ani harmony

HybridFalcon

lyrics: 
squint your eyes and look closer
i'm not between you and your ambition
i am a poster girl with no poster
i am thirty-two flavors and then some
and i'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
cause someday you're going to get hungry
and eat most of the words you just said

both my parents taught me about good will
and i have done well by their names
just the kindness i've lavished on strangers
is more than i can explain
still there's many who've turned out their porch lights
just so i would think they were not home
and hid in the dark of their windows
till i'd passed and left them alone

and god help you if you are an ugly girl
course too pretty is also your doom
cause everyone harbors a secret hatred
for the prettiest girl in the room
and god help you if you are a phoenix
and you dare to rise up from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy
while you are just flying past

i'm not trying to give my life meaning
by demeaning you
and i would like to state for the record
i did everything that i could do
i'm not saying  that i'm a saint
i just don't want to live that way
no, i will never be a saint
but i will always say

squint your eyes and look closer
i'm not between you and your ambition
i am a poster girl with no poster
i am thirty-two flavors and then some
and i'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
cause someday you might find you're starving
and eating all of the words you said

Ani DiFranco - 32 Flavors

Her first track off her first album made in 1990. All belongs to righteous babe records. 
Lyrics from her site: 
i am walking out in the rain 
i am listening to the low moan of the dial tone 
again 
i am getting nowhere with you 
i can't let it go and i can't get through 
the old woman behind the pink curtains 
and the closed door 
on the first floor 
she's listening through the airshaft 
to see how long 
our swan song can last 
both hands 
now use both hands 
no don't close your eyes 
i am writing 
graffiti on your body 
i am drawing the story 
of how hard we tried 
i am watching your chest rise and fall 
like the tides of my life 
and the rest of it all 
your bones have been my bed frame 
and your flesh has been my pillow 
i've been waiting for sleep 
to offer up the deep with both hands 
in each other's shadow we grew less and less tall 
and eventually our theories couldn't explain it all 
so i'm recording our history 
now on the bedroom wall 
and when we leave the landlord will come 
and paint over it all

Ani DiFranco - Both Hands

lyrics: think i'm going for a walk now
i feel a little unsteady
don't want nobody to follow me
'cept maybe you
i could make you happy, y' know
if you weren't already
i could do a lot of things
and i do
tell you the truth i prefer
the worst of you
too bad you had to have a better half
she's not really my type
but i think you two are forever
and i hate to say it
but you're perfect together

so fuck you
and your untouchable face
and fuck you
for existing in the first place
who am i
that i should be vying for your touch
who am i
bet you can't even tell me that much

two-thirty in the morning
and my gas tank will be empty soon
neon sign on the horizon
rubbing elbows with the moon
a safe haven of sleepless
where the deep fryer's always on
and the radio is counting down
the top twenty country songs
and out on the porch the fly strip
is waving like a flag in the wind
y'know, i don't look forward
to seeing you again
you'll look like a photograph of yourself
taken from far far away
and i won't know what to do
and i won't know what to say

except fuck you
and your untouchable face
and fuck you
for existing in the first place
who am i
that i should be vying for your touch
who am i
bet you can't even tell me that much

i see you and i'm so perplexed
what was i thinking
what will i think of next
where can i hide
in the back room there's a lamp
that hangs over the pool table
and when the fan is on it swings
gently side to side
there's a changing constellation
of balls as we are playing
i see orion and say nothing
the only thing i can think of saying

is fuck you
and your untouchable face
and fuck you
for existing in the first place
who am i
that i should be vying for your touch
who am i
bet you can't even tell me that much

