Name: Bread & Roses
Duration: P00H02M34S
Description: Last year, a friend from Swarm the Senate challenged me to do my own take on this classic women's rights song. Here's what I came up with.

Bread & Roses

by Tae Phoenix

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Last year, a friend from Swarm the Senate challenged me to do my own take on this classic women's rights song. Here's what I came up with.

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As we come marching, marching, in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill-lofts gray
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing, "Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses."

As we come marching, marching, we battle, too, for men—
For they are women's children and we mother them again.
Our days shall not be sweated from birth until life closes—
Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses.

As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient song of Bread;
Small art and love and beauty their trudging spirits knew—
Yes, it is Bread we fight for—but we fight for Roses, too.

As we come marching, marching, we bring the Greater Days—
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler—ten that toil where one reposes—
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses.

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released May 4, 2021
Vocals, Guitar, Synths, Percussion & Drums - all Tae Phoenix

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Tae Phoenix Seattle, Washington

protest singer • queer disabled latina jew • conditionally white class traitor • she / ella

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