
Come listen to my story
About your dark eyed lint head gal
Of Mercy and of Glory
Of Mercy and of Glory
LYRICS: So this ain't the end, I saw you again today
I had to turn my heart away
You smiled like the Sun, kisses for everyone
And tales, it never fails!
You lying so low in the weeds
Bet you gonna ambush me
You'd have me down, down, down, down to my knees
Now wouldn't you, Barracuda?
Back over time when we were all trying for free
You met the porpoise and me
No right no wrong you're selling a song, a name
Whisper game
And if the real thing don't do the trick
You better make up something quick
You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn burn to the wick
Ooh, Barracuda?
The Pretenders - I'm A Mother
LYRICS: I'm a mother
Treat me like a mother
You want to suck on my breast
It's no surprise you do
I'm the source and the force
You owe your life to, brother
Oh Oh Oh
I'm a mother
And I take like a mother
I understand blood
And I understand pain
There can be no life without it
Never doubt it
I'm a mother
I gave you all my money
To help the family
But what you do to me
Don't humiliate me
Remember
I'm a life-long member
Oh Oh Oh
I'm a mother
Treat me like a mother
In the middle of the night
I be deep in a dream
You fancy little company
You only have to scream
Loud, brother
Oh Oh Oh
I'm a mother
And I fake like a mother
I understand time
And it isn't on my side
But to service mankind
I have to suffer his pride
Like a mother
Oh
Oh
Oh
You say your protection
Is proof of your affection
If I need security
I'll keep a gun on me
Oh
Don't barter with me
Don't barter with me
Little sacrifices
Go straight to heaven
But hunting season's over
This is the 20th century
Oh
Don't barter with me
Oh Oh Oh
I'm a mother
And I ache like a mother
If there's a terrible crash
And bodies thrown everywhere
I'll wrap 'em up and carry 'em
If someone has to bury them
Brother
Oh Oh Oh
Call upon mother
I'm the vessel of life
I got the trauma here to prove it
When it's time for me to labor for you
Everybody move it
Like a mother
Oh Oh Oh
Roberta Flack- Tryin' Times
LYRICS: Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah
Tryin' times, what the world is talkin' about
You got confusion all over the land, yeah
You got mother against daughter, you got father against son
You know the whole thing is getting out of hand
Then maybe folks wouldn't have to suffer
If there was more love for your brother
But these are tryin' times, yeah, yeah
You got the riots in the ghetto, it's all around
A whole lot of things that's wrong is going down, yes, it is
I can't understand it from my point of view
'Cause I think you should do unto others
As you'd have them do unto you
Then maybe folks wouldn't have to suffer
If there was more love for your brother
But these are tryin' times, yes, it is
I said man is always talking 'bout it's inhumanity to man
But what is he tryin' to do to make it a better man?
Oh, just read the paper, turn on your TV
You see folks demonstrating about equality
But maybe folks wouldn't have to suffer
If there was more love for your brother
But these are tryin' times
Tryin' times, yeah, that's what the world is talkin' about
You got confusion all over the land
LYRICS: Started out as a local love
Nothing really physical
I fell, nice and clean, the way you portrayed yourself to me
Through that screen, I wanted to believe everything
And then this local love went beyond the insular
You took me for an 8-year ride though you were never by my side
I always wanted to believe
Now this is what I'm questioning
As if you couldn't tell, I'm mad as hell
I won't forget, so why should I forgive?
Supply me with one reason why, boy?
The war rolled on and on, I left that land my home
We watched your hair go grey, that stressful manly shade
You wore it well, no one could tell the situation was hell
But lies shone in your eyes
As you were the first in line to use those bugs up high
The coward's weapon of choice
But you got that winner's smile
And you know how to leave ‘em moist
We can never know the hands we're in, until we feel them grip
Choking off our air supply, but I don't cry
Every day I look, every day I see
That good war music still getting written for me
As if you couldn't tell, I'm mad as hell
I won't forget, so why should I forgive?
No, not as long as we both shall live
As if you couldn't tell, I'm mad as hell
I won't forget, so why should I forgive?
No, not as long as we both shall live
LYRICS: Everybody thinks my head's full of nothin,
Wants to put his special stuff in,
Fill the space with candy wrappers,
Keep out sex and revolution,
But there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.
They call me a dupe of this and the other,
Call me a puppet on a string, they,
They don't know my head's full of me
And that I have my own special thing,
And there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.
I have lived since early childhood
Figuring out what's going on, I,
I know what hurts, I know what's easy,
When to stand and when to run,
And there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.
So please stop shouting in my ear,there's
Something I want to listen to, there's
A kind of birdsong up somewhere, there's
Feet walking the way I mean to go,
And there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.
Everybody thinks my head's full of nothin,
Wants to put his special stuff in,
Fill the space with candy wrappers,
Keep out sex and revolution,
But there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.
Marina and the Diamonds - Can't Pin Me Down
LYRICS: You can paint me any colour
And I can be your clown
But you ain’t got my number
Yeah, you can't pin me down
Yeah, you can't pin me down
Yeah, you can't pin me down
Now I got your back up
What do you not like?
Do you think I’m stuck up
Cause I’m always picking fights
You might think I’m one thing, but I am another
You can’t call my bluff
Time to back off, motherfucker
Do you really want me to write a feminist anthem?
I’m happy cooking dinner in the kitchen for my husband
Yeah, yeah
You can paint me any colour
And I can be your clown
But you ain’t got my number
Yeah, you can't pin me down
Yeah, you can't pin me down
Yeah, you can't pin me down
You ain't got me sussed yet
You're not even close
Baby it’s the one thingv
That I hate the most
All these contradictions pouring out of me
Just another girl in the 21st century
I am never gonna give you anything that you expect
You think I’m like the others, boy, you need to get your eyes
Checked, checked
You can paint me any colour
And I can be your clown
But you ain’t got my number
No, you can't pin me down
Yeah, you can't pin me down
Yeah, you can't pin me down
I could be your sister
I could be your mother
I could be your neighbour
I could be your lover
Do you like my body?
Do you like my mind?
What is it that you are having trouble to define?
I am never gonna give you anything that you expect
You think I’m like the others, boy, you need to get your eyes
Checked, checked
You can paint me any colour
I can be your russian doll
But you ain’t got my number
No, you can’t make me small
You can paint me any colour
And I can be your clown
But you ain’t got my number
No, you can’t pin me down
Yeah, you can’t pin me down
Yeah, you can’t pin me down
Yeah, you can’t pin me down
Yeah, you can’t pin me down
LYRICS: If all I was was black
Looking at you, you might look past
All the love I give (Got love to give)
I've got natural gifts (Got natural gifts)
Got a perspective (Got a perspective)
Might make your shift (The way you look at it)
I've got love
Got love
If all I did was cry
If all that feeling got left behind
I'd worry about you (What's in your mind)
I'd never live my life (Be wasting my time)
Oh, I won't be afraid (I won't be afraid)
If that's how you wanna stay (How you wanna stay)
I've got the love
Got love
If all I was was black
Don't you wanna know me more than that
All the love I give (Got love to give)
I've got natural gifts (Got natural gifts)
Got a perspective (Got a perspective)
Might make your shift (The way you look at it)
I've got the love, love
Got love
And it's time for more to love, ooh
Oh, it's time, it's time, for more love
All the love I give (Got love to give)
I've got natural gifts (Got natural gifts)
Got a perspective (Got a perspective)
Might make your shift (The way you look at it)
I've got love, love
I've got love
And it's time for more to love
Helen Reddy - I Am Woman
LYRICS: I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an' pretend
Cause I've heard it all before
And I've been down there on the floor
No one's ever gonna keep me down again
Oh yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to, I can do anything
I am strong
(Strong)
I am invincible
(Invincible)
I am woman
You can bend but never break me
Cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve my final goal
And I come back even stronger
Not a novice any longer
Cause you've deepened the conviction in my soul
Oh yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to, I can do anything
I am strong
(Strong)
I am invincible
(Invincible)
I am woman
I am woman watch me grow
See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin' arms across the land
But I'm still an embryo
With a long, long way to go
Until I make my brother understand
Oh yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to, I can face anything
I am strong
(Strong)
I am invincible
(Invincible)
I am woman
I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong
I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong
I am woman
Aretha Franklin - Think
LYRICS: You better think (think)
Think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think)
Let your mind go, let yourself be free
Let's go back, let's go back
Let's go way on way back when
I didn't even know you
You couldn't have been too much more than ten (just a child)
I ain't no psychiatrist, I ain't no doctor with degrees
But don't take too much high IQ to see what you're doing to me
You better think (think)
Think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think)
Let your mind go, let yourself be free
'Cause freedom stands for freedom
Oh freedom, yeah freedom right now
Freedom, oh freedom
Give me some freedom, oh freedom
Yeah, think about it!
You, think about it!
There ain't nothing you could ask
I could answer you but I won't (I won't)
I was gonna change, but I'm not
If you keep doing things I don't
You better think (think)
Think about what you're trying to do to me
Oh, think (think, think)
Let your mind go, let yourself be free
People walking around everyday
Playing games and taking scores
Trying to make other people lose their minds
Well be careful, you're going to lose yours
Oh, think (think)
Think about what you're trying to do to me
Wooh think (think)
Let your mind go, let yourself be free
Pat Benatar - Hell is for Children
LYRICS: They cry in the dark, so you can't see their tears
They hide in the light, so you can't see their fears
Forgive and forget, all the while
Love and pain become one and the same
In the eyes of a wounded child
Because hell
Hell is for children
And you know that their little lives can become such a mess
Hell
Hell is for children
And you shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh
Its all so confusing, this brutal abusing
They blacken your eyes, and then 'pologize
Youre daddys good girl, and don't tell mommy a thing
Be a good little boy, and you'll get a new toy
Tell grandma you fell off the swing
Because hell
Hell is for children
And you know that their little lives can become such a mess
Hell
Hell is for children
And you shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh
No, hell is for children
Hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for children
Hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for children
Hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for hell
Hell is for children
Buckle Up: schoolgirls put message to end FGM into song
En Vogue - Free Your Mind
LYRICS: Prejudice, wrote a song about it
Like to hear it? Here it go
I wear tight clothing, high heeled shoes
It doesn't mean that I'm a prostitute, no no
I like rap music, wear hip hop clothes
That doesn't mean that I'm out sellin' dope no no
Oh my forgive me for having straight hair, no
It doesn't mean there's another blood in my heir yeah yeah
I might date another race or color
It doesn't mean I don't like my strong black brothers
Why oh why must it be this way
Before you can read me
you gottalearn how to see me, I said
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be color blind, don't be so shallow
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be color blind, don't be so shallow
So I'm a sistah
Buy things with cash
That really doesn't mean that all my credit's bad,
So why dispute me and waste my time
Because you really think the price is high for me
I can't look without being watched, and oh
You rang my buy before I made up my mind, OW!
Oh now attitude, why even bother
I can't change your mind, you can't change my color
Why oh why must it be this way?
Before you can read me you gotta learn how to see me, I said
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be color blind, don't be so shallow…
Why oh why must it be this way?
Before you can read me you gotta learn how to see me, I said
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be color blind, don't be so shallow... FREE YOUR MIND!
Plastiscines - Bitch
LYRICS:
I'm a bitch when I brush my teeth
I'm a bitch walking down this street
I'm a bitch when I paint my lips
I'm a bitch when people look at me
I'm a bitch in disguise
I'm a bitch that never minds
I'm a bitch just realize
I'm a bitch all the time
I'm a bitch, I T C H
I'm a bitch, I T C H
I'm a bitch, I T C H
I'm a bitch, I T C H, ooh
I'm a bitch when I walk my dog
I'm a bitch when I fall in love
I'm a bitch when I give a kiss
I'm a bitch when I sing like this
I'm a bitch in disguise
I'm a bitch that never minds
I'm a bitch, did you realize?
Clip bitch
I'm a bitch every time
I'm a bitch, I T C H
I'm a bitch, I T C H
I'm a bitch, I T C H
I'm a bitch, I T C H
I'm a bitch, I T C H
I'm a bitch, I T C H
I'm a bitch, I T C H
I'm a bitch, I T C H
B I T C H in disguise
B I T C H, B I T C H in disguise
B I T C H, B I T C H in disguise
B I T C H, B I T C H in disguise
B I T C H, I'm a bitch
I T C H, I'm a bitch
I T C H, I'm a bitch
I'm a bitch
Dead Fox - Courtney Barnett
LYRICS: Jen insists that we buy organic vegetables
And I must admit that I was a little sceptical at first
A little pesticide can't hurt
Never having too much money
I get the cheap stuff at the supermarket
But they're all pumped up with shit
A friend told me that they stick nicotine in the apples
If you can't see me, I can't see you
(I can't see you)
If you can't see me, I can't see you
Heading down the Highway Hume
Somewhere at the end of June
Taxidermied kangaroos are littered on the shoulders
A possum Jackson Pollock is painted in the tar
Sometimes I think a single sneeze could be the end of us
My hay-fever is turning up, just swerved into a passing truck
Big business overtaking without indicating
He passes on the right, been driving through the night
To bring us the best price
If you can't see me, I can't see you
(I can't see you)
If you can't see me, I can't see you
More people die on the road than they do in the ocean
Maybe we should mull over culling cars instead of sharks
Or just lock them up in parks where we can go and view them
There's a bypass over Holbrook now
Paid for with burgers no doubt
I've lost count of all the cows, there'll be no salad sandwiches
The law of averages says we'll stop in the next town
Where petrol price is down
What do I know anyhow?
If you can't see me, I can't see you
(I can't see you)
If you can't see me, I can't see you
If you can't see me, I can't see you
(I can't see you)
If you can't see me, I can't see you
Ah ah ah
LYRICS: No water in the water fountain
No side on the sidewalk
If you say Old Molly Hare, whatcha doin’ there?
Nothing much to do when you're going nowhere
Woohaw!
Woohaw!
Gotcha
We're gonna get the water from your house (your house)
No water in the water fountain
No wood in the woodstock
And you say old Molly Hare
Whatcha doin’ there?
Nothing much to do when you're going nowhere
Woohaw!
Woohaw!
Gotcha
We're gonna get the water from your house (your house)
Nothing feels like dying like the drying of my skin and lawn
Why do we just sit here while they watch us wither til we’re gone?
I can't seem to feel it
I can't seem to feel it
I can’t seem to feel I’ll kneel
I’ll kneel I’ll kneel the cold steel
You will ride the whip
You'll ride the crack
No use in fighting back
You'll sledge the hammer if there's no one else to take the flak
I can't seem to feel it
I can't seem to find it
Your fist clenched my neck
We're neck and neck and neck…
No water in the water fountain
No phone in the phone booth
And you say old Molly Hare
Whatcha doin’ there
Jump back, jump back Daddy shot a bear
Woohaw!
Woohaw!
Gotcha
We're gonna get the water from your house (your house)
I saved up all my pennies and I gave them to this special guy
When he had enough of them he bought himself a cherry pie
He gave me a dollar
A blood-soaked dollar
I cannot get the spot out but
It's okay it still works in the store
Greasy man come and dig my well
Life without your water is a burning hell
Serve me up with your home-grown rice
Anything make me shit nice
Se pou zanmi zwen, se pou zanmi zwen
And the two-pound chicken tastes better with friends
A two-pound chicken tastes better with two
And I know where to find YOU so
Listen to the words I said
Let it sink into your head
A vertigo round-and-round-and-round
Now I'm in your bed
How did I get ahead?
Whoop!
Thread your fingers through my hair
Fingers through my hair
Give me a dress
Give me a press
I give a thing a caress
Would-ja, would-ja, would-ja
Listen to the words I say!
Sound like a floral bouquet
A lyrical round-and-roundandroundandround
Okay
Take a picture it'll last all day, hey
Your fingers through my hair
Do it 'til you disappear
Gimme your head
Gimme your head
Off with his head!
HEY HEY HEY HEY
No water in the water fountain
Floral bouquet
A lyrical round-and-roundandroundandround
No side on the sidewalk
Take a picture it'll last all day, hey
And you say old Molly Hare, Hare
Nothing much to do when you're going nowhere
Woohaw!
Woohaw!
Gotcha, gotcha
We're gonna get the water from your house, your house
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: That's All
LYRICS: I'm gonna tell you the notch of facts
That the man don't understand the good book right and that's all
That's all
You know what?
