(thanks to jessica and anna)

Manhattan is an island

Like the women who are
Surrounded by children in the car
Surrounded by cars


Or manhattan was a project
That projected the worst of mankind

First one and then the other
Has made its mark on my mind



It's sixty years later near the hypo-center of the
a-bomb

I'm standing in the middle of hiroshima
Watching a twisted old eucalyptus tree wave


One of the very few lives that survived and lives on
Remembering the day it was suddenly thousands of degrees
In the

Shade

And what all of nature gave birth to

Terror took in a blinding raid
With the kind of pain
It would take cancer so many years just to say


Oh to grow up gagged and blindfolded
A great big mans world in your little girls head

The voice of the great mother drowned out

In the constant honking haunting the accident scene up ahead

Oh to grow up hypnotized and then try to shake yourself awake
Cause you can sense what has been lost
Cause you can sense what is at stake



Yeah it took me a few years to catch on that those days i catch

everyone's eye
Correspond with those nights of the month when the moon gleans
like an egg in the sky

And men are using a sense they don't even know they have
just to watch me walk by



And me, i'm supposed to be sensible, leave my animal
outside to cry

But when all of nature conspires to make me her glorious
!@^%


It's cause in my body i hold the secret recipe of precisely
what life is for


And the patriarchy that looks to shame me for it is the same one
making war and i've said too much already but i'll
tell you something more

To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can
do so girl if that %#@! ain't up to you, then you simply
are not free cause from the sunlight on my hair to which eggs i

grow to term
To the expression that i wear, all i really own is me


I mean to split yourself in two is just the most radical thing
you can do
Goddess forbid that little adam should grow so jealous of eve

and in the face of the great farce of the nuclear age
Feminism ain't about equality, it's about reprieve