it's nineteen-o-three and thanks to me

the u.k. strives towards equality

acknowledging the poverty of womens'

opportunity necessitates the need for taking

action with alacrity

the future's in our hands

so make your mark and stand with me

or to put it a little more simply...

we need deeds not words

ladies if you wanna be heard

we need blood, sweat, tears

need to find a way to face our fears

all these years we've been rejected

with no say in who's elected

for what we deserve

we need deeds not

whoa deeds not words (hey!)

whoa deeds not words (hey!)

we're the suffragettes, soldiers in petticoats

there's never been a better bunch for getting out the vote

i'll never let you down. i'm pushing out the boat

if they don't like it that's too bad

i'll shove it down their throat

we don't want your sympathy

save the condescending talk

oh please! what we need

we need deeds not words

ladies if you wanna be heard

we need blood, sweat, tears

got to find a way to face our fears

there's no way we'll be subjected (ooh)

with no say in who's elected (aah)

hit 'em where it hurts

we need deeds not

whoa deeds not words (hey!)

whoa deeds not words (hey!)

won't sit complaining it's plain that we must take

the lead

when i get chained up to their railings

they'll be taking heed

a little blood is lost for every battle won

but that's the cost i guess i'm what you call a

hooligan!

we cannot simply ask for rights we must be ready for the fight

so take my hand and hold on tight

let me through! let me through!

listen, i'm done waiting, this system is suffocating

gonna break every law if it ensures that we make 'em i've done bound up my scars these prisons can't hold my bars

I'll be spitting 'til i'm winning and we claim what is

ours!

women know nothing!/oh, yes! agreed!

women are affected by gusts and waves of sentiments!

women know nothing of commerce and industry! women control and worry us enough already! women are extraordinarily impressionable!

women know nothing (nothing, nothing, etc)

Did you hear them call women inferior? year after year

i'm growing wearier it's clear beneath their manly exteriors

it's all hot air from their posteriors

deeds not words shout it out 'cross the nation deeds not words

From suffrage shall come salvation

deeds not words

i won't have it debated deeds not words

ladies let's get liberated

deeds not words shout it out 'cross the nation

deeds not words

from suffrage shall come salvation deeds not words

i won't have it debated deeds not words

ladies let's get liberated

whoa deeds not words (hey!)

whoa deeds not words (hey!) whoa deeds not words (hey!)

whoa deeds not words!