roll up this ad to continue
Em D
Every day she tells her daughter
Em D G Am
'Baby, you're not just a pretty face'
Em D
She says, 'You gotta work much harder
Em D G Am Em
Than every single man, that's just the way'
Am G
But she goes to the same job every day
D/F# Em
She's overworked and underpaid
Am G
Just 'cause the way her body's made
D/F#
Ain't that insane?
C
If you never been told how you gotta be
D Em
What you gotta wear, how you gotta speak
D
If you never shouted to be heard
C
You ain't lived in a woman's world
C
And if you can't see that it's gonna change
D Em
Only want the body and not the brains
D
If you think that's the way it works
C
You ain't lived in a woman's world, no
C D
Try living, try, try living (Oh, no)
Em D
Try living, try, try living (Oh)
C
Try living in a woman's world
Em D
Every night she tells her daughter
Em D G Am
'Don't you know a change is gonna come?'
Em D
There's a whisper in the water
Em D G Am Em
And I know the tide is gonna turn, no, no, no
Am G
But she goes to the same job every day
D/F# Em
She's overworked and underpaid
Am G
Just 'cause the way her body's made
D/F#
Ain't that insane?
C
If you never been told how you gotta be
D Em
What you gotta wear, how you gotta speak
D
If you never shouted to be heard
C
You ain't lived in a woman's world
C
And if you can't see that it's gonna change
D Em
Only want the body and not the brains
D
If you think that's the way it works
C
You ain't lived in a woman's world, uh-huh
Em B
Just look at how far that we've got (That we've got)
G Am
And don't think that we'll ever stop
C
This ain't the way it's gonna be (Ain't the way it's gonna be)
B
No, this ain't the way it's got to be (oh, oh)
Em B
Know that there will be a day (Oh, yeah)
G Am
When everyone's treat the same (No, oh)
C
It's the only way it's gotta be (Only way it's got to be)
B
It's the one way it's gotta be, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
C
If you never been told how you gotta be
D Em
What you gotta wear, how you gotta speak
D
If you never shouted to be heard
C
You ain't lived in a woman's world
C
And if you can't see that it's gonna change
D Em
Only want the body and not the brains
D
If you think that's the way it works
C
You ain't lived in a woman's world
(You ain't)
C D
Try living, try, try living (Living in a woman's world)
Em
Try living, try, try living
D C
In a woman's, in a woman's world (Oh, na, na, na)
C D
Try living, try, try living (Try living)
Em
Try living, try, try living (Yeah, ooh)
D C
In a woman's, in a woman's world (Oh)
Gotta be a change
D
Try living, try, try living
You got to try
Em
Try living, try, try living
Try
D C
Try living in a woman's, a woman's world
Written by Jade Amelia Thirlwall, Jez Ashurst, Rachel Clare Furner