Ani DiFranco

'tis of thee they caught the last poor man on a poor man's vacation they cuffed him and confiscated his stuff they dragged his black ass down to the station and said, ok, the streets are safe now all your pretty white children can come out and see spot run an...

Second intermission, anticipation; you know the third act- Small talk drops out of the play. You're standing in the lobby, tightening your tourniquet, waiting for it waiting for it. And the bell sounds, and the lights flash. There's all these questions milli...

squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some and I'm beyond your peripheral vision so you might want to turn your head cause someday you're going to get hungry an...

you gotta have the right tools for every job so I invite myself in through a hole in the fence I am tripping through the junkyard scanning over the piles the thin cats raise their skin in defense I know he's watching me I can see him through the cracks his eye...

When the joy had left your body And you were locked into your own pulse You used to love to sit by the water And watch it lapping on the rocks And every time you put your feet in You cry out and you pray But its all downhill from here, baby So naturally, I can...

I will not lie down On the wrongful ground or play While it's still a radical sound Just to call a spade a spade Dear friends, women and men Please check my math once more In the totality of all war's history There's but one common denominator The answer is in...

tonight you stooped to my level i am your mangy little whore you are trying to find your underwear and then your socks and then the door and you're trying to find a reason why you have to leave i know it's 'cuz you think you're adam and you think i'm eve you...

Everywhere she looks She looks through the corner of her eye Everytime she left She never turned to say goodbye Swaying in the corner of the ballroom Alone by the music She looked like a spiderweb Fresh from the war He complements her bedroom decor She crawle...

I love you And you love me And ain't that that way It's supposed to be? I swing my stick legs 'round from the root And I pile drive each foot into a platform boot 'Cause I'm up and I'm out cuz I'm bouncing off the walls And I come when you called and you ca...

What dreams cause me To abandon my pillow each night? Push away each of them, in fact Since there always seem to be more than one Then wake to aching stiff neck twisted Tits and face smashed against the mattress Legs and arms akimbo Like the high pitched body...

Look here I just tattooed A wedding band On what looks like to me My mother's hand I'm no blushing girl No innocent dove It took me a long time to find love But now I have no doubt And I never will That I am meant to be loving you And it fairly blew...

i will not stand immersed, in this ultra violent curse i won't let you make a tool of me i will keep my mind and body free bye bye minutiae of the day to day drama, i'm expanding exponentially, i am consciousness without identity i am many things, made of eve...

amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me i once was lost but now i'm found was blind but now i see 'twas grace that taught my heart to fear and grace that fear relieved how precious did that grace appear the hour i first believed through...

Wouldn’t it be nice if We had an amendment To give civil rights to Women To once and for all just Really lay it down from The point of view of women I know what you’re thinking That’s just redundant Chicks got it good now They can almost be presiden...

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 gonn...

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 i...

More and more there is this animal Looking out through my eyes At all the traffic on the road to nowhere At all the shiny stuff around to buy At all the wires in the air At all the people shopping For the same blank stare At america the drastic That isolated g...

you are subtle as a window pane standing in my view but I will wait for it to rain so that I can see you you call me up at night when there's no light passing through and you think that I don't understand but I do we don't say everything that we could so that...

I will lean into you and you can be the wind I will open up my mouth and you can come rushing in you can rush in so hard and make it so I can't breathe I breathe too much anyway I can do that anyday I just wish I knew who you were I wish you'd make yourself k...

you can't hide behind social graces so don't try to be all touchy feely cuz you lie in my face of all places but i've got no problem with that really what bugs me is that you believe what you're saying what bothers me is that you don't know how you feel wh...

Asked You First Things can't get much weirder This can't get much worse Don't know why you wouldn't kiss me But it's a good thing I asked you first. You were a big strapping boy with a boner. And I felt it in your goodbye You gave me an evening I'll never for...

I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind I want somebody who has a tortured soul some of the time I want somebody who will either put out for me or put me out of misery or maybe just put it all to words and make me say,...

my lipstick jumped ship to a styrofoam cup with the coffee gone the conversation strong all I got left to give baby, is up but sentiments like shadows grow oh so long guess I gotta go don't get up don't cry it's really very simple just kiss my cheek and say g...

Back, back, back in the back of your mind Are you learning an angry language? Tell me boy, boy, boy are you tending to your joy Or are you just letting it vanquish? Back, back, back in the dark of your mind Where the eyes of your demons are gleaming Are you m...

I said Venice You heard Vegas Now I say either way Baby let's go I get so shaky And I just can't shake it I bliss like this I'm one of those But I don't wanna wear you Wear you like a band-aid Wave you like a ticket Out of my good grief I just wanna know you...

sitting in the boardroom the I'm-so-bored room listening to the suits talk about their world they can make straight lines out of almost anything except for the line of my upper lip when it curls dressed in my best greasy skin and squinty eyes I'm the only part...

You broke me bodily The heart ain't the half of it And I'll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way In fact I'm laughing less in general But I learned a lot at my own funeral And I knew you'd be the death of me So I guess that's the price I pay I'm...

I'm not hurting anyone I'm just telling my truth and if there if there is something wrong then maybe there's something wrong with you what's the big deal get over it relax just 'cause I do up in your face what other people do behind your back why we all gotta...

I am walking out in the rain and I am listening to the low moan of the dial tone again and I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let it go and I can't get through... the old woman behind the pink curtains and the closed door on the first floor she's listen...

she sat there like a photograph of someone much further away we shared a brief bus stop on one of those inbetween days she gave me her smile and I looked underneath at the lipstick on her teeth she asked me for a light and if I thought her hair looked okay we...

I hated to pop the bubble Of me and you But it only held enough oxygen For a trip or two To the moon and back again Tell me, do you remember when Our love had such grace We were floating above this whole place It's dawn on the corner Where the city tests its...

Buildings and bridges are made to bend in the wind to withstand the world, that's what it takes All that steel and stone is no match for the air, my friend what doesn't bend breaks what doesn't bend breaks we are made to bleed and scab and heal and bleed agai...

