If we were Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
When you expressed interest in the fruit
I would swear to get it for you
When I were caught holding the fruit
I would take the blame, face the charges
And leave
If God asked me, did he help you?
I would say no,
He tried to stop me
For I am woman and I am corrupted
Let him stay.
I would spend an eternity sitting outside the gates
Hiding in shame under clothes of wool and chain
I would watch you
Bare and free
Saved because I am a slave to thee
I would give up eternal bliss and to watch you dance
To hear you sing by God’s side
While I were stuck
Between heaven and hell
Alone in a place called the world
With traffic and murder
Where people like you are strippers
And people like me are whores.
When I die, and am asked if I have remorse,
What motivated me?
Can I be forgiven?
I would lie and say I am greedy
Because I am woman,
I am corrupted.
I may seem free
I was shackled
Because you did not love me
He knows I am lying but says nothing
And banishes me
To the darkness below the earth
Where I may burn because woman is corrupted
And it is me who has confined all of mankind
To hatred
And all of women
To prison.
