The True Story of What Was-Ani DiFranco

[00:00.00]he light blue flickering rhythm of the neighbor's big console T.V. [00:00.000] 作词 : DiFranco [00:04.38]Is basking on the ceiling of another insomniac spree [00:08.16]And outside sleep's open window [00:10.27]Between the drops of rain [00:12.21]History is writing a recipe book [00:14.08]For every earthly pain [00:16.78]Oh to clean up the clutter of echoes [00:18.85]Coming in and out of focus [00:20.25]Words spoken [00:21.17]Like locusts [00:21.97]Sing and sing [00:22.91]In my head [00:24.67]And thing is [00:26.11]They often seem [00:27.23]In my memory's long dream [00:29.10]To be superfluous to the true story of what was [00:34.81]Cuz [00:35.58]Real is real regardless [00:37.23]Of what you try to say [00:38.21]Or say away [00:39.62]Real is real relentless [00:41.09]While words distract and dismay [00:43.71]Words that change their tune [00:45.08]Though the story remains the same [00:47.28]Words that fill me quickly [00:48.56]And then are slow to drain [00:50.65]Dialogues that dither down reminiscent [00:52.72]Of the way it likes to rain [00:54.96]Every screen [00:55.76]A smoke screen [00:57.25]Oh to dream [00:58.70]Just for a moment [00:59.80]The picture [01:01.32]Outside the frame [01:04.13]Then in a flash [01:05.05]The light blue horizon [01:06.29]Spanning a sudden black [01:07.84]Is sucked into the vanishing point [01:09.92]And quiet rushes back [01:11.86]To search for the downbeat [01:13.18]In a tabla symphony [01:14.88]To search in the darkness [01:16.11]For someone who looks like me [01:18.93](Though I'm not really who I said I was or who I thought I'd be) [01:25.05]Just a collection of recollections [01:26.93]Conversations consisting [01:28.45]Of the kind of marks we make [01:30.61]When we're trying to get a pen to work again [01:33.96]A lifetime of them! [01:38.10]I say to me [01:39.46]Now here listening [01:41.40]I say to the locusts [01:42.62]That sing and sing to me sitting [01:44.99]Now here on the front porch swing of my eyes: [01:48.09]I hereby amend [01:49.75]Whatever I've ever said [01:52.45]With this sigh