You cried and you cried and you cried wolf So it took me a minute to understand That you really were hurt bad That day you deeply cut your hand And then that look that you gave me Sent me rushing through guilt's door I'd already started to feel callous Like I...

How pleased can one sun setting make you If you humble yourself to it? How grateful can you really say that you are Just to he here and live through it? And when beauty asks a guestion How often do you reply? How often do you wonder About life on the other si...

Amber called her uncle, said "We're up here for the holiday, Jane and I were having Solstice, now we need a place to stay." And her Christ-loving uncle watched his wife hang Mary on the tree, He watched his son hang candy canes all made with red dye number thr...

standing just outside the circle of light avoiding the pool cues watching the game waiting for you hanging in the doorway like smoke like mistletoe this is where I'll be whenever you come or go I'm gonna roll you over gonna peel you back expose your tender ce...

ive been wondering what you meant when you asked do you have a light? ive been wondering where you went when you left that party that night cloud blood sweat smeared on the sky its dawns roadkill ive been driving since midnight and im driving still stop on th...

You are listening to the phone ring Like a church bell sounding out the hour. And the ringing cuts the silence Like a knife leaving little pieces left of your life. You are watching the night shadows grow tall s Swallowing you in terror like the foot on the wa...

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 eno...

our father who art in a penthouse sits in his 37th floor suite and swivels to gaze down at the city he made me in he allows me to stand and sollicit graffiti until he needs the land I stand on I in my darkened threshold am pawing through my pockets the receipt...

What's the point Of all this pointless proximity If you won't talk Take me for a walk Through a little story All these years Have made me sick to tears Of such mysteries Why should I keep you If you won't keep me Company? Til I get to know you I ain't gonna...

fourteenth street and the garbage swirls like a cyclone three o'clock in the afternoon and I am going home F train is full of high school students so much shouting so much laughter last night's underwear in my back pocket sure sign of the morning after take m...

the big day has come the bell is sounding i run my hands through my hair one last time outside the prison walls the town is gathering people are trading crime for crime everyone needs to see the prisoner they need to make it even easier they see me as a symbo...

Step up and forfeit your frontal lobe To the sexed up stroll of celebrity Never mind that the nanoseconds in between Are some of the darkest darkness that you've ever seen Keep your eye on my finger And listen to the sound of my voice Get your subliminal decr...

cold and drizzly night in chicago's deep dish fluorescent light of the bathroom shows my hands as they are see an eyelash on my cheek pick it off and make a wish and walk back out into the bar wind at the windows neon lights the patterned pane the waitress wi...

life used to be life-like now it's more like showbiz i wake up in the night and i don't know where the bathroom is and i don't know what town i'm in or what sky i am under and i wake up in the darkness and i don't have the will anymore to wonder everyone has a...

Lots of folks back East, they say, is leavin' home every day, Beatin' the hot old dusty way to the California line. 'Cross the desert sands they roll, gettin' out of that old dust bowl, They think they're goin' to a sugar bowl, but here's what they find -- Now...

perpetrating counter-culture she is walking through the park first light ugly and more muscular than the dark pushing poems at the urban silence drawing portraits of the passers-by sitting on the curb combining traffic sounds getting dirty looks and dirty jean...

the wind is ruthless the trees shake angry fingers at the sky the people hunch their shoulders hold their collars over their earsand run by it's a cold rain it's a hard rain like the kind that you find in songs i guess that makes methe jerk with the heartache...

Looks like my crazy family Is down one crazy daughter cuz I'm shipwrecked in a desert that Once was underwater just Looking for a swift turn of phrase Some colors to fly As I float by In the parade Plus I dream in skin scented sentences Of a stronger faste...

I saw on the poster my name was printed just a little bit smaller I can tell you need to stand just a little bit taller no one ever talks about it but no one can disguise the cloud of competition that's hanging behind their eyes there's more bad blood in this...

Emancipated minor Well directed, brilliantly casted Riding a Greyhound down to the city With her fake I.D. and a hell of a little hand basket Little game of seesaw, then he came to claim her And then a sordid line formed behind him Reproductive system newly a...

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 b...

I'm imagining your frame every angle and every plane I'm imagining your smell the one that mingled with mine once upon a time thoughts of you are picketing my brain they refuse to work such long hours without rest in unstable conditions at best they're out the...

I got pulled over in west Texas so they could look inside my car he said are you an american citizen I said yes sir so far they made sure I wasn't smuggling someone in from Mexico someone willing to settle for america 'cause there's nowhere else to go and eve...

I walk in stride with people much taller than me and partly it's the boots but mostly it's my chi and I'm becoming transfixed with nature and my part in it which I believe just signifies I'm finally waking up and there's this moth outside my kitchen door she...

some guy tried to rub up against me in a crowded subway car some guy tried to feed me some stupid line in some stupid bar I see the same shit everyday the landscape looks so bleak I think I'll take the first one of you's home that does something unique some c...

For lee I'm cement, but behind the buttons on my blouse My heart is bent between fair weather and a woman who may never be. A woman who would be me. Or the smell of women with a recipe. All those voices stirring jealousy into the sounds cooking in me. Well, I...

You give me that look that's like laughing with liquid in your mouth like you're choosing between choking and spitting it all out like you're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling and falling is like this Feels like reckle...

She was cuffed to the truth like the truth was a chair Bright interrogation light in her eyes And her conscience lit a cigarette, just stood there Waiting for her to crack, waiting for her to cry And his face scampered through her mind Like a roach across a w...

I am wading through the waters wanting you. I don't dare look cause I'll see right through. I tried to warm myself to sleep, but now I'm wading way too deep. I can't scream my sirens any higher, cause I'm bound to find a fire. I can smell your closeness though...

I opened the fire door to four lips none of which were mine kissing tightened my belt around my hips where your hands were missing and stepped out into the cold collar high under the slate grey sky the air was smoking and the streets were dry and I wasn't joki...

she's looking in the mirror she's fixing her hair and I touch my head to feel what isn't there she's humming a melody we learned in grade school she's so happy and I think this is not cool 'cause I know the guy she's been talking about I have met him before an...

you wander into the forest following that shiny red ball and by the time you looked up you were lost, that's not all instead of being the hero boy he finds his way and emerges a man you just start cutting me down tree by tree as fast as you can oh say can yo...

life in the circus ain't easy but the folks on the outside don't know the tent goes up and the tent comes down and all that they see is the show and the ladies on the horses look so pretty and the lions are lookin real mad and some of the clowns are happy and...

