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