We got to have more love
More understanding everyday of our lives
And that's all
Yeah
When you see folks jump from this or that
They don't know they don't know where the devil's at
That's all
That's all
They got to have more love, more understanding
Everyday of their lives I tell ya that's all
Listen, people fighting one another
And think they're doing swell
And all they want is your money
And you can go to heeeeyyyyy
That's all
That's all
Ya'll got to have religion, yeah, I tell ya that's all
Now you can go to the college
Go to the schools
Have a good religion he use for educated blues
That's all
Yeah, that's all
He got to have more love, more understanding
Everyday of our lives and that's all
Erykah Badu - Penitentiary Philosophy
LYRICS: Here's my philosophy
Livin' in a penitentiary
Brothers all on the corner
Tryin' to make believe
Turn around ain't got no pot to pee make me
Mad when I see ya sad
Can't stand to see ya hustle' doin' bad
But you can't win when your will is weak
When you're knocked on the ground
Evil
Don't you test me
Evil
You won't win
Oh why
World
Why world
Do want me to be so mad yeah
So mad yeah
Oh why world
Why world
Do you want me to be so mad yeah
So mad yeah
I'm tellin' you the truth I hope I'm not being too cruel
Since you ain't playing by the rules
We're bout to kick you off your stool
Evil
Don't you test me
Evil
You won't win
Oh why
Why
Why world
Do you want me to be so mad yeah
So mad yeah
Why in the world world
Why world
Do you want me be so mad yeah
Say why
I am a warrior princess
I have come from the other sun
Gather all of your members
Unite them as one
Move together in harmony
Build a bridge
Now destroy a bridge
Eliminate your weakness
Conquer evil, the demon
And live forever together
Why can't we get along and
Take all the funky tones
And make up a funky song
That be bangin' on and on
Make me
Mad when I see ya sad
With the same look ya momma had
But ya can't win when your will is weak
But ya get out ya seat
Oh why
Why
Why world do you want me to be so mad
So mad yeah
Why in the world
World
Why world do you want me to be so mad yeah
So mad yeah
Why in the world
World
Why world do you want me to be so mad yeah
So mad yeah
Why in the world
World
Why world do you want me to be so mad yeah
So mad yeah
Make me, make me, make me, make me, make me, make me, oh why
Why in the
Why yeah
Why yeah
Why yeah
Why yeah
Tracy Chapman - Born to Fight
LYRICS: They're tryin' to take away my pride
By stripping me of everything I own
They're tryin' to hurt me inside
And make me into a white man's drone
But this one's not for sale
And I was born to fight
I ain't been knocked down yet
I was born to fight
I'm the surest bet
There ain't no man no woman
No beast alive that can beat me
'Cause I'm born to fight
They're tryin' to dig into my soul
And take away the spirit of my God
They're tryin' to take control
And monitor my every thought
I won't let down my guard
And I was born to fight
I ain't been knocked down yet
I was born to fight
I'm the surest bet
There ain't no man no woman
No beast alive that can beat me
'Cause I'm born to fight
Indigo Girls - Prince of Darkness
LYRICS: My place is of the sun and
This place is of the dark (and I)
I do not feel the romance
I do not catch the spark
I don't know when I noticed life was life at my expense
The words of my heart lined up like prisoners on a fence
The dreams came in like needy children tugging at my sleeve
I said I have no way of feeding you so leave
But there was a time I asked my father for a dollar
And he gave it a ten dollar raise
When I needed my mother and I called her
She stayed with me for days (days)
Now someone's on the telephone
Desperate in his pain
Someone's on the bathroom floor
Doing her cocaine
Someone's got his finger on the button in some room
No one can convince me we aren't gluttons for our doom
But I tried to make this place my place
I asked for Providence to smile upon me with His sweet face
Yeah but I'll tell you...
My place is of the sun and
This place is of the dark (and I)
I do not feel the romance
I do not catch the spark
My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
And I do not feel the romance, I will not be...
(By grace, my sight grows stronger and I will not Be a Pawn
For the Prince of Darkness any longer)
Maybe there's no haven in this world for tender age
My heart beat like the wings of wild birds in a cage
My greatest hope my greatest cause to grieve
And my heart flew from its cage and it bled upon my sleeve
The cries of passion were like wounds that needed healing
I couldn't hear them for the thunder
I was half the naked distance between hell and heaven's ceiling
And he almost pulled me under (under)
Now someone's on the telephone
Desperate in his pain
Someone's on the bathroom floor
Doing her cocaine
Someone's got his finger on the button in some room
No one can convince me we aren't gluttons for our doom
But I tried to make this place my place
I asked for Providence to smile upon me with His sweet face
Yeah but I'll tell you...
My place is of the sun and
This place is of the dark (and I)
I do not feel the romance
I do not catch the spark
My place is of the sun and this place is of the dark
And I do not feel the romance, I will not be...
(By grace, my sight grows stronger and I will not Be a Pawn
For the Prince of Darkness any longer)
Jill Scott - Hate on Me
LYRICS:
If I could give you the world on a silver platter
Would it even matter, you'd still be mad at me
If I could find in all this a dozen roses
Which I would give to you, you'd still be miserable
Here reality I'm gon' be who I be and I don't feel no faults
For all the lies that you bought
You can try as you may, break me down but I say
That it ain't up to you, gone and do what you do
Hate on me, hater, now or later
'Cause I'm gonna do me, you'll be mad, baby
Go 'head and hate on me, hater, I'm not afraid of
What I got I paid for, you can hate on me
Ooh, if I gave you peaches outta my own garden
And I made you a peach pie, would you slap me high
Wonder if I gave you diamonds out of my own womb
Would you feel the love in that or ask why not the moon
If I gave you sanity for the whole of humanity
Had all the solutions for the pain and pollution
No matter where I live, despite the things I give
You'll always be this way, so go 'head and
Hate on me, hater, now or later
'Cause I'm gonna do me, you'll be mad, baby
Go 'head and hate on me, hater, I'm not afraid of
What I got I paid for, you can hate on me (repeat)
You cannot hate on me 'cause my mind is free
Feel my destiny, so shall it be
You cannot hate on me 'cause my mind is free
Feel my destiny, so shall it be
Hate on me, hater, now or later
'Cause I'm gonna do me, you'll be mad, baby
Go 'head and hate on me, hater, I'm not afraid of
What I got I paid for, you can hate on me (repeat)
You cannot hate on me 'cause my mind is free
Feel my destiny, so shall it be
You cannot hate on me 'cause my mind is free
Feel my destiny, so shall it be
Hate on me, hater, now or later
'Cause I'm gonna do me, you'll be made, baby
Go 'head and hate on me, hater, I'm not afraid of
What I got I paid for, you can hate on me
LYRICS: United we stand, divided we fall
For every dime they give us a battle must be fought
So working people use your power the key to liberty
Don't support the rich man's style of luxury
There ain't no way they can ever keep us down
There ain't no way they can ever keep us down
We won't be bought, we won't be sold
To be treated right, well that's our goal
There ain't no way they can ever keep us down
We've been shot, we've been jailed, lord its a sin
Women and children stood right by the men
We've got a union contract that keeps the worker free
They'll never shoot that union out of me
They'll never shoot that union out of me, oh no
They'll never shoot that union out of me
Got a contract in our hand signed by the blood of honest
Men
They'll never shoot that union out of me
The power wheel is rolling, rolling right along
The government is keep it going going strong
So working people get your help from your own kind
Your welfare on the rich man's mind
Your welfare on the rich man's mind
Your welfare on the rich man's mind
They want the power in their hands just to keep out of the workers hands
Your welfare on the rich man's mind
They'll never, never, never keep us down
They'll never, never, never keep us down
The cheat, rob and kill but we'll stop that big wheel
They'll never, never, never keep us down
LYRICS:
In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky
That's the place where I trace my bloodline
And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone
You will never leave Harlan alive
Oh, my granddad's dad walked down
Katahrins Mountain
And he asked Tillie Helton to be his bride
Said, won't you walk with me out of the mouth
Of this holler
Or we'll never leave Harlan alive
Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning
And the sun goes down about three in the day
And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking
And you spend your life just thinkin' of how to get away
No one ever knew there was coal in them mountains
Till a man from the Northeast arrived
Waving hundred dollar bills he said I'll pay ya for your minerals
But he never left Harlan alive
Granny sold out cheap and they moved out west
Of Pineville
To a farm where big Richland River winds
I bet they danced them a jig, laughed and sang a new song
Who said we'd never leave Harlan alive
But the times got hard and tobacco wasn't selling
And ole granddad knew what he'd do to survive
He went and dug for Harlan coal
And sent the money back to granny
But he never left Harlan alive
Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning
And the sun goes down about three in the day
And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking
And you spend your life just thinkin' of how to get away
Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning
And the sun goes down about three in the day
And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking
And you spend your life digging coal from the bottom of your grave
In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky
That's the place where I trace my bloodline
And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone
You will never leave Harlan alive
LYRICS: I was taking every hit from you
You drive-by shooting son of a bitch, and I'm done
Oh whoa, I'm done
Who told you that you could rewrite the rules, and do you
Really take me for a goddamn fool cause I'm done
Oh whoa, I'm done
And you can drag me out before some authority
If that's what you have to do to feel like you can punish me
But I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't keep the peace anymore
With your dogs, with your dogs, at my door
You've been puncing my weaknesses, slandering my name
You spent all your time trying to place your blame, and I'm done
Ohhh, I'm done
I used to think I hold the best parts of me
To sew the holes in your life and the cracks in your seams
And I'm done
Oh whoa, I'm done
And I'm sorry that you don't like your life
But I fought for my own victories and for the beauty in my life
My joy, my joy, my joy takes nothing from you
No, my joy, my joy, my joy takes nothing from you
Well, you criticize my numbers, you hammer out the rules
Wait for me to fuck up, and find yourself some proof
And I'm done
Oh whoa, I'm done
You just soak in the hatred of a sorry line
Yeah, you hide behind decorum and a fake smile
And I'm done
Oh whoa, I'm done
And you can drag me out before a judge and authorities
If that's what you have to do to feel like you can punish me
But I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't keep the peace anymore
With your dogs, with your dogs, at my door
Well I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't keep the peace anymore
With your dogs, with your dogs, at my door
Laurie Anderson - Beautiful Red Dress
LYRICS: Well I was down at the Zig Zag
That's the Zig Zag Bar & Grill
And everybody was talking at once
And it was getting really shrill
And I've been around the block
But I don't care I'm on a roll - I'm on a wild ride
'Cause the moon is full and look out baby -
I'm at high tide
I've got a beautiful red dress
And you'd look really good standing beside it..
I've got some beautiful new red shoes
And they look so fine
I've got a hundred and five fever
And it's high tide
Well just the other day I won the lottery
I mean lots of money
I got so excited I ran into my place and i said:
HEY! Is anybody home?
Nobody answered but I guess that's not too weird
Since I live alone
I've got a beautiful red dress
And you'd look really good standing beside it.. Girls?
We can take it And if we can't we're gonna fake it
We're gonna save ourselves, save ourselves
We're gonna make it
And if we don't we're gonna take it
We're gonna save ourselves, save ourselves
Well they say women shouldn't be the president
'Cause we go crazy from time to time
Well push my button baby here I come
Yeah look out baby I'm at high tide
I've got a beautiful red dress
And you'd look really good standing beside it..
I've got a little jug of red sangria wine
And we could take little sips from time to time
I've got some bright red drop dead lips
I've got a little red card and mechanical hips
I've got a hundred and five fever!!!
OK! OK! Hold it!
I just want to say something
You know, for every dollar a man makes
A woman makes 63 cents
Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents
So, with that kind of luck
It'll be the year 3,888
Before we make a buck
But hey, girls? We can take it
And if we can't we're gonna fake it
We're gonna save ourselves, save ourselves
(Yeah tell it to the judge)
We're gonna make it
And if we don't we're gonna take it
We're gonna save ourselves, save ourselves
We've got a fever of a hundred and five
And look baby It's high tide
Well I could just go on and on and on...
But tonight I've got a headache
Part 1: I know girls who are trying to fit into the social norm
Like squeezing into last year's prom dress
I know girls who are low rise, mac eyeshadow, and binge drinking
I know girls that wonder if they're disaster and sexy enough to fit in
I know girls who are fleeing bombs from the mosques of their skin
Playing russian roulette with death; it's never easy to accept
That our bodies are fallible and flawed
But when do we draw the line?
When the knife hits the skin?
Isn't it the same thing as purging
Because we're so obsessed with death
Some women just have more guts than others
The funny thing is women like us don't shoot
We swallow pills, still wanting to be beautiful at the morgue
Still proceeding to put on make-up
Still hoping that the mortician finds us fuckable and attractive
We might as well be buried with our shoes
And handbags and scarves, girls
We flirt with death everytime we etch a new tally mark into our skin
I know how to split my wrists to reveal a battlefield too
But the time has come for us to reclaim our bodies
Our bodies deserve more than to be war-torn and collateral
Offering this fuckdom as a pathetic means to say
"I only know how to exist when I am wanted"
Girls like us are hardly ever wanted, you know?
We're used up and sad and drunk and
Perpetually waiting by the phone for someone to pick up
And tell us that we did good
We did good
I know I am because I said am
My body is home
My body is home
I know I am because I said am
Part 2:
I know I am because I said am
I know I am because I said am
I know I am because I said am
My body is home
My body is home
I know I am because I said am
I know I am because I said am
I know I am because I said am
So try this
Take your hands over your bumpy lovebody naked
And remember the first time you touched someone
With the sole purpose of learning all of them
Touched them because the light was pretty on them
And the dust in the sunlight danced the way your heart did
Touch yourself with a purpose
Your body is the most beautiful royal
Fathers and uncles are not claiming your knife anymore
Are not your razor, no, put the sharpness back
Lay your hands flat and feel the surface of scarred skin
I once touched a tree with charred limbs
The stump was still breathing
But the tops were just ashy remains
I wonder what it's like to come back from that
Because sometimes I feel a forest fire erupting from my wrists
And the smoke signals sent out are the most beautiful things
I've ever seen
Love your body the way your mother loved your baby feet
And brother, arm-wrapping shoulders, and remember
This is important
You are worth more than who you fuck
You are worth more than a waistline
You are worth more than beer bottles displayed like drunken artifacts
You are worth more than any naked body could proclaim in the shadows
More than a man's whim or your father's mistake
You are no less valuable as a size 16, than a size 4
You are no less valuable as a 32A than a 36C
Your sexiness is defined by concentric circles within your wood
It is wisdom
You are a goddamn tree stump with leaves sprouting out
Reborn
Keala Settle - This is Me
LYRICS: I am not a stranger to the dark
Hide away, they say
'Cause we don't want your broken parts
I've learned to be ashamed of all my scars
Run away, they say
No one'll love you as you are
But I won't let them break me down to dust
I know that there's a place for us
For we are glorious
When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be, this is me
Look out 'cause here I come
And I'm marching on to the beat I drum
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me
Another round of bullets hits my skin
Well, fire away 'cause today, I won't let the shame sink in
We are bursting through the barricades and
Reaching for the sun (we are warriors)
Yeah, that's what we've become (yeah, that's what we've become)
I won't let them break me down to dust
I know that there's a place for us
For we are glorious
When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be, this is me
Look out 'cause here I come
And I'm marching on to the beat I drum
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me
This is me
and I know that I deserve your love
(Oh-oh-oh-oh) 'cause there's nothing I'm not worthy of
(Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh, oh)
When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out
This is brave, this is proof
This is who I'm meant to be, this is me
Look out 'cause here I come (look out 'cause here I come)
And I'm marching on to the beat I drum (marching on, marching, marching on)
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me
When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out
I'm gonna send a flood
Gonna drown them out
Oh
This is me
India Arie feat. Pink - I am not my hair
LYRICS: Is that India? What happened to her hair?
Da da da da da
Little girl with the press and curls
Age 8 I got a jerry curl
13 and I got a relaxer
I was the source of so much laughter
15 when it all broke off
18 when I went all natural
February 2002
I went on and did what I had to do
Cuz it was time to change my life
To become the woman that I am inside
97 dread locs all grown
I looked in the mirror for the first time and saw that (hey)
I am not my hair
I am not this skin
I am not your expectations (no)
I am not my hair
I am not this skin
I am the soul that lives within
What she do to her?
I don’t know; it look crazy!
I like it.
I might do that.
I wouldn’t go that far.
Good hair means curls and waves.
