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Ain't I A Woman? newspapers, June 1970-July 1971
1971-04-02 "Ain't I a Woman?" Page 2
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[photo to right] ah, cheryl, it's ending the march & here you are just never, never getting yourself together it seems fisted, usually & then, just when your fingers slowly uncurl the moment is passed & you're left quickly re-clenching hoping nobody noticed, saw you've passed another year & you talk about changes moving like a poem on someone else's propaganda you're so conscious you recognize those prophetic vibrations you can see yourself in history & that, my darling, takes distance distance from me, from those not terribly significant --you believe-- in the final totalling of your-- and my-- life i admire you god knows, i do that but just let me say that your calm control, your hand ah my perfect strangling me. no--that is too harsh you allow me only your counter-revolutionary moments now see-see again what i have had to do don't, my only lover, listen & analyse don't, cheryl cheryl, feel me through your armor through your political perceptions have the courage, little one little one, to destroy me or set me free. love, cheryl ...there's some words i could say here and you've probably heard them before, not from me and this song wont resolve anything i just like to sing ...i get off on you i feel glad just to see you smile when you say "we had another good day" want you to stay... ...like a poem we knew said "seeing the smile in your eyes i have forgotten that people die" well, i heard that before there was you but it's true, and there's more not to remember not to remember don't want to remember any other way of livin' i want to hold on to you cause our life has been lies and there's nothin' i believe in but you're leavin' cause for you there's somewhere to be goin' ...thinkin' 'bout me thinkin' 'bout me hey, don't you think about me sometimes, when you see yourself slippin' away, disappearin' can you see yourself sayin i want to hold onto you I want to hold onto you cause i'm goin' through changes don't want to remember don't want to remember any other way of livin' i want to hold onto you cause our life has been lies but you, and you're leavin' and i won't be the one to be holdin' holdin' you back from the way that you're gpin' ..it was a bad dream last night and i woke up cold in the morning ..i want to hold on now i want to hold on to you, i want to hold on to you page 2 vol 1 No 14 AIN'T I
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[photo to right] ah, cheryl, it's ending the march & here you are just never, never getting yourself together it seems fisted, usually & then, just when your fingers slowly uncurl the moment is passed & you're left quickly re-clenching hoping nobody noticed, saw you've passed another year & you talk about changes moving like a poem on someone else's propaganda you're so conscious you recognize those prophetic vibrations you can see yourself in history & that, my darling, takes distance distance from me, from those not terribly significant --you believe-- in the final totalling of your-- and my-- life i admire you god knows, i do that but just let me say that your calm control, your hand ah my perfect strangling me. no--that is too harsh you allow me only your counter-revolutionary moments now see-see again what i have had to do don't, my only lover, listen & analyse don't, cheryl cheryl, feel me through your armor through your political perceptions have the courage, little one little one, to destroy me or set me free. love, cheryl ...there's some words i could say here and you've probably heard them before, not from me and this song wont resolve anything i just like to sing ...i get off on you i feel glad just to see you smile when you say "we had another good day" want you to stay... ...like a poem we knew said "seeing the smile in your eyes i have forgotten that people die" well, i heard that before there was you but it's true, and there's more not to remember not to remember don't want to remember any other way of livin' i want to hold on to you cause our life has been lies and there's nothin' i believe in but you're leavin' cause for you there's somewhere to be goin' ...thinkin' 'bout me thinkin' 'bout me hey, don't you think about me sometimes, when you see yourself slippin' away, disappearin' can you see yourself sayin i want to hold onto you I want to hold onto you cause i'm goin' through changes don't want to remember don't want to remember any other way of livin' i want to hold onto you cause our life has been lies but you, and you're leavin' and i won't be the one to be holdin' holdin' you back from the way that you're gpin' ..it was a bad dream last night and i woke up cold in the morning ..i want to hold on now i want to hold on to you, i want to hold on to you page 2 vol 1 No 14 AIN'T I
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