Marrow

This is getting obsessive. I should call this blog The All Ani Channel All The Time. I keep finding good footage of Ani Difranco songs. In the past the footage I've found has been pretty crumby or non existent. 

Thank you to xtalv for posting this.


Marrow by Ani Difranco - Ani DiFranco live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, CA 4/6/11

Marrow - Ani Difranco

the answer came
like a shot in the back
while you were running from your lesson
which might explain
why years later all you could remember
was the terror of the question
plus, you weren't listening
you were stockpiling canned goods
making a bomb shelter of our basement
and i can't believe you let the moral go by
while you were soaking in the product placement
where was your conscience?
where was your consciousness?
and where did you put all those letters
that you wrote to yourself
but could not address?

i'm a good kisser
and you're a fast learner
and that kinda thing could float us
for a pretty long time
then one day you'd realize
you've memorized my phone number
and you'll call it and find
it's a disconnected line
cuz i got tossed out the window of love's el camino
and i shattered into a shower of sparks on the curb
you were smoking me
weren't you?
between your yellow fingers
you just inhaled and exhaled without saying a word

where was your conscience?
where was your consciousness?
and where did you put all those letters
that you wrote to yourself
but could not address?

there's a smorgasbord of unspoken poisons
a whole childhood of potions
that are all bottled up
and so one by one i am dusting off labels
i am uncorking bottles and filling up cupsso go ahead and have a taste of your own medicine
and i'll have a taste of mine
but first let's toast to the lists
that we hold in our fists
of the things that we promise to do
differently next time

cuz the answer came like a shot in the back
while you were running from your lesson
which might explain
why years later all you could remember
was the terror of the question
plus i'm not listening to you anymore
my head is too sore and my heart's perforatedand i'm mired in the marrow of my (well... ain't that) funny bone
learning how to be alone and devastatedwhere was my conscience?
where was my consciousness?
and what do i do with all these letters
that i wrote to myself
but cannot address?

"Marrow" can be found on Revelling/Reckoning (2001)

To learn more about Ani Difranco visit her official website here.