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