- all rights belong to Righteous Babe Records

Ani DiFranco - Untouchable Face

lyrics: 
i am not a pretty girl
that is not what i do
i ain't no damsel in distress
and i don't need to be rescued
so put me down punk
maybe you'd prefer a maiden fair
isn't there a kitten stuck up a tree somewhere

i am not an angry girl
but it seems like i've got everyone fooled
every time i say something they find hard to hear
they chalk it up to my anger
and never to their own fear
and imagine you're a girl
just trying to finally come clean
knowing full well they'd prefer you
were dirty and smiling

and i am sorry
i am not a maiden fair
and i am not a kitten stuck up a tree somewhere

and generally my generation
wouldn't be caught dead working for the man
and generally i agree with them
trouble is you gotta have yourself an alternate plan
and i have earned my disillusionment
i have been working all of my life
and i am a patriot
i have been fighting the good fight
and what if there are no damsels in distress
what if i knew that and i called your bluff?
don't you think every kitten figures out how to get down
whether or not you ever show up

i am not a pretty girl
i don't want to be a pretty girl
no i want to be more than a pretty girl

Ani DiFranco - Not A Pretty Girl

Ani DiFranco - Topic

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Gravel · Ani DiFranco

Little Plastic Castle

℗ 1998 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 1998-02-17

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Gravel

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You Had Time · Ani DiFranco

Out Of Range

℗ 1994 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 1994-07-26

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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You Had Time

Righteous Babe Records

we tried to make a claymation video for the song little plastic castle, back in 1998, it never did see the light of day. if you’re curious about the story behind it, or you want to see the actual thing that got ixnayed, come join me for its WORLD PREMIERE! ha. better late than never? …we’ll see. 

"Little Plastic Castle (2023 Remaster - 25th Anniversary Edition)" and "Little Plastic Castle" (Tune-Yards Remix) out now: https://righteousbabe.ffm.to/lpc-tune-yards.oyd

Little Plastic Castle (25th Anniversary Edition) is available on digital, CD, and for the first time on vinyl: https://righteousbabe.ffm.to/littleplasticcastle25th.oyd

LYRICS:
in a coffee shop in a city
which is every coffee shop in every city
on a day which is every day
i picked up a magazine
which is every magazine
read a story, and then forgot it right away

they say goldfish have no memory
i guess their lives are much like mine
and the little plastic castle
is a surprise every time
and it's hard to say if they're happy
but they don't seem much to mind

from the shape of your shaved head
i recognized your silhouette
as you walked out of the sun and sat down
and the sight of your sleepy smile
eclipsed all the other people
as they paused to sneer at the two girls
from out of town

i said, look at you this morning
you are, by far, the cutest
but be careful getting coffee
i think these people want to shoot us
or maybe there's some kind of local competition here
to see who can be the rudest

people talk
about my image
like i come in two dimensions
like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind
like what i happen to be wearing
the day that someone takes a picture
is my new statement for all of womankind

i wish they could see us now
in leather bras and rubber shorts
like some ridiculous team uniform
for some ridiculous new sport
quick someone call the girl police
and file a report

in a coffee shop in a city
which is every coffee shop in every city
on a day which is every day

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Little Plastic Castle (25th Anniversary Edition) (Official Music Video) - Ani DiFranco

lyrics: 
the heat is so great
it plays tricks with the eye
it turns the road to water 
and then from water to sky
and there's a crack in the concrete floor
and it starts at the sink
there's a bathroom in a gas station 
and i've locked myself in it to think

and back in the city
the sun bakes the trash on the curb
the men are pissing in doorways
and the rats are running in herds
i've got a dream with your face in it
that scares me awake
i put too much on my table
and now i got too much at stake

and i might let you off easy
yeah i might lead you on
i might wait for you to look for me
and then i might be gone
where i come from and where i'm going 
and i'm lost in between
i might go up to that phone booth
and leave a veiled invitation on you machine

and you'll stop me, won't you
if you've heard this one before
the one where i surprise you 
by showing up at your front door
saying 'let's not ask what's next, 
or how, or why'
i am leaving in the morning
so let's not be shy

the door opens, the room winces
the housekeeper comes in without a warning
i squint at the muscular motel light
and say, hey good morning
as she jumps, her keys jingle
and she leaves as quickly as she came in
i roll over and taste the pillow with my grin
the sheets are twisted and damp
and the heat is so great
and i swear i can feel the mattress
sinking underneath your weight
oh sleep is like a fever
and i'm glad when it ends
and the road flows like a river
and pulls me around every bend


and you'll stop me, won't you...

the heat is so great
it plays tricks with the eye
it turns road to water
and water to sky
and there's a crack in the concrete floor
and it starts at the sink
there's a bathroom in a gas station 
and i've locked myself
in it to think

and you'll stop me, won't you...

