Hot topic is the way that we rhyme
Hot topic is the way that we rhyme
One step behind the drum style

One step behind the drum style
Carol Rama and Elanor Antin
Yoko Ono and Carolee Schneeman

You're getting old, that's what they'll say, but
Don't give a damn I'm listening anyway
Stop, don't you stop

I can't live if you stop
Don't you stop
Gretchen Phillips and Cibo Matto

Leslie Feinburg and Faith Ringgold
Mr. Lady, Laura Cottingham
Mab Segrest and The Butchies, man

Don't stop
Don't you stop
We won't stop

Don't you stop
So many roads and so much opinion
So much %#@! to give in, give in to

So many rules and so much opinion
So much bull%#@! but we won't give in
Stop, we won't stop

Don't you stop
I can't live if you stop
Tammy Rae Carland and Sleater-Kinney

Vivienne Dick and Lorraine O'Grady
Gayatri Spivak and Angela Davis
Laurie Weeks and Dorothy Allison

Stop, don't you stop
Please don't stop
We won't stop

Gertrude Stein, Marlon Riggs, Billie Jean King, Ut, DJ Cuttin Candy,
David Wojnarowicz, Melissa York, Nina Simone, Ann Peebles, Tammy Hart,
The Slits, Hanin Elias, Hazel Dickens, Cathy Sissler, Shirley Muldowney,

Urvashi vaid, Valie Export, Cathy Opie, James Baldwin,
Diane Dimassa, Aretha Franklin, Joan Jett, Mia X, Krystal Wakem,
Kara Walker, Justin Bond, Bridget Irish, Juliana Lueking,

Cecelia Dougherty, Ariel Skrag, The Need, ##&*%$l Creme Davis,
Alice Gerard, Billy Tipton, Julie Doucet, Yayoi Kusama, Eileen Myles
Oh no no no don't stop stop............