Bad hair means you look like a slave
At the turn of the century
Its time for us to redefine who we be
You can shave it off like a South African beauty
Got in on “loc” like Bob Marley
You can rock it straight like Oprah Winfrey
It’s not what’s on your head, it’s what’s underneath (say hey)
I am not my hair
I am not this skin
I am not your expectations (no)
I am not my hair
I am not this skin
I am the soul that lives within
Does the way I wear my hair make me a better person
Does the way I wear my hair make me a better friend
Does the way I wear my hair determine my integrity
Expressing my creativity
Breast cancer and chemotherapy
Took away her crown and glory
She promised God if she was to survive
She would enjoy everyday of her life
On national television her diamond eyes are sparkling
Baldheaded like a full moon shining
Singing out to the whole wide world like hey
I am not my hair
I am not this skin
I am not your expectations (no)
I am not my hair
I am not this skin
I am the soul that lives within
If I wanna shave it close or I wanna rock locs
That don’t take a bit away from this soul that I got
If I wanna wear it braided all down my back
I don’t see nothing wrong with that
Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material
LYRICS: There's certain things you're s'posed to know
When you're a girl who grows up in the south
I try to use my common sense
But my foot always ends up in my mouth
And if I had to walk a runway in high heels in front of the whole town
I'd fall down
And my mama cried
When she realized
I ain't pageant material
I'm always higher than my hair
And it ain't that I don't care about world peace
But I don't see how I can fix it in a swimsuit on a stage
I ain't exactly Ms. Congenial
Sometimes I talk before I think, I try to fake it but I can't
I'd rather lose for what I am than win for what I ain't
God bless the girls who smile and hug
When they're called out as a runner up on TV
I wish I could, but I just can't
Wear a smile when a smile ain't what I'm feelin'
And who's to say I'm a 9.5
Or a 4.0 if you don't even know me
Life ain't always roses and pantyhose
And
I ain't pageant material
I'm always higher than my hair
And it ain't that I don't care about world peace
But I don't see how I can fix it in a swimsuit on a stage
I ain't exactly Ms. Congenial
Sometimes I talk before I think, I try to fake it but I can't
I'd rather lose for what I am than win for what I ain't
I ain't pageant material
The only crown is in my glass
They won't be handin' me a sash
And that's okay, cause there's no way
You'll ever see me in a swimsuit on a stage
I ain't exactly Ms. Congenial
Sometimes I talk before I think, I try to fake it but I can't
I'd rather lose for what I am than win for what I ain't
Yeah I'd rather lose for what I am than win for what I ain't
Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business
LYRICS: Can I have a taste of your ice cream?
Can I lick the crumbs from your table?
Can I interfere in your crisis?
No, mind your own business
No, mind your own business
Can you hear those people behind me
Looking at your feelings inside me?
Listen to the distance between us
Why don't you mind your own business?
Why don't you mind your own business?
Can I interfere in your crisis?
Can I have a taste of your ice cream?
Can I have a taste of your ice cream?
Can I lick the crumbs from your table?
Can I lick the crumbs from your table?
Can I interfere in your crisis?
No, mind your own business
No, mind your own business
Listen to the distance between us
Can you hear those people behind me?
Looking at your feelings inside me
No, mind your own business
Can you hear those people behind me
Looking at your feelings inside me?
Listen to the distance between us
No, mind your own business
Why don't you mind your own business?
Why don't you mind your own business?
Why don't you mind your own business?
4 Non Blondes - What's Up
LYRICS: Twenty-five years and my life is still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination
I realized quickly when I knew I should
That the world was made up of this brotherhood of man
For whatever that means
And so I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out what's in my head,
And I
I am feeling a little peculiar
And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high, and I
Scream from the top of my lungs
What's going on?
And I say, hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah
I said hey, what's going on?
And I say, hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah
I said hey, what's going on?
And I try, oh my god do I try
I try all the time, in this institution
And I pray, oh my god do I pray
I pray every single day
For a revolution
And so I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out what's in my head
And I
I am feeling a little peculiar
And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high, and I
Scream from the top of my lungs
What's going on?
And I say, hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah
I said hey, what's going on?
And I say, hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah
I said hey, what's going on?
And I say, hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah
I said hey, what's going on?
And I say, hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah
I said hey, what's going on?
Ooh, ooh ooooooooooooooooh ooooooooooooooooh
Twenty-five years I'm alive here still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination
Mmh mh
First Aid Kit - Heaven Knows
LYRICS: You've spent a year staring into a mirror
Another one trying to figure out what you saw
Paid so much attention to what you're not
You have no idea who you are
But heaven knows, knows
That you're lying
As far as heaven goes, heaven goes
I just stopped trying
Now I can hear every word you're saying
I'm just not sure I want to know
You can play the fool and still follow the rules
If you seem like you care you're good
But heaven knows, knows
That you're lying
As far as heaven goes, heaven goes
I just stopped trying
You've lost yourself in others'
Expectations of you
Now you prefer this caricature before being true
But you're better than that
You're so much better than that
I know you better than that
Now baby, tell me, what's your story?
Do you think it'll ever sell?
And what'll you do if it comes down to it?
If it all goes straight to hell?
But heaven knows, knows
That you're lying
As far as heaven goes, heaven goes
I just stopped trying
Heaven knows (heaven knows)
Heaven knows
Heaven knows (heaven knows)
Heaven knows
That you're lying
Komeda - Nonsense
LYRICS: I don't like your company, so sick of you
Don't wanna be your friend no more, leave me alone
How could I be so stupid to have faith in you?
You're the one to blame for all that has gone wrong
I'm going, gone and I'm finally out
But I'm not feeling lonely
I'm going, gone and I'm finally out
And I am feeling so fine
How could I be so stupid to have faith in you?
You're the one to blame for all that has gone wrong
I should have know that all you said was a big lie
I'd rather do nothing than spend time with you
I'm going, gone and I'm finally out
But I'm not feeling lonely
I'm going, gone and I'm finally out
But I'm not feeling lonely
I'm going, gone and I'm finally out
But I'm not feeling lonely
I'm going, gone and I'm finally out
And I am feeling so fine
I don't like your company, so sick of you
Don't wanna be your friend no more, leave me alone
Alessia Cara - Here
LYRICS: I guess right now you've got the last laugh
I'm sorry if I seem uninterested
Or I'm not listenin', or I'm indifferent
Truly I ain't got no business here
But since my friends are here, I just came to kick it
But really I would rather be at home all by myself
Not in this room
With people who don't even care about my well-being
I don't dance, don't ask, I don't need a boyfriend
So you can, go back, please enjoy your party
I'll be here
Somewhere in the corner
Under clouds of marijuana
With this boy who's hollering
I can hardly hear
Over this music I don't listen to
And I don't wanna get with you
So tell my friends that I'll be over here
Oh-oh-oh here, oh-oh-oh here
Oh I ask myself, what am I doin' here?
Oh-oh-oh here, oh-oh-oh here
And I can't wait 'til we can break up out of here
Excuse me if I seem a little unimpressed with this
An anti-social pessimist, but usually I don't mess with this
And I know you mean only the best
And your intentions aren't to bother me
But honestly I'd rather be
Somewhere with my people
We can kick it and just listen to
Some music with a message, like we usually do
And we'll discuss our big dreams
How we plan to take over the planet
So pardon my manners
I hope you'll understand that I'll be here
Not there in the kitchen
With the girl who's always gossiping about her friends
So tell them I'll be here
Right next to the boy who's throwin' up
Cause he can't take what's in his cup no more
Oh God why am I here?
Oh-oh-oh here, oh-oh-oh here
Oh I ask myself, what am I doin' here?
Oh-oh-oh here, oh-oh-oh here
And I can't wait 'til we can break up out of here
Hours later congregatin' next to the refrigerator
Some girl talkin' 'bout her haters, she ain't got none
How did it ever come to this? I shoulda never come to this
So holla at me, I'll be in the car when you're done
I'm stand-offish, don't want what you're offerin'
And I'm done talkin', awfully sad it had to be that way
So tell my people when they're ready that I'm ready
And I'm standin' by the TV with my beanie low
Yo I'll be over here
Oh-oh-oh here, oh-oh-oh here
Oh I ask myself, what am I doin' here?
Oh-oh-oh here, oh-oh-oh here
And I can't wait 'til we can break up out of here
Lady Gaga - Till it Happens To You
LYRICS: You tell me it gets better, it gets better in time
You say I'll pull myself together, pull it together, you'll be fine
Tell me, what the hell do you know? What do you know?
Tell me how the hell could you know? How could you know?
'Til It happens to you, you don't know how it feels, how it feels
'Til it happens to you, you won't know, it won't be real
No, it won't be real, won't know how it feels
Cause when you fall you gotta get up, you gotta get up and move on
Tell me how the hell could you talk, how could you talk?
Cause until you walk where I walk, this is no joke
'Til it happens to you, you don't know how it feels, how it feels
'Til it happens to you, you won't know, it won't be real
(How could you know?)
No it won't be real
(How could you know?)
Won't know how I feel
'Til your world burns and crashes
'Til you're at the end, the end of your rope
'Til you're standing in my shoes
I don't wanna hear a thing from you, from you, from you
Cause you don't know
'Til it happens to you, you don't know how I feel, how I feel
How I feel
'Til it happens to you, you won't know, it won't be real
(How could you know?)
No it won't be real
(How could you know?)
Won't know how it feels
Til it happens to you
Happens to you
Happens to you
Happens to you
Happens to you
Happens to you
(How could you know?)
Til it happens you
You won't know how I feel
Fight Like A Girl: The Tribute Remix featuring Emma Thompson, Uma Thurman, & Ronan Farrow
LYRICS: My heart is a weapon of war
My voice is my weapon of choice
An eye for an eye, a heart for a heart
A soul for a soul
We fight for our dream, we fight to the death
We fight for control
There is no such thing as justice
All the best that we can hope for is revenge
A hostile takeover
An absolute rebellion to the end
This is our battle cry
I'm giving you a head start
You're going to need it
Cause I fight like a girl
I'll get my revenge on the world
Or at least 49% of the people in it
And if I end up with blood on my hands
Well, I know that you'll understand
Cause I fight like a girl
We are under attack
What is the body count? I've lost track
If nobody's mentioned how this will end
Then I will be the first
There are more of us than there are of you
So show me your worst
It's so easy to kill
This I learned by watching you
If I have to I will
It's not pretty but it's true
I am through lying still
Just a body to be beaten, fucked
And if I'm lucky, left for dead
So who's scary now?
No mercy, it's a bit too late
The game is on, don't run, don't hide, don't wait
Cause if we've got no honor
Then we've got no shame
If it's in self defense
Then we will take no blame
This is our battle cry
Even if you're only a boy
The dead weather - I'm mad
LYRICS: I'm mad, ha ha
I'm mad, ha ha
I'm mad, ha ha
20 days, ha ha
I'm mad, ha ha
100 ways, ha ha
I'm mad, ha ha, ha ha
You found some dice, ha ha
Along the road, ha ha
You show them off, ha ha
Along the floor, ha ha
I'm mad, ha ha
20 days, ha ha
Make me mad, ha
A hundred ways
I'm mad, ha ha
I'm mad, ha ha
I'm mad, ha ha
A hundred ways, ha ha
You're in my mind
When you're in the room
In my heart
I'm mad on you
You're in my mind
When you're in the room
I'm mad, ha ha
I'm mad, ha ha
I'm mad, ha ha
The Creatures - Standing There
LYRICS: Hey creepo's... I'm talking to you
I've got a message to give to you
You've got a problem... we know
But there's something you ought to know
Standing there across the thoroughfare
They stand and stare with that gormless air
So funny to see how dumb some grown men can be
An unwanted weed, a dying reed
Left to consider life as it passes by
Ignoring your calling, ignoring your taunting
Ignoring your feelings of self hate and loathing
How empty and pointless your life must seem
See them standing
See them staring
See them wearing that same stupid face
Sticks and stones may break bones
But these taunting crones only cause inner groans
We ignore all your calling, ignore all your taunting
Ignore all your problems of self hate and loathing
Somebody should show them where to go
See them standing
See them staring
See them wearing that same creepy face
Standing there in the thoroughfare
They stand and stare with that gormless air
Does what you won't understand scare and make you mad?
Resentful and envious, don't you disgust yourself?
So funny to see how pathetic some men can be
See them standing
See them staring
See them wearing that same stupid face
Ignore all their calling, ignore all their taunting
Ignore all their faking, their self hate and loathing
Somebody should show them where to go
Kate Nash - Dickhead
LYRICS: Why're you being a dickhead for
Stop being a dickhead
Why're you being a dickhead for
You're just fucking up situations
Why're you being a dickhead for
Stop being a dickhead
Why're you being a dickhead for
You're just fucking up situations
Shiny floor, slippery feet
Lights are dim, my eyes can't meet
The reflection that turns my images
Upside down so I can see
Think you know everything
You really don't know nothing
I wish that you were more intelligent
So you could see that what you are doing is
So shitty
To me
Thirty five
People couldn't count
On two hands the amount of times you made me stop
Stop and think why are you being such a dickhead for
Stop being a dickhead
Why're you being a dickhead for
You're just fucking up situations
Why're you being a dickhead for
Stop being a dickhead
Why're you being a dickhead for
You're just fucking up situations
Stop, no don't show
Just have a think before you
Will you, stop, no don't show
Just have a think before you
Will you stop, no don't show
Just have a think before you
Will you stop, don't show
Will you just have a think before you
My brain and my bones don't want to take this anymore
No my brain and my bones don't want to take this anymore
No my brain and my bones don't want to take with this anymore
No my brain and my bones don't want to take this anymore, so
Why're you being a dickhead for
Stop being a dickhead
Why're you being a dickhead for
You're just fucking up situations
Why're you being a dickhead for
Stop being a dickhead
Why're you being a dickhead for
You're just fucking up situations
Waxahatchee - Never Been Wrong
LYRICS: I spent all my time learning how to defeat
You at your own game, it's embarrassing
I walk around like
This is the last strike
I love being right
Especially with you
Now I wake up early, I ruffle, I lie in wait
All your tragic fiction, I always take the bait
But the margin's gigantic
Am I happy or manic
Does it make you feel good
To blend in with the wall
Everyone will hear me complain
Everyone will pity my pain
You'll play defense
Evading the nonsense
Does it make you feel good to watch
Me stumbling in the dark
You're smoking and laughing untethered and carefree
I will unravel when no one sees what I see
You walk around like
It's your god-given right
And you love being right
You've never been wrong
Billie Eilish - Copycat
LYRICS: Don't be cautious, don't be kind
You committed, I'm your crime
Push my button anytime
You got your finger on the trigger, but your trigger finger's mine
Silver dollar, golden flame
Dirty water, poison rain
Perfect murder, take your aim
I don't belong to anyone, but everybody knows my name
By the way, you've been uninvited
'Cause all you say are all the same things I did
Copycat trying to cop my manner
Watch your back when you can't watch mine
Copycat trying to cop my glamour
Why so sad, bunny, you can't have mine?
Call me calloused, call me cold
You're italic, I'm in bold
Call me cocky, watch your tone
You better love me, 'cause you're just a clone
By the way, you've been uninvited
'Cause all you say are all the same things I did
Copycat trying to cop my manner
Watch your back when you can't watch mine
Copycat trying to cop my glamor
Why so sad, bunny, you can't have mine?
I would hate to see you go
Hate to be the one that told you so
You just crossed the line
You've run out of time
I'm so sorry, now you know
Sorry I'm the one that told you so
Sorry, sorry, I'm sorry, sorry
Sike
By the way, you've been uninvited
'Cause all you say are all the same things I did
Copycat trying to cop my manner
Watch your back when you can't watch mine
Copycat trying to cop my glamour
Why so sad, bunny, you can't have mine?
Dream Wife- F.U.U
LYRICS: I'm gonna fuck you up, gonna cut you up, gonna fuck you up
And then I'm gonna fuck you up, gonna cut you up, gonna fuck you up
And then I'm gonna fuck you up, gonna cut you up, gonna fuck you up
Then I'm gonna fuck you up, gonna cut you up, gonna fuck you up
I'm gonna cut your hair
Now, won't you stare
I'm gonna cut your hair
And then I want you to stare
Whilst I fuck you up, gonna cut you up, gonna fuck you up
And then I'm gonna fuck you up, gonna cut you up, gonna fuck you up
And then I'm gonna fuck you up, gonna cut you up, gonna fuck you up
And then I'm gonna fuck you up, gonna cut you up, gonna fuck you up
I'm gonna cut your hair
Now, won't you stare
I'm gonna cut your hair
And then I want you to stare
I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I'll tell you what I want, what I really want
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna fuck you up
I wanna fuck you up
I wanna fuck you up
And then I want you to stare
Ekki fökka í mér því þú veist að ég er glittrandi drottning og ég stend með þér
Ekki fökka í mér því þú veist að ég er glittrandi drottning og ég stend með þér
Því ég er svo fökkin sver
Sjáðu dansinn lifandi tifandi læt mig ekki stoppa
I spy with my little eye bad bitches
Dream Wife for life
I spy with my little eye bad bitches
Dream Wife for life
I spy with my little eye bad bitches
Dream Wife for life
I spy with my little eye bad bitches
I'm gonna fuck you up
I'm gonna fuck you up
I'm gonna fuck you up
I'm gonna fuck you up
[Outro]
I spy with my little eye
Oh, bad, bad, bad bitches
I spy with my little eye
Bad, bad, bad, bad bitches
I spy with my little eye
Bad, bad, bad, bad bitches
I spy with my little eye
Bad, bad, bad, bad
Bad, bad, bad, bad bitches
Bitches
Bitches, bitches, bitches, bitches
Bitches, bitches, bitches, bitches
The Mekons & Kathy Acker – The Song Of The Dogs
LYRICS:
dogs full of sea-dreams, of those expectations
which lie beyond expectations, of the
sun beating down and, in doing so, burning through color.
dead-men city, cut-plank grit,
the pirate ships are in,
lying off of brighton,
sheets as full as well-sucked tits
the pirate girls'll sail 'em.
pirate poll
used to be a moll
in the collage she happened to be in.
from there exiled for preferring hell:
those oxford monks,
fingers up her cunt,
instructed her she lived in
original sin,
and she replied,
you all have died
though you're still alive.
soon the pirate ships will be in
off we go, dogs with genitals,
fierce and pierced, to all
we've yet to dream of
And all you know can go to hell
You've fucked up a world
Now smell your own smell!
