Which Side Are You On?, by Ani DiFranco

Which Side Are You On?

by Ani DiFranco

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1.	Life Boat 04:09	lyrics	buy track
every time i open my mouth i take off my clothes and i’m raw and frostbitten from being exposed i got red scabby hands and purple scabby feet and you can smell me comin from halfway down the street i remember that old hotel had quite the smell where i would go to use the phone between the doughnut shop and the pizza parlor where i learned to live alone sweet sixteen and smiling my way out of any jam learning the ways of the world, oh my learning the ways of man and i didn’t really want a baby and i guess that i had a choice but i just let it grow inside me that persistent little voice i guess i got her off and running and then run off is what she did and that’s part of what i think about i think about that kid so now there’s nothing left to wish upon except the passing cars the cacophony of city lights is drowning out the stars this park bench is a life boat and the rest a big dark sea and i’m just gonna lie here til something comes and finds me yeah i got this tired old face still grinnin most of the time just cuz it don’t have a better way to express what’s on its mind and i got this running monologue entertaining in its outrage and i’ve got the air of an animal that’s been living in a cage every time i open my mouth i take off my clothes i’m raw and frost bitten from being exposed i got red scabby hands and purple scabby feet and you can smell me comin from halfway down the street
2.	Unworry 04:16	lyrics	buy track
i know i’ve seen you around you can’t forget that hair but I didn’t hear you come in how long have you been sitting there? you know, you can tell me anything i promise i don’t scare let’s only ever be allies even if the whole background dissolves and little pink hearts can pop over our heads but we’ll keep our cool i have enjoyed my life it’s been exciting and i’ve become more peaceful no more fighting and i ain’t gonna waste your time wronging and righting round and round center-bound the grooves on an old lp nibbled by minnows and licked by a salty sea i gotta say i’m amazed (not in a good way) at how much i don’t remember i just gotta hope though i’m slow it’s all part of what i know and the facts are pretend anyway yeah the facts are pretend anyway i know i’ve seen you around always in that uniform pirate hat just a little stained sword just a little worn you know, you can tell me anything i’m not just tooting my own horn let’s only ever be allies even if the whole background dissolves and little pink hearts can pop over our heads but we’ll keep our cool teach me to unworry i will teach you to unhide in the city where they don’t need x-rays to see each others’ insides under a big old oak tree synchronicity’s gathering tide. round and round center-bound the grooves on an old lp nibbled by minnows and licked by a salty sea i gotta say i’m amazed (not in a good way) at how much i don’t remember i just gotta hope though i’m slow it’s all part of what I know and the facts are pretend anyway yeah the facts are pretend anyway yeah the facts are pretend
3.	Which Side Are You On? 06:27	lyrics	buy track
they stole a few elections still we the people won we voted out corruption and big corporations we voted for an end to war and new direction and we ain’t gonna stop now until the job is done come on all good workers! this here is our time now there’s folks in washington that care what’s on our minds come one come all voters! let’s all vote next time show em which side are you on now which side are you on? which side are you on now which side are you on? thirty years of digging got us in this hole the curse of reagonomics has finally taken its toll lord knows the free market is anything but free it costs dearly to the planet and the likes of you and me i don’t need no money lenders suckin on my tit! a little socialism don’t scare me one bit! we could do a whole lot worse than europe or canada come on mr. president come on congress make the law! which side are you on now which side are you on? they say in orleans parish there are no neutrals there there’s just too much misery there’s too much despair america who are we now our innocence is gone forgive us mother africa history’s done you wrong too many stories written out in black and white come on people of privilege it’s time to join the fight are we living in the shadow of slavery or are we moving on? tell me which side are you on now which side are you on? which side are you on now which side are you on? my mother was a feminist she taught me to see the road to ruin is paved with patriarchy so let the way of women guide democracy and from plunder and pollution let mother earth be free feminism ain’t about women that’s not who it is for it’s about a shift in consciousness that will bring an end to war so listen up you fathers listen up you sons and tell me which side are you on now which side are you on? which side are you on now which side are you on? are we just consumers or are we citizens are we going to make more garbage or are we going to make amends? are you part of the solution or are you part of the con? tell me which side are you on now which side are you on?
4.	Splinter 04:36	lyrics	buy track
