Let me tell a story about all us girls
Taught pain is our burden, to carry the world
Innocence stripped at our coming of age
I stitched up my silence with ribbons and rage

The lonely boys pray through a flickering screen
They hammer their nails and I bear my teeth
When they drag me to the top of that hill
Thinkin’ she can't survive, but honey I will

You love to crucify me
But I'm way too hot to die
You love to crucify me
Pile on from every side
You wanted a martyr, a virgin, a saint
I bled in the spotlight, you fed on my shame
Why you telling me what I shouldn’t say
When you’re gonna crucify me anyway

(Girlhood is a battlefield, baby)

Men wage their wars building empires of violence
Girls swallow screams make our homes in the silence
Taught how to bleed without leaving a stain
To cry like a lamb but harbour the blame

When they wrote the myth they were twisting the names
Medusa their monster bound by the chains
I’ll carry the stories that history erased
But you cannot kill the thing that you made

You love to crucify me
But I'm way too hot to die
You love to crucify me
Pile on from every side
You wanted a martyr, a virgin, a saint
I bled in the spotlight, you fed on my shame
Why you telling me what I shouldn’t say
When you’re gonna crucify me anyway

Come and get me, get me
Come and get me, get me
Come and get me, get me
Come and get me, get me