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Lyrics for Grand Canyon by ANI DIFRANCO:
| | | Artist: | ANI DIFRANCO |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Grand Canyon | | | | Date Added: | 24/10/2007 | | Views: | 64 | | | | Lyrics: | I love my country
By which I mean
I am indebted joyfully
To all the people
throughout its history
Who have fought the government to make right
Where so many
cunning sons and daughters
Our foremothers and forefathers
Came singing through
slaughter
Came through hell and high water
So that we could stand here
And behold
breathlessly the sight
How a raging river of tears
Cut a grand canyon of light
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Yes, I've bin so many places
Flown through vast empty spaces
With stewardesses whose
hands
Look much older than their faces
I've tossed so many napkins
Into that big
hole in the sky
Bin at the bottom of the Atlantic
Seething in a two-ply
Looking up
through all that water
And the fishes swimming by
And I don't always feel lucky
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But I'm smart enough to try
Cuz humility has buoyancy
And above us only sky
So
I lean in
Breathe deeper that brutal burning smell
That surrounds the smoldering
wreckage
That I've come to love so well
Yes, color me stunned and dazzled
By all
the red white and blue flashing lights
In the American intersection
Where black crashed
head on with white
Comes a melody
Comes a rhythm
A particular resonance
That
is us and only us
Comes a screaming ambulance
A hand that you can trust
Laid
steady on your chest
Working for the better good
(Which is good at its best)
And
too, bearing witness
Like a woman bears a child...
With all her might
Born
of the greatest pain
Into a grand canyon of light
I mean, no song has gone unsung
here
And this joint is strung crazy tight
And people bin raising up their voices
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Since it just ain't bin right
With all the righteous ra | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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