Lida's a longtime friend of my mother
She used to baby-sit me and my brother
I have known Lida all of my life
As a loyal local woman wife
Lida's known me since before I could walk
I sat on her floor and I tried to talk
Baby babble Lida likes to laugh at
Teasing me when I could never tease back
Lida, you knew me before I knew myself
Lida, since that time I've become somebody else
And now you want me to call you by your first name
What'll ever be the same if not you, Lida?
The ghosts approached me when I was just six
Lida's two sons spooked by books about sex
They said, Ha ha, someday you're going to pee blood
Like our mommy do, and it's because you're a girl that you have to
I went straight to my mother, of course
I cried, Is it true? Am I stuck with this curse?
She lied and said, I don't know
Innocence slipped out on tiptoe
Lida, your flesh and blood ushered in fear
Bleeding, I'm gushing blood for the next 20 years
Rushing the sorority of bodily voodoo, even if I didn't want to
Did you want to, Lida?
Lida's a longtime friend of my mother's
She used to baby-sit me and my brother
I have known Lida all of my life
But does she still know me?
Lida, you knew me before I knew myself
Lida, since that time I've become somebody else
And now you want me to call you by your first name
What'll ever be the same if not you, Lida?
