A Woman's Pain - Tami Neilson

Daddy’s Mama was a child of the nation

Raised on a white man’s little reservation

Three girls, one more in the belly of her Mama

Robbed by death giving life to her daughter

Baby grew up fast, yeah she was a fast one

One half child, the other half woman

Shotgun wedding 'fore the baby arrived

Man run off, left a child to raise a child

Partake of pleasure and reap the shame

The hand that holds the power assigns the blame

And this whole world turns on a woman’s pain

«Throw me a bone and I’ll make you a woman»

God said to Adam in the Garden of Eden

The moment her lips touched forbidden fruit

He said «I'll curse you with pain and a man will rule you»

Partake of pleasure and reap the shame

The hand that holds the power assigns the blame

And this whole world turns on a woman’s pain