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Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves (feat. Eurythmics)

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Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves (feat. Eurythmics)

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Now, there was a time when they used to say

That behind every great man

There had to be a great woman

But in these times of change

You know that it's no longer true

So we're coming out of the kitchen

'Cause there's something we forgot to say to you (we say)

Sisters are doing it for themselves

Standing on their own two feet

And ringing on their own bells

Sisters are doing it for themselves

Now, this is a song to celebrate

The conscious liberation of the female state

Mothers, daughters and their daughters too

Woman to woman, we're singing with you

The inferior sex got a new exterior

We got doctors, lawyers, politicians too

Everybody, take a look around

Can you see, can you see, can you see?

There's a woman right next to you

Sisters are doing it for themselves

Standing on their own two feet

And ringing on their own bells

Sisters are doing it for themselves

Now, we ain't making stories

And we ain't laying plans

Don't you know that a man still loves a woman

And a woman still loves a man?

(Just the same though)

Sisters are doing it for themselves

There was a time when they used to say

That behind every great man

There had to be a great woman

But in these times of change

You know that it's no longer true

So we're coming out of the kitchen

'Cause there's something we forgot to say to you (we say)

Sisters are doing it for themselves

Standing on their own two feet

And ringing on their own bells

Sisters are doing it for themselves

Sisters are doing it for themselves

(Sisters are doing it for themselves)

Standing on their own two feet

And ringing on their own bells (here we come now)

Sisters are doing it for themselves (and we're doing it)

(Go for it, girl, go for it)

Thank you, I'll get it myself

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