Revolutionary Love lyrics - Ani Difranco
I will tend my anger
I will tend my grief
I will achieve safety
I will find relief
I'll show myself mercy
I'll show myself respect
Yes, and I'll decide when I'm ready
To forgive but not forget
And I will ask you, I'll ask you questions
I will try, try to understand
And if you give me your story
I will hold it in my hands
Yeah, I will bring the love (the love, the love)
The revolutionary love (the love, the love)
I will bring the love (the love, the love)
The revolutionary love (the love, the love)
I will bring the love (the love, the love)
The revolutionary love (the love, the love)
The revolutionary love
Revolution
Revolution
Revolution
And even if you hurt me
I will not shut down
No, you can't make me hate you
And carry that hate around
I will see no stranger
Only parts of myself I don't yet know
Yes, and I'll see right through evil
To a wound, too scared to show
Yeah, I have the power to stay open
Oh, I have the power to be
The one that I've been waiting for
The one who sets me free
Yeah, I can bring the love (the love, the love)
The revolutionary love (the love, the love)
I can bring the love (the love, the love)
The revolutionary love (the love, the love)
I can bring the love (the love, the love)
The revolutionary love (the love, the love)
The revolutionary love
Oh, well I will tend my anger
I will tend my grief
I will achieve safety
Yeah, I will find relief
Yeah, I'll show myself mercy
I will show myself respect
Yes, and I'll decide when I'm ready
To forgive but not forget
And I'll ask you, ask you questions
I will try, try to understand
And if you give me your story
I will hold it in my hands
And I will bring the love (the love, the love)
The revolutionary love (the love, the love)
I will bring the love (the love, the love)
The revolutionary love (the love, the love)
Yes, I will bring the love (the love, the love)
The revolutionary love (the love, the love)
The revolutionary love
Yes, I can bring the love (the love, the love)
The revolutionary love (the love, the love)
I will bring the love (the love, the love)
The revolutionary love (the love, the love)
I can bring the love (the love, the love)
The revolutionary love (the love, the love)
The revolutionary love
Bad Dream lyrics - Ani Difranco
Don't even think for a second
I had any idea
I thought you'd always want me
Like I wanted you
I just stood there motionless
While you turned on me
By the time I got my wits about me
There was nothing I could do
I was living in a bad dream
Not of my design
Caught up in the spotlight
Of your agitated mind
Minding my own business
Just rolling down the road
Trying not to take it personal
This heavy, heavy load
You can't imagine how far
What was happening
Was from
What was happening
For me
Yeah, what was happening
Floored me
Because I thought that we were perfect
Which is to say
I just knew it was all worth it
Everyday
I would listen to the birds sing
In the morning
But it didn't matter if I turned left or I turned right
It didn't matter if I tossed and turned all night
I just couldn't do nothing right
I was living in a bad dream
Not of my design
Caught up in the spotlight
Of your agitated mind
Minding my own business
Rolling down the road
Trying not to take it personal
This heavy, heavy load
Chloroform lyrics - Ani Difranco
I feel like, if you could see me here
You would have some sort of empathy
But I don't think that that can happen, dear
Now that you've lost the eyes to see
Now that your fever's pulled you down
Into a deep hallucination
Demons and monsters all around
The perfect fix for your fixation
I don't know what you want from me
I kneel by your bedside on my knee
I hold a cold compress to your brow
And still this is all my fault somehow
Somehow
Somehow
I've sterilized all the instruments
I've washed my hands and uniform
I've got lots of experience
I've got lots of chloroform
C'mon sweetheart just lie down
Yes, this is going to hurt at first
But, I promise you, staying in this trance
Is going to hurt you even worse
I don't know what you want from me
I kneel by your bedside on my knee
I hold a cold compress to your brow
And still this is all my fault somehow
Somehow
Somehowi feel like, if you could see me here
You would have some sort of empathy
But I don't think that that can happen, dear
Now that you've lost the eyes to see
Now that your fever's pulled you down
Into a deep hallucination
Demons and monsters all around
The perfect fix for your fixation
I don't know what you want from me
I kneel by your bedside on my knee
I hold a cold compress to your brow
And still this is all my fault somehow
Somehow
Somehow
I've sterilized all the instruments
I've washed my hands and uniform
I've got lots of experience
I've got lots of chloroform
C'mon sweetheart just lie down
Yes, this is going to hurt at first
But, I promise you, staying in this trance
Is going to hurt you even worse
I don't know what you want from me
I kneel by your bedside on my knee
I hold a cold compress to your brow
And still this is all my fault somehow
Somehow
Somehow
Contagious lyrics - Ani Difranco
They go low, you go high
You bring more than your own supply
That dirty game you don't play
That shit's contagious, you stay away
That shit's contagious, you stay away
They go low, you go high
Not taking polls, not doing math
Not trying to steamroll a path
Not trying to calculate, manipulate
The future or the past
That shit's contagious, just stay away
That shit's contagious, just stay away
They go low, you go high
I'm not below you, I'm not above
Yeah in the center, I put love
Yes in our being, we are the same
But are we playing that dirty game?
