by Ani DiFranco on album To The Teeth

I know this bar With a jukebox full of medicine Christmas lights blinking Around a clouded mirror It's not that far From old voelkers bowling alley Just go up there and turn right It's about three bl

by Ani Difranco on album Imperfectly

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 gray And the little boys

by Ani DiFranco on album Revelling: Reckoning

Imagine that I'm on the 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 watc

by Ani DiFranco on album Revelling: Reckoning

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 hospit

by Ani Difranco on album Puddle Dive

I will lean into you, you can be the wind I will open my mouth and you can come rushing in You can rush in so hard and make it so I can't breath, I breath too much anyway I can do that anyday I just

by Ani Difranco on album Imperfectly

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

by Ani Difranco on album Not A Pretty Girl

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

by Ani DiFranco on album Red Letter Year

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

by Ani Difranco on album Puddle Dive

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 min

by Ani Difranco on album Not A Pretty Girl

Wish I didn't have this nervous laugh Wish I didn't say half the stuff I say Wish I could just learn to cover my tracks Guess I'm not concerned enough about getting away with it 'Cos every time I try

by Ani Difranco on album New World Music Theater

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 ha

by Ani Difranco on album Evolve

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 You're the loudest one in the bar

by Ani Difranco on album Puddle Dive

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 you

by Ani DiFranco on album Up Up Up Up Up Up

It's not so much that we got closer It's that her face just got bigger And by the time it was taking up my whole view I figured my face had got bigger too So I used it to try and sway her Say somethi

by Ani Difranco on album Miscellaneous

I will not lie down On the wrongful groundwork laid 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

by Ani Difranco on album Reprieve

I had to leave the house of fashion Go forth naked from its doors 'Cuz women should be allies Not competitors And I had to leave the house of God 'Cuz Cross replaced the wheel And the goddesses were

by Ani DiFranco on album Evolve

Your body foreshortened below your shoulders Your face so close, it's out of focus Way down the hallway comes the sound of your shoes That is what I, what I think about when I think about you If we l

by Ani Difranco on album Miscellaneous

Manhattan is an island Like the women who are Surrounded by children in a car Surrounded by cars Or Manhattan was a project That projected the worst of mankind First, one and then the other Has made

by Ani Difranco on album Red Letter Year

lately i've been glaring into mirrors picking myself apart you'd think at my age i'd of thought of something better to do than making insecurity into a full-time job making insecurity into art and i f

by Ani DiFranco on album Miscellaneous

Lately I've been glaring into mirrors picking myself apart You'd think at my age I'd thought of something better to do Than making insecurity into a full time job Making insecurity into an art And I