Pilar (Things Here Are Different) - Jill Sobule

It’s been five years since the man has died

Don’t think the people have changed

We can put up posters, we can riot in the streets

Still a woman can’t make ends meet

So why don’t you do something about it?

Things don’t happen to you, you make them happen

She laughed

You don’t understand

You’re from another land

Things here are different

Here in sunny Spain, the widows all wear black

To show their respect and their sorrow

Here in Spain, so simple is our life

You’re either a whore, a mother, or a wife

So why don’t you do something about it?

Things don’t happen to you, you make them happen

She laughed

You don’t understand

You’re from another land

Things here are different

We’ve seen your freedom

We get your TV shows

So simple, so inviting

I thought I’d like to know

I’m the talk of the town

I’m the shame of my family

Your wonderful freedom

Look where it’s got me

So why don’t you do something about it?

Things here are different