Cursed by biology
Burdened by my family
Screwed by talk of teenage dreams
With the aid of government funding
I turned to drugstore chemistry
For results that I could read
Lo and behold the test agreed
The truth cut deep, but did not bleed

Sympathetic bureaucrats
Led me through the proper paths
Leaving in my trail a wake of
Crumpled tissue paper carnage
Poor enough to suit their needs
All the bureaucrats agreed
I qualified for quality
Clinic care and surgery

The cells that grow inside
They all multiply, multiply and divide
One plus one make three
Three minus one makes me

The battle of biology
Is decided by chronology
Awaiting my appointment
Every moment was my enemy
Each second like a piece of lead
The ticks and tocks rattled my head
Until the day finally came
My body’d never be the same

Pricked and scanned, too weak to stand
My fate inside rubber gloved hands
I moved against a cold machine
To measure cells inside of me
And their machines could scan and see
And all the doctors did agree
So I took the pills that made me bleed
The truth cut deep but I was freed

The cells all burst and die
Tissue rips apart as blood drips down my thighs
Love plus love makes family
But I had to trim my family tree

Until you lose control of your insides
You can never understand what it feels like
My body is no one's property
So I don't want to hear your policy
And it shouldn't be the job of old white guys
To legislate on what goes on between my thighs
My body is no one's property
So I don't want to hear your policy

And whose to say if it’s okay
To throw a miracle away
Life created by mistake
What love gave medicine takes
And I had no choice but to cry
As the future I’d planned flashed before my eyes
Love plus love makes family
But I had to trim my family tree