In walked a man in the shape of a man Holding a hat-shaped hat He held up two fingers and said ‘how many fingers?" And i said ‘peace man, that’s where it’s at" I said you are what you do in order to Prevent becoming what you’re busy not doing And if you do do […]
You cease to smell the steel plant After you’ve lived there for a while Smoke is snow is ash are leaves that blow Through the air aloft All our houses dim their sliding To the same soot gray style And we hang our laundry out on sundays When they turn the furnaces off Everybody’s daddy […]
It’s not so much that we got closer It’s that her face just go tbigger And by the time it was filling up my whole view I figured my face had got bigger too So i used it ot try and way her Say something to her Make my case But my face Never had […]
Up up up up up up points the Spire of the steeple But god’s work isn’t done by god It’s done by people Up up up up up up points the Fingers of the trees The lumberjacks with their bloody axes Are on their knees And just when you think that you’ve got enough Enough […]
Everest - Ani DiFranco
From the depth of the pacific To the height of everest And still the world is smoother Than a shiny ball-bearing So i take a few steps back And put on a wider lens And it changes your skin, Your sex, and what your wearing Distance shows your silloutte To be a lot like mine […]
Growing up it was just me and my mom Against the world And all my sympathies were with her When i was a little girl But now i’ve seen both my parents Play out the hands they were dealt And as each year goes by I know more about how my father must have felt […]
If the mattress was a table top And the bed sheet was a page We’d be written out Like a couple of question marks My convex to your concave And we’d be lying here At the end of a sentence And asks, are you ready now? Are you gonna glow in the dark? Are you […]
Jukebox - Ani DiFranco
In the jukebox of her memory The list of names flips by and stops She closes her eyes And smiles as the record drops Then she drinks herself up and out Of her kitchen chair And she dances out of time As slow as she can sway For as long as she can say This […]
Come Come away Come away from Come away from it Next to the glass ashtray In a little plastic baggy Is a bitter rock remedy Really good stuff But i take offense to the fact That you’re so hell bent Are you trying to tell me this world Just isn’t beautiful enough? Do you want […]
Virtue - Ani DiFranco
Virtue is relative at best There’s nothing worse than a sunset When you’re driving due west And i’m afraid that my love Is gonna come up short There is no there there I guess i’m scared Cuz i want to have good news to report Every time i come up for air Now i’m cruising […]
