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If Eve Hadn't Eaten the Apple

from 100 Summers by James Lee Baker

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Growing up surrounded by hard-line protestant beliefs, I sat in pews listening to scriptures portraying women as beneath men. Cain’s wife’s name was never mentioned. The widow who gave her last two mites (coins) to Christ’s church also remains unnamed. When I left the church in my mid-twenties and went into college to study, I began to see the oppression so many women went and still go through — the inventions credited to the men they worked for, their voices silenced as voters, and so much more.

If such a message is to touch the hearts of those who are believers of the creationist story, it has to be told from the inside perspective like this.

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On the 6th day of creation
God put Adam in a slumber
Took a rib from his side
To create another

From his side he did take
Not from his head or feet
So that in his garden of Eden
equals they would be

An eternal life in paradise
All was perfect, all was right
No worries and no strife
Until she took was just one bite

Then sin cast them out with shame
And somewhere along the way
In the thorny, ragged briars
She received the blame

If Eve hadn't eaten the Apple
Would we know the name
of the wife of Cain
or the widow who gladly gave her mite
oh, if Eve hadn't taken a bite?

The apostle Paul once said
For every woman on this Earth
There is a god-fearing man
that should be the head of her

But even the proudest of men
Were all once sucklings on a breast
Helpless, safe in a mother's love
Heartbeat to heartbeat, chest to chest

(Instrumental)


Oppression comes from fear
and fear comes from survivalism
Survivalism is just ego
Ego is just a prison

For our daughters and our mothers
Sisters and our lovers
They are all and have always
been our equals

Oh, if Eve hadn't eaten the Apple
Would we know the name
of the wife of Cain
or the widow who gladly gave her mite
oh, if Eve hadn't taken a bite?

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from 100 Summers, released September 4, 2020

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