Original Sin.
Patti Smith - Piss Factory (CBGB's Closing Night 2006)
LYRICS: Sixteen and time to pay off
I get this job in a piss factory
Inspecting pipes
Forty hours
Thirty-six dollars a week
But it's a pay-check, Jack
So hot in here, hot like Sahara
You could faint from the heat
But these bitches are just too lame to understand
Too goddamned grateful to get this job
To know they're getting screwed up the ass
All these women
They got no teeth, or gum, or cranium
And the way they suck hot sausage
But me?
Well, I wasn't saying too much neither
I was more a school girl
Hard-working asshole
I figured I was speedo motorcycle
I had to earn my dough
Had to earn my dough
But no, you got to
You got to relate, babe
You got to find the rhythm within
Floor boss slides up to me and he says "Hey sister
You're just moving too fast
You're screwing up the quota. You're doing your piece work too fast
Now you get off your Mustang, Sally,
You ain't going nowhere
You ain't going nowhere."
I laid back, I get my nerve up
I take a swig of Romilar
And walk up to hot shit Dot Hook
And I say
"Hey
Hey sister
It don't matter whether I do labor fast or slow
There's always more labor after."
She's real Catholic, see
She fingers her cross
And she says
“There is one reason
There is one reason
You do it my way or I push your face in
We knee you in the John if you don't get off your Mustang, Sally
If you don't shake it up baby
Shake it up baby
Twist and shout”
Oh, would I could hear a radio here
James Brown singing 'I Lost Someone',
Or the Jesters
And the Paragons
And Georgie Woods, The Guy with the Goods
And Guided Missiles
But no
I got nothing
No diversion
No window
Nothing here but a porthole in the plaster
In the plaster
Where I look down, look at Sweet Theresa's convent
All those nurses, all those nuns
Scatting round with their blue hoods
Like cats in mourning.
Or to me they
You know, to me they look pretty damn free down there
Down there
Not having to press those smooth
Not having to smooth those hands against hot steel
Not having to worry about the in-speed
The dogma of in-speed labor
Or then, they’re pretty damn free down there
The way they smell
The way they smell
And here I got to be up here
Smelling Dot Hook's midwife sweat
I would rather smell the way boys smell
Oh, those schoolboys
Way their legs flap under the desk in the study hall
That odor rising
Roses and ammonia
And the way their dicks droop like lilacs
Or the way they smell that forbidden acrid smell
But no
I got to
I got to put clammy lady in my nostril
Her against the wheel
Me against the wheel
Oh, the in-speed, slow motion inspection
Is driving me insane
In steel next to Dot Hook
Oh, we may look the same
Shoulder to shoulder
Sweating 110 degrees
But I will never faint
I will never faint
They laugh and they expect me to faint
But I will never faint
I refuse to lose
I refuse to fall down
Because, you see
It's the monotony that's got to me
Every afternoon like the last one
Every afternoon like a re-run
Next to Dot Hook
And yes, we look the same
Both pumping steel
Both sweating
But you know she got nothing to hide
And I got something to hide here
Called desire.
I got something to hide here
Called desire
And I will get out of here
You know that fear potion is just about to come
In my nose is the taste of sugar
And I got nothing to hide here
Save desire
And I'm going to go
I'm going to get out of here
I'm going to get out of here
I'm going to get on that train
And I'm going to go on that train
And go to New York City
I'm going to be somebody
I'm getting
Going to get on that train
Go to New York City
I'm going to be so big
I'm going to be a big star
And I will never return
Never return
No, never return to burn at this piss factory
And I will travel light.
Oh, watch me now.
Joni Mitchell - The Magdalene Laundries
LYRICS: I was an unmarried girl
I'd just turned twenty-seven
When they sent me to the sisters
For the way men looked at me
Branded as a jezebel
I knew I was not bound for Heaven
I'd be cast in shame
Into the Magdalene laundries
Most girls come here pregnant
Some by their own fathers
Bridget got that belly
By her parish priest
We're trying to get things white as snow
All of us woe-begotten-daughters
In the streaming stains
Of the Magdalene laundries
Prostitutes and destitutes
And temptresses like me--
Fallen women--
Sentenced into dreamless drudgery ...
Why do they call this heartless place
Our Lady of Charity?
Oh charity!
These bloodless brides of Jesus
If they had just once glimpsed their groom
Then they'd know, and they'd drop the stones
Concealed behind their rosaries
They wilt the grass they walk upon
They leech the light out of a room
They'd like to drive us down the drain
At the Magdalene laundries
Peg O'Connell died today
She was a cheeky girl
A flirt
They just stuffed her in a hole!
Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring!
One day I'm going to die here too
And they'll plant me in the dirt
Like some lame bulb
That never blooms come any spring
Not any spring
No, not any spring
Not any spring
Loretta Lynn - The Pill
LYRICS: You wined me and dined me when I was your girl
Promised if I'd be your wife you'd show me the world
But all I've seen of this old world is a bed and a doctor bill
I'm tearing down your brooder house cause now I've got the pill
All these years I've stayed at home while you had all your fun
And every year that's gone by another baby's come
There`s gonna be some changes made right here on Nursery Hill
You`ve set this chicken your last time cause now I've got the pill
This old maternity dress I've got is going in the garbage
The clothes I'm wearing from now on won`t take up so much yardage
Miniskirts hotpants and a few little fancy frills
Yeah I`m making up for all those years since I've got the pill
I'm tired of all your crowing how you and your hens play
While holding a couple in my arms another's on the way
This chicken`s done tore up her nest and I'm ready to make a deal
And you can`t afford to turn it down cause you know I've got the pill
This incubator is overused because you've kept it filled
The feeling good comes easy now since I've got the pill
It's getting dark it`s roosting time tonight's too good to be real
Aw but Daddy don`t you worry none cause Mama's got the pill
Oh Daddy don't you worry none cause Mama's got the pill
Secret Sisters - Pocket Knife (a cover of the PJ Harvey song)
LYRICS: Please don't make my wedding dress
I'm too young to marry yet
Can you see my pocket knife?
You can't make me be a wife
How the world just turns and turns
How does anybody learn?
Mummy, put your needle down
How did you feel when you were young?
Cos I feel like I've just been born
Even though I'm getting on
How the world slips by so fast
How does anybody last?
As the world keeps coming
And the bees keep humming
And I'll keep running
Flowers I can do without
I don't wanna be tied down
White material will stain
My pocket knife's gotta shiny blade
I'm not trying to break your heart
I'm just trying not to fall apart
As the world keeps coming
And the bees keep humming
And I'll keep running
Please don't make my wedding dress
I'm too young to marry yet
Can you see my pocket knife?
You can't make me be a wife
LYRICS: I will never be what you want and that's alright
'Cause my skin ain't light and my body ain't tight
And that's alright
But if I might, I must stand and fight
I will never be what you want and that's alright
I play my own damn tune, I shine like the moon
And very soon, I'll soon fly over you
And what you gonna do when I fly over you
Tell me who made you the center of the universe
Who made you the center of the universe
Who made you the center of the universe
Who made you the center of the universe
And every morning when I wake up I pray for you
And then I pray for me that soon you'll see
How love can be, our love will set you free
And what it's gonna be, I see the beauty in your eyes
Tell me who made you the center of the universe
Who made you the center of the universe
Who made you the center of the universe
Who made you the center of the universe
I will never be what you want and that's alright
'Cause my skin ain't light and my body ain't tight
I will never be what you want and that's alright
'Cause my skin ain't light and that's alright
Tell me who made you the center of the universe
Who made you the center of the universe
Who made you the center of the universe
Who made you the center of the universe
Blondie - Just Go Away
LYRICS: Oh Don't ya know
Don't wanna see you any more
Put up or shut up
You spell, you read
D O O R
You got a big mouth and I'm happy to see
Your foot is firmly entrenched where a molar should be
If you talk much louder you could get an award
From the federal communications board
Don't be cruel
Be a thing-sweet thing as a rule
Don't be sad
I left you in the street, you're pre-fab
I had to get away
Don't go away sad
Don't go pre-fab
Don't go be bad
Don't go away mad
Just go away go away
O Don't ya know
Don't wanna see you here no more
Pack it and move it
You spell, you read O U T out
Don't be bad
A mad hatter's beret
Sometimes you look like you just mad an escape
Don't be mad
Or lose your medicaid cool
Of course cool rhymes with fool
O Don't ya know
Don't wanna see ya curse and pout
Pack it and move it
Ya spell, ya read O U T out
You got a big mouth and I'm happy to see
Your foot is firmly entrenched where a molar should be
Don't be mad or lose your medicaid cool
Of course cool rhymes with fool
Don't go pre-fab
Cause you been had
Don't go be sad
Don't go away mad
Just go away go away
Don't go pre-fab
Cause you been had
Don't go be sad
Don't go away mad
Just go away go away
Go away and stay away
Garbage - Girls Talk feat. Brody Dalle
LYRICS: Stop those voices in your head
They eat away your will
You've everything you need
Hate the way they make you weak
They bring you to your knees
And steal your power away
Girls talk shit when you're backed up against it
Don't believe in a word that they hear
And you can do what it is that you want
Without some little bitch in your ear
And girls talk shit, making no bones about it
When you're something that they don't understand
When they see that you got caught with your pants down
When they see you got caught with your pants down
Buy into the things they say
You lose your common sense
You've everything you need
Love to bring you to your knees
And watch you as you bleed
And give your power away
Girls talk shit when you're backed up against it
Don't believe in a word that they hear
And you can do what it is that you want
Without some little bitch in your ear
And girls talk shit, making no bones about it
When you're something that they don't understand
And you can do what it is that you want
Without some little bitch in your ear
Girls talk shit when your confidence crashes
Girls talk shit when it falls to the floor
Girls talk shit when you're biting your nails down
To the quick, ’cause you feel insecure
Girls talk shit, making no bones about it
Girls talk shit, making no bones about it
And you can do what it is that you want
Without some little bitch in your ear
In your ear
In your ear
Erase Errata - Watch Your Language
LYRICS:
Bratmobile - Cool Schmool
LYRICS: We're so cool yeah yeah
Yeah we're so cool cool
We're so cool yeah yeah
Fuck you too, cool schmool
I don't want to sit around and talk about The Wipers
Weren't those the good old days?
I don't want to wonder if you're going to say hello
I don't want to wonder if you're going to walk away
I don't want to hear how many friends you have
I don't have any anymore
Cool schmool
I don't want you to tell me what's so cool
I don't want to go back to junior high school
I don't want anyone to tell me how thin I am
I don't want to die for your fucking candy treats
Cool schmool
I just want to be one of the boys
I just want to be your little fashion toy
Let's hang and be cool, all right
Let's go watch the girl fight tonight
Cool schmool
I don't have to try because I know where you're at
I hate dogs, so I love cats
I can bake a pie and look you up and down
I could throw your heart right out of this town
Cool schmool
See, I don't know why you're always telling me
What's so cool about what I'm wearing
When you can't even tell me how you feel
And, you can't even be my friend for real
Jessie J - Who's Laughing
LYRICS: Mummy they called me names
They wouldn't let me play
I'd run home sit and cry almost everyday
Hey Jessica you looking like an Alien
With green skin you don't fit in this playpen
Oh they pulled my hair, they took away my chair
I keep it in and pretend that I didn't care
Hey Jessica, you're so funny,
You've got teeth just like Bugs Bunny
Oh, so you think you know me now?
Have you forgotten how,
You would make me feel when you drag my spirit down?
But thank you for the pain,
It made my raise my game,
And I'm still rising, I'm still rising, yeah.
So make your jokes, go for broke,
Blow your smoke, you're not alone.
But who's laughing now?
But who's laughing now?
So raise the bar, hit me hard,
Play your cards, be a star.
But who's laughing now?
But who's laughing now?
'Cause I'm in L.A.,
You think I've made my fame,
But FB makes us friends,
When you only really know my name
"Oh Jessie we knew you could make it,
I've got a track, and I'd love you to take it"
So now because I'm signed,
You think my pockets lined.
Four years down and I'm still waiting in the line.
"Oh Jessie I saw you on YouTube,
I tagged old photo's from when we was at school.
Oh, so you think you know me now?
Have you forgotten how,
You would make me feel when you drag my spirit down?
But thank you for the pain,
It made my raise my game,
And I'm still rising, I'm still rising, yeah.
So make your jokes, go for broke,
Blow your smoke, you're not alone.
But who's laughing now?
But who's laughing now?
So raise the bar, hit me hard,
Play your cards, be a star.
But who's laughing now?
But who's laughing now?
Jessie!
She broke out of the box.
Swallowed your pride, you got that ego cough.
Let the haters hate.
You're like way to late.
See, I got a message from you,
Hola, I'm proud of you
Oh my God babe, your voice is like, wow
My reply, "Who's laughing now?"
Oh, so you think you know me now?
Have you forgotten how,
You would make me feel when you drag my spirit down?
But thank you for the pain,
It made my raise my game,
And I'm still rising, I'm still rising, yeah.
So make your jokes, go for broke,
Blow your smoke, you're not alone.
But who's laughing now?
But who's laughing now?
So raise the bar, hit me hard,
Play your cards, be a star.
But who's laughing now?
But who's laughing now?
So make your jokes, go for broke,
Blow your smoke, you're not alone.
But who's laughing now?
But who's laughing now?
So raise the bar, hit me hard,
Play your cards, be a star.
LYRICS: What kind of fool do you think I am
To believe you really give a damn
You're just lookin' out for number one
You want to win, no way you're gonna lose
Between me and you, which one will you choose
I know you're lookin' out for number one
Just look behind the silver screen you've built around yourself
You will find you're just the same as anybody else
And that's allright
What kind of fool are you gonna be
There's a locked-up soul and you hold the key
But you're too busy lookin' out for number one
What will you do, will you go through the day
Only half alive, who are you anyway
Just lookin' out for number one
What kind of chance are you willing to take
Are you willing to give just a little bit for your own sake
That's really lookin' out for number one
Really lookin' out for number one
Lookin' out for number one
Mo-Dettes Foolish Girl
LYRICS: She was once a feminist Sharp and deadly? was her kiss Soft unpainted lips would part Revealing fangs to pierce your heart Long ago her bra was burned Because her young love had been spurned Had no further use for men So turned to politics and zen
Oh oh oh Miss Liberated Men and love were unrelated Angry from loves ups and downs You looked on all men with a frown
Followed her head, not her heart From flirtier friends she kept apart Got a PHD in philosophy Spoke with friends who’d all agree Never would she shave her legs No insult to her sex Makeup never touched her face Yet still she hid her feminine grace
Oh oh oh Miss Liberated Your beauty you understated Jumpers? hid your lovely curves To hide your lovely shape from Pervs
Whiskey cleared the situation Saw the point of flirtation With painted lips and mini skirt Down the disco did it work Now she’s happy and so meek In Camden Town wed to a Greek.
Oh oh oh Miss Liberated Your feminism was soon sated Smiling? as you cook his meal You now know how satisfaction feels
Now we have the conclusion Of a girl and? her confusion Please don’t follow her example She really was too simple Lacking any dedication Couldn’t face the situation Following her extremes Got the man of her dreams
Oh oh oh Miss Liberated See how you are situated Watch out you don’t burn his lunch You’ll find he’s got a nasty punch Foolish Girl…………
Britney Spears - Piece Of Me
LYRICS: I'm Miss American Dream since I was 17
Don't matter if I step on the scene or sneak away to the Philippines
They're still gon' put pictures of my derriere in the magazine
You want a piece of me? (You want a piece of me?) I'm Miss Bad Media Karma, another day, another drama
Guess I can't see the harm in working and being a mama
And with a kid on my arm, I'm still an exceptional earner
You want a piece of me?
I'm Mrs. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
(You want a piece of me?) I'm Mrs. 'Oh my God, That Britney's Shameless'
(You want a piece of me?) I'm Mrs. 'Extra! Extra! This Just In'
(You want a piece of me?) I'm Mrs. 'She's Too Big, Now She's Too Thin'
(You want a piece of me?)
