Hymn For A Woman

[Verse 1]

She was born from her mother

Who was born first to hers

How a woman can mirror all the secrets of earth

She's a luminous power

But she dreams in the dirt

Never knowing her strength, letting go all her worth

Let me sing her a hymn for a woman

[Verse 2]

She begins in a box

Where the boundaries are set

To be graceful, and cheerful and accept where she's met

For no ceiling is higher

Than she might dare beliеve

So she smiles in sorrow as shе bends to her knees

Let me sing her a hymn for a woman

[Verse 3]

She's a temple of beauty

For the tigers that leer

As they whistle so freely and she whistles in fear

And the changing room coven

Makes her swim in the shame

Of the patterns of skin

That are stretched round her frame

So let me sing her a hymn for a woman

[Verse 4]

To be younger and smaller

Is the holiest grail

For if she counts every mouthful then she never can fail

And the lines of her laughter

Always sadder than tears

So she fills them with poison

To deceive her long years

Let me sing her a hymn for a woman

[Verse 5]

And the wiser she grows

Then the less she is seen

Is a goddess for worship if she no longer bleeds?

She can carry the future

She can birth it with love

But forever she'll feel like

Her best ain't enough

So let me sing her a hymn for a woman

[Verse 6]

Now she's never alone in the ways of this world

It is learned in the silence by every girl

From her mother, grandmother since nature begun

So what gift can we share for the women to come

Let me sing them a hymn for a woman

[Bridge]

She's the artist that paints in the colours unseen

Every stroke of her brush is an act of belief

She's a true work of art

She is playing her part of a woman

What a woman

What a woman

[Verse 7]

She's the answer to balance, she can rewrite her path

Walk a road that is sacred in its womanly marks

And if a sister is screaming for a friend in the fight

She can hold her up higher so she's scraping the sky

And she'll sing her a hymn for a woman

Yes she'll sing her a hymn for a woman