If nobody pays for it, no one gets paid for it
and who can afford to go unpaid but the rich?
An unpaid internship is not an opportunity, it's a risk,
a risk for those without a bedroom in a family home
where they can stay rent-free
whilst you bleed them to the bone
I'm sorry this job is only available to those
who can afford to go a month without income
Can't you see? Can't you see?
When you open the gates to your massive company do you want a CV?
or would the deeds to a trust fund prove more necessary?
You may only have this work experience if you can afford to work for free
Can't you see? Can't you see?
How this prevents the poor from opportunities?
Your reputation is not currency!
Do you know how it feels when the door is shut?
When there's no feasible way at all of moving up?
When every job requires experience and that always is given to someone well off
Without a dime, how cruel it is to have dreams
When they've sewn up every possibility

They assume it's your fault for being "a slut"
They assume it's your fault for being willing to trust
They assume it's your fault but it is not
Sending nudes is not a crime, distributing them without consent is
Girls held at ransom over an act of intimacy
No longer his girlfriend, do they no longer deserve dignity?
Private photos so maliciously leaked, they only serve to kill off women's self esteem
How many have been left feeling too humiliated to seek help?
Broken by digital torment and desperate to get out
No matter what anyone sends to you, it is not your property to share
A naked body is not a tradable commodity
What gives you the right to think that it's fair?
A relationship ends so you rip their dignity to shreds
with explicit images, in the vulgar name of revenge
Held at ransom over an act of intimacy
No longer his girlfriend, do they no longer deserve dignity?
"If I cannot be with you then I must ruin you?"
What gives you the right to be so callous and brutal?
How many have been left feeling too humiliated to seek help?
Broken by digital torment and desperate to get out
For years it has been a criminal offence but privacy protocols are written by men
and they often fail to spot the loop holes that permit the exploitation of women
Once an image is leaked it's so hard to remove
If laws do not change things will never improve
Where is protection for the victim?
Where is the justice for those not consenting?
Where is protection for the women?

Feeling degraded
because you harassed me
but if I speak out will you call me a Nazi?
Will you liken reactions to your misogyny
with one of the world's most horrific atrocities?
As soon as you utter that phrase
you associate feminism with something so hated,
so undesirable but wrapping our words up in thorns
will not make them undiscussable
Feminists and fascists are not the same thing
Standing up for your rights doesn't make you right wing
Speaking out against the women haters
that bares no similarity with being a dictator
Yet with those slurs that you are smearing
do you seriously think that you can make feminism unappealing?
You can't assault a person, then insult them for reacting
We are merely fighting for equality
Isn't it obvious?
We don't want power
We don't want mass murder
We don't want to lock all the men in a chamber
Why can't you see that there is nothing similar between being victimized and being Hitler?
How dare you insult us for being vigilant!
How dare you insult us for trying to make a difference!
Call me a feminazi,
I'll call you ignorant

Hey girls, all life begins at fertilisation
but yours ends at unwanted impregnation
You see, the embryo deserves a chance but the pregnant girl does not
She must be cursed with unwanted motherhood, this must be her punishment
The embryo deserves a chance but the pregnant girl does not
Protect the egg inside because you're "pro-life"
No regard for the woman on the outside, the poor girl who knows she can't provide
The struggling mother who wants to die
Is she not worth protecting? Is hers not a life?
Where the hell are you drawing the line? Why does an unborn baby deserve more rights?
Is she not worth protecting? Is hers not a life?
This body is mine, so the decision is mine
How dare you dictate that I cannot terminate these unexpected cells inside
Is it pro-life to have no rights?
To bear unwanted children in the name of Jesus Christ?

Two senseless figures on the rise:
The number of animals in shelters and the amount of money paid to breeders
Why don't people want to adopt a mongrel?
Why are they so fixated on the make and the model?
Does it matter to you if a dog's brand new?
Has a second-hand animal diminished in value?
But a rescue dog is not a car with mileage, it's an abandoned life with nowhere to go
It's a beating heart crying out for a home
They are the most desperate but they are viewed as the least desirable
For every thousand-pound puppy there's a thousand homeless dogs in need
What good reason is there to not adopt?
Who is behind designer dogs? Bred in a way that cannot breathe?
You're forsaking its health for the sake of the breed
When are we going to stop playing God?
When are we going to save what we've got?

As a teenage girl, no one ever told me to not accept it
As a teenage girl, I learned the hard way to expect it
As a teenage girl, no one ever told me what to do
When you see your favourite band and a group of men surround you
and in the crush of the crowd they try to touch between your legs
They aggressively grope at your breasts
What should be a joyous shared experience becomes their opportunity to molest
As a teenage girl, no one said I should speak out
As a teenage girl, no one said I could seek help
When I was watching a band and I was unable to fight off his hands
Paralyzed by the shock of forceful attention that I didn't want
Is this just what happens at shows?
Is this a depressing rite of passage for every music loving girl?
All come forward
Come forward
We need to raise awareness
Just because we're at a gig that doesn't mean that you can touch us
Everyone, come forward
Come forward
We need to raise awareness
How do we make it stop?
Because even if we do report
They say our claims are invalidated
by a lack of "hard evidence", then they wonder why the victims feel silenced
If it's in a dark alley or it's in a mosh pit, it's still sexual assault, how do we stop it?

I smile to trick the fear inside me
I smile to seem like I'm improving
but the brave grin does not go in
A surface layer painted on the skin
of a body that is facing uncertainty
Yesterday I chased a dream
Now I just want to be able to sleep
Suddenly riddled with incapability
Funny how illness changes everything
Never really believed in believing
until I had to believe I would get better
and that was all I had, no knowledge or progress,
just hope, wafer thin hope
Clung onto with a fist
Must try not to damage it
I must believe
and even if I don't get better
Thanks for sitting with me while I cried
Thanks for easing the hours when I was too weak to stand
Thanks for all the little detours where we wandered off together
and found things more important than what we want
Those are truly treasured moments
and believe me I know
that it's hard to have hope
but I will try not to die until I am dead
I will try not to die until I am dead
I may be aching and exhausted but life's not over yet
So it doesn't hurt to hope and it will never hurt to try
Try not to die until you're dead