Ani DiFranco - Shy

poeticjournalism

Ani Difranco-As Is

lyrics: 
fourteenth street and the garbage swirls like a cyclone
three o'clock in the afternoon 
and i am going home
f-train is full of high school students
so much shouting, so much laughter
last night's underwear 
in my back pocket
sure sign of the morning after

take me home
take me home and leave me there
think i'm going to cry, i don't know why
think i'm going to sing myself a lullaby
feel free to listen
feel free to stare

i live in new york, new york 
the city that never shuts up
in the daylight everything is so gory
you can hear snatches of stranger's sorry stories
and i moved there from buffalo 
but that's nothing
the trico plant moved to mexico
left my uncle standing out in the cold
said here's your last paycheck 
have fun growing old

take me home
take me home and leave me there
think i'm going to cry, i don't know why
think i'm going to sing myself a lullaby
feel free to listen
feel free to stare

rockabye baby
in the tree top
when the wind blows
cradle will rock
when the bough breaks
the cradle will fall
and down will come baby
cradle and all

youth is beauty
money is beauty
hell, beauty is beauty sometimes
it's the luck of the draw
it's the natural law
it's a joke
it's a crime
i was bored
you were bored
it was a meeting of the minds
now it's three in the afternoon 
and i can't leave too soon
saying thank you, i had a nice time

take me home
take me home and leave me there
think i'm going to cry, i don't know why
think i'm going to sing myself a lullaby
feel free to listen
feel free to stare

rockabye baby
in the tree top
when the wind blows
cradle will rock
when the bough breaks
the cradle will fall
and down will come baby
cradle and all

maybe i'll live my whole life
just getting by
maybe i'll be discovered
maybe i'll be colonized
you could try to train me like a pet
you could try to teach me to behave
but i'll tell you, if i haven't learned it yet
i ain't gonna sit
i ain't gonna stay

take me home
take me home and leave me there
think i'm going to cry, i don't know why
think i'm going to sing myself a lullaby
feel free to listen
feel free to stare

Ani DiFranco - Cradle And All

lyrics: 
i do it for the joy it brings
because i'm a joyful girl
because the world owes me nothing 
and we owe each other the world
i do it because it's the least i can do
i do it because i learned it from you
and i do it just because i want to 
because i want to

everything i do is judged
and they mostly get it wrong
but oh well
'cuz the bathroom mirror has not budged
and the woman who lives there can tell
the truth from the stuff that they say
and she looks me in the eye
and says would you prefer the easy way
no, well o.k. then
don't cry

i wonder if everything i do
i do instead 
of something i want to do more
the question fills my head
i know there's no grand plan here
this is just the way it goes
when everything else seems unclear
i guess at least i know

i do it for the joy it brings
because i'm a joyful girl
because the world owes me nothing
and we owe each other the world
i do it because it's the least i can do
i do it because i learned it from you
and i do it just because i want to
because i want to

Ani DiFranco - Joyful Girl

lyrics:
our father who art in a penthouse
sits in his 37th floor suite
and swivels to gaze down
at the city he made me in
he allows me to stand and
solicit graffiti until
he needs the land i stand on
i in my darkened threshold
am pawing through my pockets
the receipts, the bus schedules
the matchbook phone numbers
the urgent napkin poems
all of which laundering has rendered
pulpy and strange
loose change and a key
ask me
go ahead, ask me if i care
i got the answer here
i wrote it down somewhere
i just gotta find it
i just gotta find it

