Taught to be tough
And never to adjust
As if there’s no such thing as love

It’s left unsaid,
But yet still seen:
Your fragile masculinity

You’re telling your stories cos you’re such a fun guy
How dare they look so scared just cos you’re uninvited?

You chose them!
It's a compliment
As you tell them once again, because they need reminding

Just a little misogyny
In the male expectation of supremacy
They're only fifteen,
And yet you believe
All is fair in love and brutality.

Not all men - but how should she tell the good from the bad?
Not all men realise they’ve capitalised - but they have.
Not all men make me ashamed to be a man.

When all you've seen
Works so successfully
How can anyone expect you to act differently

So you keep someone
Wrapped around your thumb
Because you're selfish, shameless and dumb

Now you’re surprised
to see she survived
When you disappeared out of her life.

She takes the hand
Of another man
She thinks that she's happy because she doesn’t understand

You know how men score
You’ve been there before
From the other side, you know what’s in store

And you hate to lose
She might believe it too
Not realising you think she belongs to you

It’s the story of Mr Strong and Little Miss Ogyny
In the male expectation of supremacy
We're taught from an early age
That beauty lies in the eyes of the male gaze

Little Miss Ogyny

Out… and back again without a single thought
Everything was lies and we were waiting to be bought
The Government strived to be our greatest existential threat.
While we were left to wonder where the missing money went


It’s the end of days so war is waged on the whim of the highest bidder
As all our wages fall away and pay to light the tinder.
The refugees aren’t human beings, they’re here to take your job
So they’re forced to drown in human waste - and all benefits are stopped

What once was evil, now is normal - noone calls it out
Protests have been outlawed and the press are all locked down
Either tow the party line and pledge allegiance to the flag
Or you’re branded an extremist and you’re banished from this land.


Forests fires are burning and the ocean is ablaze
Cities underwater as life goes down the drain
Starve the poor in the name of war as food goes up in flames
If you pay off the rich, then they'll pass on the blame.

But they plan to get away; they’ll send themselves to outer space
Thinking that they will save the day and start a brand new human race
The earth is ripped apart. It’s turning inside out
The Holocene extinction started, so they’re getting out


They blast off with a bang to leave the whimpering behind
Soon they’ll find that they don't pine for fabled simpler times.
 

We’re running out of time
It’s the dying of the light
The final straw has been ignored - we've lit the dynamite
So go anything but gentle into that good night.

Extinction

The majority of this is intended to be sung by a female vocalist

Don’t ask
I don’t need your help to dance
And I don’t want a drink
But I think you think
That you still have a chance.

I said no.
And I meant no.
Why would I waste my time
on some bolshy chat-up line.
Don't act like I can't take a joke.

You have got to learn to read the room - why should you dare to presume
That we might be in awe of you, when you’ve done nothing but exude
	Your entitled, meat-head ways
With your vindictive stone-age plays
	When you just see us as prey…
And think that I don’t get a say

Before I could decline
You grabbed my behind
So imagine your surprise
To find out I'm a guy
And THAT is where you draw the line

Make a great big song and dance
Protect a manhood made of glass.
To prove that you are oh-so-straight
You will overcompensate
She doesn't stand a chance

	You quickly scan around the room - another victim to pursue
Just a body to be used - without the power to refuse
	Your entitled, meat-head ways
Your vindictive stone-age plays
	When you just see us as prey
And think that I don't get a say 

I'm not a puzzle to be solved
And I’m not going to get involved
Refusal may offend,
But this is where it ends 
You don’t get to take control

So don't ask.
I always had these scars
I just try to hide
I try to keep them out the light.
But no. I don't want to dance.

The you that I once knew
wouldn't dream of talking to.
The me that I used to be
Had the shit beat out of me

And I will never be the same
I'll never be carefree again
And now you look at me ascance
When I just wanted to dance

A scream becomes a stutter
A dream becomes a slumber
A peek becomes a leer
A week becomes a year.
A glance becomes a glare
A chance becomes despair.
Like vim without the vigour;
Quim without the quiver.

Don't Ask

Sometimes you need to be told to make your move... by the the girl of your dreams' significant other.

Sweep Her Off Her Feet

Jenny's Sister

She's got a twinkle in her eye.
She doesn't hear a word I say.
There's just one person on her mind
And it's been going on this way for days and days

All of the boys
Are throwing their toys out of their prams
One of them said
“She's through with men”,
As if she only like girls,
When she just likes Jen.

But don't we all?
Not a thing has changed
She still likes boys
But to refuse would be deranged
Some say it's a sham
A party trick with sleight of hand
Can't they understand?
It's just the same without a man.

Now the boys are at her door
They don't believe a word she says
They're convinced that she must want to strive for more
As if she's settling for second best.

All of the boys
Are throwing their toys out of their prams
One of them said
“She's through with men”,
As if she only like girls,
When she just likes Jen.

But don’t we all?
She’s a dream come true
If we had the gall
We’d all be chasing too.
Some say it's a plan
Cutting out the middleman
Then two for the price of one-night stands
Cos surely they could use a helping hand.

rockmev

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