Golden Age

Circe was divine A tale of pearls before the swine An empress A brilliant sorceress And then the lover scorned And that's how the story's told Hold the rest, they stole the magic (they stole the magic) And Sita's archetype The perfect image of a wife Did we ignore, the fire in her soul? Remember Amy's plea I know that poets disagree When it comes to love Do we even have control? They think they know us Because they wrote the history books Here's to the woman (woman) Who don't ever seem to get a say In how their pages get portrayed Here's to the woman (woman) Who know everything the poets say And be a menace anyway The historians who looked away The game was set before it played We're breaking out behind the cage 'Cause that's some shit that we won't take The women Who wrote the stories in the roads they paved We're bringing back their golden age This is our golden age A pretty penny prize Without a thought behind the eyes Don't get a say It's "in our DNA" (it's in the DNA) 'Cause they refuse to see beyond commodities We can be sweet with a vicious streak Call that dichotomy They think they own us But now we're taking back the history books (ah-ah) Here's to the woman (woman) Who don't ever seem to get a say In how their pages get portrayed (portrayed) Here's to the woman (woman) Who know everything the poets say And be a menace anyway (yeah) The historians who looked away The game was set before it played We're breaking out behind the cage 'Cause that's some shit that we won't take The woman Who wrote stories in the roads they paved We're bringing back their golden age (oh) Queens wear more than just their crowns They keep castles from crumbling down Yeah, you can't keep us on the ground We're coming for your kingdom now Queens wear more than just their crowns (crowns) They keep castles from crumbling down (crumbling down) Yeah, you can't keep us on the ground (on the ground) We're coming for your kingdom now