[Verse 1] Mary's in London, seventeen ninety-two Ink like a scalpel cutting clean on through "Give us education, not just lace and curls" Vindication of the Rights of Woman rattling pearls She said reason wears no gender, logic wears no skirt Called the Enlightenment's bluff, exposed it as dirt [Chorus] Voices beyond the canon, écoute, au-delà du canon Чуєш голос - poza kanonom, calling Wollstonecraft, Fanon, Arendt, Pateman, Mills Scribbling in the margins till the silence spills Beyond the canon, listen close, mon amie Хто не в підручнику, теж частина історії [Verse 2] Nineteen eighty-eight, Pateman flips the script Says the social contract's got a hidden fine-print clip Rousseau and Locke shook hands, drew up the whole estate But women weren't invited, just assigned and kept to wait Nineteen ninety-seven, Charles Mills says the same The Racial Contract's written but refuses its own name Equality on paper, exclusion underneath A quiet deal of power wrapped in a tidy wreath [Chorus] [Verse 3] Fanon's in Algeria, nineteen sixty-one Wretched of the Earth - the colonizer's work's not done The colonized psyche gets fractured, split in two Violence breeds more violence pushing fiercely through Not praising bloodshed, diagnosing the disease: When one man owns the harvest, another just the fleas Decolonize the mind before you free the land He's the pulse beneath an uprising hand [Verse 4] Arendt studies Nuremberg, then studies Stalin's reign Nineteen fifty-one, Totalitarianism names the chain Loneliness plus propaganda, marching in a row Then Jerusalem, sixty-one - Eichmann, calm and slow She coined it "banality of evil," not a monster, just a clerk Stamping forms, following orders, doing paperwork The scariest villains sometimes look like bureaucrats at work [Verse 5] Spivak asks a question nineteen eighty-eight makes us pause Can the subaltern speak past imperial laws? The silenced woman twice erased, by empire and by man History written by the victors, she's erased from the plan Representation's not just given, it's a fight to reclaim Reading power through language, unlearning privilege's name She teaches us to listen for the gaps between the lines Where the archive stays silent, truth still intertwines [Bridge] From contract theory's blind spots to the colonized frame To questions of who's pictured, and who speaks, and who's to blame Representation, power, erasure wearing new disguise These thinkers cracked the canon open, wide before our eyes Не мовчи - parlez, кажіть, let the record show Every tidy theory hides a shadow it won't show [Chorus] [Outro] Au-delà du canon, за межами полиць стоять Beyond the canon - voices still expand
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