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If I Were a Woman

from Songs in the Key of Meh by Odin KBR

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Intro:
If I were a woman, would you say I was too fat
Would you say I was too skinny, to be allowed in your lap

V1:
Would you treat me like a little girl or a mother of steel?
Would I be famous overnight, or turn into the sum of the art of my deal?
Would I sing like Joni, Baez, Grace, or Streissand?
Or kill like the nuns in the name of some lord

C1:
Would I write myself a letter if I was my man
Or become a counselor on the ills of most boys and men
Or write a song of my own, to tighten the crack
When the whip comes down and it breaks in our backs, breaks on our backs

V2:
Would you feed me the apple, like that story from that book
The one with all of those people who claim to know what we are
Or would I grab you by the snake and turn it back on you
For the the pain that I suffered birthing Jesus Christ

C2:
If there were no woman, even more so no man
Maybe life would be warmer and pain could repair
But these sheets are still dirty, and the covers are torn
Fly back where you come from, we am what we am, we am what we am

Harmonica Solo

We am what we am (4x)

Outro:
Do these words leave you anxious, disgusted, offended, confused?
Then close your eyes carefully, because I am the eye

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from Songs in the Key of Meh, released May 29, 2023

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Odin KBR San Francisco, California

Self-taught singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and co-founder of the band Colorblind Dilemma.

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