if you put my smile on for size
then you can see a woman wise
not with lies who vows to realize
if you can see the should in the dance
then you can see a woman with a rockin
chance, better than at a glance without
us to enhance
if you hear the music of my hips that sway
then you can see it our own way
day by day, without tremendous pay
if you can voice my self-defense
then you can see I was not all
that dense, just intense, for recompense
if you can see I'm the forest through your trees
then you can see I was a certain kind of breeze that
does not freeze when she ask please
if you can see my problems were just a mystery
then you can see the solutions of our history, a
family's history, a nations history
if you can love me all the more on my way in instead
of out your door
then you can see our love was never for keepin score
but at our core for our love that way means so much more
and if you can see my pane of house on your window pane
then you can see beyond your pain that's our insane to let
a marriage truly plan a gain
I think that what happened was that we all wanted to be Oedipus and possess our mothers.
But because society frowns on such couplings,
we actually sought to BECOME our mothers.
Since only a woman can make a life,
and because our sex is opposite and we lived in a world of men,
in order to be the equal of a woman we had to take life,
And the more the better.
That cycle continued for many generations,
but in the past hundred years I think it has reached its peak at
The Ardennes
Warsaw
Hiroshima
The 38th parallel
Indochina
Haiti
Tiananmen Square
Bosnia
Iraq
At least the gross is up.
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