Il testo della My i q

Ani Difranco

When i was four years old, they tried to test my i.q.
They showed me a picture of 3 oranges and a pear
They said, "which one is different? it does not belong"
They taught me different is wrong

But when i was 13 years old
I woke up one morning
Thighs covered in blood
Like a war, like a warning

That i live in a breakable takeable body
An ever-increasingly valuable body
That a woman had come in the night to replace me
Deface me

See, my body is borrowed
Yeah, i got it on loan
For the time in between my mom and some maggots
I don't need anyone to hold me, i can hold my own

I got highways for stretch marks
See where i've grown
I sing sometimes like my life is at stake
'cause you're only as loud as the noises you make

I'm learning to laugh as hard as i can listen
'cause silence is violence in women and poor people
If more people were screaming, then i could relax
But a good brain ain't diddley

If you don't have the facts
We live in a breakable, takeable world
An ever available possible world
And we can make music

Like we can make do
Genius is in a back beat
Backseat to nothing if you're dancing
Especially something stupid like i.q.

For every lie i unlearn, i learn something new
I sing sometimes for the war that i fight
'cause every tool is a weapon
If you hold it right