Ruined Women, 2018
Music video for Hadassah Grace for her poem Ruined Women
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Poem: Hadassah Grace
Music: Ira Zema
Director: Audrey Baldwin
Videography and Editing: Martin Sagadin
You will know us by the lines
under our eyes and across the tops of our thighs
by the smoke stains in our voices and the whiskey in the words we whisper under our breath
by our lack of restraint, except the kind we keep in the top drawer of our bedside tables
by our fried brains, battered livers, and the boxes you battered us into
by the vastness of our bodies unapologetically taking up space
by our names like spitting stars and our laughs that split the room apart
You will know us by our full mouths and empty bank accounts
by the dirty plates on our floor and the toothbrushes in the depths of our handbags
by the scuffs on our combat boots and the chips in our polish
by the lipstick, and fake tan, and salt marks we leave in your sheets you will know
We are ruined women, and we are here to ruin you
Watch the video on YouTube
Poem: Hadassah Grace
Music: Ira Zema
Director: Audrey Baldwin
Videography and Editing: Martin Sagadin
You will know us by the lines
under our eyes and across the tops of our thighs
by the smoke stains in our voices and the whiskey in the words we whisper under our breath
by our lack of restraint, except the kind we keep in the top drawer of our bedside tables
by our fried brains, battered livers, and the boxes you battered us into
by the vastness of our bodies unapologetically taking up space
by our names like spitting stars and our laughs that split the room apart
You will know us by our full mouths and empty bank accounts
by the dirty plates on our floor and the toothbrushes in the depths of our handbags
by the scuffs on our combat boots and the chips in our polish
by the lipstick, and fake tan, and salt marks we leave in your sheets you will know
We are ruined women, and we are here to ruin you
We’ve always been here
the witches you burned because you knew we were magic
swapping our vacuum cleaners for broomsticks
and cackling about castration under the light of the full moon
We’re the girls you said were begging for it, too horny to be forced
The girls you said were damaged goods, too broken to need handling with care
the dykes who laughed at your dick and the fat girls waiting to devour you whole
Our pussies have always had teeth
and we are finally ready to bite the hands that have kept us hungry
Jesus was wrong, when he went preaching on the mount
we are #blessed but we’ve never been meek
and we will wrestle the earth from those set to inherit it
We are the names they give to hurricanes and stormy oceans
you can scratch your excuses and your executive orders into the sand
but we are the monthly tide that will wash them away
We are the barren, bitter spinsters who are spitting out your seed
the heartless whores who scrape our wombs clean like dinner plates
the single mothers raising daughters who know how to fire a gun
the witches you burned because you knew we were magic
swapping our vacuum cleaners for broomsticks
and cackling about castration under the light of the full moon
We’re the girls you said were begging for it, too horny to be forced
The girls you said were damaged goods, too broken to need handling with care
the dykes who laughed at your dick and the fat girls waiting to devour you whole
Our pussies have always had teeth
and we are finally ready to bite the hands that have kept us hungry
Jesus was wrong, when he went preaching on the mount
we are #blessed but we’ve never been meek
and we will wrestle the earth from those set to inherit it
We are the names they give to hurricanes and stormy oceans
you can scratch your excuses and your executive orders into the sand
but we are the monthly tide that will wash them away
We are the barren, bitter spinsters who are spitting out your seed
the heartless whores who scrape our wombs clean like dinner plates
the single mothers raising daughters who know how to fire a gun
We’re the basic bitches on our phones in line at Starbucks
the train wrecks with pit stains on our favorite party dresses
and we haven't changed our underwear in days
We’re the faces that have launched a thousand ships
the prostitutes you trapped in paint and picture frames
the cock teasing sluts who wouldn’t fuck our school’s shooters
and we're not content to be your muses anymore
We are the succubus who will suck you dry
and you are right to be scared of us
because hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
hell hath no fury like a woman fully formed
hell hath no fury like a woman.
We’re the 52% but we’ve been been sleeping
too busy counting calories to count on each other
too busy carrying you to notice how strong we’ve grown
but we have grown so very strong
and you? You had your chance
2000 years of chances
now we are everything you’ve always wanted
everything you’ve always feared
and we will ruin
everything
the train wrecks with pit stains on our favorite party dresses
and we haven't changed our underwear in days
We’re the faces that have launched a thousand ships
the prostitutes you trapped in paint and picture frames
the cock teasing sluts who wouldn’t fuck our school’s shooters
and we're not content to be your muses anymore
We are the succubus who will suck you dry
and you are right to be scared of us
because hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
hell hath no fury like a woman fully formed
hell hath no fury like a woman.
We’re the 52% but we’ve been been sleeping
too busy counting calories to count on each other
too busy carrying you to notice how strong we’ve grown
but we have grown so very strong
and you? You had your chance
2000 years of chances
now we are everything you’ve always wanted
everything you’ve always feared
and we will ruin
everything
