The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #47509   Message #710405
Posted By: GUEST,mg
13-May-02 - 03:17 PM
Thread Name: Rape
Subject: RE: Rape
This is more or less what I would sing..mostly I tweaked to get rhythm more standardized, which is important to me, not to others.

I'm a Bangladeshi Hindu girl, I cannot say my name
I cannot show my face to you, I'm forced to flee in shame
I cannot find the words to tell the things they did to me
When the gangs came to my village and robbed my dignity

I cannot __ __speak the words my horror to relate
When the women of my village became the target of your hate
With nothing but my tattered clothes I have been forced to flee
For after this my public shame, what man would marry me

My sisters' bodies have become the targets of your war
And our mothers' and our grandmothers for countless years before
Why is it our dishonor, why is it our disgrace
Why is it not the rapist who is forced to hide his face

How my story ends I cannot say, what's ahead I cannot see
My tears would turn a waterwheel no one will shelter me
In the ruins of my land and life, I only cry in vain
Why must I bear the shame alone, who will share my pain

One question more I'll put to you before I flee my land
One question more I'll ask you I'm too young to understand
One question more I must demand, before I turn to go,
The answer to this question, no girl should ever know