Poison Girls - Abort The System lyrics

The woman has a body That she must call her own But they treat her like a flowerpot For a seed that he has sown The woman makes a baby And feeds him til he's grown And those who feed on fresh young Blood will break his spirit down They fill his brains with poison And teach him left and right And how to hate his brother And they teach him black and white The woman makes a baby And bears a big strong son And those who feed On fresh young blood They subjugate his senses And mystify his mind He forgets where he has come from He's deaf and dumb and blind They cage him in a factory And bind down his desire And milk his body of his strength To stoke another fire Then they turn him loose in the bullring To fight with tooth and claw And they kick his balls for punishment If he questions what it's for They tell him he's got freedom As he struggles with a leash And they fill his mouth with violence And tell him it's free speech The pay-off is the power As he crawls his way above Over those who fall behind him Over those who need his love Over those who feed his body Over those who ease his pain Over those who bear his children Over those who lose the game And he who was a baby But now is big and grown Would crush his lover's body And break her spirit down And cage her in a kitchen And bind her body down And he who feeds on mother's blood Will keep her for his own The woman makes a baby A daughter strong and straight And those who feed on fresh young Blood can hardly bear to wait They teach that she's a vessel For him to enter in And those whose pleasure she may Feed will tell her she is a sin They cripple her with corsets And things that make her weak And crucify her insteps And smear paint upon her cheek Then they turn her loose in the Marketplace to buy and to be sold She is the empty vessel For promises of gold They buy her for a nursery Where a baby will be grown They treat her like a flowerpot For a seed that he has sown They cage her in a doll's house And bind down her desire And cheat her like a spirit of its strength to stoke another fire And if she talks of freedom And how it all began Those who know will tell her that She should have been a man So they deny her body And they deny her mind She forgets where she has come from She's deaf and dumb and blind The pay-off is protection And shelter from the cold And he is lost to the factory For promises of gold But she that can make a baby Is a woman that's full grown And she will take her body back With a mind that is her own She will not feed the factory That makes the cage and gun She will take her spirit back With a mind that is her own She will not make a baby And feed it with her own life A woman's body is her own – Abortion is her right