Le Tigre

Ten short years of progressive change, fifty fucking years of calling us names. Can we trade title nine for an end to hate crime? RU-486 if we suck your fucking dick? One step forward, five steps back. One cool record in the year of rock-rap. Yeah we got all the power getting stabbed in the shower and we got equal rights on ladies night. Feminists we're calling you. Please report to the front desk. Let's name this phenomenon. It's too dumb to bring us down. F.Y.R. Fifty years of ridicule. F.Y.R. take another picture. . . . . Mrs. Doubtfire on mother's day. On-the-job stalker for equal pay. Toss us a few new AIDS drugs as national healthcare bites the dust. While you were on vacation black people didn't get reparations. You know these days no one's exploited. Sorry dude can't hear ya with my head in the toilet. Feminists we're calling you. Please report to the front desk. Let's name this phenomenon. It's too dumb to bring us down. F.Y.R. Fifty years of ridicule. F.Y.R. take another picture. . . . . . You've really come a long way baby. It's you, not the world, that's totally crazy. Cuz we really rocked the fuckin vote with election fraud in poor zip codes. Celebrate gay marriage in Vermont by enforcing those old sodomy laws. One step foreward five steps back. We tell the truth they turn up the laugh track. Feminists we're calling you. Please report to the front desk. Let's name this phenomenon. It's too dumb to bring us down.

I'll just tell you now
Cuz I don't think you know
The things you tried to kill
I found a way to grow

I'll just tell you now
You may have made your mark
But I'm still here today
Knowing who you are

I'll just tell you now
I'll just tell you now
(Don't want to disappoint you)
You're not the City of God
(Or be one to annoy)
You can't strike me down
(But it won't go away now)
From your mountain top
(And here's the reasons why)
I'll just tell you now
(You took my intuition)
You're not the City of God
(My knowledge of the truth)
You can't shoot me down
(The love I had in this world)
From your mountain top
(I gave it all to you)
I'll just tell you now
I wanna tell you now...

I'll just tell you now
Cuz I don't think you know
The things you tried to kill
I found a way to grow

I'll just tell you now
(You took my intuition)
You're not the City of God
(My knowledge of the truth)
You can't shoot me down
(The love I had in this world)
From your mountain top
(I gave it all to you)

I wanna tell you now...

Say this one packs a fight
Just crazy, out of my mind
Say sorry, yeah it's all right
Just give me back what you took that night
I wanna tell you now
I say it full out
I wanna get up in your face
And tear your thoughts right out
I wanna tell you, tell you now
I'm gunna tell you, tell you how
You didn't change my mind
You didn't do a thing
'Cept made me hate myself
And made me fear everything
You thought I'd run and hide
And keep it all inside
How can you see me
And think it's all right?

I wanna tell you now...

Peace Now, Peace Now, Peace Now, Peace Now!

We are gathered here, we come from so many different places.
From different identities, different cultures.
Different backgrounds different religions.
And yet we can gather, under the guides of peace....now...
Peace now!

"We say no to war!"
Peace up, war down!
"We say no to war!"
Peace up, war down!
"We say no to war!"
Peace up, war down!

"We made it. We're here. We're here right now and we're not leaving."

Now I feel you, I feel you people.
Now I feel you, I feel you people.
Now I feel you, I feel you people.
Now I feel you, I feel you people.
Now I feel you, I feel you....

"Now, we have reports that more and more people are just taking on ramps onto the bridge and are just taking it over.. it's just...just..."

"I mean, i'm just like..ahh!"

This is what democracy looks like!
This is what democracy sounds like!
This is what democracy looks like!
This is what democracy sounds like!

"Reports from protests from among Georgia... Amsterdam... and Bay Ruth Lebanon... East Seymour... Florence, Italy...London...Milano, Italy...Paris, France...
Dozens of cities in Spain... Reports in Athens, Georgia... Austin, Texas... Westford, Virginia... Charleston, South Carolina... Colorado Springs... and
Defiance, Ohio... Denver, Colorado as well as Durango... Geneva, New York and Houston, Texas... Cianis, Massachussetts...In Hawaii as well...
Lawrence, Kansas... Los Angeles, California... AND I AM ONLY NAMING A FEW!"

Peace...now! Peace...now!

And as Eleanor Roosevelt said...
"It isn't enough to talk about peace, one must believe in it. It isn't enough to believe in it, one must work at it"
And we here today... are working at it!

"Peace is possible, and even necessary. So drop the sword, pick up the hammer and the saw. And start building a better world!"

