Ani DiFranco《Reprieve》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:00.50]Manhattan is an island [00:02.21]Like the women who are [00:03.52]Surrounded by children in the car [00:05.40]Surrounded by cars [00:07.48]Or Manhattan was a project [00:09.84]That projected the worst of mankind [00:12.59]First one and then the other [00:14.22]Has made its mark on my mind [00:20.13]It's sixty years later [00:21.46]Near the hypo center of the a bomb [00:24.01]I'm in the middle of Hiroshima [00:25.55]Watching a twisted old eucalyptus tree wave [00:29.59]One of the very few lives [00:30.95]That survived and lives on [00:33.22]Remembering the day [00:34.18]It was suddenly thousands of degrees [00:36.26]In the shade [00:37.60]And what all of nature gave birth to [00:40.08]Terror took in a blinding raid [00:42.90]With the kind of pain [00:43.92]It would take cancer so many years just to say [00:57.41]Oh to grow up gagged and blindfolded [01:00.15]A mans world in your little girls head [01:02.90]The voice of the great mother drowned out [01:04.71]In the constant honking haunting crack cash unbelievable [01:11.27]Oh to grow up hypnotized [01:13.30]And then try to shake yourself awake [01:15.41]Cause you can sense what has been lost [01:18.37]Cause you can sense what is at stake [01:22.31]Yes took me a few years [01:23.94]To catch on that those days [01:25.58]I catch everyone's eye [01:27.42]Correspond with those nights of the month [01:29.67]When the moon gleans like an egg in the sky [01:32.73]And men are using a sense they don't even know they have [01:35.21]Just to watch me walk by [01:37.29]And me I'm supposed to be sensible [01:39.32]Leave my animal outside to cry [01:42.94]But when all of nature conspires [01:44.88]To make me her glorious whore [01:46.66]It's cause in my body [01:48.07]I hold the secret recipe of precisely [01:50.96]What life is for [01:52.66]And the patriarchy that looks to shame me for [01:55.30]It is the same one making war [01:57.95]And I've said too much already [01:59.76]But I'll tell you something more [02:04.66]To split yourself in two [02:06.49]Is just the most radical thing you can do [02:08.67]So girl if that sh*t ain't up to you [02:10.54]Then you simply are not free [02:12.83]Cause from the sunlight on my hair [02:14.72]To which eggs I grow to term [02:17.09]To the expression that I wear [02:19.14]All I really own is me [02:22.81]Yes to split yourself in two [02:25.08]Is just the most radical thing you can do [02:27.59]Goddess forbid that little Adam [02:30.24]Should grow so jealous of eve [02:34.81]And in the face of the great farce [02:38.56]Of the nuclear age [02:40.64]Feminism ain't about equality [02:42.59]It's about reprieve