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cistem failure - you should be terrified lyrics

[verse 1]
there was a time when i believed that men could have their hold on me
that they could cl!ck their fingers and i would be the one to please
my decisions would be stained with all the things they had to say
i couldn’t leave my house, my room, without them standing in my way
but in the years to come
i’d find out all these ways to smash them down
to free myself of all the bullsh+t that i built my life around

[chorus]
but still to this day
i’m terrified of what you can do to me
and this fear consumes me whether i’m awake or asleep
i’m aware of the restrictions that you have on my life
and if i defend myself with my fist or my knife
then you’re there in the courtroom waiting to see me cry
well i am going to f+cking cry
[verse 2]
so this year i found out that pretty much most of my friends
have been raped or abused in the dirty hands of cis men
that everything they knew and trusted crashed all around them
now they’re picking up the pieces but they haven’t quite found them
so now we are trying to support each other but we don’t always know how
because from every moment we are faced with shame and disempowerment
and just when we think we’re ready to live our lives again
well, you go and do it again
well, you go and do it again

[chorus]
and still to this day
i’m terrified of what you can do to me
and this fear consumes me whether i’m awake or asleep
i’m aware of the restrictions that you have on my life
and if i defend myself with my fist or my knife
then you’re there in the courtroom waiting to see me cry
well i am going to f+cking cry

[verse 3]
well i know you like to think of the stranger in the alley
of the psycopath with no self control in the movies
well i hate to break it to you, but it may just be your son
your nice guy of a friend or your sweet loving husband
when our society raises us to take whatever we want
and that men are valid humans expected to be more dominant
that our needs only matter when we have a d+ck to assert them with
and that consent is just a k!lljoy word to ruin perfect moments with
[verse 4]
if you don’t get permission then that makes you a rapist
if they are drunk, asleep, your partner or last night they wanted it
there are no excuses and there are no blurred lines
so get the f+ck away from me and let me get on with my life
’cause it may take months or it may take years
and there may never come a day where we don’t shed our tears
but we are powerful, we are beautiful
we are better than you will ever be
you better watch out for your f+ckin’ life
’cause you are now the enemy

[chorus]
and so from this day
you should be terrified of what we can do to you
on the streets and in our bedrooms, the power no longer lies with you
if you’re h+rny and you tell yourself that you are entitled
we’ll tell your friends to come and visit you in hospital
’cause you have to learn somehow these bodies are ours and ours alone
because you have to learn somehow these bodies are ours and ours alone
because you have to learn somehow these bodies are ours and ours alone
now do you understand when i say no?

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