You painted yourself a martyr with your blood upon my blade And now my Damascus is tainted with your tears and rusted pain
I was forged and beaten in quiet flames for the risings and singings of slain And my steel would ring crystal upon their thrones as we show what’s womanly fame
But centuries later from charred fists I’m set into glass and displayed Where clasped hands and smug eyes declare my dream and exampled as womanly fate
Yet remember Remember It’s in your bones and blood Smell the ash on your face Taste the rain and the race
We were made for walking And stomping feet To seek their eyes and maim
For the wanderer listens for the voice in the dust And the lost will gain what was tamed
Sisters and brothers, Prayers and shame We’re warriors of water and way We had turned to a nation of gold and rubble We’ll turn to our stones and blade
Dig dig dig There’s dirt in our nails and the memories in our name Where the weeds blossom in yellow fire We’ll drag them into our nameless graves
I was tempered and torn in the waters of faith Where I birthed and I sang and I laboured away Where I’ll raise an army in the songs that I wrote And the stars that I named in my chains
Today I will shatter each shard as an edge and I’ll cut you as you swallow my hate And my blood will cover as testament and crown as you prepare for my womanly reign
pretty late for woman’s day, but I think it better late than never