Stop Women Abuse Today
Hey, this that we see hurts us
Don’t you feel the pain, oh
brother what have you’ve done to her?
Come on, let’s face the fact that
oh, I know you know that
what’s wrong, you did not enjoy it
Feel it
CHORUS:
Brother, today’s the time I let you know
Brother, today’s the time we control
our anger, hatred towards women and children’s abuse
Brother, today we need change
for better living, today I believe we have to live that
I don’t want to see women being abused
I’ll be the first to fight that
I don’t want to see women being abused
but I’ll be the first to fight that
If we unite against it fight it
surely there will be peace in our homes
Till we know abuse is bad
and now the bad is painful
So what you think we have to do?
Look, watch you do it
while she’s crying for help, then we ignore that
then we ignore that
CHORUS (x2)
Kommentaar
The English of Domestic Violence, and The Domestic Violence of English
We split infinitives
We split the atom
We split a skull
What wonderful beings
we are (we men)
we who are superior
to all things
We crack a walnut
We crack a joke
We crack a (spare) rib
We blow out a candle
We blow into our hands for warmth
Those same hands that
strike a blow
We strike a match
We go on strike –
and come home to strike
a woman and (girl) child
(in the quiet and dark
of family life away
from the glare of the public)
We build confidence
We build houses (albeit matchbox ones)
We build relationships, which we
then break down like they are
our matchbox houses
We march, against apartheid
(of the statute book and the mind)
Sometimes we even march against
capitalism and woman and child abuse
We name our children
We name hurricanes
We call women names
We take up burning issues
and bride-burning continues
We arrange our furniture
and we arrange marriages
What wonderful beings
we are (we men)
we who are superior
to all things
penned Saturday, October 08, 2005, engaging with words, engaging with domestic violence, engaging those who perpetrate the crime.