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Ani Difranco - Amendment |
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Wouldn't it be nice if |
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We had an amendment |
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To give civil rights to |
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Women |
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To once and for all just |
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Really lay it down from |
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The point of view of women |
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I know what you're thinking |
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That's just redundant |
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Chicks got it good now |
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They can almost be president |
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But is worker against worker |
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Time and time again |
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Cause the rich use certain issues as a tool |
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When I say we need the E.R.A ain't cause I'm a fool |
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It's cause without it nobody can get away |
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With anything cruel |
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And you don't need to go far like |
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Just over to Canada |
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To feel the height and sense of |
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Live and let live |
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What is it about Americans |
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Like so many pit-bulls |
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Trained to attack them |
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To never give |
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We gotta put down abortion |
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Put it down in the books for good |
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As central to the civil rights |
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Of women |
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Make diversity legal |
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Make it finally understood |
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Through the civil rights of women |
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And if you don't like abortion |
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Don't have an abortion |
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And teach your children |
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How they can avoid them |
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But don't treat all women |
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Like they are your children |
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Compassion has many faces |
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Many names |
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And if men can kill and be decorated |
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Instead of blamed |
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Then a woman called upon to mother |
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Can choose to refrain |
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And contrary to eons |
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Of old time religion |
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Your body is your only |
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True dominion |
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Nature is not here to serve you |
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Or at any cause to preserve you |
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That's just some preacher man's |
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Old time opinion |
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Life is sacred |
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Life is also profane |
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A woman's life |
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It must be hers to name |
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Let out an amendment |
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Put this brutal game to rest |
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Trust, women will still take you |
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To their breast |
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Trust, women will always |
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Do their best |
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Trust, our differences make us stronger |
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Not less |
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In this amendment shall be |
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Family structure shall be free |
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We'll have the right to civil our unions |
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With equal rights and |
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Equal protection |
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Intolerance finally |
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Ruined |
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And then there's the kids rights |
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They'll naturally be on board |
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The funnel through which |
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Women's lives are poured |
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Our family is so big |
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And we're all so very small |
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Let a web of relationship |
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Be laid over it all |
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Over the strutter of power piled up to the sky |
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Over the illusion of autonomy on which it relies |
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Over any absolute that nature does not supply |
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And the birthing woman shall regain her place |
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In a circle of women, in a sacred space |
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Turn off the machines, put away the knifes |
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This amendment shall deliver from bondage midwives |