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Lyrics I was alone in my family's living room Wondering why my mom leased me her womb You can work, you can shirk, you can play But inside you've got something to say In your throat you hold meaningful noise Never lose the language of your voice The language of your voice! The language of your voice! The language of your voice! The language of your voice! When you've shattered your windows and torn up your sheets When you can't see the floor under all your defeats When the screams of the dead are alive in your ears And a fall from a plane is the least of your fears Then you turn to your friends, you may choke, but must speak Your own words will surprise you, the skies Won't be storming or bleak Sharing pain makes it weak When you've lived your whole life disguised as a cadaver And they've said "She's a slut, any bastard could have her" And you suddenly learn that you're going to live But have no idea how, you have something to give If the pink in your cheeks means your knuckles are white Don't you think you're alone, get your friends on the phone Hundreds have the same fright Helping you makes their night When you want to complain, just complain! Life is hard But this Club is a place you can let down your guard It's a place you should say what you feel without shame When a love's unrequited, it's love all the same And with mom and my aunt, I can't be whom I want But this Club is the place where my words are my choice The language of my voice When I sang to my mom with a hum and a croon And she said "Oh, that's nice, dear, now watch your cartoon" And she never once came to my junior high plays And I learned about sex from the online D.J.s Then I promised myself I would listen to others Be an ear to them, spread some cheer to them If I couldn't choose mothers I'd choose sisters and brothers I was alone I was alone I was alone in my family's living room Wondering why my mom leased me her womb But I'm not any more, and neither are you So stop holding it in and let me hear what's true Rediscover the tongue of the young girls and boys And reclaim the language of your voice! The language of your voice! The language of your voice! The language of your voice! The language of your voice! The language of your voice! The language of your voice! The language of your voice! And reclaim the language of your voice!

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