I'm Mrs. 'You want a piece of me?' Trying and pissing me off
Well, get in line with the paparazzi who's flipping me off
Hoping I'll resort to some havoc, end up settling in court
Now are you sure you want a piece of me? (You want a piece of me?) I'm Mrs. 'Most likely to get on the TV for slipping on the streets' when getting the groceries
Now, for real, are you kidding me?
No wonder there's panic in the industry, I mean, please
You want a piece of me?
I'm Mrs. 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous'
(You want a piece of me?) I'm Mrs. 'Oh my God, That Britney's Shameless'
(You want a piece of me?) I'm Mrs. 'Extra! Extra! This Just In'
(You want a piece of me?) I'm Mrs. 'She's Too Big, Now She's Too Thin'
(You want a piece of me?)
I'm Miss American Dream since I was 17
Don't matter if I step on the scene or sneak away to the Philippines
They're still gon' put pictures of my derriere in the magazine
You want a piece of me?
You want a piece, piece of me?
You want a piece of me? Me
I'm Mrs. 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous'
(You want a piece of me?) I'm Mrs. 'Oh my God, That Britney's Shameless'
(You want a piece of me?) I'm Mrs. 'Extra! Extra! This Just In'
(You want a piece of me?) I'm Mrs. 'She's Too Big, Now She's Too Thin'
(You want a piece of me?)
I'm Mrs. 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous'
(You want a piece of me?) I'm Mrs. 'Oh my God, That Britney's Shameless'
(You want a piece of me?)
I'm Mrs. 'Extra! Extra! This Just In'
(You want a piece of me?) I'm Mrs. 'She's Too Big, Now She's Too Thin'
(You want a piece of me?) Piece of me
You want a piece of me? Me
Hey now extra extra have you read about me
They say I'm vulgar
And some people can do without me
Well all I can say is it's such a shame
Why do they blame me for what I am ?
Hey now
Extra extra do you understand me
Well if you don't don't reprimand me
Well I wish I could tell it to you another way
But I'm telling you the only way that I know how
Do you dig it
Extra extra have you read about me
Well they I stick out my tongue
Quite lecherously
Well I really don't know what they're talkin about
I just can't seem to keep my tongue in my mouth
That's all folk
Extra extra do you understand me
Well if you don't how can you like me
Well all I can say is it's such a shame
It really is a pity that you can't get into me
I don't care
Hey now
Do you know where I'm going to ?
Hey now
Well you're hipper than me if you say that you do
It ain't nothin but some music
It ain't nothin but some fun
And if I make you up tight
That's cause you don't know where I'm coming from
And ain't nothin that heavy
Oh such a shame
Ooh that sleazy fame
Oh isn't she a shame
Maybe her mother her mother is to blame
Dear mother
Oh ah mmm what a trashy dame
Oh life is such a shame
You swing high
You swing low here I go again
Courtney Love - Miss Narcissist
LYRICS: Miss Narcissist, come on
Magnificent and obvious
Bless us with your presence
And your paranoia
Miss Narcissist, she's the thief
Sucks out all the energy
Stole all my heart's fertility like a parasite
And all she needs is
Me, me, me
No apologies
In the end
Miss Narcissist, it's us versus them
Ohh
Princess, what do you need?
Stretch marks on your arteries
Scars on your malignancy
Come on, come on
Self-obsessed, but weak
Don't come crawling to me
We'll throw your toxic trash out on the street
Just say
Me, me, me
No apologies
In the end
Miss Narcissist, it's us versus them
Ohh
Versus them
Ohh
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
Come on, come on
Me, me, me
No apologies
In the end
Miss Narcissist, it's us versus them
Ohh
Versus them
Ohh
Tracy Bonham - Mother Mother
LYRICS: Mother Mother, how's the family?
I'm just calling to say Hello
How's the weather? How's my father?
Am I lonely? Heavens no
Mother Mother are you listening?
Just a phone call to ease your mind
Life is perfect, never better
Distance making the heart grow fond
When you sent me off to see the world
Were you scared that I might get hurt?
Would I try a little tobacco
Would I keep on hiking up my skirt?
I'm hungry
I'm dirty
I'm losing my mind...
Everything's fine!
I'm freezing
I'm Starving
I'm bleeding to death...
Everything's fine!
Yeah, I'm working, making money
I'm just starting to build a name
I can feel it, around the corner
I could make it any day
Mother mother can you hear me?
Sure I'm sober, sure I'm sane
Life is perfect, never better
Still your daughter, still the same
If I tell you what you want to hear
Will it help you to sleep well at night?
Are you sure that I'm your perfect dear?
Now just cuddle up and sleep tight
I'm hungry
I'm dirty
I'm losing my mind...
Everything's fine!
I'm freezing
I'm starving
I'm bleeding to death...
Everything's fine!
LYRICS: When I was your girl
I didn't know that I would
End where you begin
More beautiful in your skin
No matter of regret
This loosening curl
Teasing you out
When I was your girl
In my room you said we'll stay here for an endless year
Close the door we're letting no one near
When I was your girl
When I was your girl
And then today
All the nightmares came my way
All the tears I tried to stay
You were never satisfied
When I was your girl
When I was your girl
And when I was she
I'd put on every coat
To wear the weather down
But even in the sun
You said you tasted rain
I watched you unfurl
You held on to me
When I was your girl
In my cups I see you watching from the edge of the bed
I'm sinking words that you never said
When I was your girl
When I was your girl
And then today
I'll be keeping out your way
Every debt they owe I pay
They were never satisfied
When I was your girl
When I was your girl
We tore out a page
Impolitely quit the stage
Into corners sweep our rage
I would never leave you crying
When I was your girl
When I was your girl
When I was your girl
The Raincoats - No One's Little Girl
LYRICS: I'm no one's little girl,
oh no, I'm not
I'm not gonna be - cause I don't wanna be
I never shall be on your family tree -
Even if you ask me to
I'm gonna turn you down
I won't mess you around
I'm no one's little girl, oh no, I'm not
I'm not gonna be - cause I don't wanna be in your family tree
Even if you ask me to - I'm gonna turn you down
I won't mess you around
Oh no I'm not
Oh no, I'm not
Oh no, I'm not gonna be -
Cause I don't wanna be
I never shall be
In your family tree -
Even if you ask me too...
I'm gonna turn you down
I won't mess you around -
Cause I don't wanna be
I don't wanna be
Trying on
You can do it, you can choose it -
Trying on
Trying on
You can do it, you can choose it -
I'm no one's little girl -
Oh no, I'm not
I'm not gonna be - cause I don't wanna be
I never shall be on your family tree -
Even if you ask me to
I'm gonna turn you down
I won't mess you around
Cause I don't wanna be
Don't wanna be, don't wanna be
Lucinda Williams - Changed the Locks
LYRICS: I changed the lock on my front door
So you can't see me anymore
And you can't come inside my house
And you can't lie down on my couch
I changed the lock on my front door
I changed the number on my phone
So you can't call me up at home
And you can't say those things to me
That make me fall down on my knees
I changed the number on my phone
I changed the kind of car I drive
So you can't see me when I go by
And you can't chase me up the street
And you can't knock me off of my feet
I changed the kind of car I drive
I changed the kind of clothes I wear
So you can't see me anywhere
And you can't spot me in a crowd
And you can't call my name out loud
I changed the kind of clothes I wear
I changed the tracks underneath the train
So you can't find me again
And you can't trace my path
And you can't hear my laugh
I changed the tracks underneath the train
I changed the name of this town
So you can't follow me down
And you can't touch me like before
And you can't make me want you more
I changed the name of this town
I changed the lock on my front door
I changed the number on my phone
I changed the kind of car I drive
I changed the kind of clothes I wear
I changed the tracks underneath the train
I changed the name of this town
I changed the name of this town
I changed the name of this town
Miriam Makeba - Quit It
LYRICS: You take drugs to psych your mind
You take wine to forget about time
You create a world of your own
Where the truth will never be known
Well brother don't you know now
That you're killing yourself
And nobody else
Why don't you quit it now
Yeah why don't you quit it know
You better quit it now
I said you better quit it now
Cloud nine no responsability
Your forbidden space feeling good
Running away will never make you
A man
'cause reality 's gonna bring you down
But brother don't you know now
That you're killing yourself
And nobody else
You better quit it now
Why don't you quit it now
Lord have mercy
Why don't you quit it now
Yeah you better quit it now
You got a problem see a doctor
Doctor can't help see your brother
Why don't you try talking to your mama sometime
Remember she brought you into this world
But brother don't you know now
That you're killing yourself
And nobody else
Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps
LYRICS: I just don't wanna go
Out in the streets no more
I just don't wanna go
Out in the streets no more
Because these people they give me
They give me the creeps
Anymore
Because these people they give me
They give me the creeps
Anymore
I don't wanna
Too many creeps
Yeah
I just can't pay the price
Of shopping around
No more
I just can't pay the price
Of shopping around
No more
Because there's just nothing
That's worth the cost
It's the worst
Because there's just nothing
That's worth the cost
Cause it's the worst
I don't wanna
Cause it's the worst
It's the worst
I just don't wanna go
Out in the streets no more
I just don't wanna go
Out in the streets no more
Because these people they give me
They give me the creeps
Anymore
Because these people they give me
They give me the creeps
Anymore
LYRICS: We don't torture, we're a civilized nation
We're avoiding any confrontation
We don't torture (we don't torture)
We don't torture (we don't torture)
American hostages in Iran
Heard daily on the news
Forget about Vietnam
You can ignore the 32
There are 32 women in Armagh jail
Political prisoners here at home
The British state's got nothing to lose
It's a subject better left alone
We don't torture, we're a civilized nation
We're avoiding any confrontation
We don't torture
We don't torture
Alleged crimes withheld information (we don't torture, we're a civilized nation)
She gets no sanitation (we're avoiding any confrontation)
She dries her shit on her cell wall (we don't torture, we're a civilized nation)
She's feeling cold and sick, she gets a couple of valium (we're avoiding any confrontation)
Now she's relaxed for the next interrogation
Naked, spread-eagled on her back
It's a better position for internal examination
A better position for giving information
Giving information
Giving information
We don't torture
We don't torture
Hands above and she gets a beating
Bleeding and wounded, she's stopped eating
Has a baby, gets nothing for pain
They came and took her baby away
Oh we don't torture, we're a civilized nation (we don't torture, we don't torture)
We're avoiding any confrontation (we don't torture, we don't torture)
We don't torture (we don't torture, we don't torture)
We don't torture (we don't torture, we don't torture)
We don't torture, we're a civilized nation (we don't torture, we don't torture)
We're avoiding any confrontation (we don't torture, we don't torture)
We don't torture (we don't torture, we don't torture)
We don't torture (we don't torture, we don't torture)
We don't torture
Sinead O'Connor - Feel So Different
LYRICS: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change
Courage to change the things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference
I am not like I was before
I thought that nothing would change me
I was not listening anymore
Still you continued to affect me
I was not thinking anymore
Although I said I still was
I'd said I don't want anymore
Because of bad experience
And now I feel so different
I feel so different
I feel so different
I have not seen freedom before
And I did not expect to
Don't let me forget now I'm here
Help me to help you to behold you
I started off with many friends
And we spent a long time talking
I thought they meant every word they said
But like everyone else they were stalling
And now they seem so different
They seem so different
They seem so different
I should have hatred for you
But I do not have any
And I have always loved you
Oh you have taught me plenty
The whole time I'd never seen
All you had spread before me
The whole time I'd never seen
All I'd need was inside me
Now I feel so different
I feel so different
I feel so different
I feel so different
I feel so different
Lily Allen - Fuck You
LYRICS: Look inside, look inside your tiny mind
Then look a bit harder
Cause we're so uninspired, so sick and tired
Of all the hatred you harbour
So you say it's not okay to be gay
Well, I think you're just evil
You're just some racist who can't tie my laces
Your point of view is medieval
Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
Cause we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So please don't stay in touch
Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
Cause your words don't translate
And it's getting quite late
So please don't stay in touch
Do you get, do you get a little kick
Out of being small minded?
You want to be like your father
His approval you're after
Well, that's not how you find it
Do you, do you really enjoy
Living a life that's so hateful?
Cause there's a hole where your soul should be
You're losing control a bit
And it's really distasteful
Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
Cause we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So please don't stay in touch
Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
Cause your words don't translate
And it's getting quite late
So please don't stay in touch
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you
You say you think we need to go to war
Well, you're already in one
Cause it's people like you that need to get slew
No one wants your opinion
Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
Cause we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So please don't stay in touch
Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
Cause your words don't translate
And it's getting quite late
So please don't stay in touch
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you...
LYRICS: [Patra]
Now this is time for free your mind and your soul
Yo, half the story has never been told
Ladies, you got to demand what you want
And what we want is respect, right?
Yo, listen up on the track here so I can feel if it rides
Freedom everytime for the sisters
Check this, watch this
[Queen Latifah]
Now here we go now...
Listen, if, um, pum pum ruled, I'd be the ruler like Slick Rick
Get with this quick witted Adidas wearing chick
Papa got a brand new bag, Mama got a brand new Jag
A gold tag, I ain't no old hag
I represent not only in the kitchen and the bedroom
But also in the boardroom so give me more room
Deny my opportunity, you in jeopardy
Yo, yo, set me free, don't hinder me, let me be
[Yo-Yo]
I'm fightin' for freedom, I got the heat in case you need
I'm a straight soldier, ain't nobody told ya?
Hold up on them lies, I know your games and your plans
Do whatever you can to oppress The Man
But when it's time to drop the bomb bring the funkiness on
You say you never met a sister so strong, you're wrong
Now how can we be free?
It takes you and it takes me to live together in harmony
And peace and love and all of the above
Sisters comin' together representing one love
No disrespect, but we gotta get it together
No matter what's the weather, sisters gotta stick together
And sisters be strong, don't let 'em steer you wrong, hold on
Cause sisters got it goin' on, yeah
[Left Eye]
Whoever said these are the things that you can do
And the things you ain't supposed to?
So am I further when I think I'm getting closer?
That's when I tend to think of Rosa
How Rosa took a seat to make a stand
But now, in standing, we've gotten more demanding
They never thought in planning
That a wish for us to sit would be a dose of this fucking rollercoaster
Whether tradition or religion, why you question my decision?
Why you spend up all your time trying to get into my mind?
How everybody and their mama
Gots to add to all my drama, mad drama
Hell if I'm gonna keep my dominating, feministic
Hell-creating CrazySexyCool, Black ass
In the palms of your player-hater's stance
My only chance of being free is to fly within me
And it's illegal to kill a fuckin' eagle
A bird is never more important than my people
I guess we didn't need him so I took away his freedom
[MC Lyte]
My spiritual awareness leads me to believe
That you're doubting the sisters to come with the peace
We've been together since Jah created water
The African border, celebration is in order
Pop the cork and give champagne to the stork
That brought the Lyte to my Mama in New York
African I come again + again
You kick me down, I get back up
I'm comin back in multiples of 10
[Nefertiti]
You know where I come from
Slung from the belly of the beast
Used to speak African tongue
So I showed her, next one rolled her
Slung the devil over my shoulder
I'm gettin' over 'cuz I'm bolder than the next
I'm enlightening because I speak the real truth from the text
Who's next to flex with this S-I-S-T-E-R?
The sun, the moon, the crescent, the star
Well let's see how open you are
[Me'Shell NdegéOcello]
Come and take a walk with me
Closer walk with thee, see what only I can see
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
So it's back to the womb of everlasting life and truth
Let the heaven of a sister embrace you
And praise some other gods
Come into the light, let it shine, Blackness is fine
The Blackness of your skin, the Blackness of your mind
[Salt-N-Pepa]
I am who I am and that's who I be
And I don't give a damn if your eyes can't see
If you can't see what I can see
That you're blind, baby, by a woman who's Black
So back up, back up, cause it's on
I'm-a tell ya strong what's wrong
With the world that we're living on
It ain't who ya know, it ain't what ya drive
It's about how you feel about yourself on the inside
When your self-esteem is low
And they call you a ho, then you think you's a ho
But that ain't what the Lord God made you to be
I need you to see you're Black and you're free
Nehah Cherry - The Next Generation
LYRICS:
Autumn Breeze, a Spring Tease
summer days and winter nights
The seasons change and that's a fact
Is it not
Domo Arigato, Danke, Merci
Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons
here's hoping you'll know the right time when it comes
like I did 'cause I knew though nobody told
me a damn thing about how The world grows
right here before you, you can't even blink If you do you'll miss it so take
time to think
about your position, your place in this world
about what you're here for so check it out girl
Boys to the right and you're in this too
come on be real now Can we count on you
to be strong and to love us like Through thick and thin with your heart and
your soul not the size of your dick.
