Shannon Murray: Music

Daughter

(Shannon Murray)

Mother Jones never ran for office
Oh hell you know she couldn’t even vote
They told her women didn’t speak in public
But she just smiled got up on her soap box and she spoke

Virginia Wolff didn’t march down the streets of London
There were too many untold her stories to tell
And she was wrapped up in the rapture
Of a feminism she knew so intimately well

I am a daughter born of a heart full of rage
I am a feminist standing at the dawn of a new day
And I’ll be damned if I waste one more song
Reciting the angers of a past gone wrong

We are no longer barred from the ballot box
And the law declared us equal to men
But you know laws will never change attitudes
And attitudes are slow and hard to change

I am a daughter born of a heart full of rage
I am a feminist standing at the dawn of a new day
And I’ll be damned if I waste one more song
Reciting the angers of a past gone wrong

The political system has been and still is of, by and for men
You know some things are sure to change but until then
I’ve got to check this anger and put my energy to good use
Yeah through outright subversion I’ve got to get back to my roots

I am a daughter born of a heart full of rage
I am a feminist standing at the dawn of a new day
And I’ll be damned if I waste one more song
Reciting the angers of a past gone wrong

Through the years they come to me
Through time and space they comfort me
Through humility and grace I see
We are only the stories that we tell
We are only the stories that we tell

I am a daughter born of a heart full of rage
I am a feminist standing at the dawn of a new day