[00:00.41]I love my country
[00:03.10]By which I mean
[00:04.13]I am indebted joyfully
[00:05.66]To all the people throughout its history
[00:07.68]Who have fought the government to make right
[00:11.07]Where so many cunning sons and daughters
[00:13.65]Our foremothers and forefathers
[00:15.56]Came singing through slaughter
[00:17.56]Came through hell and high water
[00:19.06]So that we could stand here
[00:21.75]And behold breathlessly the sight
[00:24.05]How a raging river of tears
[00:26.03]Cut a grand canyon of light
[00:31.64]Yes, I've bin so many places
[00:33.78]Flown through vast empty spaces
[00:36.30]With stewardesses whose hands
[00:38.26]Look much older than their faces
[00:40.24]I've tossed so many napkins
[00:42.28]Into that big hole in the sky
[00:44.31]Bin at the bottom of the Atlantic
[00:45.69]Seething in a two-ply
[00:47.40]Looking up through all that water
[00:48.84]And the fishes swimming by
[00:50.57]And I don't always feel lucky
[00:53.49]But I'm smart enough to try
[00:56.05]Cuz humility has buoyancy
[00:58.32]And above us only sky
[01:00.60]So I lean in
[01:01.97]Breathe deeper that brutal burning smell
[01:04.58]That surrounds the smoldering wreckage
[01:07.02]That I've come to love so well
[01:09.95]Yes, color me stunned and dazzled
[01:12.02]By all the red white and blue flashing lights
[01:15.10]In the American intersection
[01:16.72]Where black crashed head on with white
[01:19.88]Comes a melody
[01:21.14]Comes a rhythm
[01:22.21]A particular resonance
[01:23.86]That is us and only us
[01:25.52]Comes a screaming ambulance
[01:27.07]A hand that you can trust
[01:28.40]Laid steady on your chest
[01:30.18]Working for the better good
[01:31.81](Which is good at its best)
[01:33.69]And too, bearing witness
[01:35.90]Like a woman bears a child:
[01:37.56]With all her might
[01:39.53]Born of the greatest pain
[01:42.31]Into a grand canyon of light
[01:49.82]no song has gone unsung here
[01:52.95]And this joint is strung crazy tight
[01:56.04]And people bin raising up their voices
[01:58.17]Since it just ain't bin right
[02:00.08]With all the righteous rage
[02:01.97]And all the bitter spite
[02:03.41]That will accompany us out
[02:05.22]Of this long night
[02:06.18]That will grab us by the hand
[02:07.75]When we are ready to take flight
[02:09.57]Seatback and traytable
[02:10.82]In the upright and locked position
[02:12.50]Shocked to tears by each new vision
[02:15.22]Of all that my ancestors have done
[02:19.34]Like, say, the women who gave their lives
[02:22.53]So that I could have one
[02:27.22]People, we are standing at ground zero
[02:29.26]Of the feminist revolution
[02:32.51]Yeah, it was an inside job
[02:34.32]Stoic and sly
[02:35.97]One we're supposed to forget
[02:37.18]And downplay and deny
[02:38.64]But I think the time is nothing
[02:40.41]If not nigh
[02:41.36]To let the truth out
[02:43.09]Coolest f-word ever deserves a ****ing shout!
[02:46.59]I mean
[02:46.98]Why can't all decent men and women
[02:48.84]Call themselves feminists?
[02:52.76]Out of respect
[02:54.68]For those who fought for this
[02:57.12]I mean, look around
[03:00.26]We have this
[03:02.76]Yes
[03:03.77]I love my country
[03:05.39]By which I mean
[03:06.60]I am indebted joyfully
[03:08.40]To all the people throughout its history
[03:10.60]Who have fought the government to make right
[03:13.30]Where so many cunning sons and daughters
[03:15.83]Our foremothers and forefathers
[03:18.06]Came singing through slaughter
[03:20.12]Came through hell and high water
[03:21.55]So that we could stand here
[03:23.81]And behold breathlessly the sight
[03:26.22]How a raging river of tears
[03:28.65]Is cutting a grand canyon of light