Amendment-Ani Difranco

[ti:Amendment] [ar:Ani Difranco] [al:Which Side Are You On] [by:] [offset:0] [00:26.53]Wouldn't it be nice if [00:29.41]We had an amendment [00:32.54]To give civil rights to [00:35.35]Women [00:38.79]To once and for all just [00:41.53]Really lay it down from [00:44.90]The point of view of women [00:51.34]I know what you're thinking [00:54.21]That's just redundant [00:57.77]Chicks got it good now [01:00.59]They can almost be president [01:03.78]But is worker against worker [01:07.09]Time and time again [01:09.28]Cause the rich use certain issues as a tool [01:15.46]When I say we need the E R A ain't cause I'm a fool [01:21.40]It's cause without it nobody can get away [01:24.28]With anything cruel [01:28.46]And you don't need to go far like [01:31.59]Just over to Canada [01:34.78]To feel the height and sense of [01:38.03]Live and let live [01:40.97]What is it about Americans [01:44.03]Like so many pit-bulls [01:47.53]Trained to attack them [01:50.27]To never give [01:53.53]We gotta put down abortion [01:56.53]Put it down in the books for good [01:59.47]As central to the civil rights [02:02.52]Of women [02:05.66]Make diversity legal [02:09.03]Make it finally understood [02:12.15]Through the civil rights of women [02:18.66]And if you don't like abortion [02:21.53]Don't have an abortion [02:24.84]And teach your children [02:27.72]How they can avoid them [02:30.72]But don't treat all women [02:33.91]Like they are your children [02:36.41]Compassion has many faces [02:38.91]Many names [02:42.29]And if men can kill and be decorated [02:45.28]Instead of blamed [02:49.03]Then a woman called upon to mother [02:52.10]Can choose to refrain [02:55.90]And contrary to eons [02:59.03]Of old time religion [03:02.27]Your body is your only [03:05.46]True dominion [03:08.28]Nature is not here to serve you [03:11.52]Or at any cause to preserve you [03:14.71]That's just some preacher man's [03:17.53]Old time opinion [03:21.27]Life is sacred [03:24.09]Life is also profane [03:27.46]A woman's life [03:30.21]It must be hers to name [03:33.46]Let out an amendment [03:36.40]Put this brutal game to rest [03:39.03]Trust women will still take you [03:42.21]To their breast [03:45.40]Trust women will always [03:48.53]Do their best [03:51.65]Trust our differences make us stronger [03:55.78]Not less [03:59.47] [04:23.73]In this amendment shall be [04:26.36]Family structure shall be free [04:29.23]We'll have the right to civil our unions [04:35.80]With equal rights and [04:39.05]Equal protection [04:42.09]Intolerance finally [04:44.97]Ruined [04:48.72]And then there's the kids rights [04:51.40]They'll naturally be on board [04:54.46]The funnel through which [04:57.72]Women's lives are poured [05:00.90]Our family is so big [05:03.59]And we're all so very small [05:06.78]Let a web of relationship [05:10.03]Be laid over it all [05:12.59]Over the strutter of power piled up to the sky [05:18.41]Over the illusion of autonomy on which it relies [05:25.25]Over any absolute that nature does not supply [05:34.37] [05:53.39]And the birthing woman shall regain her place [05:58.58]In a circle of women in a sacred space [06:04.02]Turn off the machines put away the knifes [06:09.33]This amendment shall deliver from bondage midwives