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 Send "Ani Difranco" Ringtones to your Cell  'Tis Of Thee '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 .... 1,000,000 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 .... 2nd Intermission 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 .... 32 Flavors 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 .... 4th Of July 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 .... AS IS 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 .... Adam And Eve 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 .... Aids 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 .... Ain't That The Way 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 .... Amazing Grace 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 .... Angel Food 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 .... Angry Anymore 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 .... Anticipate 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 .... Anyday 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 .... As Is You can't hide behind social graces So don't try to be all touchy feely Cuz you've lie in my face of all places But I .... 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 .... Asking Too Much 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 .... Back Around 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 .... Back Back Back 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 .... Beautiful Night (instrumental) .... Blood In The Boardroom 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 .... Born A Lion 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 .... Both Hands 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 .... Brief Bus Stop 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 .... Buildings And Bridges 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 .... Carry You Around how pleased can one sun setting make you if you humble yourself to it? how grateful can you realy say that you are just to .... Circe Of Light 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 .... Circle Of Light 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 .... Cloud Blood 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 .... Cold And Mean 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 .... Come Away come, come away come away from come away from it come, come away come away from come away from it won't you come come away .... Come Away From It 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 .... Coming Up 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 .... Cradle And All 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 .... Crime For Crime 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 .... Deep Dish 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 .... Dilate 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 .... Doe, Re, Mi Folks back east they say, I'm leaving home everyday Beating the hot old dusty way out To the California Line Across the desert sands they .... Dog Coffee 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 .... Don't Nobody Know (instrumental) .... Done Wrong 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 .... Educated Guess 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 .... Egos Like Hairdos 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 .... Everest 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 .... Every Angle 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 .... Every State Line 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 .... Evolve 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 .... Face Up Ever since I've seen your face This life of mine has gone to waste I was young and you were old And I always knew .... Face Up And Sing 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 .... Fair Weather 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. .... Falling Is Like This 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 .... Feakshow 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 .... Fierce Flawless she was cuffed to the truth like the truth was a chair with a bright interrogation light in her eyes. and her conscience with a .... Find A Fire 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 .... Fire Door 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 .... Fixing Her Hair 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 .... Flood Waters (instrumental) .... Forest For The Trees 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 .... Freakshow 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 .... Fuel 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 .... Garden Of Simple 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 .... Glass House 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 .... God's Country 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 .... Going Down 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 .... Going Once going once going twice sold to the girl who ignored all the good advice of all the people who knew better she just stood there .... Good, Bad, Ugly 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 .... Gratitude 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 .... Gravel 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 .... Grey 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 .... Handsome Musician 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 .... Harvest (instrumental) .... Hat Shaped Hat 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 .... Heartbreak Even 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 .... Hell Yeah 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 .... Hello Birmingham 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 .... Here For Now 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 .... Hide And Seek me and all the kids from the neighbourhood we play out in the street all summer long rule was we had to go home at .... Hide Seek 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 .... Hour Follows Hour 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 .... How Have You Been 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 .... How Long Can It Last Two years ago Before you felt so familiar Before I could remember your last name I remember now How our bright spring green deepened With .... I Know This Bar 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 .... I'm No Heroine 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 .... Icarus 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 .... If He Tries Anything 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 Isn't Her 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 .... Imagine That 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 .... Imperfectly 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 .... In Here 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 .... In Or Out 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 .... In The Way 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 .... Independence Day 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 .... Itch 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 .... Joyful Girl 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 .... Jukebox 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 .... Kazoointoit 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 .... Know Now Then 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 .... Letter To A John 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 .... Letting The Telephone Ring 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 .... Light Of Some Kind 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 .... Little Plastic Castle in a coffee shop in a city which is every coffee shop in every city on a day which is every day i pick up .... Looking For The Holes 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 .... Loom 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 .... Lost Woman Song 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 .... Make Me Stay 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 .... Make Them Apologize 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 .... Marrow 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 .... Million You Never Made The air comes off the ocean The city smells fishy The air is full of fish and mystery Whispering who, what, when And I'm warning .... Most Of The Time 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 .... My I.Q. 