In The Margins

Ani Difranco

Such an intent stareOne eye at a timeYour talons like fish hooksYou are a rare birdThe kind I wouldn't even mindWriting in the margins of my booksSometimes I see myselfThrough the eyes of a stray dogFrom an alley across the streetAnd my whole mission just.. Read »

In Or Out

Ani Difranco

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 lovehe looks me up and downlike he knows what time it i.. Read »

In Here

Ani Difranco

even when i look right at youi always just see throughand i always just see new thingsto 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 dark c.. Read »

Imperfectly

Ani Difranco

I'm okayif you get me at a good angleand you're okayin the sort of lightand we don't looklike pages from a magazinebut that's all rightthat's all rightI crashed your pickup truckand then I had to drive it back homeI was cryingI was so scaredof what you wo.. Read »

Imagine That

Ani Difranco

imagine that i am onstageunder a watchtower of punishing lightand in the haze is your face bathed in shadowand what's beyond you is hidden from sightand somebody right now is yawningand watching me like a tvand i've been frantically piling up sandbagsagai.. Read »

If It Isn't Her

Ani Difranco

standing like john wayneshe is full framedshe is center stageand my imagination israttling in its cageI didn't really noticewhen everything else disappearedbut as far as I'm concernedif it isn't herit isn't hereshe says do I know youI say well, no, not bi.. Read »

If He Tries Anything

Ani Difranco

i'm invincibleso are youwe do all the thingsthey say we can't dowe walk aroundin the middle of the nightand if it's too far to walkwe just hitch a ridewe got rings of dirtaround our neckswe talk like auctioneersand we bounce like checkswe smell like shits.. Read »

Icarus

Ani Difranco

it seems like you just started noticing how noticibly bad things really are and then you walk past this couple arguing in a rolled up window parked car and all that gesticulated bitterness and all of that muffled yelling hell it's like it just starts waft.. Read »

I'm No Heroine

Ani Difranco

you think I wouldn't have himunless I could have him by the ballsyou think I just dish it outyou don't think I take it at allyou think I am strongeryou think I walk taller than the restyou think I'm usually wearing the pantsjust 'cause I rarely wear a dre.. Read »

I Know This Bar

Ani Difranco

i know this barwith a jukebox full of medicineand christmas lights blinkingaround a clouded mirrorit's not that farfrom old voelkers bowling alleyjust go up there and turn rightit's about four blocks from hereyou'll probably find graceher shift starts at .. Read »