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Katherine Clarke

B-side to Radio On, along with How Can I Live? (1984)

Vox (main): Jon Hall

Vox (crowd): I can't really tell because the song is not mastered but it sounds like it could be Jon, Simon and Nick.


Her story!
Her time!

What have we done to the girls?
What have we done to the girls?
What have we done to the-

You made it so hard for Katherine Clarke, oh
You foster beautiful girls, flesh on the walls
And then you tell her she's born to please men
She's born to please men
Suits you
Suits you

In magazines with their stupid dreams over worlds you've made
And it suits you
It suits you~

Made it all up
You made it all up
You made it all up, oh

What have we done to the girls?
What have you done to the girls?
What have you done to the girls?

And it suits you
'Cause you made it all up
And it suits you

What have we done to the girls?
What have you done to the girls?
What have you done to the girls?
What have we done to the girls?
What have we done to the girls?



Notes

Older version removes the first "what have we done to the girls" and is only sung by Jon.

Katherine Clarke is the name of Jon's girlfriend at the time. She was a feminist who attended Greenham, which is why Jon wrote a song about it, and that's clearly some part of what this song is about too. Her vocals (spoken word) can be heard on the title track of What Noise?. It's unknown if she worked on this song at all though.

A digital drawing of Katherine Clarke facing front looking directly at the camera. The drawing is not colored properly and is instead using various shades of red. Katherine is a woman with short hair that fluffs upwards, stylized triangularly. She is making a neutral expression. The left half of the drawing is drastically darkened to the right side. The background has a pattern that looks like a mouth or blood.