Music Break: Me’shell Ndegéocello – “Leviticus (Faggot)”
Leviticus (Faggot)
music and lyric by Me’shell Ndegéocello
Copyright © 1996 Revolutionary Jazz Giant/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp (BMI)
Faggot better run, learn to run, ’cause daddy’s home
His sweet lil’ boy just a little too sweet
Every night the man showed the faggot what a real man should be
The man and the faggot will never see
For so many can’t even perceive a real man
Tell me
Not that the faggot didn’t find a woman fine and beautiful
He admired desired their desires
He wanted love from strong hands
The faggot wanted the love of a man
His mother would pray
Save him, save him, save him from this life
His mother would pray
Save him, save him, save him from this life
Go to church, boy
Faggot you’re just a prisoner of your own perverted world
No picket fence acting like a bitch, that’s all he sees
Ain’t that what faggot means
No love dreams
Only the favors sweet Michael performed for money to eat
‘Cause the man kicked the faggot out the house at 16
Amen, mother let it be
Before long he was crowned QUEEN for all the world to see
Bloody body face down
All hail the queen
The wages of sin are surely death
That’s what mama used to say
His mother would pray
Save him, save him, save him from this life
His mother would pray
Save him
Save him from this life
Save him
Save me from this life
His mother would pray
Save him, save him, save him from this life
His mother would pray…
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Music Break: Tegan and Sara – “Back in Your Head”
Back in Your Head
music and lyric by Sara Keirsten Quin and Tegan Rain Quin
Copyright © 2007 Bughouse (ASCAP)
Build a wall of books
Between us in our bed
Repeat, repeat the words
That I know we both said
Relax into the need
We get so comfortable
Remember when I was
So strange and likeable
I just want back in your head
I just want back in your head
I’m not unfaithful
But I’ll stray
When I get a little scared
When I get a little scared
When I get a little
When I jerk away from
Holding hands with you
I know these habits hurt
Important parts of you
Remember when I was
Sweet and unexplainable
Nothing like this person,
Unlovable
I just want back in your head
I just want back in your head
I’m not unfaithful
But I’ll stray
When I get a little scared
When I get a little scared
When I get a little scared
When I get a little
Run, run, run
Run
Run, run, run
Run
I just want back in your head
I’m not unfaithful
But I’ll stray
I’m not unfaithful
But I’ll stray
I’m not unfaithful
But I’ll stray
I’m not unfaithful
But I’ll stray
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Music Break: The Indigo Girls – “Galileo”
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Galileo
music and lyric by Emily Ann Saliers
Copyright © 1992 EMI Virgin Songs Inc/Godhap Music (BMI)
Galileo’s head was on the block
The crime was looking up the truth
And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode
I try to trace them to my youth
And then you had to bring up reincarnation
Over a couple of beers the other night
And now I’m serving time for mistakes
Made by another in another lifetime
How long ’til my soul gets it right?
Can any human being ever reach that kind of light?
I call on the resting soul of Galileo
King of Night Vision, King of Insight
And then I think about my fear of motion
Which I never could explain
Some other fool across the ocean years ago
Must have crashed his little airplane
How long ’til my soul gets it right?
Can any human being ever reach that kind of light?
I call on the resting soul of Galileo
King of Night Vision, King of Insight
I’m not making a joke, you know me
I take everything so seriously
If we wait for the time till all souls get it right
Then at least I know there’ll be no nuclear annihilation
In my lifetime I’m still not right
I offer thanks to those before me
That’s all I’ve got to say
‘Cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime
Now I have to pay
But then again it feels like some sort of inspiration
To let the next life off the hook
But she’ll say “look what I had to overcome from my last life
I think I’ll write a book”
How long ’til my soul gets it right?
Can any human being ever reach the highest light
Except for Galileo God rest his soul
(Except for the resting soul of Galileo)
King of Night Vision, King of Insight?
How long
(‘Til my soul gets it right?)
[‘Til we reach the highest light?]
How long
(‘Til my soul gets it right?)
[‘Til we reach the highest light?]
How long?
Dykonography 101: Me’shell
Me'shell Ndegéocello
Singer, songwriter, and bassist Me’shell Ndegéocello is a notably eclectic artist whose music frequently confronts social and sexual issues, including racial identity, same-sex attraction, and homophobia. Throughout her career, Ndegéocello has been open about her bisexuality. In interviews, she has spoken about her relationships with choreographer Winifred R. Harris and writer and activist Rebecca Walker, and she sports a “Rebecca” tattoo on her neck. However, while she continues to sing and write about sexual identity and sexuality, since the break-up of her relationship with Walker, Ndegéocello has become more reticent with interviewers about details of her private relationships with lovers, friends, and family members.
She is also known by the name Me’shell Suhaila Bashir-Shakur, which she adopted several years ago after converting to Islam.
-excerpted from Krista L. May‘s glbtq entry (read the rest)
Dykonography 101: Billie
Billie "Lady Day" Holiday
Billie Holiday was a jazz diva who became the stereotypical victim—unlucky in life, unlucky in love, and dead from drink and drugs at the age of only 44. Billie lived it up with a vengeance, and had a huge appetite for drink, drugs, men and women. She had an affair with actor and director Orson Welles, and also had a number of lesbian affairs—including one with Tallulah Bankhead.
-excerpted from notes on “Reputations: Billie Holiday”, a BBC-TV production (read the rest)
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