{"id":27,"date":"2016-10-05T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/women-on-the-change\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T08:33:00","slug":"women-on-the-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/women-on-the-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Women on the Change"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nWOMEN ON THE CHANGE<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel  January 1981 – Middlesbrough \/ Coventry.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThere’s fear in the street,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nIn the heart and in the home.<\/span>
\nThere’s sadness in the eyes<\/span>
\nand anger in the soul.<\/span>
\nThere’s a mugger in the street<\/span>
\nA bugger in the alley.<\/span>
\nThere’s a bully in the home<\/span>
\nand a weirdo on the phone.<\/span>
\nIt’s time that men left the women alone.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nChorus –<\/span><\/div>\n
\nCos women are on the change,<\/span><\/i>
\nThey won’t be led or bullied.<\/span><\/i>
\nWomen are on the change<\/span><\/i>
\nThey won’t be hully-gullied.<\/span><\/i>
\nYour ornaments are jumping,<\/span><\/i>
\noff the mantelpiece,<\/span><\/i>
\nGoing through the changes<\/span><\/i>
\nHanding back the lease.<\/span><\/i>
\nWomen on the Change<\/span><\/i>
\nWomen on the Change.<\/span><\/i>
\n
<\/span>
\nWe’re living in a dog’s world,<\/span>
\nWhere the cats are tamed with milk.<\/span>
\nThey are used for warmth and comfort,<\/span>
\nChased and hounded just for sport.<\/span>
\nThey are bitten by the prowler,<\/span>
\nBarked at by the howler.<\/span>
\nCornered by the snarler,<\/span>
\nSnapped at in the parlour.<\/span>
\nTime that dogs left the cats alone.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThere’s a whisper in the wind,<\/span>
\nA clenched fist in a handbag.<\/span>
\nThere’s a meeting in the evening,<\/span>
\nAnd a slogan in the subway.<\/span>
\nThere’s a hacksaw at the shackles,<\/span>
\nThere’s a banner march today.<\/span>
\nThere’s an axe that’s being grinded<\/span>
\nA cluttered path to clear away.<\/span>
\nTime that men shared the world with women.<\/span>
\nTime that men shared the world with women.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\n………<\/span>
\n
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\nWrote this on a visit back to Coventry while doing my degree on Teesside. The city had become more violent and women in particular were being targeted. There was graffiti on the subway saying ‘Disarm rapists’ or ‘Reclaim the night’. I finished the song back on Teesside. The lyric appeared in my poetry chapbook The Escaped Poet 1984 and in Outlet Magazine 1988.<\/span>
\n
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\n
<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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