Downset Ritual Lyrics

Do you know what it is like to run?
Do you know what it is like to live in fear?

Because she knows what it's like to run.
Because she knows what it's like to live in fear.

Rape ritual!
How can I stand in silence while you are raping my sister?
Ritual!
Throw it in the wind because I ain't with that.

Say, what have we done with mother, sister, daughter, lover?
Beat them down to submission, into that corner of constant fear.
Humanity reduced to a s__ual commodity,
Objectification, pretty faces molded imagery.
d___ they drop the dirty mack demands.
She's more than booty to me bypass her s__uality.
Tradition, your s__ism is what you want me to learn.
Surrender gender hatred, fade it to kill it, compassion returns.
1 out of 3, and they say my sisters are free, incarcerated by hatred.
Propagated mysogyny, continual ritual victimizing my
sister.
Physical rape is psychological murder.

Ritual!
How can I stand in silence while you are raping my sister?
Ritual!
I said throw it in the wind because I ain't with that.
Rape ritual.
How can I stand in silence while you take...
Ritual!

Ritual! Jenny!
Ho! s___! Trick! b____! Buddy! Terms that burn in our popular brutality.
That media camera's at you, trying to show you what's up.
Illusion magazine fantasy got you feinding to bust a nut.
Body identity suffocates in her nudity
She's dying inside.
Fashions asking won't let her be.
Strip her to flesh for apathetic male ego.
You bet the set ain't down with your wak.
Rape ritual!

We got to meet this hate with love.
We got to meet this hatred with love.
Why do we fall for it, fuel it, s__ual violence equality?
Please.
So-called alternative movement statistics never confess her wounded aloneness
Internal inferno, locked away calm diminishment.
Sharon Stone, you ain't all that.
Madonna, you ain't all that.
Sell you shallow shock value charade is wak.
Sister, put a fist in what's expected of you.
Deny! Defy! Reject false definition of you too.
There's no excuse for this brutality or this lack of humanity.

Ritual!
How can I stand in silence while you are raping my sister?
Ritual!
I said throw it in the wind because I ain't with that.
Rape ritual.
How can I stand in silence while you take...
Rape Ritual!

Rape ritual! I say I throw you into the wind. I say your
traditions mean nothing to me.