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
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