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SHE PERSISTED (feat. Kate Ferber & Cherrye Davis)

from DIE HAPPY by Shaina Taub

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Nevertheless

Elizabeth
She took the floor
Then she took a breath
And read without qualms
A letter Coretta Scott King wrote Strom

They censored her
The congressmen said:
‘The Senator will take her seat.’
And all through the chamber spread heat

She was warned
She was given an explanation

NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED

NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED

Malala
She wanted to be a scholar
The Taliban banned
Girls education
She took a stand

It caused a stir
They got on the bus to silence her
The gunman said:
‘Who is Malala?’
She bled

She was warned
She was given an explanation

NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED

NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE

If you think you've heard this before, yes,
You've seen this in hashtag form, you heard it first on the Senate floor
He thought he was silencing
But instead he penned a hook we may be licensing
Our volume he was heightening

You can try to turn our track down or off, belittle or scoff
But our transmittal is cyclical, generational
Waves of being hushed then a crash of sound
The tide of justice comes around
We're gravitational

We could fill all these bars on Joan of Arc Harriet Tubman Alice Paul and Rosa Parks
Sonya Sotomayor, Anita Hill, Hillary Rodham, Hermione and Leia,
Bessie and Nina, your mama's abuela’s mama
The first female president is alive at this moment
In a classroom raising her hand
Standing on the shoulders of a miss on this list
And Nevertheless she gonna persist

NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED

NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, NEVERTHELESS, NEVERTHELESS

SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED
SHE PERSISTED
SHE PERSISTED
SHE PERSISTED
NEVERTHELESS

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from DIE HAPPY, released March 12, 2018
Music & Lyrics by Shaina Taub and Kate Ferber
String Arrangement by Mike Brun
Vocal Arrangement by Kate Ferber

Shaina Taub - lead vocals, piano
Kate Ferber - lead vocals
Mike Brun - bass, electric guitar
Hiroyuki Matsuura - drums, percussion
David Farrell Melton - synthesizer, organ
Jo Lampert - backing vocals
Cherrye Davis - rap
Sarah Haines - violin
Elise Frawley - viola
Susan Mandel - cello

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