something about this landscape just don’t feel right hyper air-conditioned and lit up all night like we just gotta see how comfortable comfortable can get like we can’t even bring ourselves to sweat sweat in the summer shiver in the winter just enough to know that we’re alive watch out for that tv it’s full of splinters and remember you can always go outside (really really really far outside) some might call it conservation some might call it common sense and maybe it’s because i am libra but i say balance balance balance balance i say balance balance balance balance who put all this stuff in my apartment? who put all this ice in my drink? who put the poison in the atmosphere? who put the poison in the way i think? women won’t you be our windows? women who bleed and bleed and bleed women who swell with the tide women who change when the wind blows show us we are connected to everything show us we are not separate from everything so here’s to the trials of living here’s to feeling our share of pain all the way from child birth to dying here’s to being connected to everything here’s to staying connected to everything
5.	Promiscuity 03:20	lyrics	buy track
promiscuity is nothing more than traveling there’s more than one way to see the world and some of us like to stick close to home and some of us are columbus what can I say nature always gets her way nature always gets her way and seeing the world through another’s eyes is like busting a window in a house of lies and in the end you make up your own mind and there’s wide open spaces and little cordoned off places check em out check em all out take your time how far is too far? how much is enough? you gotta test this stuff how you gonna know what you need, what you like til you been around the block a few times on that bike how you gonna know who you are, what you feel til you felt a few things that just don’t feel real promiscuity is research and development evolution begs embellishment and baby you’re a star you got to invisiblize society when society gets cruel just make like you are nature’s tool which you are nature always gets her way nature always gets her way and monogamy is that carnival trophy you earn when you throw that ball into that urn it’s somewhat dumb luck somewhat learned and you just know when it’s your turn and honesty is the hardest part yeah honesty is the highest art and honestly i myself just started and eureka i’m less broken-hearted how you gonna know what you need, what you like til you been around the block a few times on that bike how you gonna know who you are, what you feel til you felt a few things that just don’t feel real
6.	Albacore 04:08	lyrics	buy track
look here i just tattooed a wedding band on what looks like to me my mother’s hand i’m no blushing girl no innocent dove it took me a long time to find love but now I have no doubt and I never will that I am meant to be loving you and it fairly blew my mind to be so sure when that little needle said I do my love gives me hope my love gives me pride my love gets me past the land mines inside when I am next to you i am more me inside me is a room to which you hold the key look at that honeymoon in the albacore sky look with all of you not just your eyes look at its dancing light through the whispering trees look how i love you and you love me look how i love you and you love me
7.	J 05:15	lyrics	buy track
can’t sit on my porch and smoke a j and remember how peaceful life can be but all night long are a bunch of pushers selling drugs right there on my tv drugs that whether or not i buy are going to end up in my water supply along with who knows what else who knows when just got to take a deep breath and drink it in round here if there is one thing people know it’s that government ain’t there for you it’s all for show and i’m tryin to tell em it don’t have to be so! but i can understand that their confidence is low cuz round here people so high they can see over the tops of the tall pine trees down to the mouth of the mississippi blood ignited in a blighted sky blood on the water like we all could die blood in the reeds glistening in the sun blood on our hands each and every one here in the calm before the wars when the earth shrugs us off like dinosaurs here in the sunset days of yore the first signs washing ashore goddess come and lift us here in deepest louisiane in the gut where hunches come from a message goes out loud as it can and you’d a thought we’d a come more far somehow since the changing of the guard and all i mean, dude could be FDR right now and instead he’s just shifting his weight and the disappointment is the knock-out blow filmed in torturous slow-mo oh hope please come where i can see don’t let the poison get the best of me goddess come and lift us here in deepest louisiane in the gut where hunches come from a message goes out loud as it can truth is for telling truth is foretold truth is for those with the guts to behold we got vampires down here in louisiane we need voodoo dolls we need talisman we need wooden stakes and shards of light we need harbingers riding through the night we need fountain pens we need whale harpoons to overthrow the oil tycoons cuz there’s no fish in the water no birds in the sky no life in the soil no end to the lie no time like the present and it is passing us by but it’s never too late never too late to try cuz if we all had to change we all just would and we would move closer and that would be good and we would buy local and we would buy less and we’d realize that wasn’t our happiness no that wasn’t our happiness no that wasn’t our happiness no that wasn’t our happiness goddess come and lift us here in deepest louisiane oh goddess come and lift us here in deepest louisiane oh goddess come and lift us here in deepest louisiane in the gut where hunches come from a message goes out loud as it can
8.	If Yr Not 02:50	lyrics	buy track
if yr not if yr not if yr not if yr not if yr not getting happier as you get older then yr fuckin up if yr not if yr not if yr not if yr not if yr not aware that what you put out is what you get back that you make the world through the way you act you can’t harness the awesome power of that fact and it builds up it builds up it builds up it builds up yeah your luck builds up til it’s bigger than you then it just carries you through you better ready yourself cuz what you gonna do if yr not if yr not if yr not if yr not if yr not if yr not getting happier as you get older then yr fuckin up
