Amendment

Wouldn't it be nice if

若能如此该有多好

We had an amendment

我们能拥有一项修正案

To give civil rights to

赋予公民权利予

Women

所有的女性

To once and for all just

彻底地，一劳永逸地

Really lay it down from

真正地以

The point of view of women

女性的视角为基石

I know what you're thinking

我知道你心中所想

That's just redundant

那不过是多余的想法

Chicks got it good now

姑娘们如今过得不错

They can almost be president

她们几乎都能当选总统了

But is worker against worker

但这却是劳工间的相互对抗

Time and time again

周而复始地上演着

Cause the rich use certain issues as a tool

因为富人将某些议题当作工具

When I say we need the E R A ain't cause I'm a fool

当我提及我们需要《平等权利修正案》时 绝非我一时糊涂

It's cause without it nobody can get away

正因如此 无人能够轻易脱身

With anything cruel

逃离那些残酷的境遇

And you don't need to go far like

你无需远行 只需

Just over to Canada

越过边境去往加拿大

To feel the height and sense of

便能体会那份崇高与

Live and let live

互不干涉的生活哲学

What is it about Americans

美国的人们 究竟为何

Like so many pit-bulls

像极了那些倔强的斗犬

Trained to attack them

训练我们发起进攻

To never give

永不退让

We gotta put down abortion

我们必须废止堕胎禁令

Put it down in the books for good

将其永久载入律法之中

As central to the civil rights

作为公民权利的核心

Of women

女性所拥有的权利

Make diversity legal

让多样性合法化

Make it finally understood

让这份真理最终被世人明了

Through the civil rights of women

贯穿女性的公民权利

And if you don't like abortion

如果你不赞同堕胎

Don't have an abortion

那就请不要堕胎

And teach your children

并且教导你的子女

How they can avoid them

如何避免堕胎行为

But don't treat all women

但请不要将所有女性

Like they are your children

当作你的孩子来管教

Compassion has many faces

悲悯之心，面貌万千

Many names

名号亦是千般

And if men can kill and be decorated

若男子杀戮，反受褒扬

Instead of blamed

而非责备

Then a woman called upon to mother

那么，被赋予母亲之名的女子

Can choose to refrain

亦可选择拒绝

And contrary to eons

这与亘古以来的

Of old time religion

旧日宗教教条相悖

Your body is your only

你的身体，是你仅有的

True dominion

真正主宰

Nature is not here to serve you

自然并非为你效劳

Or at any cause to preserve you

亦非为任何缘由护你周全

That's just some preacher man's

那不过是传教士的

Old time opinion

陈旧观念

Life is sacred

生命，本是神圣

Life is also profane

生命，亦可世俗

A woman's life

女性的人生

It must be hers to name

须由她自己做主

Let out an amendment

发出修正的呐喊

Put this brutal game to rest

让这场残酷的博弈得以终结

Trust women will still take you

请相信女性仍会接纳你

To their breast

给予温暖怀抱

Trust women will always

请相信女性总会

Do their best

竭尽所能

Trust our differences make us stronger

相信我们的不同 使我们更显强大

Not less

而非削弱

In this amendment shall be

在此修正案中 将被郑重载入

Family structure shall be free

家庭的形态 应享有自由

We'll have the right to civil our unions

我们有权缔结我们的民事结合

With equal rights and

伴随着平等的权利与

Equal protection

同等的保障

Intolerance finally

偏见终将消散

Ruined

支离破碎

And then there's the kids rights

还有那孩童的权利

They'll naturally be on board

他们自会欣然相随

The funnel through which

那是漏斗，经由它

Women's lives are poured

女性的生命倾注其中

Our family is so big

我们的家庭如此宏大

And we're all so very small

而我们每个人却如此微小

Let a web of relationship

织就关系之网

Be laid over it all

凌驾于这一切之上

Over the strutter of power piled up to the sky

凌驾于那高耸入云的权力之巅

Over the illusion of autonomy on which it relies

凌驾于其所依赖的虚幻自主之上

Over any absolute that nature does not supply

凌驾于任何非自然所赋予的绝对之上

And the birthing woman shall regain her place

孕育生命的女性将重归其位

In a circle of women in a sacred space

在姐妹环绕的神圣空间里

Turn off the machines put away the knifes

关闭冰冷的器械，收起锋利的刀刃

This amendment shall deliver from bondage midwives

这变革将使助产士挣脱枷锁