Blood In The Boardroom Lyrics - Puddle Dive - Ani Difranco

Sitting in the boardroom 

The I'm-so-bored room 

Listening to the suits 

Talk about their world 

They can make straight lines 

Out of almost anything 

Except for the line 

Of my upper lip when it curls 

Dressed in my best greasy skin 

And squinty eyes 

I'm the only part of summer here 

That made it inside 

In the air-conditioned building 

Decorated with corporate flair 

I wonder 

Can these boys smell me bleeding 

Though my underwear 

There's men wearing the blood 

Of the women they love 

There's white wearing the blood of the brown 

But every woman learns to bleed from the womb 

And we bleed to renew life 

Every time it's cut down 

I got my vertebrae all stacked up 

As high as they go 

I but I still feel myself sliding 

From the earth that I know 

So I excuse myself and leave the room 

Say my period came early 

But it's not a minute too soon 

I go and find the only other woman on the floor 

Is the secretary sitting at the desk by the door 

I ask her if she's got a tampon I could use 

She says 

Oh honey, what a hassle for you 

Sure I do 

You know I do 

I say 

It ain't no hassle, no, it ain't no mess 

Right now it's the only power 

That I possess 

These businessmen got the money 

They got the instruments of death 

But I can make life 

I can make breath 

Sitting in the boardroom 

The I'm-so-bored room 

Listening to the suits talk about their world 

I didn't really have much to say 

The whole time I was there 

So I just left a big brown bloodstain 

On their white chair