9.	Hearse 04:04	lyrics	buy track
i don’t wanna strive for nothin anymore i just wanna lie here with you keep the wolves outside the door there is nothin in this world you could ever show me that could ever matter more little baby in the next room dreamin is just icing on the cake there is nothing like dancin our dance of give and take one step forward one step sideways that helpless feeling when the earth shakes i will always be your lover even after our atoms are dispersed we’ll be pushing up daisies and my crush will just be gettin worse an’ i will follow you into the next life like a dog chasing after a hearse i just don’t wanna strive for nothin anymore i just wanna lie here with you keep the wolves outside the door there is nothin in this world you could ever show me that could ever matter more
10.	Mariachi 04:03	lyrics	buy track
i’ll be the right hand you be the left hand you and me we make a mariachi band standin on the corner waitin for the light when you’re around i always feel alright from the painted desert over to paris, france i’ve followed your pointed finger with my glance and i’ve seen so much more than i would see if it was just me just me if it was just me just me our first rehearsal was under a redwood tree and you brought lyrics and you handed them to me and you said here you are the only one who can sing this and i felt kissed and i wondered if it was just me just me if it was just me just me let’s get this party started let’s squeeze the lime the mariachi life is really more than fine you know i’ll meet you you know i’ll be flying blind at the appointed corner at the appointed time at the appointed corner at the appointed time what if it was just me just me?
11.	Amendment 06:26	lyrics	buy track
wouldn’t it be nice if we had an amendment to give civil rights to women to once and for all just really lay it down from the point of view of women i know what you’re thinking that’s just redundant chicks got it good now they can almost be president but its worker against worker time and time again cuz the rich use certain issues as a tool and when i say we need the ERA it ain’t cuz i’m a fool it’s cuz without it nobody can get away with anything cool and you don’t have to go far like just over to canada to feel a heightened sense of live and let live what is it about americans like so many pit bulls trained to attack and to never give we gotta put down abortion put it down in the books for good as central to the civil rights of women make diversity legal make it finally understood through the civil rights of women and if you don’t like abortion don’t have an abortion! and teach your children how they can avoid them but don’t treat all women like they are your children compassion has many faces, many names and if men can kill and be decorated instead of blamed then a woman called upon to mother can choose to refrain contrary to eons of old-time religion your body is your only true dominion nature is not here to serve you (or at any cost to preserve you) that’s just some preacher man’s old-time opinion life is sacred life is also profane a woman’s life must be hers to name let an amendment put this brutal game to rest trust women will still take you to their breast trust women will always do their best trust our differences make us stronger not less in this amendment shall be family structures shall be free we’ll have the right to civil union with equal rights and equal protection intolerance finally ruined and then there’s the kids rights! (they’ll naturally be on board) the funnel through which women’s lives are poured our family is so big and we’re all so very small let a web of relationship be laid over it all over the strata of power piled up to the sky over the illusion of autonomy on which it relies over any absolute that nature does not supply and the birthing woman shall regain her place in the circle of women in a sacred space turn off the machines put away the knives this amendment shall deliver from bondage midwives
12.	Zoo 03:08	lyrics	buy track
i can no longer watch tv cuz that shit really melts my brain i think i’m what they call sensitive and easily thrown off my game all that bloodshed and pettiness just makes the world seem so insane and i just feel drained i go to do my food shopping and all i can see is the packaging one big mountain of garbage about to be happening and i walk past my own self loathing like i walk past animals in the zoo trying not to really see them and the prison they didn’t choose and if i should ever quit your spotlight i hope you won‘t think me wrong says the poet to the moonlight says the singer to the song it’s enough just to stay upright upright in every single way and pour your love into your children until there’s nothing left to say pour your love into your children until there’s nothing left to say

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released January 17, 2012

2011, 2011 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

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Ani DiFranco New Orleans, Louisiana

Grammy winner and feminist icon Ani DiFranco began her career as a proponent of the artist-run label, creating her own Righteous Babe Records in 1990. Since then she has released over twenty studio albums and supported a broad range of social causes including racial justice, reproductive rights, gender equality, environmental issues and prison reform. ... more

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