somebody and their spray paint got too close
somebody came on too heavy
now look at me made ugly
by the drooling letters
i was better off alone
ain't that the way it is
they don't know the first thing
but you don't know that
until they take the first swing
my fingers are red and swollen from the cold
i'm getting bold in my old age
so go ahead, try the door
it doesn't matter anymore
i know the weakhearted are strongwilled
and we are being kept alive
until we're killed
he's up there the ice
is clinking in his glass
he sends me little pieces of paper
i don't ask
i just empty my pockets and wait
it's not fate
it's just circumstance
i don't fool myself with romance
i just live
phone number to phone number
dusting them against my thighs
in the warmth of my pockets
which whisper history incessantly
asking me
where were you

i lower my eyes
wishing i could cry more
and care less,
yes it's true, 
i was trying to love someone again,
i was caught caring,
bearing weight

but i love this city, this state
this country is too large 
and whoever's in charge up there
had better take the elevator down
and put more than change in our cup
or else we
are coming
up

Ani DiFranco - Coming Up

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Napoleon · Ani DiFranco

Dilate

℗ 1996 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 1996-05-21

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Napoleon

lyrics: 
life used to be life-like
now it's more like show biz
i wake up in the night
and i don't know where the bathroom is
and i don't know what town i'm in
or what sky i am under
and i wake up in the darkness and i 
don't have the will anymore to wonder
everyone has a skeleton
and a closet to keep it in
and you're mine
every song has a you
a you that the singer sings to
and you're it this time
baby, you're it this time

when i need to wipe my face
i use the back of my hand
and i like to take up space
just because i can
and i use my dress
to wipe up my drink
i care less and less
what people think
and you are so lame 
you always disappoint me
it's kinda like our running joke
but it's really not funny
i just want you to live up to
the image of you i create
i see you and i'm so unsatisfied
i see you and i dilate

so i'll walk the plank and i'll jump with a smile
if i'm gonna go down
i'm gonna do it with style
and you won't see me surrender 
you won't hear me confess 
'cuz you've left me with nothing
but i've worked with less
and i learn every room long enough
to make it to the door
and then i hear it click shut behind me
and every key works differently
i forget every time
and the forgetting defines me 
that's what defines me

when i say you sucked my brain out
the english translation 
is i am in love with you 
and it is no fun
but i don't use words like love
'cuz words like that don't matter
but don't look so offended
you know, you should be flattered
i wake up in the night
in some big hotel bed
my hands grope for the light
my hands grope for my head
the world is my oyster
the road is my home
and i know that i'm better 
off alone

Ani DiFranco - Dilate

lyrics: 
i'm sorry i didn't sound more excited on the phone
i'm sorry that after all these years
i've left you feeling unrequited and alone, brought you to tears
i guess i never loved you quite as well as the way you loved me
i guess i'll never really be able to tell you how sorry
i am

and i don't know what it is about you
i just know it's not what it was
i don't know why red fades before blue it just does
and i don't know what it is about me
that i just can't keep still
i keep thinking someday i will make this all up to you
and maybe someday i will

i guess i never loved you quite as well
as the way you loved me
i guess i'll never really be able to tell you how sorry
i am
sorry i am
sorry i am
sorry i am

Ani DiFranco - Sorry I Am

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Fuel · Ani DiFranco

Little Plastic Castle

℗ 1998 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 1998-02-17

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Fuel

1990. Ninth track of her first album. All belongs to righteous babe records. 
Lyrics: 
i opened the fire door to four lips 
none of which were mine 
kissing 
tightened my belt around my hips 
where your hands are missing 
and stepped out in the cold collar high 
under the slate grey sky 
the air was smoking and the streets were dry 
and i wasn't joking when i said goodbye 
past magazine quality men talking on the corner 
french no less much less of them than us 
so why do i feel like something's been rearranged 
you know, taken out of context 
i must seem so strange 
killed a cockroach so big 
it left a puddle of puss on my wall 
when you and i are lying in bed 
you don't seem so tall 
and i'm singing now 
because my tear ducts are too tired 
and my mind is disconnected 
but my heart is wired 
i make such a good statistic someone should 
study me now 
someone's got to be interested in how i feel 
just because i'm here and i'm real 
oh how i miss 
substituting the conclusion to a confrontation 
with a kiss and 
oh how i miss 
walking up to the edge and jumping in 
like i could feel the future on your skin