No blood for oil!
We will not be violent!
No blood for oil!
We will not be violent!
No blood for oil!

"We will not go to war, for a selected president, who wasn't even elected!"

We must stand unbroken, unbound and unashamed
We need healthcare!
We need education!
We need freedom in this nation!
Freedom in this nation!
Freedom in this nation!
Freedom in this nation!

"Thousands of people have taken over 3rd Avenue and are marching North. The crowd stretches at least 15 blocks from 44th street to 59th Street.
The police have just simply... given up."

This is what democracy looks like!
This is what democracy sounds like!
This is what democracy looks like!
This is what democracy sounds like!


peace now
peace now
(repeated behind next lines)
"We will not sell out!
We will not back down!
We will not compromise!
We will go forward,
Until peace is on the world's agenda!"

I started a theory that there were no more heroes in the World.
But Today, I see all the World's heroes standing before me.

"We say no to war!"
No war!
"We say no to war!"
No war!
"We say no to war!"
No war!

walk in
give him my name
looks up and down
takes a good look at my pecs
puts down the clipboard
opens the rope for my 'stache
walk in with my duffle hanging
hat is tilted, im inside
my eyes dream of bedroom suprise
they call it climbing, and i call it visibility
they call it coolness, and i call it visibility
they call it way too rowdy, and i call it finally free
theres a girl
her lips that have never seen
she comes up
dances on me
i look in her eyes
i say "hey, youre not a dyke..."
she says "i call it climbing, and you call it visibility
i call it coolness, and you call it visibility
i call it way too rowdy, and you call it finally free"
theres a slap on my back
i find another butch, hat cocked, and we
we put our hands in the crowd
and over and over
we jump up and down
they call it climbing, and we call it visibility
they call it coolness, and we call it visibility
they call it way too rowdy, and we call it finally free.

you must not love to hate
you must not take the bait
and learn to hit delete
you'd say the same thing to me
rent's high
and the war's on
and it's last call
even your friends lok worried
my friends think you're smart
we think you're super-fine

but it's high time
i mean it's high tide
aka a fine line, inside

stop smoking those cigarettes, baby
next time it's your turn to save me
splash some water on your little face cos
you're a mess, you're a mess, you're a mess!

you must not roll your eyes
you should not often lie
how could you ever say
that your friends won't be there
it's a long walk on a cold night
when you wanna fight
over some day-old drama
you used to make us laugh
we want the old you back

cos it's high time
i mean it's high tide
aka a fine line, inside

stop smoking those cigarettes, baby
next time it's your turn to save me
splash some water on your little face cos
you're a mess, you're a mess, you're a mess!

this island where we live without a/c
is the city where we learn about painting
it was the title of the mix-tape you gave me
not where we're from but the topic of daydreams
let's take a tour of the bathrooms you cried in
for break-ups, bad lucks, shock of the lost twins

the horizon's like a ship in flames tonight
you say you just don't know
if you can take this city
cos the rent's high
and the war's on
and it's last call
even your friends look worried
my friends all think you're smart
we think you're super-fine

but it's high time
i mean it's high tide
aka a fine line, inside

stop smoking those cigarettes, baby
next time it's your turn to save me
splash some water on your little face cos
you're a mess, you're a mess, you're a mess!

Tonight's the night,
Tonight we're gonna.
Tonight's the night,
Tonight we're gonna.
Tonight's the night,
Tonight we're gonna.
Tonight's the night,
Tonight we're gonna.
Tonight's the night we're gonna make it happen
(Tonight we're gonna.)
Tonight we'll put all other things aside
(Tonight we're gonna gonna gonna.)
Give in this time and show me some affection
(Give in and show us some.)
We're going for those pleasures in the night
(Tonight, tonight.)
I want to love you, feel you,
Wrap myself around you.
I want to squeeze you, please you,
I just can't get enough.
And if you move real slow, I'll let it go
I'm so excited, I just can't hide it,
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it.
I'm so excited, I just can't hide it,
I know, I know, I know, I want to.
(I know, I know, I know, I want to.
I know, I know, I know, I want to.
I know, I know, I know, I want to.)

