Story Behind the Song
a song about an african girl who in the name of religion is forced to have her clit cut with a sharpened stone. what the hell is wrong with those fundamentalists? female circumcision is torture.
Lyrics
Forever scarred
words & music: patrick zimbalist
Have you ever seen what they do to a girl with a sharpened stone?
How they hold her down and ignore her pleading to go home
But someone decides who’s to be circumcised to please their God
If this means an innocent girl has to shed her blood…
…It’s gone too far
Sixteen and just a child, but life is hard
The rules are hard
Mutilated and she is forever scarred, it’s sad
As her life’s taking a turn for the worse, the old men toast
Celebrating her entry to the asexual woman’s world,
A never-ending hell
The blood on the ground reflects an image of a tearful face
The bitter truth is that her precious youth has been erased
An overwhelming pain that won’t go away for quite some years
She tries to gather strength, still her feeble efforts result in tears
…It’s gone too far
Sixteen and just a child, but life is hard
The rules are hard
Mutilated and she is forever scarred, it’s sad
As her life’s taking a turn for the worse, the old men toast
Celebrating her entry to the asexual woman’s world,
Whilst the guest of honor faints, weaker than the petal of a fragile rose, a sadistic ritual,
At least she made it through to cry and dwell
In her never-ending hell
Anguished and violated
Lust is obliterated
In accordance with their faith
Her loss is not debated
Oppressed and desecrated
She’s learned the hard way but we don’t say –wait, it’s gone to far
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