Versuri Fixing Her Hair

 
she's looking in the mirror 
she's fixing her hair 
and I touch my head to feel 
what isn't there 
she's humming a melody 
we learned in grade school 
she's so happy 
and I think 
this is not cool 
'cause I know the guy 
she's been talking about 
I have met him before 
and I think 
what is this beautiful beautiful woman 
settling for? 
 
she bends her breath 
when she talks to him 
I can see her features begin to blur 
as she pours herself 
into the mold he made for her 
and for everything he does 
she has a way to rationalize 
she says he don't mean what he do 
she tells me he called 
to apologize 
 
he says he loves her 
he says he's changing 
and he can keep her warm 
and so she sits there like america 
suffering through slow reform 
but she'll never get back the time 
and the years sneak by 
one by one 
she is still playing the martyr 
I am still praying for revloution 
 
and she still doesn't have what she deserves 
but she wakes up smiling every day 
she never really expected more 
that's just not the way we are raised 
and I say to her, 
you know, 
there's plenty of really great men out there 
but she doesn't hear me 
she's looking in the mirror 
she's fixing her hair