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Artist: Screeching Weasel
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Mary Was An Anarchist
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Mary Was An Anarchist
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mary was a girl with a cause she
was simply fed up mary moved out to
berkeley and stuck pins her face as a
sort of statement against oppression of her sex
mary took a walk in the park with
a sign in her hand mary threw a
rock at a cop and man she felt
like a man and you know the ugliness
became her but now she's gone she couldn't
take it anymore and what's she won she
won a husband who embodies everything she hated
and all her friends from years ago are
selling stocks in ibm right on mary finally
saw she couldn't change the world but mary
often fondly looks back and pats herself on
the back for a convenient romanticized version of
the facts of what she'd done but she
didn't change a goddamn single on of the
oppressive pigs who made her what she was
and the empowerment she felt was just a
crumb compared to all the butts of jokes
that she'd become and now she's at the
kitchen table all alone and she ended up
exactly like her mom
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