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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Ani Difranco | ||||
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| Kim | posted on 04-24-2001 @ 12:01 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01  | Pixie i'm a pixie i'm a paper doll i'm a cartoon i'm a chipper cheerful free for all and i light up a room i'm the color me happy girl miss live and let live and when they're out for blood i always give the man behind the counter looks like he's got a hald a dozen places he'd rather be and furthermore it looks like he's prepared to take it all out on me buddy, i don't really care what your problem is just don't make it mine come on kids, let's all hold hands and pretend we're having a good time maybe you don't like your job maybe you didn't get enough sleep well, nobody likes their job nobody got enough sleep maybe you just had the worst day of your life but, you know, there's no escape and there's no excuse so just suck up and be nice all the privilaged white kids on tv playing at death banishing their cold cuts with their ghostly makeup and their heroin breath and all the little fishes are flapping wildly on their hooks while all the top critics find great meaning in the telephone book the little emperor he has no clothes so he can't come out to play and besides which life is suffering and he likes it that way and the little guy is not so friendly but you know life has been cruel so wipe that smile off your face, baby and try to be cool maybe you don't like your job maybe you didn't get enough sleep well, nobody likes their job and nobody got enough sleep maybe you just had the worst day of your life but, you know, there's no escape there's no excuse so just suck up and be nice yeah, i would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof like life is just a boring chore and i am living proof i could join forces with an army or ornery hipsters but then i guess i'd be out of a job so i guess that's out of the picture cuz i am a pixie i am a paper doll i'm a cartoon i'm a chipper cheerful free for all and i light up a room i'm the color me happy girl miss live and let live and when they're out for blood i always give *********************************************** Loom you always got those dark sunglasses covering half your face but if you promise to take them off i promise i won't squander your gaze i will be picturesque i will be nice i won't do anything you can't tell your wife i will think before i act i will think twice just let me see your eyes each time we've spoken we've put in our token and ridden the tilt-a-whirl i was giggling and dizzy flirting like a twelve year old girl the carnival of you and me is coming to town watch how we spin and spin and then fall down now we just say hello and head for firmer ground you are the one-way glass that watches me standing in line at the bank i always looked into your glasses like a cat looks into a fish tank but all i could ever see was the specter of me reflected i want a monument of the friendship that we never had, erected i want to take up lots of room i want it to loom you always got those dark sunglasses between us when we talk but after the party is over if you wanna take a walk we could just look around not do nothing wrong just try to be at least as brave as our songs i will bring my heart i will bring my face you name the time and place  | ||||
and i am apologizing now for the spelling errors, its 34 am and im drunk, so no time for spell check! Gotcha, SLASH i'll mmmm momo all i want! and you cant stop me! | posted on 04-24-2001 @ 12:54 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | i'm not between you and your ambition i am a poster girl with no poster i am thirty-two flavors and then some and i'm beyond your peripheral vision so you might want to turn your head cause someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said both my parents taught me about good will and i have done well by their names just the kindness i've lavished on strangers is more than i can explain still there's many who've turned out their porch lights just so i would think they were not home and hid in the dark of their windows till i'd passed and left them alone and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past i'm not trying to give my life meaning by demeaning you and i would like to state for the record i did everything that i could do i'm not saying that i'm a saint i just don't want to live that way no, i will never be a saint but i will always say squint your eyes and look closer i'm not between you and your ambition i am a poster girl with no poster i am thirty-two flavors and then some and i'm beyond your peripheral vision so you might want to turn your head cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said  | ||||
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