Name: Hildegard (of Bingen)
Duration: P00H02M15S
Description: It is about women's rights, and more specifically about the fact that men in power force women to live under previous centuries' morality and even such times' beliefs about the physical world. The titular woman, like women throughout history, had to exert incredible willpower to "live" in the same century as the men around her.

Hildegard (of Bingen)

from Ignorance is Bliss... at What Cost? by Monumental Folly

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It is about women's rights, and more specifically about the fact that men in power force women to live under previous centuries' morality and even such times' beliefs about the physical world. The titular woman, like women throughout history, had to exert incredible willpower to "live" in the same century as the men around her.

lyrics

Call it reclamation, I suppose, in a cage
Make it into your own paradise, I call it brave

Is it hard to be? Is it hard to be?
living in another century, Hildegard?

Your liberated bodies aim to free yourselves, I guess
But some people only see an offer to undress

Will they always fail to tear away the veils
defining you like prison sentences,
Hildegard?

Forced to live in the past, girls grow up so fast:
this time/warped point of view
Doesn't work for you or me (too).

Do you wonder when you can join the men
living in one time not separately, Hildegard?

Is it hard to be? Is it hard to be?
living in another century, Hildegard?

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from Ignorance is Bliss... at What Cost?, released August 3, 2020
Written and performed by Jon Ciliberto.

Thanks to Bryan Ciliberto for the constructive listenings and advice.

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Monumental Folly rather speaks for itself, yes? Monumental Folly also embraces a sheer willingness to leave things rough at the edges and to carry through improvisation from start to an often much-attenuated finish. Also singing, for which I apologize.

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