It wasn't long ago you were daddy's little girl

They said, "Good girls are seen but never heard,"

Pleasing your father was so hard to do

When his love was anger and he gave it all to all

Put on your best face, it's a man's world

Find your shelter in a passive voice

A one-sided race, it's a man's world

Sometimes you haven't got a choice

Away from your family, just twenty years old

You married a man in your father's mold

He swore to you that he'd always love you

So you had his child and you played the given role

But when he left you the dream went black

No hope for the future, cut off from the past

You swore you'd never love another man

Too full of hurt to ever love again

Put on your best face, it's a man's world

Find your shelter in a passive voice

A one-sided race, it's a man's world

Sometimes you haven't got a choice

These days you're fighting a life of extremes

Knowing your voice is a whisper among the screams

That old lifestyle, it still eats you

You know change is the only way to get what you want

Will you live to see the change come through?

Wipe off that old face, change the man's world

Break the shelter of a passive voice

Discover the grace of a shared world

Live for the day you claim that choice