Clarissa rages about the poverty her kids are being forced to endure thanks to Charles' entrepreneurial obsession. Fed up of waiting to be rescued, she researches foraging and fishing to feed the children. But to be allowed into the library, first she must pretend to be a man.
lyrics
No matter what you do,
I’ll have to stand by you.
I’ve always known that you were broken
Deep inside your psyche.
The way I feel for you is potent.
I hoped that love would heal you
slightly.
But little mouths need more than love,
With twelve, there’s just not enough.
While you’re in and out of debtor’s
prison, I cannot feed our kids ambition.
From what I’ve always seen,
God doesn’t intervene.
He helps the ones that help themselves
The answers must be on bookshelves!
If the library can teach you about science,
I can learn ‘bout self-reliance!
[Clarissa enters the library of Philadelphia]
(Rap)
Is this the library founded by Benjamin Franklin?
Where free folk can enter whatever their social standing?
My name is Clarissa and I’m looking for knowledge.
Hello? Can I come in? Please acknowledge.
Librarian: Yes, this is the Library Company of Philadelphia,
There isn’t a subject we can’t find on a shelf for ya,
But Clarissa, when we say free folk we mean men.
You and your children can’t come in.
Clarissa: UGH! I’m surrounded by men who want to hold me down.
Stop me from learning skills I need to keep my children around.
I’m not gonna be stopped cos I don’t have the right appendage.
I’m going back as a man; my gender amended.
[Clarissa dresses as a man and is allowed into the library]
(Backing vocals: Smash the patriarchy,
Smash the patriarchy,
Smash the patriarchy,
Smash the patriarchy!)
[Instrumental]
No matter what you do,
I’ll have to stand by you.
For every stupid move you make,
And every time that I nearly break,
You melt me with your golden voice.
Love leaves me with no choice.
(Ad lib)
(Little mouths need more than love.
No manna falls down from above)
I've got no choice
For my girls and boys.
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