Ani DiFranco - Fire Door

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Grey · Ani DiFranco

Revelling/Reckoning

℗ 2001 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 2001-04-10

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Grey

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Shameless · Ani DiFranco

Dilate

℗ 1996 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 1996-05-21

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Shameless

lyrics:
buildings and bridges
are made to bend in the wind
to withstand the world,
that's what it takes
all that steel and stone
are no match for the air, my friend
what doesn't bend breaks
what doesn't bend breaks

we are made to bleed
and scab and heal and bleed again
and turn every scar into a joke
we are made to fight
and fuck and talk and fight again
and sit around and laugh until we choke
sit around and laugh until we choke

i don't know who you were expecting
probably some bitch who does not budge
with eyes the size of snow
i may get pissed off sometimes
but you seem like the type to hold a grudge
and in the end, i just let go...

buildings and bridges
are made to bend in the wind
to withstand the world,
that's what it takes
all that steel and stone
is no match for the air, my friend
what doesn't bend breaks
what doesn't bend breaks

Ani DiFranco - Buildings And Bridges

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In The Margins · Ani DiFranco

Reprieve

℗ 2006 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 2006-08-08

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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In The Margins

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Two Little Girls · Ani DiFranco

Little Plastic Castle

℗ 1998 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 1998-02-17

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Two Little Girls

lyrics: 
the wind is ruthless
the trees shake angry fingers at the sky
the people hunch their shoulders
hold their collars over their ears and run by
it's a cold rain
it's a hard rain
like the kind you find in songs
i guess that makes me the jerk with the heartache
here to sing to you about how i been done wrong

i am sitting, watching
out the window of the coffee shop
and i'm waiting, waiting
waiting for it to let up
i am rocking like a cradle
warming my hands with the cup in between
i am leaning over the table
holding my face over the steam

and before it gets so cold
that the rain turns to snow
there's just a couple things
i'd like to know

like how could you do nothing 
and say, i'm doing my best
how could you take almost everything
and then come back for the rest
how could you beg me to stay
reach out your hands and plead
and then pack up your eyes and run away
as soon as i agreed

it just all slips 
away so slowly
you don't even notice till you've lost a lot
i've been like one of those zombies
in vegas
pouring quarters into a slot
and now i'm tired
and i am broke
and i feel stupid and i feel used
and i'm at the end of my little rope
and i am swinging back and forth
about you

and before it gets so cold
that the rain turns to snow
there's just a couple things
i'd like to know 

like how could you do nothing
and say, i'm doing my best
how could you take almost everything
and then come back for the rest
how could you beg me to stay
reach out your hands and plead
and then pack up your eyes and run away
as soon as i agreed

Ani DiFranco - Done Wrong

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Manhole · Ani DiFranco

Knuckle Down

℗ 2005 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 2005-01-25

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Manhole

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Studying Stones · Ani DiFranco

Knuckle Down

℗ 2005 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 2005-01-25

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Studying Stones

lyrics: 
i want somebody who sees the pointlessness
and still keeps their purpose in mind
i want somebody who has a tortured soul
some of the time
i want somebody who will either put out for me
or put me out of misery
or maybe just put it all to words
and make me go, you know
i never heard it put that way
make me say, what did you just say?

i want somebody who can hold my interest
hold it and never let it fall
someone who can flatten me with a kiss
that hits like a fist
or a sentence, that stops me like a brick wall
if you hear me talking
listen to what i'm not saying
if you hear me playing guitar
listen to what i'm not playing
and don't ask me to put words
to all the silences i wrote
don't ask me to put words
to all the spaces between notes
in fact if you have to ask, forget it
do and you'll regret it
i'm tired of being the interesting one
i'm tired of having fun for two
just lay yourself on the line
and i might lay myself down by you
but don't sit behind your eyes
and wait for me to surprise you
i want somebody who can make me
scream until it's funny
give me a run for my money
i want someone who can
twist me up in knots
tell me, for the woman who has everything
what have you got?
i want someone who's not afraid of me
or anyone else
in other words i want someone
who's not afraid of themself

do you think i'm asking too much?

