Real Women Have Curves

[ANA]
Take your shirt off

[CARMEN, spoken]
¿Qué? With these arms, it looks like a hammock

[ANA, sung]
Show some skin

[CARMEN, spoken]
A five-year-old could take a nap!

[ANA, sung]
Let your body

[ROSALÍ, spoken]
Pancha

[PANCHA]
What's the big deal?

[ANA, sung]
Breathe it in

[ESTELA, spoken]
I'm the boss, and I say we take it off!

[PANCHA, sung]
Some of us got stretch marks

[ESTELA]
Some, cellulite

[CARMEN]
Estela!

[FLACA]
Some of us got both

[ANA]
And that's alright
We all got the same

[CARMEN, spoken]
What's that?

[ANA, sung]
That voice inside

[CARMEN, spoken]
¿Qué voice?

[ANA]
The fire that makes us survive...

[ANA, ESTELA, FACTORY LADIES]
No matter what life throws our way
We can bend, we can dance, we can ricochet
When la vida gets hard, we know what to say
Real (Real) women (Women) have curves
Real (Real) women (Women) have curves

[ESTELA]
We work harder

[PANCHA]
And get paid less

[CARMEN, spoken]
Yes, we do!

[FULVIA, FLACA, sung]
Come home burned out

[PANCHA]
Then clean their mess

[CARMEN, spoken]
I hear that...

[FACTORY LADIES, sung]
We're more than daughters
We're more than wives (We're more than wives)

[ANA]
And we'll keep fighting just to live our lives

[ANA, FACTORY LADIES]
We all got the same

[ROSALÍ, spoken]
I don't know...

[ANA, FACTORY LADIES, sung]
That voice inside

[ROSALÍ, spoken]
I don't hear it!

[ANA, FACTORY LADIES, sung]
The fire that makes us survive
No matter what curveballs they throw
We can bend, we can dance, let the music flow
La vida's la cumbia that we all know
Real (Real) women (Women) have curves

[ANA, spoken]
Come on!

[ANA, FACTORY LADIES, sung]
Real (Real) women (Women) have curves

[FACTORY LADIES]
Go Pancha! Go Pancha!
La reina de la plancha

[PANCHA]
Worked in the Palisades, trapped with the other maids
Fed up with sweat from the heat like the Everglades
I wasn't a nun, so I decided to run
Now I'm rollin' Lincoln Heights, havin' fights with my son

[ESTELA]
Estela in the house, I got all the hips you need
I can dance, I can sew, and I know how to lead
I'm an entrepreneur, yes, sir, I'm a designer
I make a dress to impress nobody finer
Yeah, I'm an outlaw like Pancho Villa
You mess with me, I'll eat you like a chicken quesadilla!

[FACTORY LADIES]
Real (Real) women (Women) have curves (Ay, por el amor de Dios)
Real (Real) women (Women) have curves

[CARMEN]
My name is Carmen, yo no sé how to rap
But that don't stop me, no, I always rhyme as I go
Came here from Mexico to Boyle Heights, sacrifice
Don't let life drag me down
I'm the queen of this town

[FACTORY LADIES]
¡La reina!

[CARMEN]
Call me la chingona, I'll be sipping my Corona

[ANA, FACTORY LADIES]
No matter what curveballs they throw (No matter what they throw)
We can bend, we can dance, let the music flow (Oh)
La vida's la cumbia that we all know (Know)
Real (Real) women (Women) have
Real (Real) women (Women) have
Real women have curves

Real women have curves