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ANI DIFRANCO lyrics : "Your Next Bold Move"

coming of age during the plague
of reagan and bush
watching capitalism gun down democracy

it had this funny effect on me
i guess


i am cancer
i am HIV
and i'm down at the blue jesus

blue cross hospital
just lookin' up from my pillow
feeling blessed


and the mighty multinationals
have monopolized the oxygen

so it's as easy as breathing
for us all to participate


yes they're buying and selling
off shares of air
and you know it's all around you

but it's hard to point and say "there"
so you just sit on your hands
and quietly contemplate


your next bold move
the next thing you're gonna need to prove

to yourself

what a waste of thumbs that are opposable

to make machines that are disposable
and sell them to seagulls flying in circles
around one big right wing


yes, the left wing was broken long ago
by the slingshot of cointelpro

and now it's so hard to have faith in
anything


especially your next bold move
or the next thing you're gonna need to prove
to yourself


you want to track each trickle
back to its source

and then scream up the faucet
'til your face is hoarse
cuz you're surrounded by a world's worth

of things you just can't excuse

but you've got the hard cough of a chain smoker

and you're at the arctic circle playing strip poker
and it's getting colder and colder
everytime you lose


so go ahead
make your next bold move

tell us
what's the next thing you're gonna need to prove
to yourself

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