Sickly sweet, candied meat
In a fragrant greasy spoon
Knock back black coffee
Working 'til the afternoon

[Pre-Chorus]
She hardly sleeps
She hardly eats
She hardly breathes
When you're in her breathing space

[Verse 2]
Cat calling white van patrolling
The streets as she walks from work
Rip hard and jeer from afar
As he sits with a drooling smirk

[Pre-Chorus]
She hardly sleeps
She hardly eats
She hardly breathes
When you're in her breathing space

[Chorus]
She brushes it off
Like she always does
Jogs through the subway
Disappears with a flood

I am a woman
And I am a woman
I am a woman
I am a woman

[Verse 3]
She comes over, hear her moan
The walls are paper thin
Friends come over, they pass her round
Her head goes round the bend

[Pre-Chorus]
She hardly sleeps
She hardly eats
She hardly breathes
When you're in her breathing space

[Chorus]
She brushes it off
Like she always does
Puts on her makeup
Faces the day

[Pre-Chorus]
As she hardly sleeps
She hardly eats
She hardly breathes
When you're in her breathing space

[Chorus]
I am a woman
And I am a woman
I am a woman
And I am a woman
And I am your mother
I am your sister
And I am your daughter
I am a woman