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Lyrics for School Night by Ani Difranco:
| | | Artist: | Ani Difranco |
| | Album: | Reckoning | | Track: | School Night | | | | Date Added: | 24/10/2007 | | Views: | 64 | | | | Lyrics: | 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 of procrastination
and then she leaned
out the twenty-fifth floor window
of her reply
and she felt like an actress
/>
just reading her lines
when she finally said
yes. it's really goodbye this time
/>
and far below was the blacktop
and the tiny toy cars
and it all fell so fast
/>
and it all fell so far
and she said:
you are a miracle but that is not
all
you are also a stiff drink and i am on call
you are a party and i am a school
night
and i'm lookin' for my door key
but you are my porch light
and
you'll never know, dear
just how much i loved you
you'll probably think this was
/>
just my big excuse
but i stand committed
to a love that came before you
and
the fact that i adore you
is but one of my truths
what of the mother
/>
whose house is in flames
and both of her children
are in their beds crying
/>
and she loves them both
with the whole of her heart
but she knows she can only
/>
carry one at a time?
she's choking on the smoke
of unthinkable choices
she
is haunted by the voices
of so many desires
she's bent over from the business
/>
of begging forgiveness
while frantically running around
putting out fires
/>
but then what kind of scale
compares the weight of two beauties
the
gravity of duties
or the ground speed of joy?
tell me what kind of gauge
can
quantify elation?
what kind of equation
could i possibly employ?
and you'll
never know, dear
just how much i loved you
you probably think this was
just my
big excuse
but i stand committed
to a love that came before you
and the fact
that i adore you
is just one of my truths
so i
i'm goin' home
to
please the one i so love pleasing
and i don't expect
he'll have much sympathy for my
grieving
but i guess that this is the price
that we pay for the privilege
of
living for even a day
in a world with so many things
worth believing
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