Alix Olson - Eve's Mouth lyrics

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Eve's mouth hurts from trying not to laugh

at some joke some scholar made

about her being someone's half

It was a joke, a lie, exaggeration, a fib

And now you all believe I came from his rib

She screams at the top of her lungs:

"I'm whole! I'm body, I'm heart, I'm mind, I'm soul"

Well, Queen Victoria gave her daughter some advice

as her daughter shook and trembled on her wedding night

Queen Victoria, she said to her daughter:

"Baby, lie still and think of the Empire!"

And her husband, though kind and mild

he never stopped to wonder why she never smiled

Little Red Riding Hood was walking down the trail,

she was carrying the goodies,

thought "They'll go stale"

So, she ate 'em all up and that was that

Then, she threw them all up, fear of getting fat

Cause even Red Riding Hood reads magazines,

the ones prescribing diets for pre-teens

Now, we've got Cinderella, she's chilling at home

quite content with being alone

She is playing with the mice and singing with the birds

and they're the only ones who ever heard these words

She said "I'll get in the damn pumpkin. Do it all right

weep and lose my slipper, freak out at midnight

But there's one thing that the prince might not like

it's the Fairygod I'm afte, I'm a dyke."

She screams at the top of her lungs "I'm whole,

I'm body, I'm heart, I'm mind, I'm soul"

She screams at the top of her lungs "I'm whole,

I'm body, I'm heart, I'm mind, I'm soul"

So we've got Snow White, she's a homemaker of sorts

Cause she cleans and she cooks and she takes care of dwarves

One day, I said "Snow White, go back to school"

She said "No, I can't, I'd feel like a fool

You know, it's hard for us women to try to be ourselves

we spend our whole damn lives taking care of little elves

Now, Helen of Troy, they say, launched a thousand ships

with the short of her skirt and the shape of her lips

And when that old bard lay the blame at her face

for the rape of a nation

Wrong time, Wrong place

Helen simply whispered, "history's our test

Look between the lines, girls, Read beneath the text."

Now we've got to Rapunzel, she's chilling in the tower

Waiting for the handsome prince

she's sapped of all her power

Finally, one day, the handsome prince in town

called up to Rapunzel, "Yo girl, let it down!"

But our dear Rapunzel was nowhere to be seen,

yes our dear Rapunzel had learned something keen

"All that time alone kinda taught me how to cope,

so I shaved my head and I made me a rope!"

She screams at the top of her lungs, "I'm whole,

I'm body, I'm heart, I'm mind, I'm soul"

She screams at the top of her lungs, "I'm whole,

I'm body, I'm heart, I'm mind, I'm soul"

She screams.