Women

For divegeester


Women behind bars
Women in fast cars
Women in distress
Women with no dress
Women in aeroplanes
Women who play games
Women in uniform
See that woman with her clothes torn

Women who satisfy
Women you can't buy
Like women in magazines
And women in a limousine
Women who sip champagne
Women who feel no pain
Women in a disco
And women who don't wanna know, know, know

Oh women wanting sympathy
Women feeling ecstasy
Women who live in fantasies
Bringing man to his knees

Women who fall in love
Women who need a shove
Women who can't be beat
Get that woman in the back seat, yeah, yeah
Women in the U.S.A.
Those women steal your heart away
Women into rock 'n' roll
Women who steal the show, go, go, go

Women that you write songs about
Women that turn around and kick you out
Women you dream about all your life
Women that stab you in the back with a switchblade knife

Foreigner, "Women", Head Games, 1979

And know this... every woman out there is all of these women... and more. It's just a matter of proportion.

@suzianne said
For divegeester

You are a horse running alone
and he tries to tame you
compares you to an impossible highway
to a burning house
says you are blinding him
that he could never leave you
forget you
want anything but you
you dizzy him, you are unbearable
every woman before or after you
is doused in your name
you fill his mouth
his teeth ache with memory of taste
his body just a long shadow seeking yours
but you are always too intense
frightening in the way you want him
unashamed and sacrificial
he tells you that no man can live up to the one who
lives in your head
and you tried to change didn't you?
closed your mouth more
tried to be softer
prettier
less volatile, less awake
but even when sleeping you could feel
him travelling away from you in his dreams
so what did you want to do love
split his head open?
you can't make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that
and if he wants to leave
then let him leave
you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
something not everyone knows how to love.


Warsan Shire

@suzianne said
And know this... every woman out there is all of these women... and more.

@suzianne said
For divegeester


Women behind bars
Women in fast cars
Women in distress
Women with no dress
Women in aeroplanes
Women who play games
Women in uniform
See that woman with her clothes torn

Women who satisfy
Women you can't buy
Like women in magazines
And women in a limousine
Women who sip champagne
Women who feel no pain
Women in a disco
And women who don' ...[text shortened]... w this... every woman out there is all of these women... and more. It's just a matter of proportion.

@badradger said
I like women ,I have been married to one for 47 years and I love her.

Thanks for the red thumb on this post above Suzianne.

"women"

😆

American's...😑 Always dressing for the wrong occasion🚬

@Ghost-of-a-Duke

Very nice, Goad.

@torunn said
@Ghost-of-a-Duke

Very nice, Goad.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Wish I wrote it.

😀

@divegeester said
Why is this “for me”?

I’m presuming it’s a snark of some sort.

@divegeester said
Oh right ok, many thanks for the update.

@divegeester said
Thanks for the red thumb on this post above Suzianne.

"women"

😆

@suzianne said
Whatever.