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Lyrics for Lost Woman Song by Ani Difranco:
| | | Artist: | Ani Difranco |
| | Album: | First Album | | Track: | Lost Woman Song | | | | Date Added: | 24/10/2007 | | Views: | 69 | | | | Lyrics: | for lucille clifton
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 saved
and they gave my
blood
and my urine
a number
now I'm sitting in this waiting room
playing
with the toys
and I am here to exercise
my freedom of choice
I passed their
handheld signs
went through their picket lines
they gathered when they saw me
coming
they shouted when they saw me cross
I said why don't you go home
just
leave me alone
I'm just another woman lost
you are like fish in the water
who
don't know that they are wet
as far as I can tell
the world isn't perfect yet
/>
his bored eyes were obscene
on his denim thighs a magazine
I wish he'd never come
here with me
in fact I wish he'd never come near me
I wish his shoulder
wasn't
touching mine
I am growing older
waiting in this line
some of lifes best
lessons
are learned at the worst times
under the fierce flourescent
she offered
her hand for me to hold
she offered stability and calm
and I was crushing her palm
/>
through the pinch pull wincing
my smile unconvincing
on that sterile battlefield
that sees
only casualties
never heros
my heart hit absolute zero
/>
Lucille, your voice still sounds in me
mine was a relatively easy tragedy
now the
profile of our country
looks a little less hard nosed
but that picket line
persisted
and that clinic's since been closed
they keep pounding their fists on
reality
hoping it will break
but I don't think there's a one of us
leads a life
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