Lift Voice, Carry Water

[omorka]

I have four versions of this song - the original, and three covers. This is the only one in male voice. Oddly enough, it retains the "she might overhear" at the end, rather than gender-reversing it properly, which makes me wonder exactly how much more of a genderbender a song about a man dominating a woman by insisting she become masculinely stoic during their affair can actually get. (That genderbenditude is the only thing preventing the male-voice version from sliding headlong into misogyny . . . )