Lilac and Black

We all escaped from somewhere else

To the cruel cruel city where the asphalt melts

In the heat of our anger which finds no release

In the lab rat maze of ever-narrowing streets

It’s no surprise

We’ve got blood in our eyes

We’ve been alone too long

We belong together with our weapons drawn

Tonight, tonight I’m dreaming of my queer girl gang

We who walk this deadly path

And the city that tries to kill us each night

Will soon bow before our wrath

Ah-ah

We’ve got death stares to ward off enemies

Amulets to ward off fear

And I try to keep count, try to guess the amount

Who’ll make it through the coming year, the coming year

So now I’m calling out to stations ‘cross the underground

Gather all your savages and send ‘em out

If you get the signal come defend the crown

That nobody knows you wear

We’re out here on the attack

We wear the lilac and black

We might not make it back

We wear the lilac and black

The cis question if we really exist

Sometimes even we’ve got doubts

But the feminine deferred like a rubbed-out word

Is still passed around from mouth to mouth

Hell yeah

We might smile and laugh in a photograph

But you know our pretty heads are haunted

We’re the frozen girls in a planned-out world

That never once asked us what we wanted

So now we’re into territory we’ve been in before

End the preparations and begin the war

The streets of this city’s what we’re asking for

And we’ll take ‘em if they’re not given

We’re never coming back

We wear the lilac and black

We’re out here on the attack

We wear the lilac and black

No we might not make it back

We wear lilac and black

We leave no trace you can track

We wear the lilac and black