she came to and her
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whole life was how she remembered it
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she had a mouth full of fur
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and she was laughing
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she parked her hearse across
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three spaces posted motorcycles only
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and jumped out shouting
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wha the cus could make a nice girl like us
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feel so lonely?
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are you weary as water
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in a faucet left dripping
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with an incessant sadness
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like a sad record skipping
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and an ugly and ornery
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and shadowy dread
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lurking like a troll under the bridge
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between your heart and your head
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please dumb blind kind sir
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lend little miss listless a little bit of christmas
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she's been a real good girl
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but now she's stuck here
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the world is so little and still
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mysterious and ominous as ever before
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like an unmarked bottle of pills
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on the shelf right next to the thing
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you were reaching for
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swing the groove 'round here
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where i can reach it
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when i get my ass back on track
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i'm gonna need it
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swing shift til i get the money
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to buy me and my baby a moon full of honey
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then i'm gonna turn off the nagging voices
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inside my head
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that follow me to bed and say
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you suck...
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("break it down" freestyle by Corey Parker added to this song during some performances)
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if you dig it on the sound
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break it down
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no walls up, break it down
|
break it down
|
happiness spread it all around
|
break it down
|
racism stomp it in the ground
|
break it down
|
so if you dig it on the sound
|
break it down
|
no walls up, break it down
|
break it down
|
ignorance stomp it in the ground
|
break it down
|
happiness spread it all around
|
break it down
|
check, who said folk and hip-hop can't match
|
put us together on the stage and light a match
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kaboom, guess who stepped in the room
|
sweeping you off your feet like we had a broom
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with ani difranco and maceo
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add a little freestyle flow and who knows
|
put a little scratchin' into the mix
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and it's enough to get you high if you need a fix
|
so, if you dig it on the sound
|
break it down
|
no walls up, break it down
|
break it down
|
ignorance stomp it in the ground
|
break it down
|
happiness spread it all around
|
break it down
|
if you dig it on the sound
|
break it down
|
no walls up, break it down
|
break it down
|
racism stomp it in the ground
|
break it down
|
happiness spread it all around
|
break it down
|
so, if you dig it on the sound
|
break it down
|
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Swing (Radio Set)
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| Ani DiFranco |
