Medusa Lyrics - Singles - Sheila Nicholls

Medusa woke up one day and shaved her head 

Well, maybe now you'll let me a little closer she said 

But she just sacrificed her identity instead 

Be careful how you trend 

Be careful how you tread 

Medusa went home again and watched TV 

A commercial for deodorant, tampons 

So now we won't smell sea 

Said the sister with the plastic smile, excitement and glee 

Buy your shame for free 

Buy your shame for free 

And all the smiles that we spill 

Because it's part of the drill 

The shame that we bear 

For the floors that aren't there 

The unfulfilled will be dismissed 

For a savior, a kiss 

The memories we repress 

When we undress 

She went channel surfing and all that was seen 

Were decorative women arrive on the screen 

Conventional images of adolescent male dreams 

When men aren't around they fall apart at the seams 

Passive exposed peaches and cream 

Survive like an object to blow off your steam 

Interchangeable fragments and outlines and shapes 

They say no, they mean yes to little girl rapes 

And all the smiles that we spill 

Because it's part of the drill 

The shame that we bear 

For the floors that aren't there 

The unfulfilled will we dismiss 

For a savior, a kiss 

The memories we repress 

When we undress 

The rage trapped inside, smothered and dried 

The words that we use, they divide and abuse 

The wound between women keeps the war-mongers grinning 

The war between women stops recovery beginning 

Medusa grew her hair back around her face 

She'd been looking for alignment in the wrong place 

So she called up her friends, Malcom X and Collie 

And they go on a plane cocked off too falling