He's been trying with limited success
To get this girl to let him get into her dress
But every time he thinks he's getting close
She threatens death before he gets a chance
And that's the way it is in Minnesota
That's the way it is in Oklahoma
That's the way it's been since protozoa
First climbed onto the shores of California
And she's been trying with limited success
To get him to turn out the lights and dance
Cause like any girl all she really wants is
That fickle little bitch romance
That fickle little bitch romance
And that is why the girl is called a tease
And that is why the guy is called a sleaze
And that's why God made escort agencies
"One Life to Live" and mace and GHB
And that's the way it is in Minnesota
That's the way it is in Oklahoma-homa
That's the way since the animals and Noah
First climbed onto the shores of California
Must not be too kind
Stop thinking love is blind
Clench your fists, yeah, write
"She's just not my type"
Why all these conflicting specifications
Maybe to prevent overpopulation
All I know is that all around the nation
The girls are crying and the boys are masturbating
The girls are crying and the boys are masturbating
And that's the way it is in Minnesota
That's the way it is in Oklahoma-homa
That's the way Aristophanes and Homer
Wrote the Iliad and Lysistrata
That's the way it is in Minnesota
That's the way it is in Oklahoma-homa
That's the way since the anti-protozoa
First climbed onto the shores of California
To get this girl to let him get into her dress
But every time he thinks he's getting close
She threatens death before he gets a chance
And that's the way it is in Minnesota
That's the way it is in Oklahoma
That's the way it's been since protozoa
First climbed onto the shores of California
And she's been trying with limited success
To get him to turn out the lights and dance
Cause like any girl all she really wants is
That fickle little bitch romance
That fickle little bitch romance
And that is why the girl is called a tease
And that is why the guy is called a sleaze
And that's why God made escort agencies
"One Life to Live" and mace and GHB
And that's the way it is in Minnesota
That's the way it is in Oklahoma-homa
That's the way since the animals and Noah
First climbed onto the shores of California
Must not be too kind
Stop thinking love is blind
Clench your fists, yeah, write
"She's just not my type"
Why all these conflicting specifications
Maybe to prevent overpopulation
All I know is that all around the nation
The girls are crying and the boys are masturbating
The girls are crying and the boys are masturbating
And that's the way it is in Minnesota
That's the way it is in Oklahoma-homa
That's the way Aristophanes and Homer
Wrote the Iliad and Lysistrata
That's the way it is in Minnesota
That's the way it is in Oklahoma-homa
That's the way since the anti-protozoa
First climbed onto the shores of California
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The use of Lysistrata as an attempt to prove the song's point - that women are only interested in romance and men are only interested in sex - proves that Ms. Palmer has never read the play in question. The humor in Lysistrata comes partly from the fact that the Greeks regarded women as having difficulty restraining their wild sexuality, so for them to willingly give up sex would be insane. The women in the play are miserable at Lysistrata's idea and declare that they would rather die than give up sex, but finally reluctantly agree because they want the war to end.
The Iliad reference is similarly poor, but too vague to really comment on.
The rest of it is pretty obvious, although the "maybe to prevent overpopulation" line is even more bizarre than the others, given that the earth is overpopulated, and people have been having lots and lots of sex as long as they've been on the earth. Contraceptives are only just beginning to slow the birthrate down.
I'm sorry that the writer either has no sex drive or has never had an enjoyable sexual experience or both, but it's flat-out dumb and false to claim that all or even most women are just like her. The claim that all men are sex-craved rapists would be even nastier - except that goes hand-in-hand with the claim that women just need to accept the pressure from men to have sex and that they're going to get their drinks spiked with GHB by men who want to rape them, because "god made" things this way. Also, since women don't like sex, pretty much any time a man tries to have sex with a woman it'll be attempted rape.
Why would any woman who believes this want to be in a relationship with a man?
In short, this is a lovely-sounding song but the lyrics are atrocious and vile.
i have one word for you my dear, satire. the entire song is a satire. so don't get your panties all bunched up in a knot.
If you look at her other lyrics, I think it's fairly easy to state that this is indeed a satire. I mean, since she made a song about a masturbating woman she clearly isn't dumb enough to think that woman don't masturbate. She probably already knew that from personal experience like we all do... <br /> The video clip is also clearly a satire.