They were digging a new foudation in Manhattan And they discovered a slave cemetary there May their souls rest easy Now that lynching is frowned upon And we've moved on to the electric chair And I wonder who's gonna be president, tweedle dum or tweedle dummer?...

some crazy fucker carved a sculpture out of butter and propped it up in the middle of the bonanza breakfast bar and i am stuffing toast and sausage into my pockets under a sign that says grand opening while my dog is waiting in the car i wake up, i check...

sitting in my glasshouse while your ghost is sleeping down the hall watching the little birds fly kamikaze missions into the walls think i'm gonna stay in today sit on my couch and watch them fall [drums] life just keeps getting harder keeps getting harder to...

state trooper thinks I drive too fast pulled me over to tell me so I say out here on the prarie any speed is too slow I miss brooklyn I miss my crew let's start over I missed my cue guess I just forgot who I was talking to I should have recognized that fierce...

you can't get through it you can't get over it you can't get around just like in a dream you'll open your mouth to scream and you won't make a sound you can't believe your eyes you can't believe your ears you can't believe your friends you can't believe you'...

Going once, going twice Sold to the girl Who ignored all the advice Of all the people who knew better She just stood there On the front porch Waiting for her will To come and get her She was packed She had a suitcase Full of noble intentions She had a map And...

A throat with a heart in it stuck in traffic A ticket and a mind to fly, an alarm clock still drunk and high Sanity painted her mask on all the way across town A compact frown projected on a retina upside down You're an avalanche of detour signs falling off a...

it was good good to see you again good to meet your girlfriend I'll try not to wonder where you are when you go outside to kiss her in the front seat of your car it is good good to be back home how I missed this time zone strangers are exciting their mystery...

I love my country By which I mean I am indebted joyfully To all the people throughout its history Who have fought the government to make right Where so many cunning sons and daughters Our foremothers and forefathers Came singing through slaughter Came through...

thank you for letting me stay here thank you for taking me in thank you for the beer and the food thank you for loaning me bus fare thank you for showing me around that was a very kind thing to do thank you for the use of the clean towel thank you for half of...

i heard the sound of your bike, as your wheels hit the gravel, then your engine in the driveway cutting off and i pushed through the screen door and i stood out on the porch thinking figh, fight, fight at all costs, but instead i let you in, just like i've...

The sky is grey, the sand is grey, and the ocean is grey. I feel right at home in this stunning monochrome, alone in my way. I smoke and I drink and every time I blink I have a tiny dream. But as bad as I am I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem....

You start trippin And i start slippin away I was taught to zip it If i got nothin nice to say And down in the texas of my heart Driving a really big truck Headed down a dirt road My love is scrunchin up its features The really big eyes Big lips, big nose Just...

He was a handsome musician But he had an ugly scar You could not see it on him But you could hear it when he played guitar Naked and nervous silence Therefore conversation to abuse Stood between us like a parent Like a game we had to lose He kept an eye on t...

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...

I don't want to strive for nothing anymore, I just want to lie here with you, keep the wolves outside the door, there is nothing in this world you could ever show me that could ever matter more. Little baby in the next room dreaming, is just icing on th...

it's a heartbreak even situation nothing lost and nothing gained so i'm 10 years old again standing in the backyard waving at a train i feel you make love to me slightly every time you let a little laugh slip too soon and the moment passes over us so light...

life is a b movie it's stupid and it's strange a directionless story and the dialouge is lame but in the he said she said sometimes there's some poetry if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally oh, yeah hell yeah I got a face like a limp h...

hold me down i am floating away into the overcast skies over my home town on election day what is it about birmingham? what is it about buffalo? did the hate filled wanna build bunkers in your beautiful red earth they want to build them in our shiny white sno...

I bet you're wondering if you woke today just to learn why the caged bird sings I bet you're wondering if the goddesses are all crazy or just keeping it interesting situated slightly outside society at odds with its odd offerings I bet you're teetering on the...

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...

hour follows hour like water follows water everything is governed by the rule of one thing leads to another you can't really place blame cuz blame is much to messy some was bound to get on you while you were tryin to put it on me and don't fool yourself into...

you could always hear the rub squeaking of those two tree limbs 'til one day one of them came down taken down by the wind but on the one that's still there you can still see where the bark was rubbed bare it's a metaphor if you know what I mean how have you be...

two years ago before we felt so familiar and before I could remember your last name I remember now how our bright spring green deepened with the heat as the seasons changed we were lush as the underside of august. the streets looked like water. they swelled an...

Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall. She sees the bartender in a pool of blood, Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!" Here comes the story of the Hurricane, The man the authorities came to blame For someth...

So that's how you found me Rain falling around me Lookin down at a worm With a long way to go And the traffic was hissing by And i was homesick And i was high I was surrounded by a language In which i could say only hello And thank you very much But you spoke...

I know this bar With a jukebox full of medicine And christmas lights blinking Around a clouded mirror Its not that far From Voelkers Bowling alley Just go up there and turn right Its about 3 blocks from here You'll probably find grace Her shift starts at happ...

you think I wouldn't have him unless I could have him by the balls you think I just dish it out you don't think I take it at all you think I am stronger you think I walk taller than the rest you think I'm usually wearing the pants just 'cause I rarely wear a d...

seems like you just started noticing how noticably bad things really are and when you walked past this couple arguing in a rolled up window of a parked car and all of that gesticulated bitterness and all of that muffled yelling hell its dark just starts waftin...

I'm invincible so are you we do all the things they say we can't do we walk around in the middle of the night and if it's too far to walk we just hitch a ride we got rings of dirt around our necks we talk like auctioneers and we bounce like checks we smell li...

standing like john wayne she is full framed she is center stage and my imagination is rattling in its cage I didn't really notice when everything else disappeared but as far as I'm concerned if it isn't her it isn't here she says do I know you I say well, no,...

