[00:00.000] 作曲 : Josephine Vander West
[00:10.762]She was born from her mother, who was born first to hers
[00:20.611]How a woman can mirror all the secrets of earth
[00:30.234]She's a luminous power, but she dreams in the dirt
[00:38.535]Never knowing her strength, letting go all her worth
[00:48.368]Let me sing her a hymn for a woman
[01:00.483]She begins in a box where the boundaries are set
[01:07.984]To be graceful, and cheerful and accept where she's met
[01:15.600]For no ceiling is higher than she might dare believe
[01:25.216]So she smiles in sorrow as she bends to her knees
[01:35.971]Let me sing her a hymn for a woman
[01:44.283]She's a temple of beauty for the tigers that leer
[01:51.916]As they whistle so freely and she whistles in fear
[01:58.974]And the changing room coven makes her swim in the shame
[02:07.168]Of the patterns of skin that are stretched round her frame
[02:16.174]Let me sing her a hymn for a woman
[02:23.963]To be younger and smaller is the holiest grail
[02:33.590]If she counts every mouthful then she never can fail
[02:41.837]And the lines of her laughter always sadder than tears
[02:49.533]So she fills them with poison to deceive her long years
[02:58.190]Let me sing her a hymn for a woman
[03:08.007]And the wiser she grows, then the less she is seen
[03:14.805]Is a goddess for worship if she no longer bleeds?
[03:21.954]She can carry the future, she can birth it with love
[03:30.311]But forever she'll feel like her best ain't enough
[03:39.477]Let me sing her a hymn for a woman
[03:49.161]Now she's never alone in the ways of this world
[03:56.729]It is learned in the silence by every girl
[04:03.748]From her mother, grandmother since nature begun
[04:10.545]So what gift can we share for the women to come
[04:17.443]Let me sing them a hymn for a woman
[04:27.194]She's the artist that paints in the colors unseen
[04:33.810]Every stroke of her brush is an act of belief
[04:40.392]She's a true work of art
[04:44.771]She is playing her part of a woman
[04:51.574]What a woman
[04:59.400]She's the answer to balance, she can rewrite her path
[05:07.219]Walk a road that is sacred in its womanly marks
[05:14.981]And if a sister is screaming for a friend in the fight
[05:22.810]She can hold her up higher so she's scraping the sky
[05:33.036]And she'll sing her a hymn for a woman
[05:41.834]Yes she'll sing her a hymn for a woman