People keep asking me why I do things like I do In all of this measuring influence I forgot you You and me lying behind the Monhegan Hotel And you told me things that nobody around me would tell That was the summer when everyone touched me at once It's like one day they ignored me, the next, they were all down my pants But you were in bed with me, safe, before anyone else You opened beside me and held me when I needed help You and me lying together at night in my room You've been inside me forever…Judy Blume
I couldn't carry a tune but I thought I could sing No one had told me that thoughts were a good or bad thing But I started noticing grown-ups would smile and cringe You taught me that you could say anything you could think
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All of them [the characters] lived in my head, quietly whispering: "You are not so strange" I don't remember the details of seventh grade All I remember is lying and being afraid
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All of them mixed up in my head like a love letter All of those saying "Amanda you know better You are not to blame The world's a frightening place So go on and think how you want You will not be alone with your thoughts Well you will, but you won't in a way 'Cause a girl thought it too in a book that the library bought"
People will keep asking me why I do things like I do And from now on I'll tell them, Nick Cave, and I'll talk about you Judy, I can't believe sometimes that I'm an adult And the girls like I was think that I have this s**t figured out You and me lying together at night in my room You'll be inside us forever, Judy Blume
Contrary to what many listeners believed, this is not about menstruation and it does not advocate domestic violence. Cooper is singing about how women bleed from the heart, mind and soul. Several feminist groups protested this song, but it is actually a sympathetic look at domestic abuse. It's a rare song where Cooper doesn't try to shock, but takes the side of the victim.
Dick Wagner, who co-wrote the song with Cooper, told us: "It's really a song about domestic violence. It was misunderstood when it first came out. It was supposedly about a woman's period, but it wasn't. It was about a woman's subservient position in society to a man. I'm a firm believer that women are the superior sex. 'Only Women Bleed' was a liberating kind of song."
This ballad was a centerpiece of Alice Cooper's Welcome To My Nightmare tour, and his biggest hit from the album. Cooper performed the song with a single dancer, and it remained a part of his stage show for many of his concerts in the ensuing years. Alice told Mojo:
"I didn't realize it would end up as a woman's anthem. I just needed a ballad for Welcome to my Nightmare."
_________________ Professionally Identified and joined WP August 26, 2013 DSM 5: Autism Spectrum Disorder, DSM IV: Aspergers Moderate Severity
“My autism is not a superpower. It also isn’t some kind of god-forsaken, endless fountain of suffering inflicted on my family. It’s just part of who I am as a person”. - Sara Luterman
Sometimes I shave my legs and sometimes I don't Sometimes I comb my hair and sometimes I won't Depend on how the wind blows, I might even paint my toes It really just depends on whatever feels good in my soul
When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me Every freckle on my face is where it's supposed to be And I know my creator didn't make no mistakes on me My feet, my thighs, my lips, my eyes, I'm loving what I see
I'm not the average girl from your video And I ain't built like a supermodel But I learned to love myself unconditionally Because I am a queen I'm not the average girl from your video My worth is not determined by the price of my clothes No matter what I'm wearing I will always be India Arie
Am I less of a lady if I don't wear panty hose? My mama said a lady ain't what she wears, but what she knows But I've drawn the conclusion, it's all an illusion Confusion's the name of the game A misconception, a vast deception Something's gotta change…
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21 May 2024, 1:01 am
TwilightPrincess wrote:
^ Cool song! I’ve never heard it before.
She's from the same era as Fiona Apple - I know Apple has been posted in here, so kinda surprised nobody posted any Poe. She has two pretty good albums. Control is from her 2nd. Here's one from her first.
Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am 32 flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you are gonna get hungry And eat most of the words you just said
God help you if you are an ugly girl Course, too pretty is also your doom Cause everyone harbors a secret hatred For the prettiest girl in the room And God help you if you are a phoenix And you dare to rise up from the ash A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy While you are just flying past…
I am not an angry girl But it seems like I've got everyone fooled Every time I say something they find hard to hear They chalk it up to my anger And never to their own fear Imagine you're a girl Just trying to finally come clean Knowing full well they'd prefer you were dirty And smiling…
”Que no te duermas sin deberle la justicia a las madres que ahora buscan por ahí a sus hijas entre fosas clandestinas,” reads a fragment of her song, translating to “That you do not go to sleep without owing justice to the mothers who are now searching out there for their daughters among clandestine graves.”Released Monday (May 27) night, the song honors the tireless work done by Mexican mothers searching for their missing children among the nearly 100,000 unaccounted for since 1962, according to official figures.