Ani DiFranco - Asking Too Much

lyrics: 
i search your profile
for a translation
i study the conversation
like a map
'cause i know there is strength
in the differences between us
and i know there is comfort
where we overlap

come here
stand in front of the light
stand still
so i can see your silhouette
i hope
you have got all night
'cause i'm not done looking,
no, i'm not done looking yet

each one of us
wants a piece of the action
you can hear it in what we say
you can see it in what we do
we negotiate with chaos
for some sense of satisfaction
if you won't give it to me
at least give me a better view

come here
stand in front of the light
stand still
so i can see your silhouette
i hope
you have got all night
'cause i'm not done looking
no,
i'm not done looking yet

i build each one of my songs
out of glass
so you can see me inside of them
i suppose
or you could just leave the image of me
in the background, i guess
and watch your own reflection superimposed

i build each one of my days out of hope
and i give that hope your name
and i don't know you that well
but it don't take much to tell
either you don't have the balls
or you don't feel the same

come here
stand in front of the light
stand still
so i can see your silhouette
i hope
you have got all night
'cause i'm not done looking
no, i'm not done looking yet

i search your profile for a translation
i study the conversation like a map
'cause i know there is strength
in the differences between us
and i know there is comfort
where we overlap

Ani DiFranco - Overlap

1990. 12 track off her first album. All belongs to righteous babe records. 
Lyrics: 
the butter melts out of habit 
the toast isn't even warm 
the waitress and the man in the plaid shirt 
play out a scene they've played 
so many times before 
i am watching the sun 
stumble home in the morning 
from a bar on the east side of town 
and the coffee is just water dressed in brown 
beautiful but boring he visited me yesterday 
he noticed my fingers 
and he asked me if i would play 
i didn't really care a lot 
but i couldn't think of a reason why not 
i said if you don't come any closer 
i don't mind if you stay 
my thighs have been involved 
in many accidents 
and now i can't get insured 
and i don't need to be lured by you 
my cunt is built 
like a wound that won't heal 
now you don't have to ask 
because you know how i feel 
art is why i get up in the morning 
but my definition ends there 
it doesn't seem fair 
that i'm living for something 
i can't even define 
there you are right there 
in the meantime 
i don't want to play for you anymore 
show me what you can do 
tell me what are you here for 
i want my old friends 
i want my old face 
i want my old mind 
fuck this time and place 
the butter melts out of habit 
the toast isn't even warm

Ani DiFranco - Out of Habit

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Hypnotized · Ani DiFranco

Reprieve

℗ 2006 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 2006-08-08

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Hypnotized

Moshcam

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Ani DiFranco performing Anticipate live at Music Hall of Williamsburg in New York on 18 November 2011

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Ani DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York, to Elizabeth and Dante DiFranco, who had met while attending MIT. She started playing Beatles covers at local bars and busking with her guitar teacher, Michael Meldrum, at the age of nine.

DiFranco's guitar playing is often characterized by a signature staccato style, rapid fingerpicking and many alternate tunings. She delivers many of her lines in a speaking style notable for its rhythmic variation. Her lyrics, which often include alliteration, metaphor, word play and a more or less gentle irony, have also received praise for their sophistication.

She has continued touring through 2011. As of 2008 her backing band consists of Todd Sickafoose on upright bass, Allison Miller on drums, and Mike Dillon on percussion and vibes.

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Swan Dive · Ani DiFranco

Little Plastic Castle

℗ 1998 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 1998-02-17

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Swan Dive

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Ani DiFranco - Wishin' And Hopin'

lyrics: 
sleep walking through the all-nite drug store
baptized in fluorescent light
i found religion in the greeting card aisle
now i know hallmark was right
and every pop song on the radio
is suddenly speaking to me
art may imitate life
but life imitates t.v.
'cuz you've been gone exactly two weeks
two weeks and three days
and let's just say that things look different now 
different in so many ways

i used to be a superhero
no one could touch me
not even myself
you are like a phone booth
that i somehow stumbled into
and now look at me
i am just like everbody else

