Dan Bern - Cure For Aids Lyrics
Well this bald headed girl I know sent me a tape of Bjork and CourtneyLoveAnd PJ Harvey, called it brilliant womenI put it in my car, heard it all the way down to the coastNormally if left to my own devices I don't hear chich singers much I guess it's guys I hear the mostSometimes these days don't it seem like it's enough forgirls to love a girl oruse the f word prominentlymasturbate in public orlearn guitar tied up to a postI thought of all this hearing Bjork and Courtney Love and PJ HarveyIn my car driving to the coastTori Amos, Liz Phair, Sinead O'Connor, Suzanne Vega, Jill Sobule,Melissa Etheridge,Tracy Chapman, Ani Difranco, Michelle ShockedEveryone of them has something kind of special that I likeBut every now and then while listening to them I feel like when we werekidsI pulled their hair or stole their bikeThese days it seems like there's a lot of girls who sing and some ofthem are good andSome of them are not, but it's always kind of cool thatMoment when they first step to the mikeIf I was a girl I could sing real high and also then I'd know whathavingBreasts would be likeChick singersChick singersChick singersI started thinking 'boutKate Bush, Patsy Cline, Billy Holiday, Janis Joplin, Bessie Smith, PattiSmith,Annie Lennox, Chrissie Hynde, and Bonnie RaittSeems like there's an awful lot of women in whose honor I wouldLike to raise my glass to in a toastSome of them are still alive and some I hear their voices like a ghostMaybe next Thursday I'll throw a party and invite every woman thatEver sang a song, oh, this would be a party that I think I would like tobe the hostThanks to the bald headed girl I k
