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Lyrics for Tamburitza Lingua by Ani Difranco:
| | | Artist: | Ani Difranco |
| | Album: | Revelling | | Track: | Tamburitza Lingua | | | | Date Added: | 24/10/2007 | | Views: | 64 | | | | Lyrics: | a cold and porcelain lonely
in an old new york hotel
a stranger to a city
that
she used to know so well
bathing in a bathroom
that is bathed in the first blue
light
of the beginning of a century
at the end of an endless night
then
she is wet behind the ears and wafting down the avenue
pre-rush hour
post-rain
shower
stillness seeping upwards like steam
from another molten sewer
summer in
new york
they've been spraying us with chemicals in our sleep
us / they
/>
something about the mosquitoes having some kind of disease
them / me
CIA foul
play
if you ask the guy selling hair dryers out of a gym bag
chemical warfare
/>
"i'm telling you, lab rat to lab rat," he says, "that's where the truth is
at"
/>
that's where the truth is at
that's where the truth is at
and everything
seems to have gone terribly wrong that can
but one breath at a time is an acceptable plan
/>
she tells herself
and the air is still there
and this morning it's even
breathable
and for a second the relief is unbelievable
and she's a heavy sack of flour
sifted
her burden lifted
she's full of clean wind for one lean moment
and then
she's trapped again
reverted
caged and contorted
with no way to get free
/>
and she's getting plenty of little kisses
but nobody's slippin' her the key
/>
her whole life is a long list of what ifs
and she doesn't even know where to begin
/>
and the pageantry of suffering therein
rivals television
tv is, after all, the
modern day roman coliseum
human devastation as mass entertainment
and now millions sit
jeering
collectively cheering
the bloodthirsty hierarchy of the patriarchal
arrangement
she is hailing a cab
she is sailing down the avenue
she's
19 going on 30
or maybe she's really 30 now ...
it's hard to say
it's hard to
keep up with time once it's on its way
and, you know, she never had much of a
chance
born into a family built like an avalanche
and somewhere in the 80s between the
oat bran and the ozone
she started to figure out things like why
one eye pointed
upwards looking for the holes in the sky
one eye on the little flashing red light
a
picasso face twisted and listing down the canvas
of the end of an endless night
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10 9 8 seven six 5 4 three 2 one
and kerplooey
you're done.
you're done
for.
you're done for good.
so tell me
did you?
did you do
did you
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