[Spoken]
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Do you know me?
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Really know me?
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You have opinions about my opinions
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About my music
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About my clothes
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About my body
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Some people hate what I wear
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Some people praise it
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Some people use it to shame others
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Some people use it to shame me
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But I feel you watching
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Always
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And nothing I do goes unseen
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So while I feel your stares, your disapproval or your sigh of relief
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If I lived by them, Id never be able to move
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Would you like me to be smaller, weaker, softer, taller?
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Would you like me to be quiet?
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Do my shoulders provoke you? Does my chest?
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Am I my stomach? My hips?
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The body I was born with
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Is it not what you wanted?
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If I wear what is comfortable, I am not a woman
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If I shed the layers, Im a slut
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Though youve never seen my body, you still judge it
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And judge me for it
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Why?
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We make assumptions about people based on their size
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We decide who they are
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We decide what theyre worth
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If I wear more, if I wear less
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Who decides what that makes me? What that means?
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Is my value based only on your perception?
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Or is your opinion of me not my responsibility?
