Ani Difranco - My I. Q. текст песни

When I was four years old

They tried to test my i.q.

They showed me a picture

Of 3 oranges and a pear

They said,

Which one is different?

It does not belong

They taught me different is wrong

But when I was 13 years old

I woke up one morning

Thighs covered in blood

Like a war

Like a warning

That I live in a breakable takeable body

An ever-increasingly valuable body

That a woman had come in the night to replace me

Deface me

See,

My body is borrowed

Yeah, I got it on loan

For the time in between my mom and some maggots

I dont need anyone to hold me

I can hold my own

I got highways for stretchmarks

See where Ive grown

I sing sometimes

Like my life is at stake

cause youre only as loud

As the noises you make

Im learning to laugh as hard

As I can listen

cause silence

Is violence

In women and poor people

If more people were screaming then I could relax

But a good brain aint diddley

If you dont have the facts

We live in a breakable takeable world

An ever available possible world

And we can make music

Like we can make do

Genius is in a back beat

Backseat to nothing if youre dancing

Especially something stupid

Like i.q.

For every lie I unlearn

I learn something new

I sing sometimes for the war that I fight

cause every tool is a weapon -

If you hold it right.