Ani Difranco - Blood In The Boardroom Lyrics
Sitting in the boardroomThe im-so-bored roomListening to the suitsTalk about their worldThey can make straight linesOut of almost anythingExcept for the lineOf my upper lip when it curlsDressed in my best greasy skinAnd squinty eyesIm the only part of summer hereThat made it insideIn the air-conditioned buildingDecorated with coporate flairI wonderCan these boys smell me bleedingThough my underwearTheres men wearing the bloodOf the women they loveTheres white wearing the blood of the brownBut every woman learns to bleed from the moonAnd we bleed to renew lifeEvery time its cut downI got my vertebrae all stacked upAs high as they goI but I still feel myself slidingFrom the earth that I knowSo I excuse myself and leave the roomSay my period came earlyBut its not a minute too soonI go and find the only other woman on the floorIs the secretary sitting at the desk by the doorI ask her if shes got a tampon I could useShe saysOh honey, what a hassle for youSure I doYou know I doI sayIt aint no hassle, no, it aint no messRight now its the only powerThat I possessThese businessmen got the moneyThey got the instruments of deathBut I can make lifeI can make breathSitting in the boardroomThe im-so-bored roomListening to the suits talk about their worldI didnt really have much to sayThe whole time I was thereSo I just left a big brown bloodstainOn their white chair
