Giving Something Up - Amel Larrieux

'76 when a man

Told his wife 'baby doll sorry i can't stay'

Left with 5 kids she was forced to become

Superwoman and go earn some pay

A college-educated girl

Washing dishes in a man's world

Now what good is a degree

When you've got mouths to feed

She is that girl maybe you know her

Maybe you've been maybe you are today

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'97 a mother has no choice

But to go find work and leave her kids alone

Far from heaven so she's gone

5 days out the week to bring a piece home

Her man is off somewhere up some dress

Bringing her back some other woman's sickness

Her baby girl is crying 'Mama please

When you're gone the neighbor's chasing me'

Around the world from Pakistan

Down to Soweto back to New York City

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Giving trying self-relying

Feeling teaching always preaching

Dreaming losing being abused and

Dying crying sacrificing

Hurting being told we're worthless

Birthing buried alive in the earth and

Hoping mending spirits broken

Flying and somehow surviving

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