Prove It Anew

"Prove It Anew" (2026) Lyrics by J. Widener with AI-assisted music Every day, every day Prove it anew Every day, every day That's what I do Every day, every day The world wants proof Every day I give it the truth They said a woman's mind was ornament I made mine into a monument Edited the words of louder men They were only louder men Read the Greeks by candlelight Emerson was brilliant, Emerson was right Sometimes ... not always I had thoughts of my own And I wrote them down And I would not be told You want me smaller You want me still You want me grateful For the space you'd give But I was never asking For permission to live Every day, every day Prove it anew Every day, every day That's what I do The Century wasn't ready I wrote it anyway Every day, every day Prove it anew Went to Rome when Rome was burning bright Mazzini in the shadows, Revolution in the night Fell in love, imagine that A woman with a heart Had a son, had a cause Had a country pulled apart Wrote dispatches from the fire While the cannons shook the walls They called it 'Unfeminine' I called it my job You want a footnote You want a name In someone else's story On someone else's page But I was writing chapters You weren't ready to read Every day, every day Prove it anew Every day, every day That's what I do The Century wasn't ready I wrote it anyway Every day, every day Prove it anew 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century,' That was the title That was the warning hidden in revival Before Seneca Falls, before the vote, Before the movement even learned to quote I was already in the room, already staking claim While history kept mispronouncing my name Edited 'The Dial' while they questioned authority Read Goethe in the original , what's your priority? Women with ideas and nowhere else to think I gave them the room I gave them the ink Every day, every day Prove it anew Every day, every day That's what I do The Century wasn't ready No Century is Every day, every day Prove it Fifty yards from shore The manuscript gone The water doesn't care How right you were Every day Prove it anew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fuller