Emily Haines:
“In that song and in other songs where I’m addressing it, I’m not writing about being a woman in music; I’m writing about being a woman and playing music. That’s a big distinction. I haven’t really focused on the part of it that’s the work… It’s more larger realities and challenging t...
Promiscuous makes an entrance
Her mouth is full of questions
Are we all brides to be?
Are we all designed to be confined?
Buy ourselves chastity belts and lock them
Organize our lives and lose the key
Our faces all resemble dying roses
From trying to fix it
Trying to fix it
Trying to fix it
When instead, we should break it
We've got to break it before it breaks us
Fear of pretty houses and their porches
Fear of biological wrist watches
Fear of comparison shopping
Dogs on leashes behind fences, barking
Pretty little pillows on floral couches
Until our faces all resemble dying roses
Stop trying to fix it
Patriarch on a Vespa
Runs a red and ends up
Crushed under the wheel
Patriarch on a Vespa was written by Emily Haines & James Shaw & Joshua Winstead & Joules Scott-Key.
Patriarch on a Vespa was produced by James Shaw.
Metric released Patriarch on a Vespa on Tue Sep 27 2005.