We shouldn't even think about tomorrow
(I know, I know, I know.)
Sweet memories will last a long long time
(I know, I know, I know.)
We'll have a good time baby don't you worry
(I know, I know.)
And if we're still hangin' around well that's just fine.
Let's get excited,
(Look what you do to me,)
That we just can't hide it.
(You've got me burnin' up.)
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it.
I'm so excited,
(How did you get to me?)
I just can't hide it
(How bout you give it up?)
I know, I know, I know, I want you, I want you.
I want to love you, feel you,
Wrap myself around you.
I want to squeeze you, please you,
I just can't get enough.
And if you move real slow, I'll let it go

I'm so excited
(Look what you do to me)
I just can't hide it,
(You've got me burning up)
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it,
I'm so excited,
(Look what you do to me)
I just can't hide it
(Why wont you give it up?)
And I know, I know, I know, I want you, I want you.
Look what you do to me,
Look what you do to me,
Look what you do to me,
Look what you do to me,

I'm so excited
(Look what you do to me)
I just can't hide it,
(You've got me burning up)
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it,
I'm so excited,
(How did you get to me?)
I just can't hide it
(How bout you give it up?)
And I know, I know, I know, I want you, I want you.

so they say i was sometimes cruel
i dont know if i would say that too
oh i, i dont know about that
everyday the sky reminds me still
youre not here and it always will
oh i, i dont know about that
you...
i try my best to play along
like nothings over and no ones gone
but i, i dont know about that
i dont know about that...
if i tried harder youd, still be here
is it true?
oh i, i dont know about that...

Backstage, everybody wants a piece of JD
Kathleen's on the phone and i got to go get paid
See, promoter's making small talk,
He says we knocked his socks off
Cinna-mint, Internet, Cinnamon and Butter-buns!
Who's got the keys?
Oh! Look, man, we just gotta get some sleep!
But he said "Do you guys need a place to stay?"
No, oh no. No thanks, just point us to the highway.
She said, she likes it better when were angry,
"Sing that song again that makes me think youre gonna spank me!"
Head on my jacket like a pillow in the van,
When i close my eyes im in a cross-town cab.

Hey, who wants to party?
Those girls outside just asked me
Check out's late and they seem cool,
so
OoooOOooohhhh....okay...okay,okay

Hey, we want a Universal healthcare deal
and we want Kissinger on trial for real.
We got a right wing king making third world war
Assholes, oil-guys!
How many shows till were back in New York?
Killer's got us packed up, coffee in a travel mug
Thinks she got the mix all right, says she wants to drive tonight.
The power amp, we call the "pamp"
The S-2000, we call it the "samp"
The MPC's do not come on tour,
They used to, though, back when we were hardcore.
Hey these girls say that this town sucks! ooooohooohhh...
They just wanna know if they can come with us

Hey, who wants to party?
Those girls outside just asked me
Check out's late and they seem cool,
So
OoooOOooohhhh....okay..okay,okay

Yeah, its wierd when the club is really crowded
And there's no way that we can do every song thats shouted
But we'll still try to push you towards abandon
Yeah, every night is something we can't plan on

(oh)
For the ladies (wont you dance some more), and the fags yeah
We're the band with the rollerskate jams
(wont you, wont you dance some more)
For the ladies, and the fags yeah
We're the band with the rollerskate jams.

Yeah you know the guys with the digi cameras,
Push to the front and then they just stand there?
But then we see the girls walking towards the dance floor
And we remember why we go on tour.

For the ladies (wont you dance some more), and the fags yeah
We're the band with the rollerskate jams
(c'mon, wont you, wont you, wont you dance some more?)
For the ladies, and the fags yeah
We're the band with the rollerskate jams

You, by my side get no reply
To clarify you
You just know, you're wasting my time
You're wasting my time
There goes a good gone bye,
Right on time

I'm ready
Come and try
And clip this fire, now
Baby I won't show you nothing
Dont want to
I just know that you are a waste of my time
A waste of my time, a waste of my time
You wastin' my time

It's all so precious and you throw it away
It's all so precious and you throw it all away
throw it away

You're not good enough for me
To even despise
You wasted my
You wasted my
You wasted my time

Said behead
Said say correct
Shred project
Say "A" confine

Lay on pain
I laid on your pain
Lay on pain
Got a good thing for wastin' my time
Wastin' my time
Wastin my
Wastin my
Wastin my time

Its all so precious and you throw it away
Its all so precious and you throw it all away
away away away

I've got - the new sincerity
I've got - a secret vocabulary
I've got - MIDI in, out, thru
I've got - dialectical specstimme
I've got - herm choreography
I've got - a conceptual stunt double
I've got - a deviant scene, I mean
I've got - multiple alliances

I've got to move
whoa
(repeat x3)

I've got - The Gift of Fear
I've got - The Courage to Heal
I've got - site specificity
I've got - plan "B" ability

I've got to move
whoa
(repeat x3)
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh got to move

I've got - extensive bibliographies
I've got - flow disruption
I've got - widlife metaphors
I've got - post-binary gender chores

My Fake French is hot
You can't make me stop
Got nowhere to run to baby
Come on turn it up
(repeat)

Want more real attention.
At my expense guess you forgot to mention.
You talk good,
I'll eat glass.
I heard you read my mind behind my back.
Outside, I'm waitin'
by the car when you're hesitatin'.
Take a good look.
Take a photo.
Write about it in your tiny notebook.

