Lyrics Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves - Remastered - Annie Lennox , Eurythmics , Dave Stewart , Aretha Franklin

Now there was a time when they used to say
That behind every great man, there had to be a great woman
But in these times of change, you know that it's no longer true
So we're coming out of the kitchen
'Cause there's something we forgot to say to you (we say)

Sisters are doing it for themselves
Standing on their own two feet
And ringing on their own bells
Sisters are doing it for themselves, yeah

Now this is a song to celebrate
The conscious liberation of the female state
Mothers, daughters and their daughters too, ooh-ooh-yeah
Woman to woman, we're singing with you
The "inferior sex" has got a new exterior (yeah)
We got doctors, lawyers, politicians too, ooh-ooh
Everybody, take a look around
Can you see, can you see, can you see there's a woman right next to you?
We say

Sisters are doing it for themselves (oh yes, we are)
Standing on their own two feet
And ringing on their own bells
Sisters are doing it for themselves, yeah

Now we ain't making stories, and we ain't laying plans
Don't you know that a man still loves a woman?
Ooh, and a woman still loves a man
Just the same

Sisters are doing it for themselves
There was a time (there was a time)
Oh, when they used to say (when they used to say)
That behind every great man, there had to be a great woman
But in these times of change, you know that it's no longer true
So we're coming out of the kitchen
'Cause there's something we forgot to say to you (we say)

Sisters are doing it for themselves
Standing on their own two feet
And ringing on their own bells
Sisters are doing it for themselves (their own bell go-go-go-go-go-)

Sisters (sister) are doing it for themselves (step out of the way too, girl)
Sister are doing it, doing it, doing it (doing it, doing it)
Doing it, doing it, (doing it, doing it)
Sisters are doing it for themselves (doing it, doing it, doing it, doing it)

Oh, oh yeah, sisters are doing it for themselves
Sisters are doing it for themselves, I say yeah-yeah
Sisters are doing it for themselves, it will pay, hear what we say
Standing on the O-two-three, bringing on the melody back
Here we come now, sisters, doing it, doing it