If you’re not, if you’re not If you’re not, if you’re not If you’re not getting happier as you get older Then you’re fuckin’ up If you’re not, if you’re not If you’re not, if you’re not If you’re not aware that what you put out Is what you get back Th...

Imagine that I'm on stage, Under a watchtower of punishing light. And in the haze is your face bathed in shadow, And what's beyond you is hidden from sight. And somebody right now is yawning, And watching me like a TV, And I've been frantically piling up sand...

I'm okay if you get me at a good angle and you're okay in the sort of light and we don't look like pages from a magazine but that's all right that's all right I crashed your pickup truck and then I had to drive it back home I was crying I was so scared of wha...

even when i look right at you i always just see through and i always just see new things to admire about you am i what you thought you were getting? does this love we make make you proud? does it look like it did on the menu minus, of course, the little da...

guess there's something wrong with me guess I don't fit in no one wants to touch it no one knows where to begin I've got more than one membership to more than one club and I owe my life to the people that I love he looks me up and down like he knows what time...

Such an intent stare One eye at a time Your talons like fish hooks You are a rare bird The kind I wouldn't even mind Writing in the margins of my books Sometimes I see myself Through the eyes of a stray dog From an alley across the street And my whole missio...

no you didn't just leave I actually kicked you out I couldn't hardly believe that the words came out my mouth you couldn't hardly believe what you heard yourself discuss and you packed up all your things and you said goodbye to us tell me what is in the way i...

we drove the car to the top of the parking ramp on the 4th of july we sat out on the hood with a couple of warm beers and watched the fireworks explode in the sky and there was an exodus of birds from the trees but they didnt know, we were only pretending and...

I am evening the score I am cutting the umbilical cord curled with my teeth against my knees I am scratching at my consciousness like a bitch with fleas I think you'll be greatly pleased to learn that yours was the hardest itch to relieve this is me without m...

Can’t sit on my porch and smoke a J And remember how peaceful life can be But all night long are a bunch of pushers Selling drugs right there on my TV Drugs that whether or not I buy Are gonna end up in my water supply Along with who knows what else, who...

i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world i do it because it's the least i can do i do it because i learned it from you i do it just because i want to because I want to everything...

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 da...

i love us both but i don't feel good so i keep pulling over and looking under the hood i love us both but i'm at wit's end where does your compromise begin and mine end? i love us both but what world's it gonna be? the one according to you or the one according...

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 a chance all alo...

That's just my cowgirl alter-ego Riding on her bar room bull Dripping with the sweat of irony As the cowboys whoop and drool Shooting glances at the mirror To see if her scar is showing She is truly going nowhere tonight Lecherous old lady wanna-be Much too y...

There's really no hope for me And that three second rule Somethin gets dropped And still I'm the slowest damn fool Slow to realize what's really going on Slow to know in a moment Who or what has gone wrong I wanna tighten down on the lag time Your consonants...

Hey little bag of sugar floating in your biosphere, summon up the courage to put down your landing gear and come out here, Cuz i am as exaused as a drowning polar bear swimming around looking for a ride and its so god awful hot outside. Quit kicking me in the...

don't ask me why I'm crying I'm not going to tell you what's wrong I'm just gonna sit on your lap for five dollars a song I want you to pay me for my beauty I think it's only right 'cause I have been paying for it all of my life I'm gonna take the money I mak...

I am letting the telephone ring cause I don't want to know why I don't want to hear you explain I don't want to hear you cry I have written so much about you so much I thought I knew words like water used to flow now what could I possibly have to say? she is s...

Every time I open my mouth I take off my clothes I'm raw and frostbitten from being exposed I got red scabby hands and purple scabby feet And you can smell me coming from halfway down the street And I remember that old hotel had quite the smell where...

i wish i didn't have this nervous laugh i wish i didn't say half the stuff i say i wish i could just learn to cover my tracks i guess i'm not concerned about getting away 'cause every time i try to hold my tongue it slips like a fish from a line they say if y...

In a coffee shop in a city Which is every coffee shop in every city On a day which is every day I picked up a magazine Which is every magazine Read a story, and then forgot it right away They say goldfish have no memory I guess their lives are much like mine...

I am looking for the holes the holes in your jeans because I want to know are they worn out in the seat or are they worn out in the knees there are so many ways to wear what we've got before it's gone to make use of what is there I don't wear anything I can't...

you've always got those dark sunglasses covering up your face but if you promise to take them off i promise i won't squander your gaze i will be picturesque i will be nice i won't do anything you can't tell your wife i will think before i act i will think twic...

I opened a bank account when I was nine years old I closed it when I was eighteen I gave them every penny that I'd saved and they gave my blood and my urine a number now I'm sitting in this waiting room playing with the toys and I am here to exercise my freedo...

I'm gonna turn and walk away you can wait til I am far along then run and come and catch my arm and say you'd die if I were gone I want to hear you call my name it's too easy just to say it soft I don't like my language watered down I don't like my edges round...

my breast is cradled in the curve of my guitar I'm breaking strings and other things playing hard no I'm not on the rag but I'm not on the run I am matching the big boys one for one and I must admit, I'm having myself some fun because the music business is st...

I'm holding here a book Notable, but not the greatest Stolen for me by the latest In a long line of thieves And I'm just about to drop it Down that manhole of memories When I realize it doesn't bother me Like love's mementos usually do And I look up to see who...

I’ll be the right hand You’ll be the left hand You and me we make A mariachi band Standing on the corner Waiting for the light When you’re around I Always feel alright From the Painted Desert Over to Paris, France I followed your pointed Finger wi...

the answer came like a shot in the back while you were running from your lesson, which might explain why years later all you could remember was the terror of the question. plus, you weren't listening hard, you were stockpiling canned goods and making a bomb sh...

Millennium theater Get out there and buy that water and gas Ramadan orange alert Everybody put on your gas mask First leak it out about the president Then stand up and shout "impeachment" Pulling coat tails out from under that little V.P. Before he has a chan...