Yeah, Uh huh yeah uh huh
So check this out
hey what's this sitting in my lap
Why it's the Next Generation.
And do you know what comes from the best love in the world you could possibly ever have,
Yes it's the next generation
The children are the chosen ones,
society's got it's piorities Wrong. The schools are closing down.
Don't be messing with our future - black babies, white babies,
Quarter Puerto Ricans, two sixths Chinese,
any combination you could possibly imagine,
but this important as the ground We walk on, people are people you know what I mean,
Even the baby with a portaphone
attached to its' buggy Pushed by a clone
and the black market baby that unwanted baby.
For 50, 000 it belonged to the rich
well he didn't like his face,
She said it didn't matter
'cause her husband was a surgeon.
Ha ha ha ha - urr - sick
Ain't ain't that ain't that sick -
shucks it breaks my heart.
Operate on a baby urr sick.
Hey what's that sitting in my lap
Why it's the Next Generation.
And do you know what comes from the best love in the world you could possibly
ever have,
Yes it's the next generation
And is it true that even though they keep you awake at night
Sometimes and mess on your clothes that you worry about
Whether it's really worth the sacrifices that we all have to make
no matter how rich or poor
Why yes they're the next generation honey
(free up)
Push push push, in the bush down on your knees with the birds and bees
your basic needs is what you're fulfilling
This dude down this way must be making a killing
'Cause then in the morning
she finds herself illing
You planted a seed that won't grow a tree
'Cause the love that's showing is a baby growing
Inside there's a life that's well worth knowing, knowin, knowin
Ha ha ha ha that's nasty ain't it
If you're gonna do it, think before you do it and do it right - right
Hey what's this sitting in my lap
Why it's the Next Generation oh yeah
And do you know what comes from the best love in the world you could possibly
ever have,
Yes it's the next generation
And is it true that even though they keep you awake at night
Sometimes and mess on your clothes that you worry about
Whether it's really worth the sacrifices that we all have to make
no matter how rich or poor
Why yes they're the next generation honey
You know, you know you see some people look at them right,
Old people, guys on the corner holding on, girls right walking
Arm in arm, spittin' on the pavement or whatever
And you wonder right if they've forgotten or if they just
Can't remember that they ever were small one time,
'Cause god knows we got to save the babies right,
'Cause if we don't save the babies
we ain't Gonna have a world to live in right
And god knows we love this world right,
ain't that, right so right.
Right right right... right uh uh...
Rickie Lee Jones - Tell somebody (repeal the patriot act)
LYRICS: Not long ago it was alright
There were no bad dreams that kept me up at night
It was not brother against brother
Mother against mother
So tell somebody
You've got to tell somebody
Tell somebody what happened in the usa
Now they want us to just get in line
Behind a president
When you know they spent milions of dollars
Condemning and accusing
The last one from the other side
Tell somebody, tell somebody
Tell somebody
What's happening in the usa?
Tell somebody, tell somebody
Tell somebody
What happened in the usa
Tell somebody, tell somebody, tell somebody€¦
I want to know how far you will go
To protect our right of free speech?
Because it only took a moment
Before it faded out of reach...
Oh, tell somebody, tell sombody right now
Tell somebody
What happened in the usa?
I wanna read about it in the news
I wanna hear about it on tv, yeah
What happened in the usa?
When they ask you
What happened in the usa?
Tell sombody
They'll wanna know, oh people
The depth of our democracy
Is only as good as the voices of protest she protects
Voices of protest - rise!
Odetta - Masters Of War
LYRICS: Come, you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothing
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it’s your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
While the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
While the young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
You’ve thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I’m young
You might say I’m unlearned
But there’s one thing I know
Though I’m younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death will come soon
I will follow your casket
By the pale afternoon
And I’ll watch while you’re lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I’ll stand over your grave
'Til I’m sure that you’re dead
Janelle Monae - Cold War
LYRICS: So you think that I'm alone
That being alone is the only way to be
When you step outside
You spin like fire for your sanity
This is a cold war
You better know what you're fighting for
This is a cold war
Do you know what you're fighting for
If you want to be free
Feel on the ground is the only place to be
Cause in this life
You spend time running from depravity
This is a cold war
Do you know what you're fighting for
This is a cold war
You better know what you're fighting for
This is a cold war
You better know what you're fighting for
This is a cold war
Do you know what you're fighting for
When wings to the weak
And bring grace to the strong
Make our legal stumble as it applies in the world
All the tripes come and the mighty will crumble
We must brave this night
And have faith in the world
I'm trying to find my peace
I was made to believe there's something wrong with me
And it hurts my heart
Lord have mercy ain't it plain to see
That this is a cold war
Do you know what you're fighting for
This is a cold war
You better know what you're fighting for
This is a cold,
This is a cold war
You better know what you're fighting for
Do you know?
Is a cold
Do you?
Do you?
Ah ah ah ahhhh
Ah ah ah ahhhh
Is a cold,
You better know what you're fighting for
Stereolab - Brakhage
LYRICS:
We need so damn many things
To keep our dazed lives going
Many things to keep our lives
Lives going, so many things
We need so damn many things
To keep our stupid lives going
Many things to keep our lives
Lives going, so many things
We can be bound, run around
Fooled animal bite its tail
Animal, he has been bound
Run around, around and 'round
We need so damn many things
To keep our dazed lives going
Many things to keep our lives
Lives going, so many things
Many things to keep our lives
Lives going, so many things
Rising Appalachia - Scale Down
LYRICS: Stand up look around and
Then scale back down too
See I believe in a revolution, I believe it is a hell
I believe in it, take care of it daily daily on demand because...
I am a blacksmith of metal and words and a sheep that pitch black too
And in this life spun short in the span of things I believe there's a bit more that we ought to be trying
Cause 500 hundred years ago, when these trees were more dense
And the colors pristine, so the chaos made sense
There was no knowing of loss of a mountain
The whole mountain that I call home and these same hills roll on and on
Without mention of vanish or where fools belong and these same mountains that go to peace
Long before the noose, and now that soon is really gone, now that too is nearly gone
So tell me what have we done as a civilization to destroy in our own wake that
Metaphorical hand that feeds us we are trashing our own birthday cake
And I consider myself a skeptic but I'm optimist in soul and we are all getting force fed
We are led around like the bull and he is huge and rageful and somehow subdued and hauled by those thick rings
So don't you too shut out the filthy, nasty, sticky truth of things
So here we go, get the fuck out your car, walk, it's good for you stop consuming blindly
Get by on what you do have and then scale that down too
Take a long hard look at you
It starts there, we all got a lot to say about everybody else its our own transgression that always tends to melt into
Who's fault who's blame who's wrong, but each and everyone of us is doing something
Its too hard, too fast, too long and there's
None but ourselves to make this thing last, none but ourselves to make this thing last...
Stand up look around and
Scale that down too
Melanie Safka and Miley Cyrus - Look What They've Done to My Song Ma
LYRICS: Look what they done to my song ma
Look what they done to my song
Well it's the only thing
That I could do half right
And it's turning out all wrong ma
Look what they done to my song
Look what they done to my brain ma
Look what they done to my brain
Well they picked it like a chicken bone
And I think I'm half insane ma
Look what they done to my song
Wish I could find a good book to live in
Wish I could find a good book
Well if I could find a real good book
I'd never have to come out and look at
What they done to my song
La la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la
Look what they done to my song
But maybe it'll all be alright ma
Maybe it'll all be okay
Well if the people are buying tears
I'll be rich someday ma
Look what they done to my song
Ils ont change ma chanson, ma
Ils ont change ma chanson
Look what they done to my song ma
Look what they done to my song ma
Well they tied it up in a plastic bag
And turned it upside down ma
Look what they done to my song
C'est la seule chose que je peux faire
Et ce n'est pas bon, ma.
Ils ont change ma chanson.
Look what they done to my song ma
Look what they done to my song
It's the only thing I could do alright
And they turned it upside down
Oh ma
Look what they done to my song
Maddie & Tae - Girl In A Country Song
LYRICS: No country music was harmed in the making of this song
This is only a test-t-t
Well, I wish I had some shoes
On my two bare feet
And it's getting kinda cold
In these painted on cut-off jeans
I hate the way this bikini top chafes
Do I really have to wear it all day?
Yeah, baby
I hear you over there
On your tailgate whistlin' [whistle]
Sayin' "hey, girl"
But you know I ain't listenin'
'Cause I got a name
And to you, it ain't "pretty little thing"
"Hottie" or "baby"
It's driving me red-red-red-red-red-red-redneck crazy
Being the
Girl in a country song
How in the world did it go so wrong?
Like all I'm good for is lookin' good for
You and your friends on the weekend, nothin' more
We used to get a little respect
Now we're lucky if we even get
To climb up in your truck
Keep our mouths shut, and ride along
And be the girl in a country song
Well, shakin' my moneymaker
Ain't never made me a dime
And there ain't no sugar for you
In this shaker of mine
Tell me one more time
"You gotta get you some of that"
Sure, I'll slide on over
But you're gonna get slapped
Ha, these days, it ain't easy bein' that
Girl in a country song
How in the world did it go so wrong?
Like all I'm good for is lookin' good for
You and your friends on the weekend, nothin' more
We used to get a little respect
Now we're lucky if we even get
To climb up in your truck
Keep our mouths shut, and ride along
And be the girl in a country song
(Yep, yep, yeah, baby)
Aw, naw, Conway and George Strait
Never did it this way
Back in the old days
Aw, y'all, we ain't a cliche
That ain't no way to treat a lady
Like a
Girl in a country song
How in the world did it go so wrong?
Like all we're good for
Is looking good for you and your friends on the weekend
Nothing more
(Woo)
We used to get a little respect
Now we're lucky if we even get
To climb up in your truck, keep our mouth shut
And ride along
Down some old dirt road we don't even wanna be on
And be the girl in a country song
I ain't your tan-legged Juliet!
Can I put on some real clothes now?
Aw, naw
Kelly Clarkson - Piece By Piece
LYRICS: And all I remember is your back
Walking towards the airport, leaving us all in your past
I traveled fifteen hundred miles to see you
Begged you to want me, but you didn’t want to
But piece by piece, he collected me
Up off the ground, where you abandoned things and
Piece by piece he filled the holes that you burned in me
At six years old
And you know, he never walks away
He never asks for money
He takes care of me, he loves me
Piece by piece, he restores my faith
That a man can be kind and a father could stay
And all of your words fall flat
I made something of myself and now you wanna come back
But your love, it isn’t free, it has to be earned
Back then I didn’t have anything you needed so I was worthless
But piece by piece, he collected me
Up off the ground, where you abandoned things and
Piece by piece he filled the holes that you burned in me
At six years old
And you know, he never walks away
He never asks for money
He takes care of me, cause he loves me
Piece by piece, he restored my faith
That a man can be kind and a father could stay
Piece by piece
Piece by piece I fell far from the tree
I will never leave her like you left me
And she will never have to wonder her worth
Because unlike you I’m gonna put her first
And you know...
He’ll never walk away
He’ll never break her heart
He’ll take care of things, he’ll love her
Piece by piece, he restored my faith
That a man can be kind and a father should be great
Piece by piece
Piece by piece
Karine Polwart - Sorry
LYRICS: When your time on the mountain is over
And you fall to the earth like a leaf
It won't be enough these days to say sorry
No, sorry won't pay for this grief
For you may lay down your guilt on the altar
You may nail your remorse to a cross
But it's not enough these days to say sorry
No, sorry won't pay for this loss
And if the blood on your hands turns to water
And the night in your soul turns to day
It won't be enough this time to say sorry
No, sorry won't wash it all away
You may lay down your guilt on the altar
When you're through with the spells you've been spinning
When our hopes and our dreams have all died
It won't be enough these days to say sorry
No, sorry won't turn back the tide
You may lay down your guilt on the altar
And if you should desist from deceiving
And if you should confess to the crime
It won't be enough these days to say sorry
No, sorry won't save you this time
You may lay down your guilt on the altar
Martha Wainwright - Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole
LYRICS:
Poetry has no place for a heart that's a whore
And I'm young and I'm strong
But I feel old and tired
Overfired
And I've been poked and stoked
It's all smoke, there's no more fire
Only desire
For you, whoever you are
For you, whoever you are
You say my time here has been some sort of joke
That I've been messing around
Some sort of incubating period
For when I really come around
I'm cracking up
And you have no idea
No idea how it feels to be on your own
In your own home
With the fucking phone
And the mother of gloom
In your bedroom
Standing over your head
With her hand in your head
With her hand in your head
I will not pretend
I will not put on a smile
I will not say I'm all right for you
When all I wanted was to be good
To do everything in truth
To do everything in truth
Oh I wish I wish I wish I was born a man
So I could learn how to stand up for myself
Like those guys with guitars
I've been watching in bars
Who've been stamping their feet to a different beat
To a different beat
To a different beat
I will not pretend
I will not put on a smile
I will not say I'm all right for you
When all I wanted was to be good
To do everything in truth
To do everything in truth
You bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh you bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh you bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh you bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh you bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh you bloody...
I will not pretend
I will not put on a smile
I will not say I'm all right for you
For you, whoever you are
For you, whoever you are
For you, whoever you are
Dolly Parton - Nine to Five
LYRICS: Tumble outta bed and I stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition
And yawnin', stretchin', try to come to life
Jump in the shower and the blood starts pumpin'
Out on the streets, the traffic starts jumpin'
With folks like me on the job from 9 to 5
Workin' 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin'
Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin'
They just use your mind and they never give you credit
It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it
9 to 5, for service and devotion
You would think that I would deserve a fair promotion
Want to move ahead but the boss won't seem to let me
I swear sometimes that man is out to get me
They let your dream, just watch 'em shatter
You're just a step on the boss man's ladder
But you got dreams he'll never take away
In the same boat with a lot of your friends
Waitin' for the day your ship 'll come in
And the tide's gonna turn an' it's all gonna roll your way
Workin' 9 to 5 what a way to make a livin'
Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin'
They just use your mind and you never get the credit
It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it
9 to 5, yeah, they got you where they want you
There's a better life and you think about it, don't you?
It's a rich man's game, no matter what they call it
And you spend your life putting money in his wallet
9 to 5, oh what a way to make a livin'
Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin'
They just use your mind and they never give you credit
It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it
9 to 5, yeah, they got you where they want you
There's a better life and you think about it, don't you?
It's a rich man's game, no matter what they call it
And you spend your life putting money in his wallet
The Band Perry - DONE.
LYRICS: You've been wearing that crown and tearing me down
It's been a while since you've treated me right
You strung me along for far too long
Cause I never gave up the fight
Until now
It's gonna hit you hard 'til you see stars
It’s gonna put you through a world of hurt
Oh, I don't believe in getting even
But giving what you deserve
Oh my, oh my, huh
Mama always told me that I should play nice
She didn't know you when she gave me that advice
I'm through with you
You're one bridge I'd like to burn
Bottle up the ashes, smash the urn
I'm through with you, la dee da
I don't wanna be your "just for fun"
Don't wanna be under your thumb
All I wanna be is done
Done
You crossed the line too many times
I'm gonna put you in your place
You play with dynamite, don't be surprised
When I blow up in your face
Oh my, oh my, huh
Mama always told me that I should play nice
She didn't know you when she gave me that advice
I'm through with you
You're one bridge I'd like to burn
Bottle up the ashes, smash the urn
I'm through with you, la dee da
I don't wanna be your "just for fun"
Don't wanna be under your thumb
All I wanna be is done
Done
Done with your selfish ways
Done and all the games you play
I'm through with you and everything you say
Mama always told me that I should play nice
She didn't know you when she gave me that advice
I'm through with you
You're one bridge I'd like to burn
Bottle up the ashes, smash the urn
I'm through with you, la dee da
I don't wanna be your "just for fun"
Don't wanna be under your thumb
All I wanna be is done
Done
Hey, hey, ooh
I wanna be done (so done)
So done (so done)
So done
The Breeders - Cannonball
LYRICS: Check check check
One two
Spitting in a wishing well
Blown to hell, crash
I'm the last splash
I know you little libertine
I know you're a real cuckoo
Want you cuckoo cannonball
Want you cuckoo cannonball
In the shade, in the shade
In the shade, in the shade
I know you little libertine
I know you're a cannonball
I'll be your whatever you want
The bong in this reggae song
In the shade
In the shade
Want you cuckoo cannonball
Want you cuckoo cannonball
Spitting in a wishing well
Blown to hell, crash
I'm the last splash
I'll be your whatever you want
The bong in this reggae song
Want you cuckoo cannonball
Want you cuckoo cannonball
In the shade, in the shade
In the shade, in the shade
LYRICS: Real people
I want to live my life
With some real people
Yeah, yeah, real people
I'm doggone gonna be with
Some real people
Throughout this great big world of ours
There are so many folks
Who just can't get involved
Now they receive you readily
And will deceive you dreadfully
Oh, yeah, it's a reality
I'll just do my best, yeah
To to try and make all those
Phony relationships dissolve
Now I suppose
They could help themselves
So I grow close to surround myself
With love and humanity
And whistle
Real people
I want to live my life
With some real people
Yeah, yeah, real people
I'm doggone gonna be with
Some real people
I don't think my emotion could stand
All of this wear and tear
They say you control your own destiny
But I can't take them getting the best
They're getting the best of me
Spread out
Give me some elbow room
And some place where I can disappear
I'm so tired of hypocrisy
And why these folks even bother me
Please just let me be
Be with some real people
I want to live my life
With some real people
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Real, real people
I'm doggone gonna be with
Some real people
Be with some real people
I want to live my life
With some real people
Yeah, yeah
Real people
I'm doggone gonna be with
Some real people
Real people
I want to live my life
With some real people
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Real people
I'm doggone gonna be with
Some real people
Be with some real people
I want to live my life
With some real people
Yeah, yeah
Real people
I'm doggone gonna be with
Some real people
Be with some real people
I want to live my life
With some real people
Yeah, yeah
Real people
I'm doggone gonna be with
Some real people
Fiona Apple - A Mistake
LYRICS: I'm gonna make a mistake
I'm gonna do it on purpose
I'm gonna waste my time
Cause I'm full as a tick
And I'm scratching at the surface
And what I find is mine
And when the day is done and I look back
And the fact is I had fun
Fumbling around
All the advice I shunned and I ran
Where they told me not to run
But I sure had fun
So I'm gonna fuck it up again
I'm gonna do another detour
Unpave my path
And if you wanna make sense
Whatcha lookin' at me for?
