Cassandra

Lyrics

[ROBIN] In a bar down the block On a stool, there's a girl And she's named Cassandra And she's blessed or she's cursed With the power to see In the future tense You would think that the press would have found her But the men at the bar who surround her Say that her predictions never make a lick of sense So she sits at the bar Saying nothing and drinking Her Coke and Sevens Calculating the price of ignoring The sound of the coming events And half the stories of the world are left unwritten Half the stories of the world are kept unread And so the people of the world will never notice What disasters unprevented lie ahead At a desk, on the phone In an office somewhere You may meet Cassandra So in pain from her visions That sometimes she wishes That she were dead And you want to protect and defend her But what you won't admit is: Her gender Colors your interpretation of the things she said Every day she decides It's the day that she'll finally tell her story Then she sees all the men All the men getting their stories told instead Thus all the women of the world are shamed to silence All their warnings to the world are heard too late And so the people of the world are left to wonder What offenses unrepented What disasters unprevented lie in wait It's easy for you You know it's easy for you But I'm missing it It's easy for you I'm glad it's easy for you But I'm missing it You think that you know You think you can see You offer up words To patronize me But what doesn't change Unquestionably Is it's easy for you And I'm missing it Half the stories in the world are left unwritten Half the stories have been lost along the way And so the people of the world will not encounter Anything but one perspective One reflection, one directive Male and white and unenlightened Every day It's easy for you It's easy for you But I'm missing it