if i was dressed in my best defenses 
would you agree to meet me for coffee
if i did my tricks with smoke and mirrors
would you still know which one was me
if i was naked and screaming 
on your front lawn
would you turn on the light and come down
screaming, there's the asshole 
who did this to me
stripped me of my power
stripped me down

i used to be a superhero
no one could hurt me 
not even myself
you are like a phone booth
that i somehow stumbled into
and now look at me
i am just like everybody else

yeah you've been gone exactly two weeks
two weeks and three days
and now i'm a different person
different in so many ways
tell me what did you like about me
and don't say my strength and daring
'cuz now i think i'm at your mercy
and it's my first time for this kind of thing

i used to be a superhero
i would swoop down and save me
from myself
but you are like a phone booth
that i somehow stumbled into
and now look at me
i am just like everybody else

- all rights belong to Righteous Babe Records

Ani DiFranco - Superhero

lyrics: 
you give me that look that's like laughing
with liquid in your mouth
like you're choosing between choking
and spitting it all out
like you're trying to fight gravity
on a planet that insists
that love is like falling
and falling is like this

feels like reckless driving when we're talking
it's fun while it lasts, and it's faster than walking
but no one's going to sympathize when we crash
they'll say "you hit what you head for, you get what you ask"
and we'll say we didn't know, we didn't even try
one minute there was road beneath us, the next just sky

i'm sorry i can't help you, i cannot keep you safe
i'm sorry i can't help myself, so don't look at me that way
we can't fight gravity on a planet that insists
that love is like falling
and falling is like this.

Ani DiFranco - Falling Is Like This

Ani's video “In or Out” (1997) from the live album "Living In Clip" a 2 disc set of live tracks recorded at different shows and hand picked by Ani (+24 page photo book). Available in the Righteous Babe Record store: http://tinyurl.com/opmnzcl

Ani DiFranco - In or Out (Official Music Video)

1990. Second track of her first album. All belongs to righteous babe records. 
Lyrics: 
he said ani, you've gotten tough 
because my tone was curt 
yeah, and when i'm approached in a dark alley 
i don't lift my skirt 
in this city 
self preservation 
is a full-time occupation 
i'm determined to survive on these shores 
i don't avert my eyes anymore 
in a man's world i am 
a woman by birth 
and after nineteen times around i have found 
they will stop at nothing 
once they know what you are worth 
talk to me now 
i played the powerless 
in too many dark scenes 
and i was blessed with a birth and a death 
and i guess i just want some say in between 
don't you understand 
in the day to day 
in the face to face 
i have to act as strong as i can 
just to preserve a place 
where i can be who i am 
so if you still know how 
you can talk to me now

Ani DiFranco - Talk to Me Now

lyrics: 
state trooper thinks i drive too fast
pulled me over to tell me so
i say out here on the prairie
any speed is too slow
i miss brooklyn i miss my crew
let's start over
i missed my cue
guess i just forgot
who i was talking to

i should have recognized
that fierce look in his eyes
i've seen it in the mirror
so many times
he's going to put his two cents in
'cause he's got a gun
but i'm gonna put in three
'cause history owes me one

guess i came out here to see some
stuff for myself
i mean, why leave the telling
up to everybody else
this may be god's country
but it's my country too
move over mr. holiness
and let the little people through

thank you for serving and protecting
the likes of me
thank you for the ticket
now can i leave?
you know i have left everywhere
i have ever been
i don't really recommend it
though not like anyone asked me
maybe you and i
will meet again someday
i've been known to
come down this road
call it destiny
and then again
maybe not
i don't know

Ani DiFranco - God's Country

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Swim · Ani DiFranco

Educated Guess

℗ 2004 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 2004-01-20

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Swim

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Paradigm · Ani DiFranco

Knuckle Down

℗ 2005 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 2005-01-25

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Paradigm

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Pixie · Ani DiFranco

Little Plastic Castle

℗ 1998 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 1998-02-17

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Pixie

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Subdivision · Ani DiFranco

Revelling/Reckoning

℗ 2001 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 2001-04-10

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Subdivision

lyrics:
amazing grace 
how sweet the sound
that save a wretch like me
i once was lost
but now i'm found
was blind but now i see

