he caresses every bottlelike it’s the first one he’s hadsayingit ain’t lovebut it ain’t badit’s the only rewardbestowed upon meand I have served faithfully I can see he is scarredfrom doing some hard timebut I let alone what is broken’cause it isn’t minehe strikes out at mewhen I am within reachthen he reaches for mewhen […]
Category Archives: Ani DiFranco
Roll With It
She says my ass hurtswhen I sit downshe says my feet hurtfrom just standing aroundI think my bodyis as restless as my mindand I don’t know if I can roll with itthis time packed his uniformsand drove him to the baseshe was crying all the waythe world looked her in the faceand saidroll with it, […]
Cradle And All
fourteenth street and the garbage swirls like a cyclonethree o’clock in the afternoon and I am going homeF train is full of high school studentsso much shoutingso much laughterlast night’s underwear in my back pocketsure sign of the morning after take me hometake me home and leave me therethink I’m going to cry, I don’t […]
Talk To Me Now
he said ani, you’ve gotten tough’cause my tone was curtyeah, and when I’m approached in a dark alleyI don’t lift my skirtin this cityself-preservationis a full time occupationI’m determinedto survive on this shoreyou know I don’tavert my eyes anymorein a man’s worldI am a woman by birthand after nineteen times around I have foundthey will […]
Egos Like Hairdos
I saw on the postermy name was printedjust a little bit smallerI can tell you need to standjust a little bit tallerno one ever talks about itbut no one can disguisethe cloud of competitionthat’s hanging behind their eyesthere’s more bad bloodin this bar than there is beerand it’s subtle but it still sucksand I want […]
In Or Out
guess there’s something wrong with meguess I don’t fit inno one wants to touch itno one knows where to beginI’ve got more than one membershipto more than one cluband I owe my lifeto the people that I love he looks me up and downlike he knows what time it islike he’s got my numberlike he […]
32 Flavors
squint your eyes and look closerI’m not between you and your ambitionI am a poster girl with no posterI am thirty-two flavors and then someand I’m beyond your peripheral visionso you might want to turn your headcause someday you’re going to get hungryand eat most of the words you just said both my parents taught […]