| Ani Difranco |
| Tiptoe tiptoeing thru the used condoms strewn on the peirs off the west side highway sunset behind the skyline of Jersey walking towards the water with a fetus holding court in my gut my body hijacked my tits swollen and sore the river has more colors at sunset then my sock drawer ever dreamed of i could wake up screaming sometimes but i don't i could step off the end of this pier but i got shit to do and an appointment on tuesday to shed uninvited blood and tissue i'll miss you i say to the river to the water to the son or daughter i thought better of i could fall in love with Jersey at sunset but i leave the view to the rats and tiptoe back |
| Cradle and All 14th street the garbage swirls like cyclone three-o-clock in the afternoon and i am going home f-train is full of high school students so much shouting, so much laughter last night's underwear in my back pocket sure sign of the morning after 1. take me home take me home and leave and leave me there think i'm gonna cry, don't know why think i'm gonna sing myself a lullaby feel free to listen feel free to stare I live in new york, new york city that never shuts up in the daylight everything is so gory you can hear snatches of stranger's sorry stories i moved there from buffalo but that's nothing the trico plant moved to mexico left my uncle standing out in the cold said here's your last paycheck have fun growing old (repeat 1.) 2. rockaby baby in the tree top when the wind blows the cradle will rock when the bow breaks the cradle will fall and down will come baby cradle and all youth is beauty money is beauty hell, beauty is beauty sometimes it's the luck of the draw it's the natural law it's a joke, it's a crime i was bored you were bored it was a meeting of the minds now it's three in the afernoon and I can't leave too soon saying, thank you i had a nice time (repeat 1.) (repeat 2.) maybe i'll live my whole life just getting by maybe i'll be discovered maybe i'll be colonized you can try to train me like a pet you can try to teahc me to behave but i'll tell you, if you haven't learned it yet i ain't gonna sit i ain't gonna stay (repeat 1.) |
| 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 you to tears i guess i never loved you quite as well as the way you loved me i guess i'll never really be able to tell you how sorry i am i don't know what it is about you i just know it's not what i was i don't know why red fades before blue it just does and i don't know what it is about me that i just can't keep still i keep thinking some day i will make this all up to you and maybe someday i will i guess i never loved you quite as well as the way you loved me i guess i'll never really be able to tell you how sorry i am |
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