Don't you know? You're out cold.
Don't you know? It's our dance-floor!
T.K.O. Hear it on the radio.
T.K.O. Play it on the stereo.
T.K.O. Watch a live video.
T.K.O.
T.K.O-O
Oh, oh..
Oh, oh..

Got your money safe.
Wanna be "In".
Everyday it just gets closer to you.
I say my piece,
And when it's over, you'll be on your knees, I..
got this soul thing on the go -ho.
Read about it at your Barnes & Noble.

Don't you know? It's our dance-floor!
T.K.O. Hear it on the radio.
T.K.O. Play it on the stereo.
T.K.O. Watch a live video.
T.K.O.
T.K.O-O
Oh, oh.
Oh, oh.

Night is young
And we all know what's up
Beyond the setting sun
The ocean calls us
away from...
(sample overlay)...


Don't you know? It's our dance-floor
Oh-oh
Oh-oh

T.K.O. Hear it on the radio.
T.K.O. Play it on your stereo.
T.K.O. Watch a live video.
T.K.O.
T.K.O-O
T.K.O. Hear it on the radio.
T.K.O. Play it on your stereo.
T.K.O. Watch a live video.
T.K.O.
T.K.O-O

all fall down
all fall down
all fall down
you keep coming all day til dawn
you can call me any name you want
you can look me up and down
i wont stop! no i wont fall apart!
you can put me down!
you can make me mad!
you can call me mean but i think it's really sad that
some days i just want to stay inside
you must love it that i live my life
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
stop! theif! you can't steal the way
i fuckin' felt when i got up today!
well i guess you're the judge.
i guess you're the king
of the forever beauty pagent I'm always in
My heart beats blue, beats red, beats mad
Is this the only power that you really wanna have?
Count from one to nine, how high do I rate?
I guess feeling good was my first mistake
EN GUARDE
EN GUARDE
EN GUARDE
EN GUARDE
Let me see you shake it baby shake it some more
Let me see you shake it baby shake it some more
Let me see you shake it baby shake it some more
Let me see you shake it baby shake it some more
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
Are you a girl or boy? Are you a boy or girl?
Are you a girl or boy? Are you a boy or girl?
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!
ON GAURD!

My mind's on rewind
and quicksand (what?)
I was up all night
doing nothing (last night? again)

(chorus)
Do you wanna stay in bed all day? (yeah!)
Do you remember feeling any other way? (no!)
Do you wanna stay in bed all day? (yeah!)
Do you remember feeling any other way? (no!)

I must've been sleeping when you called
I'm not feeling well at all (cough, cough)
I got this thing that's been going around called
please pretend that I'm out of town okay?

*chorus*

I'll make some coffee
Put on some eyeliner
I think I'll find that
Things are fine and they're gonna get much finer!

*chorus*

Hey look I'm really sorry
I couldn't make it to your party
I know it looks like I'm gonna cry
Got a to-do list behind my eyes so
Go tell your friends I'm still a feminist
But I won't be coming to your benefit
I give up (I give up)
I give up (I give up)
I give up (I give up)
I'll be at home today

I like going to the dyke march because I like to be surrounded with women
Marching naked ladies
We recruit, We recruit. . . . .

There's noone telling us where to stand or where to be
There's noone telling us where to stand or where to be
There's noone telling us where to stand or where to be

Resist. Shout it out. Resist, Resist, Shout it out....

There's no one telling us where to stand or where to be
There's no one telling us where to stand or where to be
There's no one telling us where to stand or where to be
There's no one telling us where to stand or where to be

We're just this huge strong mass of feminist fury.
Resist, Resist. . . . . Feminist fury. Feminist fury.

Proud to be a dyke Proud to be a dyke
Proud to be a dyke Proud to be a dyke
Proud to be a dyke Proud to be a dyke
Proud to be a dyke Proud to be a dyke

Resist, Resist, Resist, Resist..... Feminist fury...
It was a lifelong dream I had as a child
And it's actually come to pass in my adult life.

