It’s been more than 3 years since she released her last studio album. The one and only Ani DiFranco will release Which Side are You On? on January 17, via her most righteous label, Righteous Babe Records. Click the link for a preview of all of the new songs, and to order you some. Righteous, indeed.
i honestly cannot wait.
tonight you stooped to my level
i am your mangy little whore
you are trying to find your underwear
and then your socks and then the door
and you’re trying to find a reason
why you have to leave
i know it’s ‘cuz you think you’re adam
and you think i’m eve
you rhapsodize about beauty
and my eyes glaze
everything that i love is ugly
i mean really, you would be amazed
just do me a favor
it’s the least that you can do
just don’t treat me like i am
something that happened to you
i am truly sorry about all this
you put a tiny pinprick
in my big red balloon
and as i slowly start to exhale
that’s when you leave the room
i did not design this game
i did not name the stakes
i just happen to like apples
and i am not afraid of snakes
i am truly sorry about all this
i envy your ignorance
i hear that it’s bliss
so i let go of the ratio
of things said to things heard
and i leave you to your garden
and the beauty you preferred
and i wonder what of this
will have meaning for you
when you’ve left it all behind
i guess i’ll even wonder
if you meant it
at the time
— “Adam and Eve” - Ani Difranco (via normabates)
(twenty)-three years go by
And not once do you come home
To find a man sitting in your bedroom
That is
A man you don’t know
Who came a long way to deliver one very specific message:
Lock your back door, you idiot
However invincible you imagine yourself to be
You are wrong
(twenty)-three years go…
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 overlapcome here
stand in front of the light
stand still
so I can see your sillouette
I hope
you have got all…
When I was four years old
they tried to test my IQ
they showed me a picture
of three oranges and a pear
and asked
‘which one is different
and does not belong?’
they taught me that different is wrong
"— Ani DiFnranco (via subconciousevolution)
(via mickyalexandria)
— ani difranco, “imperfectly” (via hergreenlight)
the next time that i saw you
you were larger than life
yeah you came and you conquered
you were doing all right
you had an army of suits behind you
and all you had to be was willing
and i said i still make a pretty good living
you must make a killing, a killing
and i hope that, that you…
(Source: apophysis)
— Ani DiFranco (via gaywrites)
And oh, oh, let me count the ways
That I abhore you.
And you were never a good lay.
And you were never a good friend.
But, oh, oh, what else can I say…
I adore you.And I’ll pretend that this is real
‘Cuz this is what I like best.
And you’ve been juggling two women like a stupid circus clown,
Telling us both we are the one.And maybe you can keep me from ever being happy,
But you’re not gonna stop me from having fun.
So let’s go before I change my mind
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