That shit's contagious, you stay away
They go low, you go high
Do Or Die lyrics - Ani Difranco
Do you ever just wanna give up
Well, me too
Are you shocked by what people get
Get used to
Do you wake up in a cold sweat?
Well, that's sane
Least you got a little brain left
You've got a little brain
'Cause there's foxes in the hen house
And bad news every day
And right there on Pennsylvania Avenue
The sheetless KKK
And there's models wielding microphones
Chasing maniacs around
And everything's on fire
And there's twisters touching down
And I know you got to fight your adrenaline
Just to be a gentleman
And you know I got to fight my amygdala
Just to keep hearing ya
But we can do this if we try
Yeah, if we do this like it's do or die
And we can do this if we try
If we do this like it's do or die
So let's pause
Let us regroup
Let us recover
Let us recoup
Let us remember
That we are charmed
Let us look down at our hands
And remember we're armed
'Cause Yankee Doodle Dandy didn't feel free once
So he used his pen to pick the locks
And Yankee Doodle Dandy did some doozy kind of carpentry
When he fashioned that ballot box
And if you think your vote doesn't matter
Then you're not paying attention
Yeah, everything they do they do to
Keep you from their invention
Yeah, so if you think your vote doesn't matter
Then you're not paying attention
Yeah, everything they do they do to
Keep you from their invention
But we can do this if we try
Yeah, if we do this like it's do or die
And we can do this if we try
If we do this like it's do or die
Do you ever just wanna give up?
Well, me too
Are you shocked by what people get
Get used to?
Do you wake up in a cold sweat?
Well, that's sane
Least you got a little brain left
You've got a little brain
And I know you got to fight your adrenaline
Just to be a gentleman
And I know I got to fight my amygdala
Just to keep hearing ya
But we can do this if we try
If we do this like it's do or die
We can do this if we try
If we do this like it's do or die
Shrinking Violet lyrics - Ani Difranco
Mostly I'm afraid
Never again will I know
That I can trust your love
Far as I can throw it
Mostly I'm afraid
Never again will I be sure
That while you are sleepwalking you won't
Become what you endured
Mostly I'm afraid of ya
Mostly I'm afraid of ya
Mostly I'm afraid of ya
I sleep with one eye open
And I hold my breath til dawn
I'm no shrinking violet
But I got my head screwed on
You stood over me with a knife
And you tried to take my life
And it's no comfort you don't remember
It's no comfort that you've moved on
There's nothing I can say
Beyond this whispered wish
Your anger has a hunger, mister
And I'm its favorite dish
There's nothing I can say
So I don't make a sound
I just wipe the counter and I
I keep my head down
There's nothing I can say to ya
There's nothing I can say to ya
There's nothing I can say to ya
I sleep with one eye open
And I hold my breath til dawn
No, I'm no shrinking violet
But I got my head screwed on
You stood over me with a knife
And you tried to take my life
And it's no comfort you don't remember
It's no comfort that we've moved on
It's no comfort that we've moved on
It's no comfort that we've moved on
Metropolis lyrics - Ani Difranco
A city of a body
A metropolis of cells
If you listen to it closely
You can hear the ringing bells
You can hear the cry of seagulls
Always so much to say
Stumbling to the kitchen
Fog lifting off the bay
Just an innocent game
Of musical chairs
Easy as a ball
Rolling down stairs
Truth is, I just got lucky
Weren't really up to me
When the music stopped
And I was sittin' on your knee
I've been mapping your coastline
Now for a thousand years
My skin is made of leather
But not as tough as it appears
Always another inlet
How far do you dare to go?
