I can’t walk down the street without hearing a whistle
These cat calls and stares make me feel so little
They think that I like it
They think I don’t care
I just feel so useless
It is so unfair
The anger inside me is brewing like magic
The way we are treated is insanely tragic
Life is already hard when I’m told nothing new
That I cook and I clean and that’s all that I’ll do
You expect me to give life
To a new child
But without equal rights
I won’t do that for a while
I won’t raise a baby under this current system
If my baby had problems I couldn’t assist them
Or, I couldn’t guide them and I couldn’t make them hope
Because this world is a mess that can’t be cleaned off with soap
Why bring an idea that their future is bright
That there’s no harm that’s coming and there’s no harm in sight
America’s freedom was always a promise
But no one is free
Come on let’s be honest
If we were all free and if we were all equal
Then making my own choice would always be legal
My rights are important, my words should be too
So how come people in power think that this isn’t true?
Why do people define me by the body that is mine?
The clothes that I wear somehow cross a line?!
They say “boys will be boys” but what does that do?
Does that help me, save me, hurt me, or degrade me?
They haven’t a clue
If people would hear what the kids had to say,
We wouldn’t be fighting for peace every day
If people would listen, they would understand
That a person’s a person in a just land