Reclaim the Night

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 Reclaim The Night
 RECLAIM THE NIGHT
 (Peggy Seeger)
 Though Eve was made from Adam's rib
 Nine months he lay within her crib
 How can a man of woman born
 Thereafter use her sex with scorn?
 For though we bear the human race
 To us is given but second place
 And some men place us lower still
 By using us against our will
 If we choose to walk alone
 For us there is no safety zone
 If we're attacked we bear the blame
 They say that we began the game
 And though you prove your injury
 The judge may set the rapist free
 Therefore the victim is to blame
 Call it nature, but rape's the name
 CHORUS: Reclaim the night and win the day
 We want the right that should be our own
 A freedom women have seldom known
 The right to live, the right to walk alone without fear
 A husband has his lawful rights
 Can take his wife whene'er he likes
 And courts uphold time after time
 That rape in marriage is no crime
 The choice is hers and hers alone
 Submit or lose your kids and home
 When love becomes a legal claim
 Call it duty, but rape's the name
 And if a man should rape a child
 It's not because his spirit's wild
 Our system gives the prize to all
 Who trample on the weak and small
 When fathers rape, they surely know
 Their kids have nowhere else to go
 Try to forget, don't ask us to
 Forgive them -- they know what they do (CHORUS)
 When exploitation is the norm
 Rape is found in many forms
 Lower wages, meaner tasks
 Poorer schooling, second class
 We serve our own, and, like the men
 We serve employers -- it follows then
 That bodies raped is nothing new
 But just a servant's final due
 We've raised our voices in the past
 And this time will not be the last
 Our bodies' gift is ours to give
 Not payment for the right to live
 Since we've outgrown the status quo
 We claim the right to answer "No!"
 If without consent he stake a claim
 Call it rape, for rape's the name
 (CHORUS)
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