[ti:Reprieve]
[ar:Ani Difranco]
[al:Reprieve]
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[02:44.78]Album:Reprieve
[00:51.52]Ani Difranco-Reprieve
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[00:00.61]Manhattan is an island
[00:01.72]Like the women who are
[00:03.51]Surrounded by children in the car
[00:05.47]Surrounded by cars
[00:06.88]
[00:07.13]Or manhattan was a project
[00:09.63]That projected the worst of mankind
[00:12.10]First one and then the other
[00:14.32]Has made its mark on my mind
[00:16.19]
[00:19.03]It's sixty years later 
[00:21.12]near the hypo-center of the a-bomb
[00:23.49]I'm standing in the middle of hiroshima
[00:25.57]Watching a twisted old eucalyptus tree wave
[00:29.35]One of the very few lives 
[00:30.67]that survived and lives on
[00:32.67]Remembering the day 
[00:34.02]it was suddenly thousands of degrees
[00:36.02]In the shade
[00:37.52]
[00:37.77]And what all of nature gave birth to
[00:39.45]Terror took in a blinding raid
[00:42.86]With the kind of pain
[00:44.02]It would take cancer so many years just to say
[00:47.52]
[00:57.50]Oh to grow up gagged and blindfolded
[00:59.96]A great big mans world in your little girls head
[01:03.00]The voice of the great mother drowned out
[01:04.87]In the constant honking haunting 
[01:06.36]the accident scene up ahead
[01:11.30]Oh to grow up hypnotized 
[01:12.35]and then try to shake yourself awake
[01:15.31]Cause you can sense what has been lost
[01:18.49]Cause you can sense what is at stake
[01:20.46]
[01:22.80]Yeah it took me a few years 
[01:24.08]to catch on that those days 
[01:25.35]I catch everyone's eye
[01:26.88]Correspond with those nights of the month 
[01:29.55]when the moon gleans like an egg in the sky
[01:32.30]And men are using a sense they don't even know 
[01:34.71]they have just to watch me walk by
[01:36.99]And me, I'm supposed to be sensible, 
[01:39.21]leave my animal outside to cry
[01:42.99]But when all of nature conspires 
[01:44.47]to make me her glorious whore
[01:46.93]It's cause in my body 
[01:48.03]I hold the secret recipe of precisely 
[01:51.60]what life is for
[01:52.65]
[01:52.84]And the patriarchy that looks to shame me for 
[01:55.24]it is the same one making war
[01:57.43]And I've said too much already 
[01:59.49]but I'll tell you something more
[02:04.08]To split yourself in two 
[02:06.46]is just the most radical thing you can do
[02:08.59]So girl if that shit ain't up to you, 
[02:10.40]then you simply are not free
[02:12.62]Cause from the sunlight on my hair 
[02:14.44]to which eggs I grow to term
[02:16.72]To the expression that I wear, 
[02:18.91]all I really own is me
[02:21.20]
[02:22.82]I mean to split yourself in two
[02:25.05]is just the most radical thing you can do
[02:27.42]Goddess forbid that little adam 
[02:29.97]should grow so jealous of eve
[02:32.88]
[02:34.95]And in the face of the great farce 
[02:38.63]of the nuclear age
[02:40.01]Feminism ain't about equality, 
[02:42.57]it's about reprieve
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