State of the teenage girl
September 3, 2008If there ever was a way to explain to the world what the State Of The Teenage Girl is in The Netherlands at this point in time - it’s this.
You and me were cut from the same cloth
It seems to some we famously get along
But you and me are strangers to each other
Because you and me: competitive to the boneSuch tragedy to trample on each other with how much we’ve endured
With the state this land is inYou and me feel joined only by gender
We are not all for one and one for allSister blister we fight to please the brothers
We think their acceptance is how we win
They’re happy we’re climbing over each other
To beg the club of boys to let us inYou and me estranged from the mother
You and me have felt impotent in our skin
You and me have taken it out on each other
You and me disloyal to the feminineSuch a pity to disavow each other with how far we’ve come
With how strong we’ve beenYou and me are on this pendulum together
You and me with scarcity still fuelingSister blister we fight to please the brothers
We think their acceptance is how we win
They’re happy we’re climbing over each other
To beg the club of boys to let us inWe may not have priorities same
We may not even like each other
We may not be hugely anti-men
But such a cost to dishonor a sisterYou and me have made it harder for the other
We forget how hard separatism has been
You and me we can help change their minds together
You and me in alignment until the endSister blister we fight to please the brothers
We think their acceptance is how we win
They’re happy we’re climbing over each other
To beg the club of boys to let us in
Sister Blister from Alanis Morissette, from her relatively unknown mini-album Feast On Scraps (2002) - which, ironically, might actually be her best material to date.

