She and I

Miss Paul
Mrs Catt
It's been a while
Four years

I could just die after all this time
She and I in the same state
With nothing left to do but wait

This is the dress I've been planning to wear if we win
And you plan to put it on before results are in? Bold
I only took it out to iron it
So it appears you mean to burn that old suffragist flag if we lose?
No, we sew a new star on this flag for each state we beat
Tennessee would make it complete
And you've already sewn it on, I bet?
Not yet

Should I curse or cry after all this time?
She and I in the same state with nothing left to do but wait

I hope you realize if we lose, it will be due to the backing you cost us
By picketing the president during the war
I hope you realize if we win, it will be despite the power you lost us
By bowing to the president during the war

I made allies
I took action
Who cares who gets the credit or the blame?
What matters is the work gets done
Says the woman who has started writing suffrage memoirs
When we haven't even won

No, no, no she hasn't changed
She hasn't changed at all
She'll never know
Should I just go?

I know you think I'm this arrogant kid
But I've just always known it's my calling
To see this movement through
And I can't stop moving 'til I do

This girl
Carrie, you were this girl
When you first arrived as a fiery young leader-to-be
Raging at elders and raring to go
Then when Susan said you were off track
You played by her rules as you have ever since
But Alice never held back

So isn't it wild?
After all this time
I feel like a parent made to reprimand my child
But who is rather pleased to have her do
What I always wanted to
Rebel daughter and careful mother
Maybe she and I always needed each other
Alice, I, I

What?

I'll see you down at the State House then