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behind social graces
so don't try
to be all touchy feely
cuz you lie
in my face of all places
but i've got no
problem with that really
what bugs me
is that you believe what you're saying
what bothers me
is that you don't know how you feel
what scares me
is that while you're telling me stories
you actually
believe that they are real
and i've got
no illusions about you
and guess what?
i never did
and when i said
when i said i'll take it
i meant,
i meant as is
just give up
and admit you're an asshole
you would be
in some good company
i think you'd find
that you friends would forgive you
or maybe i
am just speaking for me
cuz when i look around
i think this, this is good enough
and i try to laugh
at whatever life brings
cuz when i look down
i just miss all the good stuff
when i look up
i just trip over things
and i've got
no illusions about you...
you can't hide
behind social graces
cuz i don't buy it
like everyone else
and you can lie
in my face of all places
just don't
lie to yourself
cuz i've got
no illusions about you
and guess what?
i never did
and when i say
when i say i'll take it
i mean,
i mean as is...
...as is...
I'll bet she's really upset that the cover of her eighth album doesn't help her credibility which you think is sorely needed
And maybe this will remind me to listen a bit closer when her tunes come up in rotation....I could be missing other songs I like more than I think.
My first experience of her was in a small club - I went with some friends and had never heard her before. I'd never seen anyone with her level of dynamism and passion. She really blew the roof off the place. And it was weird - all the teen/20-something devoted followers dressed like her. But I'll always respect Ani as a performer. She's a great songwriter, has a very unique playing style, and puts on a good show.
I love her music, but agree with you - she is very good as a live performer. And now all those 20-something fans are 40-something fans and still singing along with every song. I staffed a table for Amnesty International at her show in San Francisco last fall, which was well-received by her fans.
My first experience of her was in a small club - I went with some friends and had never heard her before. I'd never seen anyone with her level of dynamism and passion. She really blew the roof off the place. And it was weird - all the teen/20-something devoted followers dressed like her. But I'll always respect Ani as a performer. She's a great songwriter, has a very unique playing style, and puts on a good show.
'morning
Yup. Thought of Meaning of Life right away.
But the song is tediously boring imo.
Ani DiFranco, pardon me, should go stick her head up a sow's derriere. My bad attitude goes back to the worst concert experience of my life. I got tix to see Maceo Parker at some outdoor venue at a golf course.. Little did I know that since the last time I saw Maceo (in a cool funky roadhouse) he had formed some sort of unholy liaison with Ms DiFranco and the concert had attracted about 300,000 of her pallid, feckless hippie fans. I sure as hell hadn't bargained for any whiney white women, I just wanted to see Maceo and hear the horns. There was one road in and one single-lane driveway entering the place and the traffic was at crawl speed for, honest, 20 miles from the venue. I sat crawling until over an hour after the posted start of the show and turned around and went home. Like $90 out the window, a funkless and enraged evening. Thanks, Ani DiFranco!
It's actually a good song.....great lyrics...
I prefer the way you stated it, much better than mine.
'morning
wow, that is a brilliant and accurate way of putting it. thank you.
TRUTH TO ME - RIGHT SAID FRED !
okay, maybe that's harsh, but really i could care less what she's singing about. i like her music. she can play a guitar like it's nobody's business. saw her at the Edmonton Fold Festival....freshly tuned guitar for every song...that's all i need.
please.
Make it stop.
Ha! Laugh out loud Fred.
"unsophisticated belt-and-braces Nottingham jury"? I seriously doubt your unsophisticated label and indeed that you actually wear both belt AND braces.
Whatever. . . another fine comment, thank you.
The tune? . . . Mumbly old bint. 3 at most.
Some support. . . I got dragged along to see her live. . .2002 maybe? (hadn't heard of her before) and wondered the same thing - not a fan of her brand of mumble.
You plainly don't read enough comments, then. Yer woman has plenty to say, all right, but it's about herself and her minor travails and 'relationship issues'. If she were saying anything with import beyond her own self-regarding world she might be worth listening to. Don't underestimate the discrimination of RP listeners, who can appreciate a 'message' as well as any other body of listeners.
i know...that chorus is horrible. does she have something wrong with her?
As an aside, after reading some of your other comments, thanks for reminding me of why I left the little state of Tejas.
I was wondering why it has been so much better here lately.
I think the same could be said for at least half of bands/musicians or singer/songwriters. "Insufferably hip and self-righteous"...a lot of that going around these days, though in different flavors & forms.
Well, that does go without saying. But thanks for saying it, anyway.
This song sung in this weeeieeeiiirrieeirrd way= 4