Reprive

manhattan is an island

like the women who are

surrounded by children in a car

surrounded by cars

or manhattan was a project

that projected the worst of mankind

first one and then the other

has made its mark on my mind

it's sixty years later

near the hypo-center of the a-bomb

i'm in the middle of hiroshima

watching a twisted old eucalyptus tree wave

one of the very few lives that survived and lives on

remembering the day it was suddenly

thousands of degrees in the shade

and what all of nature gave birth to

terror took in a blinding rey

with the kind of pain

it would take cancer so many years just to say

oh to grow up gagged and blindfolded

a man's world in your little girl's head

the voice of the great mother drowned out

in the constant honking

haunting the car crash up ahead

oh to grow up hypnotized

and then try to shake yourself awake

cuz you can sense what has been lost

cuz you can sense what is at stake

yeah, so

it took me a few years to catch on

that those days i catch everyone's eye

correspond with those nights of the month

when the moon gleams like an egg in the sky

and men are using a sense they don't even know they have

just to watch me walk by

and me, i'm supposed to be sensible

leave my animal outside to cry

but when all of nature conspires

to make me her glorious whore

it's cuz in my body i hold the secret recipe

of precisely what life is for

and the patriarchy that looks to shame me for it

is the same one making war

and i've said too much already

but i'll tell you something more

to split yourself in two

is just the most radical thing you can do

so girl if that shit ain't up to you

then you simply are not free

cuz from the sunlight on my hair

to which eggs i grow to term

to the expression that i wear

all i really own is me

yes to split yourself in two

is just the most radical thing you can do

goddess forbid that little atom

should grow so jealous of eve

and in the face of the great farce

of the nuclear age

feminism ain't about equality

it's about reprieve

© 2006 righteous babe music / bmi