You wandered in To the forest Following that shiny red ball And by the time you looked up You were lost But that's not all You confused your journey With my journey You tried to nail me Like minerva to your bow But my job here Is not to deliver you But to hol...

In order to Say thank you to you I must do it intentionally But tonight with every breath I can feel my death Sure as I can feel my knees You were my modulation So that's what you will always be We took each other higher We set each other free Course, neithe...

Most of the time I'm clear focused all around Most of the time I can keep both feet on the ground I can follow the path, I can read the sign I can stay right with it, and the road unwinds I can handle whatever I stumble upon I don't even notice that she's gone...

when I was four years old they tried to test my I.Q. they showed me a picture of 3 oranges and a pear they said, which one is different? it does not belong they taught me different is wrong but when I was 13 years old I woke up one morning thighs covered in bl...

My name is Lisa Kalvelage, I was born in Nuremberg And when the trials were held there nineteen years ago It seemed to me ridiculous to hold a nation all to blame For the horrors that the world did undergo A short while later when I applied to be a G. I. bride...

I know so many white people I mean, where do I start? the trouble with white people is you can't tell them apart I'm so bad with names and dates and times but I'm big on faces that is, except for mine I believe you when you tell me we've met before this time...

they told you your music could reach millions that the choice was up to you you told me they always pay for lunch and they believe in what i do and i wonder if you miss your old friends once you've proven what you're worth yeah i wonder when you're a big star...

I hate you sometimes But I love to be your queen You are my muse Got me smoking nicotine I watch you sometimes From oh so far away But I can't forget you Or anything you said You sang that song in my ear And it tickled those tiny hairs Love is a puzzle Some...

Girl, what are you gonna do with this time? You are on your own with a question on your mind. Ain't it a funny thing to accept that you are the worst company that you have ever kept? What are you gonna do? You are living all alone, there's no place to go ou...

The warmth of north main street Shows me how I took myself through Illogical landscapes with you Scribbling on napkins in foreign ports All sorts of sidewalks I don't traverse anymore All kinds of people I don't write into the score Well I see you drive your...

I am not a pretty girl that is not what I do I ain't no damsel in distess and I don't need to be rescued so put me down punk maybe you'd prefer a maiden fair isn't there a kitten stuck up a tree somewhere I am not an angry girl but it seems like I've...

In a forest of stone underneath the corporate canopy where the sun rarely filters down the ground is not so soft not so soft they build buildings to house people making money or they build buildings to make money off of housing people it's true like a lot of...

if you ask me i'll say yes please to you today so don't ask me cuz i'm weak that way just don't ask me o.k. i'm so glad we got that straightened away if you see me walk by you better just let me walk by you better not bat your pretty eyes you better not stop...

your body forshortened below your shoulders your face so close it's out of focus way down the hallway comes the sound of your shoes this is when I think about when I think about you if we let our love off of it's leash do you fear like I fear how fierce it wo...

i'll sing you a song that starts out descriptive and locates a time and a place like a dinner table where a whole family is just sitting down to say grace an old old song that moves into action taking its sweet sweet time and waits until we all say amen again...

death has been your lover he has brought you the edges of your life and now you are looking over and all we can say is it's gonna be all right and I am looking forward to looking back on these days when on every corner someone holds a sign that says I'm homele...

I come to your town Like thirsty lips to a cup I come to your town And I wanna call you up I don't know how you feel But I hope you feel the same I've broken every speed limit in your name Sometimes I just wanna bury my head in a hole Tell me do you have the k...

I come to your town Like thirsty lips to a cup I come to your town And I wanna call you up I don't know how you feel But I hope you feel the same I've broken every speed limit in your name Sometimes I just wanna bury my head in a hole Tell me do you have the k...

I am an all powerful amazon warrior Not just some sniveling girl So no matter what I think I need You know I can't possibly Have a need in this world Come and come for that sweet sweetness I'll be your never ending vending machine I could never need to be alo...

the butter melts out of habit the toast isn't even warm the waitress and the man in the plaid shirt play out a scene they've played so many times before I am watching the sun stumble home in the morning from a bar on the east side of town and the coffee is jus...

just the thought of our bed makes me crumble like the plaster where you punched the wall beside my bed and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time boys get locked up in some prison girls get locked up in some house...

no no no no no no no no no no no no no more no no no no no no no no no no no no no more no no no no more it's gonna be sudden it's gonna be strange i'm gonna turn on a dime give you five cents change it's gonna be long overdue it's all gonna come out outta me...

I search your profile for a translation I study the conversation like a map 'cause I know there is strength in the differences between us and I know there is comfort where we overlap come here stand in front of the light stand still so I can see your sillouet...

pale purple nipples goose pimpled she shivers shifts from a walk to a trot alone in the city infested with faces immune to new friendships interested in places she's never seen she says everything is grey here and nothing is green the girls from down the stree...

I was born to two immigrants Who knew why they were here They were happy to pay taxes For the schools and roads Happy to be here They took it seriously The second job of citizenry My mother went campaigning door to door And holding to her hand was me I was ju...

Thirty-three years go by And not once do you come home To find a man sitting in your bedroom That is A man you don't know Who came a long way to deliver one very specific message: Lock your back door, you idiot However invincible you imagine yourself to be You...

You're a wild one I like your smile You do amazing things And I can't believe you're everything You've got perfect fingers A velvet voice Your eyes hold the key And I can't believe you can see Please hold me Please know me And know everything Everything Do...

I'll be your biggest fan, I will be your fool I'll be your exception to every rule and I ain't the type to bitch I ain't the type to cry I'll sit at your red light and wait for your ship to go by and this vague little smile is my all-purpose expression the m...

How come I can pick my ears but not my nose who made up that rule anyway how can you say that's the way it is that's just the way it goes why don't you decide for yourself what you can do and what you can say how come I can pick my friends but not my enemies...

I'm a pixie I'm a paperdoll I'm a cartoon I'm a chipper cheerful free for all And I light up a room I'm the color me happy girl Miss live and let live And when they're out for blood I always give The man behind the counter looks like he's got A half a dozen p...

