ANI DIFRANCO REPRIEVE LYRICS
REPRIEVE LYRICS by ANI DIFRANCO:
From Ani DiFranco's new album, Reprieve)
Manhattan
is an island
Like the woman 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 its mark on my mind
It's 60 years later
Near the hypocenter of the A-bomb
I'm in the middle of Hiroshima
Watching a twisted old Eucalyptus tree wave
One of the very few lives that survived and lives on
Remembering the day it was suddenly
Thousands of degrees in the shade
And what all of nature gave birth to
Terror took in a blinding ray
With the kind of pain it would take cancer
So many years just to say
Oh, to grow up gagged and blindfolded
A man's world in your little girl's head
The voice of the great mother drowned out
In the constant honking, honking
The car crash up ahead
Oh, to grow up hypnotized
And then try to shake yourself awake
'Cause you can sense what has been lost
'Cause you can sense what is at stake
Yes, so it took me a few years to catch on
That those days I catch everyone's eye
[ reprieve lyrics from
http://www.lyricsyoulove.com/a/ani_difranco/reprieve/ ]Correspond with those nights of the month
when the moon leans like an egg in the sky
And men using a sense they don't even know they had
Just to watch me walk by
And me I'm supposed to be sensible
Leave my animal outside to cry
But when all of nature conspires
To make me her glorious whore
It's cause in my body I hold the secret recipe
Of precisely what life is for
And the patriarchy that looks to shame me for it
Is the same one making war
And I've said too much already
But I'll tell you something more
To split yourself in two
Is just the most radical thing you can do
So girl, if that shit ain't up to you
Then you simply are not free
Cause from the sunlight on my hair
To which eggs I grow to term
To the expression that I wear
All I really own is me
Yes, to split yourself in two
Is just the most radical thing you can do
God is forbid that little Adam should grow so jealous of Eve
And in the face of the great farce of the nuclear age
Feminism ain't about a quality
It's about reprieve
Like the woman 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 its mark on my mind
It's 60 years later
Near the hypocenter of the A-bomb
I'm in the middle of Hiroshima
Watching a twisted old Eucalyptus tree wave
One of the very few lives that survived and lives on
Remembering the day it was suddenly
Thousands of degrees in the shade
And what all of nature gave birth to
Terror took in a blinding ray
With the kind of pain it would take cancer
So many years just to say
Oh, to grow up gagged and blindfolded
A man's world in your little girl's head
The voice of the great mother drowned out
In the constant honking, honking
The car crash up ahead
Oh, to grow up hypnotized
And then try to shake yourself awake
'Cause you can sense what has been lost
'Cause you can sense what is at stake
Yes, so it took me a few years to catch on
That those days I catch everyone's eye
[ reprieve lyrics from
http://www.lyricsyoulove.com/a/ani_difranco/reprieve/ ]Correspond with those nights of the month
when the moon leans like an egg in the sky
And men using a sense they don't even know they had
Just to watch me walk by
And me I'm supposed to be sensible
Leave my animal outside to cry
But when all of nature conspires
To make me her glorious whore
It's cause in my body I hold the secret recipe
Of precisely what life is for
And the patriarchy that looks to shame me for it
Is the same one making war
And I've said too much already
But I'll tell you something more
To split yourself in two
Is just the most radical thing you can do
So girl, if that shit ain't up to you
Then you simply are not free
Cause from the sunlight on my hair
To which eggs I grow to term
To the expression that I wear
All I really own is me
Yes, to split yourself in two
Is just the most radical thing you can do
God is forbid that little Adam should grow so jealous of Eve
And in the face of the great farce of the nuclear age
Feminism ain't about a quality
It's about reprieve
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