Ani Difranco - The Slant Lyrics
the slant
a building settling around me
my figure female framed crookedly
in the threshold
of the room
with every opening
carving a rough history
of bedroom scenes
the plot hard to follow
the text obscured
in the fields of sheets
slowly gathering the stains
of seasons spent lying there
red and brown
like leaves fallen
fading with the
wash cycle
and the rinse cycle
again an unfamiliar smell
like my name misspelled
or misspoken
a cycle broken
the sound of them strong
stalking talking about their prey
like the way hammer meets nail
pounding, they say
pounding out the rhythms of attraction
like a woman was a drum like a body was a weapon
like there was something more they wanted
than the journey
like it was owed to them
steel toed they walk
and I'm wondering why this fear of men
maybe it's because I'm hungry
and like a baby I'm dependent on them
to feed me
I am a work in progress
dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding
offering me intricte patterns of questions
rhythms that never come clean
and strengths that you still haven't seen
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- Ani Difranco - You Each Time
- Ani Difranco - Bodily
- Ani Difranco - True Story Of What Was
- Ani Difranco - Bliss Like This
- Ani Difranco - Origami
- Ani Difranco - Educated Guess
- Ani Difranco - Swim
- Ani Difranco - Platforms
- Ani Difranco - Welcome To:
- Ani Difranco - Serpentine
- Ani Difranco - Second Intermission
- Ani Difranco - Here For Now
- Ani Difranco - Phase
- Ani Difranco - Animal
- Ani Difranco - Grand Canyon
- Ani Difranco - Callous
- Ani Difranco - Parameters
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Ani Difranco The Slant Comments
love it heard it at dance competition and loved it
<3 thank you <3
I guess I may be the first to watch your vid, or the second, donno. So lemme say thanks a lot for posting this. I just started getting into Ani and her stuff is great.