Mama wants to prime me
To be a proper lady
Unknotting my hair, she wants me
Husband ready
Says I'll be fine, to let her
Work out the kinks
Cinch the waist, press
My cheeks rosy pink
"Quit acting like a victim
You know
Mama didn't raise you that way"
Mama doesn't want me
To be a communist
She wants to refine me
From this bourgeois mess
Maybe one day I'll be
A secretary, work
Under a man who thinks I'm
Pretty and pays my salary
Mama doesn't want me, doesn't want me anymore
It's like she's looking at a mirror, doesn't see herself anymore