Life knocked me off my platforms So I pulled out my first pair of boots Bought on the street at astor place Before New York was run by suits And I suited up for the long walk Back to myself Closer to the ground now With sorrow And stealth 

lately i've been glaring into mirrors picking myself apart you'd think at my agei'd of thought of something better to do then make insecurity into a full time job make insecurity into an art and i fear my life will be over and i will have never lived it unfe...

Promiscuity is nothing more than travelling There’s more than one way to see the world And some of us like to stick close to home And some of us are Columbus What can I say? Nature always gets her way Nature always gets her way And seeing the world th...

you're taking up lots of space your shit is everywhere your breath is all up in my face your hands are swarming in the air you're the first one out the car and then the loudest one in the bar tell me is there something wrong girlfriend, what's with this new v...

who knew at this party that I would walk in and I'd see you. I guess now we could just get drunk yeah, that could be our excuse you could slip from out of nowhere i could be there to catch your fall we could laugh at ourselves and the writing that's on the wal...

you crawled into my bed like some sort of giant insect and i found myself spellbound that night at the sight of you there beautiful and grotesque and all the rest of that bug stuff bluffing your way into my mouth behind my teeth, reaching for my scars that nig...

As dolls go I am broken And you could just let that get us off the hook But from under the umbrella of the unspoken I see you giving me that look Baby, you're right as rain about the benefits But you might be wrong about the costs And it feeds my heart that y...

You can doubt anything If you think about it long enough Cuz what happened always adjusts to fit What happened after that And its hard to feel like you are free When all you seem to do is referee Remember when it was just you and me Steppin up to bat? And wi...

Come home and my guitar Has nothin to say to me I recoil from all my friends And then I'm in misery Been so long since I've been held Really since I was his Probably just need to be held That's probably all it is Course, then I think of my dad Who time travel...

New Year's Eve, we dropped mushrooms and danced around the house Making music with everything that we found Incantation replaced resolution And we vowed to allow each perfection that we could be And the Goddess sent word that this would be a red letter year T...

Manhattan is an island Like the women who are Surrounded by children in the car Surrounded by cars Or manhattan was a project That projected the worst of mankind First one and then the other Has made its mark on my mind It's sixty years later near the hypo-c...

you were so in love that it was all you could talk about and i think i felt a little left out you were on cloud 9 all the time while i was levelling i was wringing my hands and you were revelling but then why shouldn't you? it was such a beautiful thing to do...

it's rock paper scissors as to whether i will get over you at all it's hand against hand and both hands are mine it's standing in a circular line which is not to say that i'm not also happy a happy meal with a surprise inside surprise surprise is another bri...

tending the garden of noise when I grow the traffic and the churchbells and the neighborhood boys singing to myself as the solitude sets in in tune with the symphony of south brooklyn I sing rockabye, rockabye baby rockabye, the baby that is me rockabye, rock...

She says my ass hurts when I sit down she says my feet hurt from just standing around I think my body is as restless as my mind and I don't know if I can roll with it this time packed his uniforms and drove him to the base she was crying all the way the world...

I could sing you 'round a pole I could talk you up a tree But when it comes to what really matters You are way more clever than me I knew I wanted to be challenged But I was unclear about how So I'll be the guy with a tool box And you be the fun-lovin' gal A...

rush hour and the day's dawning the rain came and pushed me under the awning the puddles grew and threw themselves at me with every passing car I'm shielding my guitar and there were some things that I did not tell him there were certain things he did not need...

she went over to his apartment clutching her decision and he said, did you come here to tell me goodbye? so she built a skyscraper of procrastination and then she leaned out the twenty-fifth floor window of her reply and she felt like an actress just reading...

second intermission anticipation you know the third act small talk drops out of the play you're standing in the lobby tightening your tourniquet waiting for it and then the bell sounds and the lights flash and there's all these questions milling aroun...

You're my seeing eye dog and I am blind You take me there every time With that winning combination of loyal and kind Your eyes like wells to the water of your mind I want to take a long, cool drink from your bucket To every thought I could think now, I say fu...

yes, us people are just poems we're 90% metaphor with a leanness of meaning approaching hyper-distillation and once upon a time we were moonshine rushing down the throat of a giraffe yes, rushing down the long hallway despite what the p.a. announcemen...

Pavlov hits me with more bad news every time I answer the phone so I play and I sing and I just let it ring, all day when I'm at home a defacto choice of macro-microcosmic melancholy but baby any way you slice it, I'm thinkin I could just as soon use the ti...

he caresses every bottle like it's the first one he's had saying it ain't love but it ain't bad it's the only reward bestowed upon me and I have served faithfully I can see he is scarred from doing some hard time but I let alone what is broken 'cause it isn't...

i cannot name this i cannot explain this and i really don't want to just call me shameless i can't even slow this down let alone stop this and i keep looking around but i cannot top this if i had any sense i guess i'd fear this i guess i'd keep it down so no...

she says forget what you have to do pretend there is nothing outside this room and like an idea she came to me but she came too late or maybe too soon I said please try not to love me close your eyes, I'm turning on the light you know I have no vacancy and it'...

I had to leave the house of fashion And go forth naked from its doors 'cause women should be allies And not competitors I had to leave the house of god Because the cross replaced the wheel And the goddesses were all out in the garden With the plants that nurtu...

what's with that halo hovering above that thick skull spare me if I do say so - I think you're covering 'course there was nothing could've prepared me for the side effect of this dirty drug the way you punish me and then you shrug what's with that phone cal...

the heat is so great it plays tricks with the eye it turns the road to water and then from water to sky and there's a crack in the concrete floor and it starts at the sink there's a bathroom in a gas station and i've locked myself in it to think and back in t...

how sick of me must you be by now? while you're standing just outside of what your pride will allow, always reaching into yourself to find a new way to understand me. when i'm sure that there's no one else in the world that could withstand me. yeah, the first...