When you're walking down the street
No one sees a V.I.P.
I.E. - genious artist of our time
well, I'll be the first on line to say
"I get it, I get it, I get it"
"I get it, I get it, I get it"
"I get it, I get it, I get it"

I've been waiting for so long to see your face
I tried this one time
and there was a huge line
And now we're standing in a very small space
No need to worry about getting rain on your brain
Getting fun on your sun
Getting sleet on your feet
'Cause todays the day

"I get it, I get it, I get it"
"I get it, I get it, I get it"
Tres bien, tres bien, tres bien, tres bien

All the critics tend to blast you
Dumb ideas will outlast you
Moneys gone
Youve got no grants
I'll push your work with my bare hands

(Because they will try to convince us that we have arrived,
that we are allready there,
that IT has happened. Because we need to live in a place
where we are truely alive, present, safe, and accounted for.
Because we refuse to allow our writing, songs, art, activism, and political histories to be supressed,
Because we refuse to be embarassed about the mistakes and faults
and choose to move forward
with a political agenda
bent, on the freedom, for all.)

Uh huh. Got to, wanna, got to. wanna,
Raise your hand.
Raise your voice.
Raise your head.
Up off the desk.
Look who's here.
Well well well.
Guess it's time for show-and-tell.
Well what do you like
and what do you need?
How should I act
and who should I be?
Cuz I got.
I'm gonna give it to you.
And you know it.
What where when how when who?
im gonna give u the answer tonite
im gonna to give u the answer anytime
thats right
well i dont wanna take it slow
so tell me now
i gotta go
cuz i got it
im gonna give it too you
and you know it
What where when how when who?

Or should I supersize it
supervise it
supersize it
oh yeah.
Or should I supersize it
supervise it
supersize it
oh yeah.
I'm gonna give you the answer tonight.
Gonna give you the answer anytime.
That's right.
Well I don't wanna take it slow.
So tell me not I got to go cuz I got it.
I'm gonna give it to you.
And you know it.
What where when how when who?
Raise your hand.
Raise your voice.
Raise your head.
Up off the desk.
Look who's here.
Well well well.
Guess it's time for show-and-tell.
Got to, wanna. Got to, wanna.
Oh what should I do
and where should I go?
What should I bring?
I think you know that I've got it.
I'm gonna give it to you.
And you know it.
What where when how when who?

(Intro skit) Don't fuck with me I'm the fuckin manager!
And don't forget your fuckin daily planners.
You better write down everything you accomplish.
And lemme see your fuckin smiles around the office.
You "grrrls" look tired were you out late last night?
I heard you were some kind of underground electro feminist performance artists.
Is that right?
Right. . . . .
In five years you won't remember getting fired
or whatever and
until then and forever I'm proud to be associated with you.
I know 40 hours a week would suit you fine
but your application's been denied, suprise!
This is how it feels to be free.
Turn around, turn around,
turn around and take a look at the crowd and say:
It's okay to hate your job after all it's fucking wrong.
Turn around, turn around
turn around and take a look at the crowd.
You know
All my friends are fucking bitchs
best known for burning bridges
do you need a character witness
I say
I'm proud to be associated with you.
When I look around, I see your face in the crowd,
I see the girls are out, a lot of freaks in the house.
Le Tigre family and friends,
I hope this feeling never ends
cuz you're beautiful.
And your boss is an asshole
and I don't give a shit what the dick thinks.
We will survive as thieves we will survive as freaks.
Turn around, turn around turn around and take a look at the crowd. . . . .
I think it looks all right
we got friends in sight yeah tomorrow
we fight so let's have fun tonight. . . . . .
Turn around, turn around. . . . .

I don't care
You sing such a winner's song
No, I won't respond
My silence screams, "ha ha"
And if you call us wrong, either way
It "just so happens" to us every day
Oh, I, I wont come undone

And if you
Ever
Wanna
Adventure
If you ever want a fashion show
I'll walk on your block

'Cause my art is better than your art
And you will be better off, when I'm gone
When I'm gone

And if you ever wanna try
Your hand at forcing my suicide
C'mon fucker!
Reach out for the sun!

Yeah, yeah, yeah,
You've got the lens
You wants to see through me
You've got the rebel style
It don't fool me
You're a post modern parasite

And if you ever wanna try
Your hand at forcing my suicide
Just know I've only begun

And if you ever wanna try
Your hand at forcing my suicide
Come on and try to kill me off