21st Century Girl

Lights up, woah, here we go
Now listen closely to my story
Shake it like you want it
See, it starts real sweet but the details
Quickly get a little gory
Shake it like you want it
Now, you can tell me that it's crazy
That it all exists in my imagination
Shake it like you want it
But baby, maybe, I'll decide upon the terms of my own discrimination

And I don't wanna hear your rebuffs of my oppression
What gave you the false impression that I care
And I don't wanna hear, your rebut of what you're seeing
When there's 18% less inside my paycheque disagreeing
I know it might be hard to hear, but answer this boy loud and clear

And have you ever felt like this in all your life
No kidding me, baby
And have you ever felt like you're about to lose all your control
So go and ask your sister, your mother or your wife
I'm telling you, baby
Though history may be the season you prefer
Welcome to the age of the 21st Century Girl

Stop
Thinking you're God's gift to the women you're confronting
You're a chauva Casanova
With a caveman's touch for sole-syllabic grunting
So go and stomp and stamp and curse me
Post online - it's fine, I'll try not to get teary
But I hope you're quick
Cause I'll kick you in the balls if you come near me

And we don't wanna hear your misogynistic baiting
Darling, there'll be no debating how we feel
And we don't wanna hear empty promises so from us is
This final groove to prove you've always had the better deal
I've said it plain
I've said in rhyme
I'll say it to you one more time

And have you ever felt like this in all your life
No kidding me, baby
And have you ever felt like you're about to lose all your control
So go and ask your sister, your mother or your wife
I'm telling you, baby
Though history may be the season you prefer
Welcome to the age of the 21st Century Girl

Digital walls are closing in
Before you know it they begin to analyse your every move
They swallow everywhere I've been
My hair, the colour of my skin and it's taking over

And everybody wants to chew you up
And everybody's spit you out
Sometimes it feels like you've been through the lot
But, girl, I need'a hear you shout
You better stand up for your sister
Stand up for your mother
Stand up for your children
Stand up for one another
Stand up for the stranger
Stand up for the other
Stand up for the different
Stand up and let me hear you sing it

Put your faith in what you believe in
Show the world the dream you conceive and
Everything around you will shine brighter than the sun
Do it for the ones gone before you
Screw it to the ones who deplore you
And lift the ones around you to aim higher every day

Put your faith in what you believe in
Show the world the dream you conceive and
Everything around you will shine brighter than the sun
Do it for the ones gone before you
Screw it to the ones who deplore you
And lift the ones around you to aim higher every day

Put your faith in what you believe in
Show the world the dream you conceive and
Everything around you will shine brighter than the sun
Do it for the ones gone before you
Screw it to the ones who deplore you
And lift the ones around you to aim higher every day

Put your faith in what you believe in
Show the world the dream you conceive and
Everything around you will shine brighter than the sun
Do it for the ones gone before you
Screw it to the ones who deplore you
And lift the ones around you to aim higher every day