I always escape where I have been. I leave you looking for my face, Wondering what it was you've seen Down the long dark hallway in flight heading back from which I came. I am a creature of the night and silver ingrid is my name. Silver ingrid be my teacher, s...

she was hungry so hungry she was trying to think clear she kept opening the fridge door staring at the mustard and the beer then finally she went out into the rain carrying her bicycle chain and her feet were the pedals while her appetite steered and after th...

she was shaking and talking louder and louder each sentence was sifted to a very fine powder her face was wet and tight her grip was cold and light a strong wind could blow you down I heard myself say And she said word up sister a strong wind could take me awa...

I don't mind waiting in line no, no I don't mind if the bills pile up and the work is slow I don't mind the gas or the groceries or the drive gone inside with you I'm having a good time I don't mind the stoner waiter or the poorly cooked food I don't mind lit...

who's gonna give a shit who's gonna take the call when you find out that the road ahead is painted on a wall and you're turned up to top volume and you're just sitting there in pause with your feral little secret scratching at you with its claws and you're...

I don't keep much stuff around I value my portability but I will say that I have saved every letter you ever wrote to me the one you left on my windsheild outside of that little motel is in the pocket of my old gigbag from back when life was more soft shelled...

I'm sorry I didn't sound more excited on the phone I'm sorry that after all these years I've left you feeling unrequited and alone, brought you to tears I guess I never loved you quite as well as the way you loved me I guess I'll never really be able to tell y...

Something about this landscape just don’t feel right Hyper air-conditioned and lit up all night Like we just gotta see how comfortable comfortable can get Like we can’t even bring ourselves to sweat Sweat in the summer, shiver in the winter Just enough...

love gets started next thing you know it leaves everything else behind love sets fire to your schedule and then calls an end to time love ain't far behind you love ain't far behind and when we're parted it's always too long and every time you come back you c...

I would have returned your greeting If it weren't for the way you were looking at me This street is not a market And I am not a commodity And don't you find it sad that we can't even say hello 'Cause you're a man And I am a woman And the sun is getting low And...

I am out here studying stones Trying to learn to be less alive Using all of my will To keep very still Still even on the inside I've cut all of the pertinent wires So my eyes can't make that connection I am holding my breath I am feigning my death When I'm loo...

on one hand i'm walking the way that i do lookin like i'm lost in thought but i'm looking for you it's so subconscious the way i that i feel too bad my subconscious life is the more real and i ain't in the best shape that i've ever been in but i know where i...

white people are so scared of black people. they bulldoze out to the country, and put up houses on little loop-d-loop streets. and while america gets its heart cut right out of its chest, the berlin wall still runs down main street separating east side from we...

well your arms hang parallel to the curtains your gaze falls perpendicular to the floor your resign yourself to the hurting the lines in your brow are deeper than before don't misunderstand I just wanna be your friend well a phone call is a phone call is not...

The subway car smells like an animal's cage And don't you feel like the captain riding in a rage Oh the city's sweet as cider... sours with age The toss between fear and freedom Looking for a familiar sign And the man sitting next to you says "hey baby, can y...

Sunday morning Slow beats seething Through the screens in The open windows Eggs frying Legs shaking After we stayed lying So long in bed Sunday morning Both of us reading And looking up occasionally Looking up occasionally Sunday morning You're doing your thi...

sleepwalking through the all-nite drugstore baptized in flourescent light i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right and every pop song on the radio is suddenly speaking to me yeah, art may imitate life but life imitates t.v. 'cu...

cradling the softest, warmest part of you in my hand feels like a little baby bird fallen from the nest i think that your body is something i understand i think that i'm happy, i think that i'm blessed i've got a lack of inhibition i've got a loss of perspect...

You keep telling me I'm beautiful But I feel a little less so each time Your love is so colorful It flashes like a neon sign But I finally drove out where The sky is dark enough to see stars And I found I missed no one Just listening to the swishing of distant...

She cam to and her Whole life was how she remembered it She had a mouth full of fur And she was laughing She parked her hearse across Three spaces posted for motorcycles only And jumped out shouting What the cus could make a nice girl like us Feel so lonely?...

he said ani, you've gotten tough 'cause my tone was curt yeah, and when I'm approached in a dark alley I don't lift my skirt in this city self-preservation is a full time occupation I'm determined to survive on this shore you know I don't avert my eyes anymore...

a cold and porcelain lonely in an old new york hotel a stranger to a city that she used to know so well bathing in a bathroom that is bathed in the first blue light of the beginning of a century at the end of an endless night then she is wet behind the ears...

Gonna go out to the arrivals gate at the airport And sit there all day Watch people reuniting, public affection so exciting It even makes airports okay Watching children run with their arms outstretched Just to throw those arms around their grandpa’s neck Wat...

The glory of the atom, begs a reverent word. The primary design of the whole universe. Yeah, let us sing it's praises, let us bow our heads in prayer. At the magnificent consciousness incarnate there. The smallest unit of matter with it's orbiting electrons,...

I shut my mouth Cause they are the law And I am alone Ohhh, the boys in blue Have decided I need a good talking to Though I've done nothing wrong He is less than polite I guess I'm not his type And while he has his fun The whole time he has his hand on his gu...

I'm calling from the diner the diner on the corner I ordered two coffees one is for you I was hoping you'd join me 'cause I ain't go no money and I really miss you I should mention that too yes I know what time it is in fact, I just checked I even know the da...

the air comes off the ocean the city smells fishy the air is full of fish and mystery whispering who, what, when I am warning you I am weightless and the wind is always shifting so don't hang anything on me if you ever want to see it again I am telling you I'm...

hello it's me I'm returning your call it's monday wednesday friday between noon and three he says I usually just let the phone ring but I've always got a minute of time for the next big thing and I wonder how can he see where he's going with those dollar sign...

the slant a building settling around me my figure female framed crookedly in the threshold of the room door scraping floorboards with every opening carving a rough history of bedroom scenes the plot hard to follow the text obscured in the fields of sheets slow...

