FYR Songtext
von Le Tigre

Ten short years of progressive change
50 fucking years of calling us names
Can we trade Title Nine for an end to hate crime?
RU-486 if we suck your fuckin′ dick
One step forward, five steps back
One cool record in the year of rock-rap
Yeah, we got all the power getting stabbed in the shower
And we got equal rights on ladies night

Feminists, we're calling you
Please report to the front desk
Let′s name this phenomenon
It's too dumb to bring us down

FYR (50 years of ridicule)
FYR (take another picture)
FYR (50 years of ridicule)
FYR (take another picture)

I wonder whether we could be happy in a place like that


Mrs. Doubtfire on Mother's day, on-the-job stalker for equal pay
Toss us a few new AIDS drugs as national healthcare bites the dust
While you were on vacation, black people didn′t get reparations
You know these days no-one′s exploited
Sorry, dude, can't hear you with my head in the toilet

Feminists we′re calling you
Please report to the front desk
Let's name this phenomenon
It′s too dumb to bring us down

FYR (50 years of ridicule)
FYR (take another picture)
FYR (50 years of ridicule)
FYR (take another picture)

I wonder whether we could be happy in a place like that

You've really come a long way, baby, it′s you, not the world, that's totally crazy
'Cause we really rocked the fuckin′ vote with election fraud in poor zip codes
Celebrate gay marriage in Vermont by enforcing those old sodomy laws
One step forward, five steps back
We tell the truth, they turn up the laugh track

I wonder whether we could be (happy)
I wonder whether we could be (happy)
I wonder whether we could be (happy)
I wonder whether we could be...


Feminists we′re calling you
Please report to the front desk
Let's name this phenomenon
It′s too dumb to bring us down

I had a friend who did that
She used to ride the subway in New York City
From the beginning of the line at New Lots Avenue all the way up to 241th Street in the Bronx
And nobody would bother her