Mmm - or a system where we're constantly spied on and monitored,
and all our little faults and secret sins we thought we'd got away with
are noted and recorded, and one morning, with no warning,
a couple of cops arrive at the door with a warrant saying
I've reached the top of the register of woman offenders in the neighbourhood,
and it's their duty to take me to the Punishment Centre to receive my penalty.
When I get there, I'm offered a choice like on a monthly credit card statement:
I can clear all my total, which will be very prolonged and painful,
or just take a minimum 5%, or somewhere in between,
but of course if I don't clear the 'debt', interest will be added to the remainder,
I'll have to keep returning....
and all our little faults and secret sins we thought we'd got away with
are noted and recorded, and one morning, with no warning,
a couple of cops arrive at the door with a warrant saying
I've reached the top of the register of woman offenders in the neighbourhood,
and it's their duty to take me to the Punishment Centre to receive my penalty.
When I get there, I'm offered a choice like on a monthly credit card statement:
I can clear all my total, which will be very prolonged and painful,
or just take a minimum 5%, or somewhere in between,
but of course if I don't clear the 'debt', interest will be added to the remainder,
I'll have to keep returning....