I would have returned your greeting if it weren't for the way you were looking at me this street is not a market and I am not a commodity don't you find it sad that we can't even say hello 'cause you're a man and I'm a woman and the sun is getting low there ar...

your basic average super star is singing about justice and peace and love and I am glaring at the radio, swearing saying that's just what I was afraid of the system gives you just enough to make you think that you see change they will sing you right to sleep a...

we can touch touch our girl cheeks and we can hold hands like paper dolls we can try try eachother on in the privacy within new york city's walls we can kiss kiss goodnight and we can go home wondering what would it be like if if I did not have a boyfriend we...

got a garden of songs where i grow all my thoughts wish i could harvest one or two for some small talk i'm always starving for words when you're around nothing on my tongue so much in my ground half the time i got my gaze trained on your motel door fourth doo...

tiptoeing through the used condoms strewn on the piers off the west side highway sunset behind the skyline of jersey walking towards the water with a fetus holding court in my gut my body highjacked my tits swollen I'm sore the river has more colors at sunset...

On the underside of your salutation I can hear you turning inward Hello is such a thin word You're going to have to hide doubletime from me 'cause I read our poetry, and I can see when it doesn't rhyme You said you either wanted me home Or you wanted to be a...

the sun is settin on the century and we are armed to the teeth we are all working together now to make our lives mercifully brief schoolkids keep trying to teach us what guns are all about confuse liberty with weaponry and watch your kids act it out every year...

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 furna...

The light blue flickering rhythm Of the neighbor's big console T.V. Is basking on the ceiling Of another insomniac spree And outside sleep's open window Between the drops of rain History is writing a recipe book For every earthly pain Oh to clean up the clutt...

you were fresh off the boat from virginia i had a year in new york city under my belt we met in a dream we were both 19 i remember where we were standing i remember how it felt 2 little girls growing out of their training bras this little girl breaks fu...

he had all kind of reasons why she was unable to love him she was just too young she was too high strung she was afraid of commitment but all of the theories that he recited played like the song of the unrequited baby, how long's it been now since you held me...

think i'm going for a walk now i feel a little unsteady i don't want nobody to follow me 'cept maybe you i could make you happy you know if you weren't already i could do a lot of things and i do tell you the truth i prefer the worst of you too bad you had to...

I know I've seen you around You can't forget that hair But I didn't hear you come in How long have you been sitting there? You know you can tell me anything I promise I don't scare Let's only ever be allies even if the whole background dissolves And li...

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...

I'm still here because I've got nothing else to do you're an asshole but I'm getting used to you I like the fact that you talk incessantly I got a thing for assholes who tell good stories I think that drinking is the only thing that you do right you're gonna...

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...

Susan is a connotation At less than arms length She has the strength of an opinion Her promises are like the night overcast Like the stars she doesn't show And when she does, she doesn't last You can see her goodness Like her breath on a window pane And then...

i'll tell you what there is plenty wrong with me,but i fixed up a few old buildingsand i planted a few treeschildren seem to like meand animals toolike the birds and the bees i'm eating a sandwich,standing over the kitchen counterwith only the sound of chewing...

welcome to: no amount of stoned makes you feel ok welcome to: this year's alone - brought to you by Christmas day welcome to: the darkness into which prayin people pray it's quiet here except for this song now that everybody's gone but hey least you don't ha...

What what what what what did you think you were doing? How how how how how did you think this would go? When when when when when you showed up on my radar Where where where where where did you think you would show? What what what what what do you make of this...

If my life were a movie there would be a sunset and the camera would pan away but the sky is just a little sister tagging along behind the buildings trying to imitate their grey the little boys are breaking bottles along the sidewalk the big boys, too the girl...

today we are only whatall is nice about us today we turned on in the blue light of dawn and made love and you were not a dot dot dot waiting for me to complete you and it was like i just forgot to measure everything that i do we woke up with the notion that...

Dig if you will the picture Of you and I engaged in a kiss The sweat of your body covers me Can you my darling Can you picture this? Dream if you can a courtyard An ocean of violets in bloom Animals strike curious poses They feel the heat The heat between me...

There's no place in this world where I'll belong when I'm gone And I won't know the right from the wrong when I'm gone And you won't find me singin' on this song when I'm gone So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here And I won't feel the flowing of the t...

The windows of my soul are made of one way glass don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask I got a dead bolt stroll where I'm going is clear I won't wait for you to wonder I'll just tell you why I'm here 'cause I know t...

i'm losing my love of adventure i'm losing all respect for me and myself tonight i wonder what happens if i get to the end of this tunnel and there isn't a light ive worn down the treads on all of my tires i've worn through the elbows and the knees of my cloth...

Wishin', and hopin', and thinkin', and prayin', Planning and dreamin' each night of his charms. That won't get you into his arms So if your're looking for love you can share All you gotta to is hold him, and kiss him, and love him, And show him that you care....

lying on the floor four stories high in the corridor between the asphalt and the sky I am caught like bottled water the light daughter I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words I wonder what we ha...

you think you're not worthy I'd have to say I agree I'm not worthy of you you're not worthy of me which of us is deserving look at the human race the whole planet at arm's length and we don't deserve this place what good is a poker face when you've got an ope...

There you were day after day Six feet Twenty feet Two feet away Right in my pocket singin me a song Makin my heart race all day long And we talked it out and we talked it down But your eyes were not listening And my ears were looking around For another song...

how can I go home with nothing to say I know you're going to look at me that way and say what did you do out there and what did you decide you said you needed time and you had time you are a china shop and I am a bull you are really good food and I am full...

the wind was applauding my passing your house how tempting, I keep your key still on my ring I have half a mind to open the gate how easy to climb your fire escapes of steel so familiar oh I feel like two of the plain of the face of you I was hidden by the...

coming of age during the plague of reagan and bush watching capitalism gun down democracy it had this funny effect on me i guess i am cancer i am HIV and i'm down at the blue jesus blue cross hospital just lookin' up from my pillow feeling blessed and the mi...

I can no longer watch TV Cause that shit really melts my brain I think I’m what they call sensitive And easily thrown off my game All that bloodshed and pettiness Just makes the world seem so insane And I just feel drained When I go to do my food shop...

They stole a few elections, Still we the people won We voted out corruption and Big corporations We voted for an end to war New direction We ain't gonna stop now Until our job is done Come on all good workers This year is our time Now there some fo...