Cursive Eve by I:Scintilla on SoundCloud
I’m no expert at deciphering poetry, but as best as I can tell the songwriter was quite familiar with all the various ways in which the Christian Bible praises and propagates the systematic subjugation of women, and is none too happy about it. Lyric sheet attached below.
You were born wrapped in the pages
The words bind your mind and body
A false comfort of thin paper
You’re claimed as unclean property
They say you need guilt to be good
Your brothers all remain blameless
Heart of snares and nets, hands as bands
Classified as a nameless mass
Don’t look down on me
I don’t look up
Kneel
Here you’re not scared to die
Beg
Those dogs will lick and drink you dry
Kneel
Eat the pretty cursive lie
Beg
And you will not be scared to die
They say “In you lives an Eve” and
“Thy desire rules over thee”
“Thou shall not let witches live”
The fiction binds your mind and body
Give you away to male angels
The leaders all remain shameless
Wash away rains ancient marking
Please beg yourself for forgiveness
Must thy sorrow multiply
Thy conception in sorrow
Thou shall live in the silence
With all subjection
He may hear false answers
He lets the voices in
Must thy sorrow follow
Visions in his head
