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shaina taub - she persisted lyrics

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[intro: shaina taub and kater ferber]
nevertheless

[verse: shaina taub]
elizabeth
she took the floor
then she took a breath
and read without qualms
a letter coretta scott king wrote strom
they censored her
the congressmen said:
‘the senator will take her seat.’
and all through the chamber spread heat

[chorus: shaina taub and kate ferber]
she was warned
she was given an explanation
nevertheless, she persisted
nevertheless, she persisted
nevertheless, she persisted
nevertheless, she persisted
nevertheless, she persisted
nevertheless

[verse: kate ferber, shaina taub and kate ferber]
malala
she wanted to be a scholar
the taliban banned
girls education
she took a stand

it caused a stir
they got on the bus to silence her
the gunman said:
‘who is malala?’
she bled

[chorus: shaina taub, kate ferber, shaina taub and kate ferber]
she was warned
she was given an explanation
nevertheless, she persisted
nevertheless, she persisted
nevertheless, she persisted
nevertheless, she persisted
nevertheless, she persisted
nevertheless, she (she)

[bridge: cherrye davis, shaina taub and kate ferber]
yeah, cherrye
if you think you’ve heard this before, yes
you’ve seen this in hashtag form, you heard it first on the senate floor
he thought he was silencing
but instead he penned a hook we may be licensing
our volume he was heightening

you can try to turn our track down or off, belittle or scoff
but our transmittal is cyclical, generational
waves of being hushed then a crash of sound
the tide of justice comes around
we’re gravitational (oh)

we could fill all these bars on joan of arc harriet tubman alice paul and rosa parks
sonya sotomayor, anita hill, hillary rodham, hermione and leia
bessie and nina, your mama’s abuela’s mama
the first female president is alive at this moment
in a cl-ssroom raising her hand
standing on the shoulders of a miss on this list
and nevertheless she gonna persist

[chorus: shaina taub and kate ferber, shaina taub, kate ferber, cherrye davis, all three]
nevertheless, she persisted
nevertheless (nevertheless), she persisted
nevertheless, she persisted
nevertheless (nevertheless), she persisted

nevertheless, she persisted (yeah, and they gon’ try to close it down)
nevertheless, she persisted (but they can never bring us down)
nevertheless, she persisted (and they gon’ try to close it down)
nevertheless, nevertheless, nevertheless (yeah, and they gon’ try to [?])

she persisted (but they never bring us down)
nevertheless, she persisted (yeah, and they gon’ try to bring us down, but nevertheless they can never bring us down)
she persisted (she persisted)
she persisted (she persisted)
she persisted
nevertheless

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