Ani DiFranco Quotes ... Page 7
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"If you ask me, I'll say yes please, to you today. So don't ask me, 'cause I'm weak that way. Just don't ask me, okay? I'm so glad we got that straightened away." -Ani Difranco 'O.K.'
"If you see me walk by, you better just let me walk by. You better not bat your pretty eyes. You better not stop me to say hi." - Ani Difranco 'O.K.'
"Why don't you just take your bow, 'cause who's gonna love you now?" - Ani Difranco 'What How When Where (Why Who)'
"What did you think you were doing? How did you think this would go? When you showed up on my radar, where did you think you would show?" - Ani Difranco 'What How When Where (Why Who)'
"When, if at all, will you realize where do and done are the same? What now you're out in the open, how do you think you can hide?" - Ani Difranco 'What How When Where (Why Who)'
"When will you find some nice soft sand, where you can bury your pride? What do you want from this lifetime? How does your story line flow? When you finally get to the punch line, where will the applause sign go?" - Ani Difranco 'What How When Where (Why Who)'
"And you were not a dot dot dot, waiting for me to complete you and it was like i just forgot, to measure everything that I do." - Ani Difranco 'What All Is Nice'
"We woke up with the notion, that enough is not enough without more and then we pushed with one motion, like the ocean heaves a wave at the shore." -Ani Difranco 'What All Is Nice'
"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." - Ani Difranco 'Marrow'
"Where was your consciousness? And where did you put all those letters that you wrote to yourself but could not address?" - Ani Difranco 'Marrow'
"Yeah, I'm a good kisser and you're a fast learner, and that kind of thing could float us for a pretty long time and then one day, you'd realized you've memorized my phone number, and you'll call it and find it's a disconnected line." - Ani Difranco 'Marrow'
"Go ahead and have a taste of your own medicine. Here I'll have a taste of mine, but first lets toast to the lists that we hold in our fists of the things that we promised to do differently next time." - Ani Difranco 'Marrow'
"'Cause I'm not listening to you anymore. My head is too sore and my heart's perforated and i am mired in the marrow of my, 'Well ain't that funny?' Bone, learning how to be alone and devastated. Where was my consciousness? And where do I put all these letters that I wrote to myself, but could not address?" - Ani Difranco 'Marrow'
"So go ahead, make your next bold move. Tell us, what's the next thing you're gonna need to prove to yourself?" - Ani Difranco 'Your Next Bold Move'
"How sick of me must you be by now. While you're standing just outside of what your pride will allow, always reaching into yourself to find a new way to understand me, when I'm sure that there's no one else in the world that could withstand me." - Ani Difranco 'Sick of Me'
"I took to the stage with my outrage in the bad old days when you were the, 'make me mad' guy, but the songs they come out more slowly now that I am the bad guy." - Ani Difranco 'Sick of Me'
"And I say, 'baby, I'm sorry that I am so crazy. I am astounded by your patience,' but you say, 'believe or not baby, the joy you bring me still outweighs it.'" -Ani Difranco 'Sick of Me'
"Yeah, the first person in your life to ever really matter is saying the last thing that you want to hear and you are listening hard through the splintering shards of your life as it shatters, and you're standing firm and you're staying close and you're seeing clear. Tell me, how sick of me must you be by now?" - Ani Difranco 'Sick of Me'
"Who are you now and who were you then, that you thought somehow you could just pretend, that you could figure it all out, the mathematics of regret? So it takes two beers to remember now and five to forget, that I loved you so. Yeah, I loved you, so what?" - Ani DiFranco 'So What'
"How many times undone can one person be? As they're careening through the facade of their favorite fantasy. You just close your eyes slowly, like you're waiting for a kiss and hope some lowly little power will pull you out of this. But none comes at first and little comes at all and when inspiration finally hits you, it barely breaks your fall." - Ani Difranco 'So What'
"Who were you then and who are you now, that you can't pretend that you can figure it all out? Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So it takes two beers to remember now and three more to forget, that I loved you so. Yeah, I love you, so what. I loved you, so what." - Ani Difranco, 'So What'
"Even when I look right at you, I always just see through and I always just see new things, to admire about you." - Ani Difranco 'In Here'
"Am I what you thought you were getting? Does this love we make make you proud? Does it look like it did on the menu? Minus, of course, the little dark cloud?" - Ani Difranco 'In Here'
"Of course, when we signed up for forever we had no idea it was in here. I guess, it's always all this and then some. I guess, at least that much is clear and whenever I look at you, you know, I always just see through and I always just see new things to admire about you." - Ani Difranco 'In Here'
