when I was four years old 
they tried to test my I.Q. 
they showed me a picture 
of 3 oranges and a pear 
they said, 
which one is different? 
it does not belong 
they taught me different is wrong 
but when I was 13 years old 
I woke up one morning 
thighs covered in blood 
like a war 
like a warning 
that I live in a breakable takeable body 
an ever-increasingly valuable body 
that a woman had come in the night to replace me 
deface me 
see, 
my body is borrowed 
yeah, I got it on loan 
for the time in between my mom and some maggots 
I don't need anyone to hold me 
I can hold my own 
I got highways for stretchmarks 
see where I've grown 
I sing sometimes 
like my life is at stake 
'cause you're only as loud 
as the noises you make 
I'm learning to laugh as hard 
as I can listen 
'cause silence 
is violence 
in women and poor people 
if more people were screaming then I could relax 
but a good brain ain't diddley 
if you don't have the facts 
we live in a breakable takeable world 
an ever available possible world 
and we can make music 
like we can make do 
genius is in a back beat 
backseat to nothing if you're dancing 
especially something stupid 
like I.Q. 
for every lie I unlearn 
I learn something new 
I sing sometimes for the war that I fight 
'cause every tool is a weapon - 
if you hold it right.