History Books - Maxïmo Park

My axis is trenched

This body in the night

Another male hero done in

When the light shines down

You’ll be able to see right through me

Another man about of humiliation

Even though I appeared in a cloud of smoke

It’s part of my own mythology

I consider my speech to your needs

Imagine if the history books

Have all been written by women

You’re still obsessed

From birth to death

With the same three topics that taunt you

I consider these things to your beliefs

Imagine if the history books

Have all been written by women

You can think of the slants

That they could’ve been given

I consider my speech to your needs

Imagine if the history books

Have all been written by women

Makes you think of the slants

That they could’ve been given

Must be tied into war

That win a boyish tuition

Imagine if the history books

Have all been written by women