Doe Paoro - Soft Power Guilty

Lyrics

Your boys met me at the gates

Dangled keys and hazed with promised fates

I wish I could unknow

What it’s like to have my body made a battlefield

They paid until I owed

Felt so trapped, like I’d been bought and sold

While they played power games, got stoned,

I blamed myself and forgot who was in control

I’ve walked too deep inside a man’s world

Lost my strength, forgotten what I came for

And I know I’m not the first

That you’ve made defend her word

When I refuse to be coerced,

Somehow I’m subversive?

I’ll take the blacklist, I’ll do time

But I’m not guilty

So why do I feel guilty?

So guilty

As the gavel pounds

Touch my navel and I know deep down

Came all this way to see

The shape your silhouette makes

When you turn from me

I’ve walked too deep inside a man’s world

Lost my strength, forgotten what I came for

And I know I’m not the first

That you’ve made defend her word

When I refuse to be coerced,

Somehow I’m subversive?

I’ll take the blacklist, I’ll do time

But I’m not guilty

So why do I feel guilty?

So guilty

Can I forgive myself, for myself?

Too heavy to carry