What kind of world is this that we're living in when a man accused guilty of rape
Is still freed from the charges miraculously if he confesses that he's made a mistake
Is a woman supposed to just spread both her legs and let the sexual ritual proceed
If she doesn't say no to do you have her permission to treat her any which way you please?

Does the fact that she's wasted somehow make it accepted that she can't tell what's
Right from what's wrong.
Are the clothes that she's wearing an oblivious signal that
The rape is allowed to go on. You take it for granted cos' you've got the advantage
It's a logic that I find hard to follow. It still doesn't mean that the decision is
Is yours and I find your excuse hard to swallow

He clears his name
And she gets all the blame
If a woman raped a man
Would the verdict be the same?

He clears his name
And she gets all the blame
If a woman raped a man
Would the verdict be the same?

Tell me what were you thinking, if you even were when you forced her to go all the way
Did you feel like a big man
When you were on top of her
Did you make that bitch pay?

You're not a man, you're the scum of the earth
You had the whole thing
Planned from the start and you've got the guts to say you feel like a virgin
There's not a soft spot in your heart

He clears his name
And she gets all the blame
If a woman raped a man
Would the verdict be the same?

He clears his name
And she gets all the blame
If a woman raped a man
Would the verdict be the same?

You make it seem as if she should have seen it coming as if that was a valid excuse
But whatever you say you still know what you've done and nothing justifies the abuse
It takes two too tango so don't you try and tell us that you were sure that
You heard her say yes
We don't believe you it's your cock doing the talking
So why don't you just fucking confess?

He clears his name
And she gets all the blame
If a woman raped a man
Would the verdict be the same?

He clears his name
And she gets all the blame
If a woman raped a man
Would the verdict be the same?


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Right to Rape Lyrics as written by Jocke Skog Bard Sverre Torstensen

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    equal justice, that's fucking all

    amnston February 24, 2013   Link

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