"And every time I blink I have a tiny dream, but as bad as I am, I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem." - Ani Difranco 'Grey'
"What kind of paradise am I looking for? I've got everything I want and still I want more." - Ani Difranco 'Grey'
"You walk through my walls like a ghost on tv. You penetrate me and my little pink heart is on its little brown raft floating out to sea and what can I say, but I'm wired this way and you're wired to me, and what can I do, but wallow in you unintentionally?" - Ani Difranco 'Grey'
"Regretfully, I guess I've got three simple things to say: why me? why this now? why this way?" - Ani Difranco 'Grey'
"You are a miracle, but that is not all. You are also a stiff drink and I am on call. You are a party and I am a school night and I'm lookin' for my door key, but you are my porch light." - Ani Difranco 'School Night'
"And you'll never know, dear, just how much I loved you. You'll probably think this was just my big excuse, but I stand committed to a love that came before you and the fact that I adore you is, but one of my truths." - Ani Difranco 'School Night'
"And she loves them both with the whole of her heart, but she knows she can only carry one at a time. She's choking on the smoke of unthinkable choices, she is haunted by the voices of so many desires. She's bent over from the business of begging forgiveness, while frantically running around putting out fires." - Ani Difranco 'School Night'
"But then, what kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties or the ground speed of joy? Tell me, what kind of gauge can quantify elation? What kind of equation could I possibly employ?" - Ani Difranco 'School Night'
"You can doubt anything if you think about it long enough 'cause what happened always adjusts to fit what happened after that. And it's hard to feel like you are free." - Ani Difranco 'Reckoning'
"We thought we left possession behind, the truth is I was and you weren't mine. I've replayed a thousand times exactly what was said 'cause nothing is as it appears and the fun house mirrors of your fears, on a roller coaster of all these years, with your hands above your head." - Ani Difranco 'Reckoning'
"And baby, you are still the song I sing to myself when I'm alone." - Ani Difranco 'Reckoning'
"You were so in love, that it was all you could talk about and I think I felt a little left out. You were on cloud nine all the time, while I was leveling. I was wringing my hands and you were reveling. But then, why shouldn't you? It was such a beautiful thing to do." - Ani Difranco 'Reveling'
"Could I get some of your yum yum delirium? I could level off the ground that we stand on, but with you down on bended knee, always looking up at me. That feeling of standing up together is gone." - Ani Difranco 'Reveling'
"And though I love you, through all time and space, my love always seems to take second place." - Ani Difranco 'Reveling'
"I don't keep much stuff around, I value my portability, but I will say that I have saved every letter you ever wrote to me." - Ani Difranco 'Soft Shoulder'
"And I think of your letters as love letters, which is how I think of songs. In that it is the writing of them that tend to carry us along, and I dance to one of your old tunes with my true love on our wedding day and your voice sang the way my heart would sing, if it finally knew just what to say." - Ani Difranco 'Soft Shoulder'
"And they missed fate's appointed rendezvous, and then a whole lotta time went by, and finally they were done." - Ani Difranco 'Soft Shoulder'
"And they put down their hands and moved into the sky." -Ani Difranco 'Soft Shoulder'
"And they had barely said hello, and it was time to say goodbye." - Ani Difranco 'Soft Shoulder'
"I'm losing my love of adventure, I'm losing all respect for me and myself tonight. I wonder what happens if I get to the end of this tunnel and there isn't a light." - Ani Difranco 'Wish I May'
"And I'm stumbling down the gravel driveway of desire, trying not to wake up my sleepy self-loathing." - Ani Difranco 'Wish I May'
"Do you ever have that dream, when you open your mouth and you try to scream, but you can't make a sound? That's everyday starting now." - Ani Difranco 'Wish I May'
"Don't tell me it's gonna be alright, you can't sell me on your optimism tonight. It's a stiff competition to see who can stay up later, the stars or the street lights and all they really want is to be alone with the darkness. No more wish I may, no more wish I might." - Ani Difranco 'Wish I May'
"It takes a stiff upper lip, just to hold up my face. I gotta suck it up and savor the taste of my own behavior. I am spinning with longing, faster than a roulette wheel. This is not who I meant to be. This is not how I meant to feel." - Ani Difranco 'Wish I May'
"I don't think I am strong enough to do this much longer. God, I wish I was stronger. This song could never be long enough to express every longing. God, I wish it was longer." - Ani Difranco 'Wish I May'
"And then one day she looked around her and everything up 'til then was showing, and she wondered, 'how did I get here without even knowing where I was going?' And now there's no getting out of this and there's no going back, and it all seems so odd sometimes, and the odds all seemed stacked." - Ani Difranco 'Going Once'