I'm no good at math
And when I find my way back
The fact is I just may stay
Or I may not
I've acquired quite a taste
For a well-made mistake
I wanna make a mistake
Why can't I make a mistake?
I'm always doing what I think I should
Almost always doing everybody good
Why?
Do I wanna do right?
Of course
But do I really wanna feel I'm forced to answer you?
Hell no
I've acquired quite a taste
For a well-made mistake
I wanna make a mistake
Why can't I make a mistake?
I'm always doing what I think I should
Almost always doing everybody good
Why?
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You Gotta Believe on Vimeo
The Pointer Sisters - You Gotta Believe
LYRICS: Doodle wop a-rat-a-tat boom
I'll make the sound of a jet plane zoom
Doodle wop a-rat-a-tat boom
I'll make the sound of a fire
You got to believe in somethin'
Why not believe in me?
You got to believe in somethin'
Why not believe in me?
What have I, I done to you
To make you mean
And treat me the way you do?
Go on and wave your flag, brother
Start your revolution
I'm willin' to let you do your thing
Tell me why are you plannin' a compromise?
Oh, you got to believe in somethin'
Why not believe in me?
You gotta believe in somethin'
Why not believe in me?
Take the chain off your brain
Take the chain off your brain
Stop, take a look at yourself
Stop ridiculin' everybody else
You've got to believe in somethin'
Why not believe in me?
You got to believe in somethin'
Why not believe in me?
You got to believe in somethin'
Why not believe in me?
You got to believe in somethin'
Why not believe in me?
You got to believe in somethin'
Why not believe in me?
Alabama Shakes - Hold On
LYRICS: Bless my heart, bless my soul
Didn't think I'd make it to 22 years old
There must be someone up above
Sayin', "Come on, Brittany, you got to come on up
You got to hold on
Hey, you got to hold on"
So, bless my heart and bless yours, too
I don't know where I'm gonna go
Don't know what I'm gonna do
There must be somebody up above
Sayin', "Come on, Brittany, you got to get back up
You got to hold on
Hey, you got to hold on"
"Yeah, you gotta wait
Yeah, you gotta wait"
But I don't wanna wait
No, I don't wanna wait
So, bless my heart and bless my mind
I got so much to do, I ain't got much time
So, must be someone up above
Saying "Come on, girl
Yeah, you got to get back up
You got to hold on
Hey, you got to hold on"
"Yeah, you gotta wait"
I don't wanna wait
But I don't wanna wait
No, I don't wanna wait
You gotta hold on
You gotta hold on
You gotta hold on
You gotta hold on
LYRICS: Now the way it is Becomes the way it was Yeah you’ll always lose if you’re fighting love Say good things come to those that wait But we’ve waited long enough Our time is here, our time is now, our time has come And your time is up.
Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A.
LYRICS: I wanna tell you all a story 'bout a Harper Valley widowed wife,
Who had a teenage daughter who attended Harper Valley Junior High,
Well her daughter came home one afternoon and didn't even stop to play,
And she said."Mom I got a note here from the Harper Valley PTA."
Well the note said, "Mrs. Johnson, you're wearing your dresses way too high
It's reported you've been drinkin' and runnin' round with men and goin' wild
And we don't believe you oughta be a bringin' up your little girl this way."
And it was signed by the secretary, "Harper Valley PTA."
Well it happened that the PTA was gonna meet that very afternoon
And they were sure surprised when Mrs. Johnson wore her mini-skirt into the room
And as she walked up to the black board, I still recall the words she had to say
She said I'd like to address this meeting of the Harper Valley PTA
Well, there's Bobby Taylor sittin' there, and seven tims he's asked me for a date
And Mrs. Taylor seems to use a lotta ice, whenever he's away
And Mr. Baker can you tell us why your secretary had to leave this town?
And shouldn't widow Jones be told to keep her window shades a pulled completely down
Well Mr. Harper couldn't be here cause he stayed too long at Kelly's Bar again
And if you smell Shirley Thompson's breath you'll find she's had a little nip of gin
And then you have the nerve to tell me, you think that as a mother I'm not fit
Well this is just a little Peyton Place, and you're all Harper Valley hypocrites
No, I wouldn't put you on because, it really did happen just this way
The day my momma socked it to, the Harper Valley PTA
The day my momma socked it to, the Harper Valley PTA
Kesha - Bastards
LYRICS: One, two, three, four, one
I got too many people (da da da da) I got left to prove wrong
All those motherfuckers (da da da da) been too mean for too long
And I'm so sick of crying, yeah
Darling, what's it for?
I could fight forever, oh, but life's too short
Don't let the bastards get you down, oh no
Don't let the assholes wear you out
Don't let the mean girls take the crown
Don't let the scumbags screw you 'round
Don't let the bastards take you down
Been underestimated my entire life
I know people gonna talk shit (da da da da), and darling, that's fine
But they won't break my spirit, I won't let 'em win
I'll just keep on living, keep on living, oh
The way I wanna live
Don't let the bastards get you down, oh no
Don't let the assholes wear you out
Don't let the mean girls take the crown
Don't let the scumbags screw you 'round
Don't let the bastards take you down
Don't let the bastards get you down, oh no
Don't let the assholes wear you out
Don't let the mean girls take your crown
Don't let the scumbags screw you 'round
Don't let the bastards take you down
Na na na, la da da da da da, na na hey, na na hey
Na na na, la da da da da da, na na hey, na na hey
Na na na, la da da da da da, na na hey, na na hey
Na na na, la da da da da da, na na hey, na na hey
So was that a good one?
Should we go again?
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
LYRICS: Four letter word just to get me along
It's a difficulty and I'm biting on my tongue
And I, I keep stalling, not keeping me together
People around got to find something to say now
Holding back, every day the same
Don't want to be a loner, listen to me, oh no
I never say anything at all
So with nothing to consider, they forget my name
They call me Hell
They call me Stacey
They call me her
They call me Jane
That's not my name
That's not my name
That's not my name
That's not my name
They call me 'quiet' girl
But I'm a riot
Mary-Jo-Lisa
Always the same
That's not my name
That's not my name
That's not my name
That's not my name
I miss the catch if they throw me the ball
I'm the last drip standing up against the wall
Keep up, falling, these heels they keep me boring
Getting clamped up and sitting on the fence now
So alone all the time at night
Lock myself away, listen to me, I'm not
Though I'm dressed up out and all
With everything considered, they forget my name
They call me Hell
They call me Stacey
They call me her
They call me Jane
That's not my name
That's not my name
That's not my name
That's not my name
They call me 'quiet' girl
But I'm a riot
Mary-Jo-Lisa
Always the same
That's not my name
That's not my name
That's not my name
That's not my name
This song was in my head
Now it's in my mind
Call it, reach it, get some words and get some timing
And though I realize
I cannot emphasize
I'll stick around but just don't promise, nothing binding
And baby, can't you see
That you're so desperately
A standing joker like a vocal one-liner
Instead of sing-a-long
This song is monotone
I've gotta get some soul, I gotta get some feeling
Are you calling me Darling?
Are you calling me Bird?
Are you calling me Darling?
Are you calling me Bird?
They call me Hell
They call me Stacey
They call me her
They call me Jane
That's not my name
That's not my name
That's not my name
That's not my name
They call me 'quiet' girl
But I'm a riot
Mary-Jo-Lisa
Always the same
That's not my name
That's not my name
That's not my name
That's not my name
Are
You
Calling
Me
Darling?
Are You Calling Me Bird
So alone all the time and I
Lock myself away
Though I'm dressed up out and all
With everything considered they forget my name
The Tuts - 1982
LYRICS: We looked up, we thought we saw an olive branch
Next thing we knew we’re suffering from splinters
We were naive we used to shine bright
You just blocked out our light
Used to think the next step was a mystery
Turns out your job is history
Chinese whispers
Your game of choice
We just blocked out your voice
It’s not my job, it’s not my job
To protect your
It’s not my job, it’s not my job
To protect your ego
Sign your name here
Have no fear
I knew everyone
In 1982
I’m respected
And well connected
I knew everyone
In 1982
I’m in a bad mood today
I’m in a bad mood today
I’m in a bad mood today
I’m in a bad mood today
It’s not my job, it’s not my job
To protect your
It’s not my job, it’s not my job
To protect your ego
Sign your name here
Have no fear
I knew everyone
In 1982
I’m respected
And well connected
I knew everyone
In 1982
In 1982
In 1982
Pylon - Stop It
LYRICS: Don't rock & roll - no
*repeat*
Now rock & roll now
*repeat*
Hey kids
In December 1999, Sleater-Kinney were less concerned about the Y2K bug than the cultural virus turning back progress. The ’90s began with the radical possibilities of pleasure, which marketing men defanged and repackaged swiftly as female “empowerment.” Violence and virginity dominated the year, with maximum hypocrisy: 17-year-old Britney posing for Rolling Stone in her bra was more decried than the alleged gang rapes at Woodstock ’99.
As Sleater-Kinney breached the mainstream, they were urged to drop their political stances if they wanted to make it. And yet the Pacific Northwest trio were done denying their truth, and ditched their desire to be your Joey Ramone with singer Corin Tucker’s torching of the rock establishment: “I’ve been crawling up so long on your stairway to heaven/And now I no longer believe that I wanna get in.” Her pointed wail indicted rape at concerts and reclaimed the capitalist terminology that had infested her politics: “The #1 must have is that we are safe.” As Sleater-Kinney rallied for change, they resisted diluting their message while creating their most accessible record yet, for their widest audience to date. “Are we holding onto our pride a bit too long?” Tucker asked on All Hands on the Bad One’s opener. You only need search “rape music festivals” today to know the answer is still no. –Laura Snapes
LYRICS:
With every pussy
A pair of shoes will go to a child in need
Yeah, Flip a stereotype
How an Asian bitch got concubines?
Turn a grown man to a bashful bride
With a vag that will leave him immobilized
But 'fina wasn't born with the gas
As a matter of fact, I was born with a rash
As a matter of fact, got a concave ass
Still the hoes line up like a paragraph
Yellow bitches in the driver's seat
Bitch drive that Corolla right into the streets
Yellow bitches in the driver's seat
Bitch drive that Corolla right into the streets
We got that bomb pussy
That Long Duk Dong pussy
Make you call your mom pussy
Get a pair of TOMS pussy
Got that Soon Yi pussy
Be all you want to be pussy
That Giving Tree pussy
You belong to me pussy
Hello, this is taste of jasmine
Never been, never will be a has-been
Rub it, you'll feel like Aladdin
I'll dish it cause I might be into casting
Us yellow bitches livin' fancy gettin' beef like Kobe
Us yellow bitches datin' white boys that look just like Moby
Us yellow bitches eatin' fruits and shit at karaoke
Pull up in a second hand Mazda
Pull up in a Hyundai Elantra
Yellow bitches in the driver's seat
Bitch drive that Corolla right into the streets
We got that bomb pussy
That Long Duk Dong pussy
Make you call your mom pussy
Get a pair of TOMS pussy
Got that Soon Yi pussy
Be all you want to be pussy
That Giving Tree pussy
You belong to me pussy
(Came out my belly with a suture
Awkwafina is the future)
Aw thank you that's so sweet
Thank you Margaret
Margaret?
(Hello
Every pussy
A pair of shoes will go to a child in need)
Why would you-
Why the accent? Ok
(With every pussy
A pair of shoes will go to a child in need)
(I feel like we didn't necessarily agree to that
I don't think we have to)
(Hello?) Ok. Hi. Hi yes
(How come you never call me?)
I think the accent is unnecessary
(How come you never call me?
Finally
Call me
Press 1 for pickup
Press 2 for delivery)
The Bellrays - Stupid Fuckin' People
LYRICS: Stupid fuckin people always stand in my way
Wanna ruin my piece of the world.
Stupid fuckin people wanna make my pay for things,
That I never ask for.
They're pushin the limit,
Givin' me pain.
--------------,
Like, a runaway train, yeah.
Stupid fuckin people wanna give you their opinion
Bout everything under the sun.
Stupid fuckin people don't care about nothin,
But the almighty dollar.
They're pushin the limit,
Givin' me pain.
--------------,
Like, a runaway train, yeah.
Stupid fuckin people lie through their teeth,
Then get to be President.
Stupid fuckin people make life hard, for the man ----------.
Stupid fuckin people gotta------,
Makin more money than I ever will.
Stupid fuckin people got friends in high places,
Stupid fuckin looks on their stupid fuckin faces.
They're pushin the limit,
Givin' me pain.
--------------,
Like, a runaway train, yeah.
Runaway train....
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!!!!!!
X-Ray Spex - Plastic Bag
LYRICS: My mind is like a plastic bag....
It's 1977 and we are going mad
It's 1977 and we've seen too many ads
It's 1977 and we're gonna show them all
Apathy's a drag
My mind is like a plastic bag
That corresponds to all those ads
It sucks up all the rubbish
That is fed in through by ear
I eat kleenex for breakfast
And I use soft hygienic Weetabix
To dry my tears
1977 and we are going mad
It's 1977 and we've seen too many ads
1977 and we're gonna show them all
Apathy's a drag
My mind is like a switchboard
With crossed and tangled lines
Contented with confusion
That is plugged into my head
I don't know what's going on
It's the operators job, not mine
I said
It's 1977 and we are going mad
It's 1977 and we've seen to many ads
It's 1977 and we're gonna show them all
Apathy's a drag
My dreams I daren't remember
Or tell you what I've seen
I dreamt that I was Hitler
The ruler of the sea
The ruler of the universe
The ruler of the supermarkets
And even fatalistic me
It's 1977 and we are going mad
It's 1977 and we've seen too many ads
It's 1977 and we're gonna show them all
Apathy's a drag!
Al Qadiri calls Brute (the album from which Power comes) a “public display of despair.” It has no lyrics – the only words on the album are taken from YouTube-sourced recordings of Ferguson and Occupy Wall Street protests and discussions of police brutality.
Janet Jackson - Control
LYRICS: This is a story about control
My control
Control of what I say
Control of what I do
And this time I'm gonna do it my way (my way)
I hope you enjoy this as much as I do
Are we ready?
I am
Cause it's all about control (control)
And I've got lots of it
When I was 17 I did what people told me, uhh!
Did what my father said, and let my mother mold me
But that was long ago
I'm in
Control
Never gonna stop
Control
To get what I want
Control
I like to have a lot
Control
Now I'm all grown up
First time I fell in love, I didn't know what hit me
So young and so naive, I thought it would be easy
Now I know I got to take...
Control
Now I got it locked
Control
To get what I want
Control
Never gonna stop
Control
Now I'm all grown up
Jam, ooh ooh
Rebel, that's right
I'm on my own, I'll call my own shots
Thank you
Got my own mind
I wanna make my own decisions
When it has to do with my life, my life
I wanna be the one in control
So let me take you by the hand, and lead you in this dance
Control
It's what I got, because I took a chance
I don't wanna rule the world, just wanna run my life
Ooh
So make your life a little easier
When you get the chance just take
I'm in
Control
Never gonna stop
Control
To get what I want
Control
I like to have a lot
Control
Now I'm all grown up
Ooh
Free at last
Out here on my own
Ooh ooh ooh yeah, eee
Now control this, uhh
Control
That's right
Control
Career moves
Control
I do what's right for me
Control
And me wants to groove
Is that okay?
