My I.Q. — текст песни (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 stretchmarks
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.