Sossity: You're a Woman

Album: Benefit (1970)
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  • Hello you straight-laced lady,
    Dressed in white but your shoes aren't clean.
    Painted them up with polish
    In the hope we can't see where you've been.
    The smiling face that you've worn
    To greet me rising at morning --
    Sent me out to work for my score.
    Please me and say what it's for.
    Give me the straight-laced promise
    And not the pathetic lie.

    Tie me down with your ribbons
    And sulk when I ask you why.
    Your Sunday paper voice cries
    Demanding truths I deny.
    The bitter-sweet kiss you pretended
    Is offered, our affair mended.
    Sossity: You're a woman.
    Society: You're a woman.

    All of the tears you're wasting
    Are for yourself and not for me.
    It's sad to know you're aging
    Sadder still to admit I'm free.
    Your immature physical toy has grown,
    Too young to enjoy at last your straight-laced agreement:
    Woman, you were too old for me.
    Sossity: You're a woman.
    Society: You're a woman. Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Kat from UsMartin Barre bought a boat and named it Sossity, and Ian Anderson made fun of him for it, thinking Martin thought Sossity was a real woman. Ian could be such a dick.
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