"The People's Page"

🗞️ VERSE 1 They said I’d fit best in the footnotes, But I built a marble hall for quotes. From farm to floor of this state dome, I shelved the laws that call us home. 🕊️ CHORUS 🎵 I write the people’s page — bold and true, With ink and grit, with Populist view. Libraries rise where justice leans — I built a state from printed dreams. 💼 VERSE 2 They let me speak, then stood confused, That a woman had such well-worn views. But I’d walked the prairies, heard the cries — And brought their books to reach the skies. 📚 BRIDGE (SPOKEN/SUNG HYBRID) 🗣️ “Why send a woman to the marble tower?” Because she built the base from paper power. An index of dreams. A card file of fight. She lit a match and gave us light. 🎶 CHORUS (LIFTED) 🎵 This is the people’s page — long denied, Now ruled by those who dared and tried. We read, we lead, we won’t erase — This woman wrote the state in place. 🏛️ OUTRO (TRIUMPHANT) The law books still echo my turn of phrase — In libraries built by justice and praise.