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No Choice

from Kidnoise by Ripcordz

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Jeanie was a little girl
Never meant no harm at all
Johnny was her special friend,
Always laughed, they had a ball
But they grew so fast, things changed then
They could never be the same again then
Jeannie wanted Johnny to stay
More than words could ever say

Father Flynn’s a man of God
Told Jeanie sex was not the way
He believed women should keep their place
Preferred altar boys anyway
Her parents told her boys were evil incarnate
Jeannie just couldn’t learn to hate them
Didn’t want to go where they led
Jeanie took Johnny to bed

CHORUS
Can’t they hear her voice?
Can’t they see that they left her no choice?

Good old folks ran the town
Made sure there was no sex ed in class
So Jeanie just couldn’t have known
That she’d have to grow up so fast
Johnny held her, told her he’d stick by her always
While the nurse told her of her new ways
Johnny’s folks they moved to the coast
Jeanie’s dad, he broke her nose

Nowhere to go, no one to talk to
Shadows creep across, obscure what she can do
Fear and shame are all that she’s feeling
No information to tell where it’s leaving

Doctor Johnston did the job
A couplea hundred bucks a go
Jeannie found it all so odd
But her parent’s just couldn’t know
It was the only option she had
She didn’t know why she felt so bad
Quietly, without a fuss
Jeanie bled to death on the bus

Jeanie’s folks, they blamed modern times
Father Flynn agreed in kind
Shed the right amount of tears
Went back to being blind
The schools, the still preach abstinence
Doctor Johnston profits from the ignorance
Jeanie’s name just joined some lists
Johnny went home and slit his wrists

Jeanie’s story ain’t so strange
Some things’ll never change

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from Kidnoise, released February 15, 1992

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