CONTROL

This song was written by Ty students from Our Lady's School, Terenure on the 17th April 2026.

VERSE 1

Exploitation around us and we don’t care.

We’re too busy figuring out what to wear.

How will we save the world from a terrible death,

when we can’t even treat each other with respect.

I can’t live in a world so unfair.

We all find it hard to bear.

Fight to the end we must,

to eliminate all the unjust.

 

CHORUS 1

Why is there a gender pay gap?

When will we all become equal?

Words on signs we will slap,

We will fight til it’s equal.

Why is there a gender pay gap?

All the places on the map

have suddenly become a trap.

Why is there a gender pay gap?

 

VERSE 2

You make yourself important by standing on peoples’ necks,

and will do anything to enlarge your own pay cheques.

Why do you think certain people are less than you?

They all love, fear and hate and you do too.

This is like a stab to the core.

We have the right to be paid more.

This type of exclusion

will end in a revolution.

 

CHORUS 2

Why is there a gender pay gap?

When will we all become equal?

Words on signs we will slap,

We will fight til it’s equal.

Why is there a gender pay gap?

All the places on the map

have suddenly become a trap.

Why is there a gender pay gap?

 

BRIDGE

When will we wake up and realise

all of our silent cries

have been pushed aside.

We don’t even get to decide!

So when we wake up it’s a shift, it’s a change.

No more playing small, no more playing in the bad guys’ lanes.

This is more than just a silly song.

Yeah, this is control.

 

CHORUS 3

Why is there a gender pay gap?

When will we all become equal?

Words on signs we will slap,

We will fight til it’s equal.

Why is there a gender pay gap?

All the places on the map

have suddenly become a trap.

Why is there a gender pay gap?