Lyrics

She was everything that her mother thought a daughter should not be
She was feral and free and her mother could not give her understanding
She was 17 when she realized her body was a commodity
She left her family when their eyes followed her like she was an oddity

She had come into her own, she had brains and flesh and she used them
She swore never to atone for sins put on her to hide the feminine
Oooh what a cunning woman. Ooooh what a cunning woman

She knew her healing wouldn’t come from the worldviews of men she was raised with
To her it was a heresy to refuse a body anything it was craving
& She stayed true to that but the emptiness grew ‘til she was overtaken
She learned to live in gratitude for the love of the life her rock bottom had awakened

She had come into her own, she had brains and flesh and she used them
She swore never to atone for sins put on her to hide the feminine

She had come into her own, she had brains and flesh and she used them
She swore never to atone for sins put on her to hide the feminine
Oooh what a cunning woman. Ooooh what a cunning woman
Oooh what a cunning woman. Ooooh what a cunning woman