Fixing Her Hair
from Imperfectly by Ani DiFranco
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lyrics
she’s looking in the mirror
she’s fixing her hair
and i touch my head
to feel what isn't there
she’s humming a melody
we learned in grade school
she’s so happy and i think
this is not cool
‘cause i know the guy
she’s been talking about
i have met him before
and i think what is this
beautiful woman settling for
she bends her breath
when she talks to him
i can see her features begin to blur
as she pours herself
into the mold he made for her
and for everything he does
she has a way to rationalize
she tells me he don’t mean
what he do
she tells me he called
to apologize
he says he loves her
he says he’s changing
and he can keep her warm
she sits there like america
suffering through slow reform
but she’ll never get back the time
and the years sneak by
one by one
she is still playing the martyr
and i am still praying
for a revolution
she still doesn’t have what she deserves
but she wakes up smiling everyday
she never really expected more
that’s just not the way
we are raised
and i say to her
you know, there’s plenty
of really great men out there
but she doesn’t hear me
she’s looking in the mirror
she’s fixing her hair
she’s fixing her hair
and i touch my head
to feel what isn't there
she’s humming a melody
we learned in grade school
she’s so happy and i think
this is not cool
‘cause i know the guy
she’s been talking about
i have met him before
and i think what is this
beautiful woman settling for
she bends her breath
when she talks to him
i can see her features begin to blur
as she pours herself
into the mold he made for her
and for everything he does
she has a way to rationalize
she tells me he don’t mean
what he do
she tells me he called
to apologize
he says he loves her
he says he’s changing
and he can keep her warm
she sits there like america
suffering through slow reform
but she’ll never get back the time
and the years sneak by
one by one
she is still playing the martyr
and i am still praying
for a revolution
she still doesn’t have what she deserves
but she wakes up smiling everyday
she never really expected more
that’s just not the way
we are raised
and i say to her
you know, there’s plenty
of really great men out there
but she doesn’t hear me
she’s looking in the mirror
she’s fixing her hair
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from Imperfectly,
released June 19, 1992
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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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