Red Letter Year
from Red Letter Year by Ani DiFranco
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lyrics
new years eve we dropped mushrooms
and danced round the house
making music with everything that we found
incantation replaced resolution
and we vowed to allow each perfection
that we could be and the goddesses sent word
that this would be a red letter year
they didn't mention how much shit was gonna change around here
it's just as well we weren't swollen with unfocused dread
we had visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads
dancing in our heads
first you go under and then coming up gives you the bends
and when you break the surface
all you see is your friends
so you grab your purple crayon
and flesh out the picture behind
and finally the whole world is made of one unbroken line
one unbroken line
when you wake up sick as a dog
with dull eyes and really bad hair
standing under a lit sign with the words “on air”
and the water is rising
it's coming in everywhere
just remember you are there
you are always, always there
and representing the white race
a man with a monkey for a face
is flying over in a helicopter
whistling dixie and playing dumb
in a town that might put a gun to your throat
or rip the roof right off of your place
there’s a mold crawling up the walls
and falling asleep in your lungs
and you and I both know how to drink so
we will always have work in this town
and besides the police are stationed at the bridge
and they’re preventing passage to higher ground
so let’s pull up a bar stool
and get ourselves a ring side seat
for one unnerving moment
they’re gonna show the truth on TV
and danced round the house
making music with everything that we found
incantation replaced resolution
and we vowed to allow each perfection
that we could be and the goddesses sent word
that this would be a red letter year
they didn't mention how much shit was gonna change around here
it's just as well we weren't swollen with unfocused dread
we had visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads
dancing in our heads
first you go under and then coming up gives you the bends
and when you break the surface
all you see is your friends
so you grab your purple crayon
and flesh out the picture behind
and finally the whole world is made of one unbroken line
one unbroken line
when you wake up sick as a dog
with dull eyes and really bad hair
standing under a lit sign with the words “on air”
and the water is rising
it's coming in everywhere
just remember you are there
you are always, always there
and representing the white race
a man with a monkey for a face
is flying over in a helicopter
whistling dixie and playing dumb
in a town that might put a gun to your throat
or rip the roof right off of your place
there’s a mold crawling up the walls
and falling asleep in your lungs
and you and I both know how to drink so
we will always have work in this town
and besides the police are stationed at the bridge
and they’re preventing passage to higher ground
so let’s pull up a bar stool
and get ourselves a ring side seat
for one unnerving moment
they’re gonna show the truth on TV
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from Red Letter Year,
released September 30, 2008
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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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