Screeching Weasel - Mary Was An Anarchist lyrics

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Mary was a girl with a cause she was simply fed up

mary moved out to berkeley and stuck pins her face as a sort of statement against oppression of her sex

mary took a walk in the park with a sign in her hand

mary threw a rock at a cop and man she felt like a man

and you know the ugliness became her

but now she's gone

she couldn't take it anymore

and what's she won

she won a husband who embodies everything she hated

and all her friends from years ago are selling stocks in ibm right on

mary finally saw she couldn't change the world but

mary often fondly looks back and pats herself on the back

for a convenient romanticized version of the facts of what she'd done

but she didn't change a goddamn single on of the oppressive pigs who made her what she was

and the empowerment she felt was just a crumb compared to all the butts of jokes that she'd become

and now she's at the kitchen table all alone

and she ended up exactly like her mom