Sisters Will be Doin' it There, for Ourselves (Eurythmics)

Language: Russian

I was going to start off by saying something about how Annie Lennox is kind of adorable, or at least used to be back in the day (haven't seen much of her lately), when it occurred to me that she and Billy Idol used to look an awful lot alike. High, short, platinum-colored hair, episodic sneer -- they were going for something very much like the same look. I think they should get together now, and do a new album: give him the lipstick and the housewife dresses, give her the studded leather jackets and the crotch-grabbing machismo. How could it fail to work?

This probably wouldn't be the song to try to do, though I'd certainly pay good money to hear Billy Idol singing this unironically. Like that cover of "Stand by Your Man" that Lyle Lovett did on the Lyle Lovett and His Large Band album.

-Jessi

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Times were, when they was used to say
that after each "large person,"
must be a "large woman."
But in these times of change you know
that they're no longer true.
So we come from the kitchen
because we forgot to say something to you, which is: (we, we speak)

The sisters make it for ourselves,
stand on their own two feet,
and ring their own bells.
Sisters make it for themselves.

Now this song will finish celebrating
the conscious liberation of female position!
Mothers, daughters, and their daughters too.
Woman to the woman,
we sing with you.
The "inferior sex" obtained new exteriors;
we obtained doctors, lawyers, politicians too.
Each - glance all around.
You can see; can you see - can you see
the right of the woman next to you will be there.

The sisters make it for ourselves,
stand on their own two feet,
and ring their own bells.
Sisters make it for themselves.

Now we don't make stories,
and we don't place plans,
because woman still loves man,
and man still loves woman.
(Exactly the same, however)