The Pill Lyrics
Told me if I'd be your wife you'd show me the world
But all I've seen of this old world is a bed and a doctor bill
I'm tearin' down your brooder house because now I've got the pill
All these years I've stayed at home while you had all your fun
And every years that's gone by another baby's come
There's gonna be some changes made right here on nursery hill
You've set this chicken your last time cause now I've got the pill
This old maternity dress I've got is going in the garbage
The clothes I'm wearing from now on won't take up so much yardage
Miniskirts hot pants and a few little fancy frills
Yeah I'm making up for all those years since I've got the pill
While holding a couple in my arms another's on the way
This chicken's done for up her nest and ready to make a deal
And you can't afford to turn it down cause you know I've got the pill
This incubator is overused because you've kept it filled
The feeling good time's easy now since I've got the pill
It's gettin' dark it's roostin' time and that's too good to be real
Oh daddy don't you worry now cause momma's got the pill
Oh daddy don't you worry now cause momma's got the pill
What a stupid comment. Typical man.
Loretta has always tackled controversial issues of the day. Here she is singing about how woman were liberated by the contraceptive pill, and how it enabled them to be more than just baby making machines.
@VortexOfLanguage I am a feminist, but you lost me at "typical man". Anyway, I appreciate that little bit you said about Loretta. I will research her music more.
@VortexOfLanguage I am a feminist, but you lost me at "typical man". Anyway, I appreciate that little bit you said about Loretta. I will research her music more.
Getting back on the comment: that guy may be an older internet troll, I don't think he appreciates what women can do now. Older people always try to push their beliefs down younger people's throats... Typical old guy I would say. And, if he isn't a old guy at all, he may be a hardcore conservative. Or maybe he doesn't appreciates Loretta's music.
Getting back on the comment: that guy may be an older internet troll, I don't think he appreciates what women can do now. Older people always try to push their beliefs down younger people's throats... Typical old guy I would say. And, if he isn't a old guy at all, he may be a hardcore conservative. Or maybe he doesn't appreciates Loretta's music.
I think the song is powerful, and...
I think the song is powerful, and I'm glad it came out 40 years ago.
RIP Loretta Lynn. This powerful song about how The Pill freed so many women from an unending cycle of childbirth is still relevant today, when so-called conservative lawmakers and judges want to take that option away.
When this song was written in 1975, there were places in the US where there had been laws banning birth control only three years before.
This song pissed people off 40 years ago. Nowadays, we have pills that make wantonly miss their periods. I find that sort of ironic, depressing and sick. That's just my retarded opinion.
Well, I'm a man so I don't really have any sort of standing on reproductive issues. As for the song itself, I don't know if she wrote this proclaiming the pill's greatness or if she was slamming it by being ironic.
I don't know, I'll never know.