Wedding March (Mendelssohn Cover for Equality)
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NEONVOT official site | https://neonvot.gemki.org This vocal reinterpretation of Mendelssohn’s Wedding March reframes a ceremonial classic through the lens of equality. Drawing on an anonymous feminist poem, the song rejects obedience and submission, presenting marriage as partnership. A familiar procession becomes a quiet declaration of mutual freedom.
[intro] [Verse 1]
You are told to love him,
To honor and obey;
You are told to need him
Through all your living day. [Verse 2]
You are told that he is wisdom,
You are told that he is law;
You are told that he is strength,
And you are told that he is all. [Verse 3]
But I tell you this, young woman,
As I have lived and seen:
A wife is first a woman,
And a woman must be free. [Verse 4]
No love was ever strengthened
By submission and by fear;
No honor ever grew from chains,
However bright and clear. [Verse 5]
Stand beside him, not beneath him;
Walk with him, not behind;
Be his comrade, not his servant,
In the fullest sense of mind. [outro]
To the Newly Married Wife
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