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ANI DIFRANCO lyrics : "Old Old Song"

i'll sing you a song that starts out descriptive
and locates a time and a place
like a dinner table where a whole family

is just sitting down to say grace
an old old song that moves into action
taking its sweet sweet time

and waits until we all say amen
again and again in rhyme


it's the story of a father and a mother
who battle each other over nothin'
with a couple of kids trying to figure

which way the plot's spinning
who's winning and who is bluffing


it's a story as common as a penny, son
it ain't really worth anything to anyone


poor little sore little song
that aches like a muscle each time that it moves
sad little song that you play

and you play and you play
and you play 'til you lose
while history is outside writing a recipe book

for every earthly pain
this song is inside finger painting dark swirls
again and again and they all look the same


cuz what if you come home from school one day
and you find your whole family's at war

and there's this ominous silence just waiting to be broken
and there's secret places for hiding underneath the
floorboards

and everyone seems to be bracing
for the subharmonic thunder of the next bomb
and everyone seems to be waiting for the cops to bust in

with their guns drawn
at the bleak light of dawn


it's a story as common as a penny, son
i don't think it's worth anything to anyone

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