Brave Girls Change The World
We watched Brave Malala Yousafzai tell her story on TV this week and many of us were reminded that as comfortable as we are, we have not reached the final frontier in women’s rights. In so many parts of the world girls are marginalized, denied basic human rights and an education. In India, countless number of girls get raped every year, not to mention those who are burnt, in many countries girls are married by the age of twelve and impregnated before their bodies are ready to carry children resulting in death and severe health problems. There is so much that goes unsaid but the truth that has been proven over and over again is that if you give a girl a chance you can change a family and by extension a community.
I was inspired to write the song “Brave Girl” after I watched a six year old Palestinian girl stand up to armed forces, her bravery was profound, yet she was not trying to be brave, she only wanted to be free. We take so much for granted living in the free world, but we must never forget that there are those who need our voice and our advocacy to be truly free.
This is the title track of the “Brave Girl Movement” which falls under the umbrella of living bravely.
Brave Girl
Lyrics
They say don’t educate her
Cause she’ll have too much power
Work hard to make her cower
That way you can control her
But she got too much fire
She’s nature’s life bringer
Come on speak up my sisters
Pre-hook
Where my brave girls at
Now where my brave girls at (repeat)
Cho
I’m a brave girl
I can change the world
I’m a brave girl brave girl (repeat)
Verse 2
My nature is to love you
Put no one else above you
But still you denigrate me
In misogynistic lyrics
Work hard but you underpay me
Lets end sex slavery
Stand up for my girls and ladies
Before I have a chance to make a change in the world
You steal my innocence rob me of being a girl
You rape, you bruise, abuse misuse
The woman that you came through
Pre hook
Cho
DJ Break
A we do di work dem get di pay
A we hunt di prey dem get di fame
Come ina di dancehall
Cyan hold up mi head
tings dem a promote
Jah know it well red
Mi nah go skin out
nah go run mi body red
Sound quality clarity sharp but it no gritty
My yute leggo mi hand
Cause dis is not charity
Come a talk up
bout how u a king
And u no know how fi sort out di ting
Set the pace
know your value my girl
Powerful force ina dis world
Sound quality, clarity sharp but it no gritty
My yute leggo mi hand
Cause this is not charity!
Hook repeat
Chorus
Audio track coming soon!
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-Lev