Do you know what it is like to run? Do you know what it is like to live in fear? Do you know what it is like to run? Do you know what it is like to live in fear?
'Cause she knows what it's like to run She knows what it's like to live in fear Because she knows what it's like to run
Rape ritual How can I stand in silence while you are raping my sister? Ritual I said I'll throw you in the wind because I ain't with that
Say what have we done to mother, sister, daughter, lover? Beat them down to submission, into that corner of constant fear Humanity reduced to a sexual commodity, objectification Pretty faces, molded imagery
Damn they drop the dirty mack demands She's more than booty to me, bypass her sexuality Tradition, your sexism is what you want me to learn, surrender Gender hatred, fade it to kill it, compassion returns
One out of three and they say my sisters are free Incarcerated by hatred, propagated by sodomy Continual ritual victimizing my sister Physical rape is psychological murder
Ritual How can I stand in silence while you are raping my sister? Ritual I said I'll throw you in the wind because I ain't with that
Ritual How can I stand in silence while you are tearing? Rape ritual
Jenny, ho, slut, trick, bitch, buddy Terms that burn in our popular brutality That media camera's at you, trying to show you what's up Illusion magazine fantasy got you feinding to bust a nut
Body identity suffocates in her nudity, she's dying inside Fashions asking won't let her be, strip her to flesh For apathetic male ego, you bet the set ain't down with your wak Rape ritual
We got to meet this hate with love We got to meet this hatred with love Why do we fall for it, fuel it Sexual violence equality?
Please, so-called alternative movement Statistics never confess her wounded aloneness Internal inferno locked away calm diminishment Sharon stone, you ain't all of that, Madonna, you ain't all of that
Sell you shallow shock value charade is wak Sister, put a fist in what's expected of you Deny, defy, reject false definition of you too There's no excuse for this brutality or this lack of humanity
Rape ritual How can I stand in silence while you are raping my sister? Ritual I said I'll throw you in the wind because I ain't with that
Ritual How can I stand in silence while you are tearing? Rape ritual
I say that I'll throw you into the wind Say that I throw you [Incomprehensible] I say your traditions mean nothing to me