Amendment - Ani DiFranco

[00:00.35]Ani Difranco - Amendment
[00:01.74].
[00:26.55]Wouldn't it be nice if
[00:29.55]We had an amendment
[00:32.74]To give civil rights to
[00:35.49]Women
[00:38.86]To once and for all just
[00:41.49]Really lay it down from
[00:45.25]The point of view of women
[00:48.69].
[00:50.75]I know what you're thinking
[00:53.75]That's just redundant
[00:57.75]Chicks got it good now
[01:00.63]They can almost be president
[01:03.63]But is worker against worker
[01:06.44]Time and time again
[01:09.19]Cause the rich use certain issues as a tool
[01:15.33]When I say we need the E.R.A ain't cause I'm a fool
[01:21.49]It's cause without it nobody can get away
[01:24.24]With anything cruel
[01:27.37].
[01:28.37]And you don't need to go far like
[01:31.68]Just over to Canada
[01:34.87]To feel the height and sense of
[01:38.24]Live and let live
[01:41.12]What is it about Americans
[01:43.87]Like so many pit-bulls
[01:46.24]Trained to attack them
[01:50.55]To never give
[01:51.81].
[01:53.81]We gotta put down abortion
[01:56.75]Put it down in the books for good
[01:59.56]As central to the civil rights
[02:02.37]Of women
[02:05.06]Make diversity legal
[02:09.06]Make it finally understood
[02:12.30]Through the civil rights of women
[02:15.93].
[02:18.75]And if you don't like abortion
[02:21.81]Don't have an abortion
[02:24.99]And teach your children
[02:27.87]How they can avoid them
[02:31.00]But don't treat all women
[02:33.49]Like they are your children
[02:36.50]Compassion has many faces
[02:39.00]Many names
[02:42.56]And if men can kill and be decorated
[02:45.43]Instead of blamed
[02:49.06]Then a woman called upon to mother
[02:51.43]Can choose to refrain
[02:53.81].
[02:56.12]And contrary to eons
[02:59.12]Of old time religion
[03:02.24]Your body is your only
[03:05.55]True dominion
[03:08.30]Nature is not here to serve you
[03:11.43]Or at any cause to preserve you
[03:14.61]That's just some preacher man's
[03:17.55]Old time opinion
[03:20.11].
[03:21.37]Life is sacred
[03:24.24]Life is also profane
[03:27.49]A woman's life
[03:29.68]It must be hers to name
[03:33.55]Let out an amendment
[03:36.12]Put this brutal game to rest
[03:39.05]Trust, women will still take you
[03:42.30]To their breast
[03:45.49]Trust, women will always
[03:48.55]Do their best
[03:51.74]Trust, our differences make us stronger
[03:54.80]Not less
[03:56.62].
[04:23.80]In this amendment shall be
[04:26.40]Family structure shall be free
[04:29.34]We'll have the right to civil our unions
[04:34.84]With equal rights and
[04:37.90]Equal protection
[04:40.90]Intolerance finally
[04:44.90]Ruined
[04:46.02].
[04:48.78]And then there's the kids rights
[04:51.02]They'll naturally be on board
[04:54.14]The funnel through which
[04:57.77]Women's lives are poured
[05:00.90]Our family is so big
[05:03.33]And we're all so very small
[05:06.65]Let a web of relationship
[05:10.02]Be laid over it all
[05:12.15].
[05:12.71]Over the strutter of power piled up to the sky
[05:18.34]Over the illusion of autonomy on which it relies
[05:25.09]Over any absolute that nature does not supply
[05:28.03]
[05:29.61].
[05:36.11]
[05:53.24]And the birthing woman shall regain her place
[05:58.61]In a circle of women, in a sacred space
[06:04.05]Turn off the machines, put away the knifes
[06:09.49]This amendment shall deliver from bondage midwives