Tytuł: My I.Q.

• Wykonawca: Ani Difranco
• Wyświetleń: 581

when I was four years old
  they tried to test my I.Q.
  they showed me a picture
  of 3 oranges and a pear
  they said,
  which one is different?
  it does not belong
  they taught me different is wrong
  but when I was 13 years old
  I woke up one morning
  thighs covered in blood
  like a war
  like a warning
  that I live in a breakable takeable body
  an ever-increasingly valuable body
  that a woman had come in the night to replace me
  deface me
  see,
  my body is borrowed
  yeah, I got it on loan
  for the time in between my mom and some maggots
  I don't need anyone to hold me
  I can hold my own
  I got highways for stretchmarks
  see where I've grown
  I sing sometimes
  like my life is at stake
  'cause you're only as loud
  as the noises you make
  I'm learning to laugh as hard
  as I can listen
  'cause silence
  is violence
  in women and poor people
  if more people were screaming then I could relax
  but a good brain ain't diddley
  if you don't have the facts
  we live in a breakable takeable world
  an ever available possible world
  and we can make music
  like we can make do
  genius is in a back beat
  backseat to nothing if you're dancing
  especially something stupid
  like I.Q.
  for every lie I unlearn
  I learn something new
  I sing sometimes for the war that I fight
  'cause every tool is a weapon -
  if you hold it right.