Cuz there is this place called infinite
That your instruments don't show
A city of a body
A metropolis of cells
If you listen to it closely
You can hear the ringin' bells
You can hear the cry of seagulls
Always so much to say
Stumbling to the kitchen
Fog lifting off the bay
Simultaneously lyrics - Ani Difranco
I live in two different worlds
Simultaneously
The one I seem to live in
And the one that lives in me
And one is full of violence
Oppression and disrespect
And one is full of longing
To breathe and to connect
Yeah, my inner world is fragile
And the outer world is dumb
And this whole thing is such a hassle
Won't you wake me when it's done?
I live in two different worlds
Simultaneously
The one where we are fractured
And the one where we are free
Freedom requires safety
Freedom requires trust
Freedom requires balance
In the equation of us
Yes, my inner world is fragile
And the outer world is dumb
And this whole thing is such a hassle
Won't you wake me when it's done?
When it's done...
I live in two different worlds
Simultaneously
And between them is a chasm
Unfolding unfathomably
And in that chasm, a shadow
And in that shadow I stand
Facing towards the light
Nothing in my hands
My inner world is fragile
And the outer world is dumb
And this whole thing is such a hassle
Won't you wake me when it's done?
When it's done...
Crocus lyrics - Ani Difranco
Looks like we maybe made it through
Something wild
I can hardly even let myself believe it
Inside
Yesterday I even heard you laugh
Took it like a bird bath
It has been a long long long long time
Since it felt like that
When the longest coldest winter
Finally lets go
And the first purple crocus
Pokes up through the snow
All the world can go to hell
If I'm right with you
Then all is well
When you open up the doors
And the windows too
When you open up the channel
Between me and you
All those nagging questions
Just start answering themselves
Let the spring wind blow in
And dust off all your shelves
When the longest coldest winter
Finally lets go
And the first purple crocus
Pokes up through the snow
All the world can go to hell
If I'm right with you
Then all is well
Baby Roe lyrics - Ani Difranco
I think we might be wrong about all of it
In fact, it's been proven
Keeps coming down to this shitty little interface
That we're using
The very edges of our knowing
Is just the tiny tip that's showing
But we're so wigged out
Yeah, we're so devout
To this waking dream
What's playing on the screen
And you just never know
Do you, baby roe?
It's all absurd
But even you maintain
Timing is everything
When you're stepping
Off a curb
And if you think this life
Is your only life
You're a fool
No, spirit can't be stopped
No matter who gives birth to who
No, spirit won't be stopped
No matter who gives birth to who
The path of least suffering
Leaves the best trail
The path of least suffering
It don't matter which side of the veil
It don't matter which side of the veil
I think we might be wrong about all of it
Brass In Pocket lyrics - Ani Difranco
(originally by The Pretenders)
Got brass in pocket
Got bottle, I'm gonna use it
Intention, I feel inventive
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice
Got motion, restrained emotion
Been driving, Detroit leaning
No reason, just seems so pleasing
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice
Gonna use my arms
Gonna use my legs
Gonna use my style
Gonna use my sidestep
Gonna use my fingers
Gonna use my, my, my imagination
'Cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here
No one like me
I'm special (special), so special (special)
I gotta have some of your attention
Give it to me
Got rhythm, I can't miss a beat
Got new skank, it's so neat
I got something, and I'm winking at you
I gonna make you, make you, make you notice
Gonna use my arms
Gonna use my legs
Gonna use my style
Gonna use my sidestep
Gonna use my fingers
Gonna use my, my, my imagination, oh
'Cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here
No one like me
I'm special (special), so special (special)
I gotta have some of your attention
Give it to me
'Cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here
No one like me
I'm special (special), so special (special)
I gotta have some of your attention
Give it to me
Give it to me
Give it to me
Disorders lyrics - Stone Gossard & Ani DiFranco
One disorder
Or another
It's a lot to process
So much for due process
Can I take your order?
