by Anais Mitchell, Greg Brown & Ani Difranco on album Hadestown
by Anais Mitchell feat. Ani Difranco on album Hadestown
Pour the wine and raise a cup Drink up brothers, you know how and spill a drop for Orpheus Wherever he is now (Persephone) Some birds sing when the sun shines bright My praise is not for them But the
by Ani Difranco on album Ani Difranco
He said Ani, you've gotten tough 'Cause 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 occupations I'm determined
by Ani Difranco on album Ani Difranco
I am walking out in the rain And I am listening to the low moan of the dial tone again And I am getting nowhere with you And I can't let it go and I can't get through The old woman behind the pink cu
by Ani Difranco on album Ani Difranco
The butter melts out of habit You know the toast isn't even warm And the waitress and the man in the plaid shirt Play out a scene they've played so many times before Watchin' the sun stumble home in t
by Ani Difranco on album Ani Difranco
I opened a bank account when I was nine years old I closed it when I was eighteen I gave them every penny that I'd saved And they gave my blood and my urine A number now I'm sitting in this waiting r
by Ani Difranco on album Ani Difranco
The slant, a building settling around me My figure female framed crookedly In the threshold of the room Door scraping floorboards, with every opening Carving a rough history of bedroom scenes The plo
by Ani Difranco on album Ani Difranco
Rush hour And the day's dawning The rain came And pushed me under the awning The puddles grew and threw themselves at me With every passing car I'm shielding my guitar And there were some things That
by Ani Difranco on album Ani Difranco
Lying on the floor Four stories high In the corridor Between the asphalt and the sky I am caught like bottled water The light daughter I wonder what you look like Under your T-shirt I wonder what yo
by Ani Difranco on album Ani Difranco
I opened the fire door to four lips None of which were mine, kissing Tightened my belt around my hips Where your hands were missing And stepped out into the cold, collar high Under the slate gray sky
by Ani Difranco on album Ani Difranco
I am letting the telephone ring 'Cause I don't want to know why I don't want to hear you explain I don't want to hear you cry I have written so much about you So much I thought I knew Words like wate
by Ani Difranco on album To The Teeth
Ani Difranco To The Teeth Cloud Blood? I've been wondering what you meant when you asked Do you have a light? I've been wondering where you went when you left That party that night Cloud blood smu
by Ani Difranco on album Revelling: Reckoning
Ani Difranco Revelling: Reckoning That Was My Love (instrumental)
by Ani Difranco on album Ani Difranco
Pale purple nipples, goose pimpled She shivers shifts from a walk to a trot Alone in the city infested with faces Immune to new friendships Interested in places she's never seen She says everything i
by Ani Difranco on album Miscellaneous
Ani Difranco Miscellaneous Oh My My your body forshortened below your shoulders your face so close it's out of focus way down the hallway comes the sound of your shoes this is when
by Ani Difranco on album Little Plastic Castle
Ani Difranco Little Plastic Castle Fuel (spoken Word) They were digging a new foudation in manhattan And they discovered a slave cemetary there May their souls rest easy Now that lynching is frowne
by Ani Difranco on album Ani Difranco
I'm imagining your frame Every angle and every plane I'm imagining your smell The one that mingled with mine Once upon a time thoughts of you Are picketing my brain They refuse to work Such long hour
by Ani Difranco on album Ani Difranco
I would have returned your greeting If it weren't for the way you were looking at me This street is not a market And I am not a commodity Don't you find it sad that we can't even say hello 'Cause you
by Ani Difranco on album Up Up Up Up Up Up
Ani Difranco Up Up Up Up Up Up Hat Shaped Hat In walked a man in the shape of a man Holding a hat-shaped hat He held up two fingers and said 'how many fingers?" And i said 'peace man, that's w
by Ani Difranco on album Ani Difranco
Perpetrating counter culture she is walking through the park First light ugly and more muscular than the dark Pushing poems at the urban silence, drawing portraits of the passers-by Sitting on the cur