FORMAN - HYSTERIA [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

Hysteria:
B: emotional excess
M: Exaggerated or uncontrollable
B: especially in groups

Hysteria:
B: from the Greek hystera
M: meaning "womb"

Female Hysteria
B: while no longer recognized by medical authorities
M: diagnosis and treatment was routine for hundreds of years

Symptoms were:
M: faintness
B: nervousness
M: sexual desire
B: insomnia
M: fluid retention
B: heaviness in the abdomen
M: muscle spasm
B: shortness of breath
M: irritability
B: loss of appetite for food or sex
And

A tendency to cause trouble

M: The cure was called ‘hysterical paroxysm’
B: or ‘orgasm’
Treatments include:
M: confinement in an asylum
B: hysterectomy
M: clitor-i-dectomies
B: pelvis massaging, i.e. handling of the genitals
M: often with high-powered hoses

MAYA
The American Psychiatric Association used the term through the 1950s
In 1859 a quarter of all women in America suffered from Hysteria
Today one in four women in America are on psychiatric medication

[FORMAN:]
But I’m sorry
I don’t want to come off like a bitch
I’m not here to bum you out with my sitch
It’s just, based on yr tax bracket
This is a nice racket
And I want in

A quite polite take over:
You’ll think it’s your idea
Yes indeed you are the head, said the neck
Yes indeed you wear the pants
Said the one who works the zipper
He wondered why she still sounded so damn chipper
I’m at the patriarchy party
Slip chaos in the punch bowl
Packaged Pandora’s box as a fucking lunchable

Itll be too late before they diagnose my
A tendency to cause trouble


MAYA + OLIVIA
“Well behaved women rarely make history”


(MAYA)
Back when i was Lilith
His first. wild thing
Not made for him
‘this is an independent divinity’
I said to the first man. The first man who
Hoped to condition me to surrender my body at his will instead of mine

And here I am again, saying: go ahead call me crazy
Haven’t I got a right to be?
When i’m told to yell ‘fire’ instead of ‘rape’ these days
I recall the many ways this flesh has become accustomed to burning alive

Like the time I was the goddess for whom the whole earth came to life
At her touch. Persephone they called me
You don’t know vitality until you’ve known depression
Sat in the dark with your fates. Experienced your dying self

Walked through the night with the breath of a stranger
On the back of your neck. he was broad shouldered. Was white or brown. short or tall. Or-or not there at all. but my skin remembers the way he looked at me

Like I was a house he knew how to pick the locks to
Ever since it’s been hard to live in here

This No Man’s Land. Body riddled with triggers
In need of taming. training. pinched. prodded
Every inch. pulled open and spanx-ed up

How hysterical it is indeed
To be a woman


OLIVIA
Now here is something that you prolly understand
9-5 grind for life’s a rough plan
The thought makes me bug out til its out of hand
Make me wanna pop the pussy on the hand stand
It kinda makes me get why the girlies wife up
Get a mans hand lick his silver spoon clean up
But I find it too tough cause my brain be too flush
For me the Other side of the game ain't enough
But They won’t want Prenup
For a Cook and who will Clean up
And mommy told me to marry rich
So I cooked a scheme up
And it’s really something that you might UNDER STAND
(MAYA: HOW I COULD JUST KILL A MAN)
Hugh Hef baby what’s wrong with your heart?
The monitor is beeping, the thing won’t start
I could call the dr. he knows the drill
But first Sign the will or I make an easy kill
Sugar daddy comas for quarterly quotas
Kill like Serial
Bachelor breakfast
Invade imperial
High paid actress
Anna nicole smith
Please Call me the troll bitch
On my lethal ho shit
While I’m upping my quotient
This is what happens when girls are just dowrys
Karma’s a bitch and Im now here for the bounty
So old old money better look real sharp
Like the icicicle you’ll see me stickin in your heart
(get it? Cause it melts?)

Here is something that you might understand
(HOW I COULD JUST KILL A MAN)
I could make it look like weren’t it planned
(HOW I COULD JUST KILL A MAN)
And I then end up with like all of his bands
(HOW I COULD JUST KILL A MAN)
So here is something you might understand
HOW I COULD JUST KILL A MAN

I would kill a man with one second thought
Did I really have to go and also break his heart?