'twas grace that taught 
my heart to fear
and grace that fear relieved
how precious did 
that grace appear
the hour i first believed

through many dangers 
toils and snares
i have already come
'twas grace that brought me
safely thus far
and grace will lead me home

and when this heart 
and flesh shall fail
and mortal life shall cease
i shall possess
within the vale 
a life of joy and peace
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Ani DiFranco - Amazing Grace

lyrics: 
don't ask me why i'm crying
i'm not going to tell you what's wrong
i'm just gonna sit on your lap
for five dollars a song
i want you to pay me for my beauty
i think it's only right
'cause i have been paying for it
all of my life

i'm gonna take the money i make
i'm gonna take the money i make
i'm gonna take the money i make
and i'm gonna go away...

we barely have time to react in this world
let alone rehearse
and i don't think i'm better than you
but i don't think that i'm worse
women learn to be women
and men learn to be men
and i don't blame it all on you
but i don't want to be your friend

i'm gonna take the money i make
i'm gonna take the money i make
i'm gonna take the money i make
and i'm gonna go away...

i was eleven years old
he was as old as my dad
and he took something from me
i didn't even know that i had
so don't tell me about decency
don't tell me about pride
just give me something for my trouble
'cause this time, it's not a free ride

i'm gonna take the money i make
i'm gonna take the money i make
i'm gonna take the money i make
and i'm gonna go away...

don't ask me why i'm crying
i'm not going to tell you what's wrong
i'm just gonna sit on your lap
for ten dollars a songs
i want you to pay me for my beauty
i think it's only right
'cause i have been paying for it
all of my life

now i just wanna take
and i'm just gonna take
i'm gonna take
and i'm gonna go away

Ani DiFranco - Letter To A John

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Deep Dish · Ani DiFranco

Little Plastic Castle

℗ 1998 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 1998-02-17

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Tonny Aranha

Ani DiFranco - Worthy

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Here for Now · Ani DiFranco

Evolve

℗ 2003 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 2003-03-11

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Here for Now

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Loom · Ani DiFranco

Little Plastic Castle

℗ 1998 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 1998-02-17

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Loom

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Marrow · Ani DiFranco

Revelling/Reckoning

℗ 2001 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 2001-04-10

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Marrow

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Glass House · Ani DiFranco

Little Plastic Castle

℗ 1998 Righteous Babe Records distributed by United For Opportunity

Released on: 1998-02-17

Main  Artist: Ani DiFranco
Producer: Ani DiFranco
Composer: Ani DiFranco
Lyricist: Ani DiFranco
Music  Publisher: Righteous Babe Music

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Glass House

From her second album "Not So Soft"
lyrics
thank you 
for letting me stay here 
thank you 
for taking me in 
thank you 
for the beer and the food 
thank you 
for loaning me bus fare 
thank you 
for showing me around 
that was a very 
kind thing to do 
thank you 
for the use of the clean towel 
thank you 
for half of your bed 
we can sleep here like 
brother and sister you said 

but you changed the rules 
in an hour or two 
i don't know what 
you and your sisters do 
but please don't 
please stop 
this is not my obligation 
what does my body 
have to do 
with my gratitude 

look at you 
little white lying 
for the purpose of justifying 
what you are trying 
to do 
i know that you 
feel my resistance 
i know that you 
heard what i said 
otherwise you wouldn't need 
the excuse 

thank you 
for letting me stay here 
thank you 
for taking me in 
i don't know where else 
i would have gone 
but i don't come and go 
like a pop song 
you can play incessantly 
and then forget once it's gone 
you can't write me off 
and you don't 
turn me on 

so don't change the rules 
in an hour or two 
i don't know what you 
and your sisters do 
but please don't 
please stop 
this is not my obligation 
what does my body 
have to do 
with my gratitude

32 Flavors - Ani Difranco

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