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, .... My IQ 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, .... My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage 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 .... Names And Dates And Times 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 .... Napoleon 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 .... No Reason To Come Home 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 .... North Main Street 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 .... Not A Pretty Girl 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 .... Not So Soft 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 .... O.K. 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. .... O.k. 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. .... Oh My My 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 .... Old Old Song 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 .... On Every Corner 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 .... One More Night 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 .... One Times One Times One Do you ever wonder when the damage will be done? Do you ever feel like one times one times one? Do your eyes scrape the .... Out Of Habit 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 .... Out Of Range 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 .... Outa Me, Onto You 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 .... Outta Me, Onto You 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 .... Overlap 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 .... Pale Purple 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 .... Phase 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 .... Pick Yer Nose 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 .... Pixie 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 .... Prison Prism (instrumental) .... Promised Land 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 .... Providence 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 .... Pulse 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 .... Reckoning you can doubt anything if you think about it long enough. cause what happened always adjusts to fit what happened after that. and it's hard .... Revelling 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 .... Rock Paper Scissors 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 .... Rockabye 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 .... Roll With It 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 .... Rush Hour 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 .... School Night 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 .... Second Intermission 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 .... Self Evident 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 .... Serpentine 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, .... Served Faithfully 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 .... Shameless 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 .... She Says 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 .... Shrug what's with that halo hovering above that thick skull serenading if i do say so i think you're covering course there was nothing could have .... Shy 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 .... Sick Of Me 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 .... Silver Ingrid 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 .... Sistersong Everybody’s looking over your shoulder Seems they can't wait to hear what’s next Everybody’s saying she’s looking older Could it be there is a cruel .... Slide 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 .... Small World 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 .... So What 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 .... So What? 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 .... Soft Shoulder 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 .... Sooner Than You Think Hello, everyone, it's nice to be here I've come so far to see you all I can see your deep blue eyes They sleep beneath .... Sorry I Am 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 .... Subdivision 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 .... Submerged 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 .... Subway 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 .... Sunrise I've been waiting to hear your voice for too long now One way conversations do not work somehow Tell me how does one get your .... Superhero 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 .... Swan Dive i'm a pixie i'm a paper doll i'm a cartoon i'm a chipper cheerful free for all and i light up a room i'm the .... Swim 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 .... Swing are you weary as water in a faucet left dripping with an incessant sadness like a sad record skipping and an ugly and ornery and .... Talk To Me Now 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 .... Tamburitza Lingua 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 .... That Was My Love (instrumental) .... The Arrival's Gate 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 .... The Arrivals Gate 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 .... The Boys In Blue 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 .... The Diner 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 .... The Million You Never Made 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 .... The Next Big Thing 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 .... The Perfect Kiss I stood there beside myself Thinking hard about the weather Then came by a friend of mine Suggested we go out together Then I knew .... The Slant 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 .... The Story 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 .... The Waiting Song 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 .... The Whole Night 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 .... This Bouquet 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 .... This Box Contains... (instrumental) .... This Time Of Night We all feel the same All pleasure nothing to gain I've known you from the start I've grown used to your wooden heart Now you .... Tiptoe 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 .... To Be Free 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 .... To The Teeth 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 .... Trickle Down 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 .... Two Little Girls 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 .... Untouchable Face 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 .... Up Up Up Up Up Up 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 .... Used To You 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 .... Virtue 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 .... Waiting For Susan 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 .... Welcome To welcome to... no amount of snow can make you feel okay and welcome to... this year's alone brought to you by Christmas day and welcome .... Welcome To: welcome to... no amount of stoned makes you feel okay and welcome to... this year's alone brought to you by christmas day and welcome to... .... What How When Where (Why Who) 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 .... What If No One's Watching 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 .... Whatall Is Nice 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 .... When Doves Cry 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 .... Willing To Fight 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 .... Wish I May 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 .... Wishin' And Hopin' Wishin', and hopin', and thinkin', and prayin', Plannin' and dreamin' each night of his charms, That won't get you into his arms. So if your're .... Work Your Way Out 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 .... Worthy 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 .... You Had Time 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 .... Your House 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 .... Your Next Bold Move 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 .... Send "Ani Difranco" Ringtones to your Cell |