Can I take how you ignored her?
Can I even pique your interest?
Buy me time to get dressed
If you know, then you know
How your grip can just let go
How the meaning can get missed
Once you know how it feels
To not exist
I have entered into
Negotiations
With the blissful abyss
Of disassociation
And all that it implies
While you weaponize
Your ejaculations
One fire
Or another
It's a lot to process
I just need an egress
Your importance
Has reached global proportions
It's a lot to process
I guess this is my process
I have entered into
Negotiations
With the blissful abyss
Of disassociation
And all that it implies
While you weaponize...
I don't give a fuck what you think you know
Look at you, you don't know
I don't give a fuck what you think you know
Look at you, you don't know
I don't give a fuck what you think you know
Look at you
I don't give a fuck what you think you know
Look at you, you don't know
I don't give a fuck what you think you know
Look at you...
Hide And Seek lyrics - Ani Difranco
Me and the other kids from the neighborhood
We played out on the street all summer long
Rule was, we had to go home at night when the street lights came on
We were oblivious to the rest of the world
And we'd hold up the cars in the street
And we'd always play boys against girls, and both sides would cheat
Strange men would stop their cars at the curb
And say, "hey, sweetheart, come here."
I'd go up to the window and they'd have their dick out in their hand
And a sick little sneer
I'd say, "here we go again
Yeah, ok, this time you win."
And I'd feel dirty, I'd feel ashamed
But I wouldn't let it stop my game
We would play hide and go seek
And territory would be the whole block
Sometimes the older boys, when they'd find you
They wouldn't want to tag you, they'd just wanna "talk."
They'd say "what would you do for a quarter?
Come on, we don't have much time."
Then I'd think for a minute and say,"ok, give me the quarter first... fine."
This time you win
Here we go again
And I would feel dirty and I'd feel ashamed
But I wouldn't let it stop my game
I remember my first trip alone on the greyhound bus
A man put his hands on me as soon as night fell
I remember when I was leaving, how excited I was
I remember when I arrived, I didn't feel so well
I remember a teacher in school that got me so sick, so scared
That I went into the bathroom and threw up in my hair
And I could go on and on, it just gets worse
And I should probably stop
Girl, next time he wants to know what your problem is
Girl, next time he wants to know where the anger comes from
Just tell him this time the problem's his
Tell him the anger just comes
It just comes
The Knowing lyrics - Ani Difranco
(from the Ani DiFranco Children's Book: The Knowing)
I have a name
And my name has a story
I have a look
A sound
A smell
A shape
A size
I have a color to my hair my skin my eyes
But this is not all of who I am
Underneath this is something more
All of these things are just what's showing
Underneath all that I know is The Knowing
Underneath all that I know is The Knowing
I have a favorite blanket it's a little torn
I have a family and a place where I was born
I have a favorite song and a favorite food
I have a favorite game depending on my mood
But this is not all of who I am
Underneath this is something more
All of these things are just what's showing
Underneath all that I know is The Knowing
Underneath all that I know is The Knowing
I have a life
That I am here to live
I have gifts that I am here to give
I have friends and with my friends I have fun
I have a love of the wind and of the sun
Yes, I can take heart in what's showing
Knowing it's all a part of The Knowing
Yes, I can take part in what's showing
Knowing we're all a part of The Knowing
I have beliefs and someday those beliefs might change
I have blocks that I like to arrange and rearrange
There are things that I'm told and things that I learn
There are skills I've practiced and praise I've earned
But this is not all of who I am
Underneath this is something more
All of these things are just what's showing
Underneath all that I know is The Knowing
Underneath all that I know is The Knowing
Underneath all that I know is The Knowing
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