Yeah!
Ooh, control
I've got my own mind
Ooh baby
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah
I've got my own mind
Wanna make my own decisions
When it has to do with my life
I wanna be the one in control
Hop to it
I'm in control
And I love it
Hahaha, that's right
Control
Now I got a lot
Control
Now I'm all grown up
I'm in control
I'm in control
I'm in control
Don't make me lose it
Grace Jones - Bullshit
LYRICS: And if I wander down the wrong road
It's alright baby, just let me go
If I get tired of all those assholes
It's alright cause' I want them to know
I'm sick and tired of all this bullshit
Rough shit, same shit
Hey Jesus come on down and save us, save us, rave on
And on the road I ride through Richmond
Rich man, You know the business I'm in
And feeling sorry, makes me feel mad
Someday, uh baby, I play to win
I'm sick and tired of all this bullshit
Rough shit, same shit
Can't Jesus come on down and save us, save us, rave on
I'm sick and tired of all this bullshit
Same shit, wrong shit
Hey Jesus come on down and save us, save us, rave on
And if I wander down the wrong road
It's alright honey, just let me go
If I get tired of all those assholes
It's alright cause' I want them to know
I'm sick and tired of all this bullshit
Rough shit, same shit
Hey Jesus come on down and save us, save us, rave on
Potty Mouth - Creeper Weed
LYRICS: You say you think I’ve changed, that I just look the same
And nothings left of who you knew or thought I was
I see why it seems like that, it’s ‘cause I’m unattached
And nothings quite like being what I need at night
I am I am I am this way
I’m confused what you mean when you say I’m not me
As if the part of me you knew was all there was
I can turn on a dime, what will I be this time?
I do it ‘cause I’m trying to survive this life
It’s been a few years (could you believe it)
To the day (and did you see it)
And I’m upset I wasn’t always this way. (could you believe it)
I wasn’t always, I am I am I am this way
There’s a new name they call me, I am the creeper weed
I’ll sneak up on you slowly and consume you’re mine
Hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah
Miss me yet?
Hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah
I am I am I am this way
I am I am I am, could you believe it?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
LYRICS:
Off with your head
Dance ’til you’re dead
Heads will roll
Heads will roll
Heads will roll
On the floor
Glitter on the wet streets
Silver over everything
The river's all wet
You’re all chrome
Dripping with alchemy
Shiver, stop shivering
The glitter’s all wet
You’re all chrome
The men cry out, the girls cry out
The men cry out, the girls cry out
The men cry out, oh no
The men cry out, the girls cry out
The men cry out, the girls cry out
The men cry out, oh no
Ohhh, ahhhh
Ohhh, ahhhh
Off, off with your head
Dance, dance ’til you’re dead
Heads will roll
Heads will roll
Heads will roll
On the floor
Looking glass
Take the past
Shut your eyes
Mirror lies
Looking glass
Take the past
Shut your eyes
Mirror lies
Glitter on the wet streets
Silver over everything
The glitter’s all wet
You’re all chrome
You’re all chrome
Ohhh, ahhhh
Ohhh, ahhhh
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance, dance ’til you’re dead
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance, dance ’til you’re dead
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance, dance ’til you’re dead
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance, dance ’til you’re dead
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance, dance ’til you’re dead
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance, dance ’til you’re dead
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
LYRICS:
Kool Thing sittin' with a kitty
Now you know you're sure lookin' pretty
Like a lover not a dancer
Superboy take a chance here
I don't want to, I don't think so
I don't want to, I don't think so
Kool Thing let me play it with your radio
Move me, turn me on, baby-o
I'll be your slave
Give you a shave
I don't want to, I don't think so
I don't want to, I don't think so
Yeah, tell'em about it,
Hit'em where it hurts
Hey, Kool Thing, come here, sit down
There's something I go to ask you.
I just want to know, what are you gonna do for me?
I mean, are you gonna liberate us girls
From male white corporate oppression?
Tell it like it is!
Huh?
Yeah!
Don't be shy
Word up!
Fear of a female planet?
Fear of a female planet?
Fear, baby!
I just want to know that we can still be friends
Come on, come on, come on, come on let everybody know
Kool thing, Kool thing
When you're a star, I know you'll fix everything
Now you know you're sure lookin' pretty
Rock the beat just a little faster
Now I know you are the master
I don't want to, I don't think so
I don't want to, I don't think so
Kool thing walkin' like a panther
Come on and give me an answer
Kool thing walkin' like a panther
What'd he say?
I don't want to, I don't think so
I don't want to, I don't think so
PJ Harvey - Who the Fuck?
LYRICS:
Who the fuck
Do you think you are
Get out
Of my hair
Who the fuck
Do you think you are
Comin' round
Here
Who the fuck?
Who the fuck?
Who the fuck
Do you think you are
Get your comb
Out of there
Coming out
My hair
I'm not like other girls
You can't straighten my curls
I'm not like other girls
You can't straighten my curls
Who the fuck
You tryin' to be?
Get your dog
Away from me!
What the fuck
You doing in there
Get your dirty fingers
Outta my hair!
Who?
Who?
Who?
Who?
Fuck!
Fuck!
Fuck!
You
I'm free
You'll see
I'm me
You'll see
Who?
TLC - His Story
LYRICS: Yo, this is a story of a male female threat to society
You know being misjudged and not respected for what we are
But I want to send this special shout out to my girl Tawana Brawley
Cause no matter what we say or what we do
They'll always believe his story (ow)
His story (yeahee, yeahee, yeahee)
Hist story (ow)
They're gonna believe
His story
His story
Why does it have to be that we get labeled for what we do
It's hard enough for us to be ourselves without being used
Girls have an image too
But when they get mad at you
There is no telling what they'll say to hurt you
This is a story of a male female threat to society
Why you wanna go and tell a lie on me? (yeahee, yeah, oooh)
His story over mine his story will be his story
And my story is a waste of time (aaaah-aah-aah)
They're gonna believe
His story (yeahee, yeahee, yeahee)
Hist story (ow)
They're gonna believe
His story
His story
Sometimes I feel like there is no reason for me to explain
No matter how much we complain
You know it all stays the same
They try to call us freaks
Why does it have to be
We can't get justified until we speak up (oooh)
This is a story of a male female threat to society
Why you wanna go and tell a lie on me? (yeahee, yeah, oooh)
His story over mine his story will be his story
And my story is a waste of time (aaaah-aah-aah)
(You know it's just a waste of my time)
They're gonna believe
His story over mine
So what you gonna do
Don't let it take over you (hey)
My story is a waste of time
It's hard enough to be ourselves without being used
So yo take it from me
Don't be a victim of society
You can't put yourself in a position to be neglected
And disrespected
You have to do what's not expected
Alright
Or all be in his story
His story over mine
His story will be his story
how could you do this to us
They're gonna believe
His story over mine
His story will be his story and
My story is a waste of time
They're gonna believe
His story over mine
His story will be his story
And my story is a waste of time
You're gonna believe
This is a story of a male female threat to society
Why you wanna go and tell a lie on me? (yeah, yeah)
This is a story (peace, love and hair and grease from TLC) of a male
Female threat to society
Why you wanna go tell a lie on me? (yeahee, yeahee, ho)
War on Women- Say It!
LYRICS: Daddy, Daddy if I was raped would you wanna know where I walked?
Would you wanna know what I wore?
Would you wanna know who he was?
What if I was 30 or 12? What if I had one drink?
If the victim is your daughter, does that complicate the blaming?
We will no longer be silent! Speak up, let your voice be heard
Dissenters drown in a sea of truth and our healing will cover the Earth
Say it! Say it! I was raped
Portishead - Numb
LYRICS: Unable so lost
I can't find my way
Been searching, but I have never seen
A turning, a turning from deceit
'Cause the child roses like
Try to reveal what I could feel
I can't understand myself anymore
'Cause I m still feeling lonely
Feeling so unholy
'Cause the child roses like
Try to reveal what I could feel
But this loneliness
It just won't leave me alone, oh no
I'm fooling somebody
A faithless path I roam
Deceiving to breath this secretly
A silence, this silence I can't bear
'Cause the child roses like
Tries to reveal what I could feel
And this loneliness
It just won't leave me alone, oh no
And this loneliness,
Just won't leave me alone
A lady of war
A lady of war
Meghan Trainor - No
LYRICS:
I think it's so cute and I think it's so sweet
How you let your friends encourage you to try and talk to me
But let me stop you there, oh, before you speak
Nah to the ah to the no, no, no
My name is no, my sign is no, my number is no
You need to let it go, you need to let it go
Need to let it go
Nah to the ah to the, no, no, no
My name is no, my sign is no, my number is no
You need to let it go, you need to let it go
Need to let it go
Nah to the ah to the no, no, no
First you gonna say you ain't runnin' game
Thinkin' I'm believing every word
Call me beautiful, so original
Telling me I'm not like other girls
I was in my zone before you came along
Now I'm thinking maybe you should go
Blah, blah, blah
I be like nah to the ah to the no, no, no
All my ladies, listen up
If that boy ain't giving up
Lick your lips and swing your hips
Girl all you gotta say is...
My name is no, my sign is no, my number is no
You need to let it go, you need to let it go
Need to let it go
Nah to the ah to the no, no, no
My name is no, my sign is no, my number is no
You need to let it go, you need to let it go
Need to let it go
Nah to the ah to the no, no, no
Thank you in advance, I don't wanna dance (nope)
I don't need your hands all over me
If I want a man, then I'mma get a man
But it's never my priority
I was in my zone, before you came along
Don't want you to take this personal
Blah, blah, blah
I be like nah to the ah to the no, no, no
All my ladies, listen up (All my ladies)
If that boy ain't giving up (Ain’t giving’ up)
Lick your lips and swing your hips (Hey, hey, let’s go!)
Girl, all you gotta say is...
My name is no, my sign is no, my number is no
You need to let it go, you need to let it go
Need to let it go
Nah to the ah to the no, no, no
My name is no, my sign is no, my number is no
You need to let it go, you need to let it go
Need to let it go
Nah to the ah to the no, no, no
I'm feeling...
Untouchable, untouchable
I'm feeling...
Untouchable, untouchable
I'm feeling...
Untouchable, untouchable
I'm feeling...
Untouchable, untouchable
(Nah to the ah to the no, no, no)
I'm feeling...
Untouchable, untouchable
I'm feeling...
Untouchable, untouchable
I'm feeling...
Untouchable, untouchable
I'm feeling...
Untouchable, untouchable
(Nah to the ah to the no, no, no)
7 Year Bitch - Dead Men Don't Rape
LYRICS: You ain't got the right tellin' me i'm uptight
And i'm not obligated to give in 'cuz you're frustrated
No, my revenge is death, 'cuz you deserve the best
And i'm not turned on by your masculinity
Dead men don't rape
I don't have pity not a single tear
For those who get joy from a woman's fear
I'd rather get a gun and just blow you away
Then you'll learn first hand
Dead men don't rape
You're getting sucked into society's sickest
Don't go out alone you might get raped
But not by a dead man 'cuz
Dead men don't rape
You ain't got the right tellin' me i'm uptight
Dead men don't rape
Night Club - Dear Enemy
LYRICS: Dear Enemy
All that makeup that you wear
Will never hide
There's a devil under there
Dear Enemy
Are you really that insane?
To think that you
Are the only one in pain
How could you do this to me?
Tell me did ya feel good? Did ya get relief?
You know you're a super creep
Cause the things you do won't let you sleep
Got no friends only enemies
Now you got one more cause you're dead to me
Dear Enemy
Dead to me
Dear Enemy
All the words that you have said
Are like a cancer
That grows inside my head
Dear Enemy
I don't need to keep you down
Just keep it up
You'll run yourself into the ground
How could you do this to me?
Tell me did ya feel good? Did ya get relief?
You know you're a super creep
Cause the things you do won't let you sleep
Got no friends only enemies
Now you got one more cause you're dead to me
Malvina Reynolds wrote this song after participating in the Palace Hotel sit-ins in San Francisco. Barbara Dane decided to record it after singing at Freedom Schools in the South, in 1964. She recorded it with the Chambers Brothers (George Jr., Willie, Joe, and Lester), whose father, George Sr., was a tenant farmer in Mississippi. The song offers a program of action and a patient, rational rebuttal to one of the most common criticisms of resistance.
Barbara Dane and the Chambers Brothers - It Isn't Nice
LYRICS:
It isn't nice to block the doorway,
It isn't nice to go to jail,
There are nicer ways to do it,
But the nice ways always fail.
It isn't nice, it isn't nice,
You told us once, you told us twice,
But if that is freedom's price,
We don't mind.
It isn't nice to dump the groceries
Or to sit in on the floor,
Or to shout our cry of freedom
At the hotel and the store.
It isn't nice, it isn't nice,
You told us once, you told us twice,
But if that is freedom's price,
We don't mind.
We have tried negotiations
And the token picket line,
Mr. Charlie didn't see us
And he might as well be blind.
When we deal with men of ice,
You can't deal in ways so nice,
But if that is freedom's price,
We don't mind.
They murdered folks in Alabama
And the shot in Evers' back
Did you say it wasn't proper,
Did you stand upon the track?
You were quiet just like mice,
Now you say we aren't nice,
But if that is freedom's price,
We don't mind.
It isn't nice to block the doorway,
It isn't nice to go to jail,
There are nicer ways to do it
But the nice ways always fail.
It isn't nice, it isn't nice,
You told us once you told us twice
But thank you buddy for your advice,
But if that is freedom's price,
LYRICS: Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
Aimee Mann - Wise Up
LYRICS: It's not what you thought
When you first began it
You got what you want
Now you can hardly stand it, though
By now you know
It's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
Till you wise up
You're sure there's a cure
And you have finally found it
You think one drink
Will shrink you till you're underground
And living down
But it's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
Till you wise up
Prepare a list for what you need
Before you sign away the deed
'Cause it's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
Till you wise up
No, it's not going to stop
Till you wise up
No, it's not going to stop
So just give up
Beth Hart - A Change is Gonna Come
LYRICS: I was born by the river in a little tent
Oh and just like the river I've been running ev'r since
It's been a long time, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will
It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die
'Cause I don't know what's up there, beyond the sky
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will
I go to the movie and I go downtown
Somebody keep tellin' me don't hang around
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will
Then I go to my brother
And I say brother help me please
But he winds up knockin' me
Back down on my knees, oh
There have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will
No Doubt - Just a Girl
LYRICS: Take this pink ribbon off my eyes
I'm exposed, and it's no big surprise
Don't you think I know exactly where I stand?
This world is forcing me to hold your hand
Cause I'm just a girl, oh little old me
Don't let me out of your sight
I'm just a girl, all pretty and petite
So don't let me have any rights
Oh, I've had it up to here
The moment that I step outside
So many reasons for me to run and hide
I can't do the little things I hold so dear
Cause it's all those little things that I fear
Cause I'm just a girl, I'd rather not be
Cause they won't let me drive late at night
I'm just a girl, guess I'm some kind of freak
Cause they all sit and stare with their eyes
I'm just a girl, take a good look at me
Just your typical prototype
Oh, I've had it up to here
Oh, am I making myself clear?
I'm just a girl
I'm just a girl in the world
That's all that you'll let me be
I'm just a girl, living in captivity
Your rule of thumb makes me worrisome
I'm just a girl, what's my destiny
What I've succumbed to is making me numb
I'm just a girl, my apologies
What I've become is so burdensome
I'm just a girl, lucky me
Twiddle-dum, there's no comparison
Oh, I've had it up to
Oh, I've had it up to
Oh, I've had it up to here
The Julie Ruin - I'm Done
LYRICS: You got that slow drip pity, a snowed in car
I hear your opinion all the time now
Sitting in a old chair leaning on the bed
Writing dumb comments on an Internet thread
I wanna finish this and wish you much fun
Hope you understand when I tell you I'm done
I'm done
I'm done
Well you serve it on a tray
But you change it every day
And you still don't seem to know
That I'm not here you to please you
Or beg on my knees
Or be the villian on your show
And I can't, and I won't, and I don't
Even hear you
I said in my head, it's a loss to be near you
I'm done speaking through a shamed face
I'm done eating up your fake rage
I'm done writing to-do lists
And I'm done with your "better person" bullshit
I'm done
I'm done
You got that slow drip pity, a snowed in car
I hear your opinion all the time now
Sitting in a old chair leaning on the bed
Writing dumb comments on an Internet thread
I wanna finish this and wish you much fun
Hope you understand when I tell you I'm done
I'm done
I'm done
I'm sick of waiting around
To be heard from six feet underground
And I'm sick of your disappointment
Tasting like a bottle full of poison
