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the civility of albert cashier – woman to woman lyrics

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[albert]
what’re you doing here?

[nurse smith]
i came to see you! are you eating? are they, ah, feeding you well?

[albert]
why do you care?

[nurse smith]
you are my charge and, i confess, in our time you’ve… grown on me, jennie

[albert]
albert

[nurse smith]
ah, but you were jennie, once, i think- or maybe you still are

[albert]
what do you want?

[nurse smith]
i thought we should talk, woman to woman

[albert]
what about?

[nurse smith]
your future. after all, we are in this together

i’m a soldier like you
i have war stories, too-
we survive, that’s all we can do
you’re in pain i can see
and you want to be free!
there’s no cure
for what we’re born into

[albert]
what’re you going on about?

[nurse smith]
ah, so hard to give up the charade, living decades as you did. we were born the fairer s-x- never asked, tasked to submit. but we knew that we were better than it

[albert]
i want to go home

[nurse smith]
i’m here to help, jennie

[albert]
don’t say that!

[nurse smith]
why not? it is your name! now, be plain with me, it’s just you and me here. there’s n-body at the soldier’s home or the hearing room; you need someone in your corner. there is n-body left. or is there?

[albert]
no

[nurse smith]
if i, as a nurse, could… testify? i could help you. so, think back: when do you first remember your illusion?

[albert]
my… illusion?

[nurse smith]
ah, confusion, mixed thoughts, or delusion

[albert]
i’m not crazy!

[nurse smith]
it doesn’t look that way. but if you’re willing to compromise, there is an easy solution

[albert]
or what?

[nurse smith]
or they’ll send you to an inst-tution!

[albert]
what? why
it’s my right to live free
and i’ve lived honorably!
shouldn’t i have my dignity?

[nurse smith]
but the world isn’t fair
and they really don’t care
what it is that you think
you should be

who were you? you weren’t always, ah…

[albert]
myself?

[nurse smith]
haha! you’re not albert anymore than i’m a… doctor. come now, we all play a part, we learn the dance. you want to get out of here?

[albert]
yes

[nurse smith]
well then, confess. wear a dress. do what every woman has always done: follow

[albert]
did you?

[nurse smith]
i, ah, did my work. i went to school, top of my cl-ss. couldn’t be a doctor, those were the rules, so i… lived within the lines. i learned the dance. could teach you a few steps. what did you do?

[albert]
my memories are all clouds… i remember battles, climbing a tree to raise the flag

[nurse smith]
what else?

[albert]
a ship, stowing away to america

[nurse smith]
and further? you’re almost there

[albert]
ireland

[nurse smith]
ah, you were a young girl once! you wore a dress

[albert]
but that wasn’t me-

[nurse smith]
of course it was

[albert]
no, this is me! i sacrificed so much…

[nurse smith]
sacrifice? sacrifice? you didn’t sacrifice anything- i sacrificed. my time, my pride, having a family. while you waltz around with your pension, men tipping their hats to you- you,the veteran hero!

[albert]
it’s the truth

[nurse smith]
who cares about the truth? do you know what happens when we don’t fit in? we suffer. we fall out of step. i did my work, i followed the rules, and so must you

[albert]
are you happy?

[nurse smith]
life isn’t about being happy. we must submit, accept the pain. now i’m asking you, one last time

[albert]
i’d rather die for the truth than live a lie like you

[nurse smith]
i see…
you’re undone at the st-tch!
you ungrateful old b-tch
i’m not here to be scolded by you
i have stated my mind
and i think you will find
that the world won’t be kind
to you

- the civility of albert cashier lyrics

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