Animal-Ani DiFranco

[00:38.14]More and more there is this animal [00:43.02]Looking out through my eyes [00:47.96]At all the traffic on the road to nowhere [00:52.51]At all the shiny stuff around to buy [00:57.46]At all the wires in the air [01:02.56]At all the people shopping [01:04.91]For the same blank stare [01:07.80]At america the drastic [01:09.93]That isolated geographic [01:12.05]That's become infested with millionaires [01:17.62]When you grow up surrounded [01:21.41]By willful ignorance [01:25.03]You have to believe [01:26.57]Mercy has its own country [01:30.67]And that it's round and borderless [01:34.39]And then you have to grow wings [01:38.92]And rise above it all [01:46.18]Like there [01:47.58]Where that hawk is circling [01:53.62]Above that strip mall [02:18.81]More and more there is this animal [02:23.73]Looking out through my eyes [02:28.40]Seeing that animals only take from this world [02:33.40]What they need to survive [02:38.59]But she is prowling through all the religions of men [02:43.35]Seeing that time and time and time again [02:48.44]Their gods have made them [02:50.09]Special and above [02:54.37]Nature's law [02:55.83]And the respect thereof [02:58.41]And I think when you grow up surrounded [03:03.39]By willful ignorance [03:06.98]You have to believe that mercy has its own country [03:13.14]And that it's round and borderless [03:16.98]And then you just grow wings [03:21.58]And rise above it all [03:28.65]Like there where that hawk is circling [03:36.61]Above that strip mall [04:01.96]Ask any eco-system [04:06.99]Harm here is harm there [04:09.78]And there and there [04:12.11]And aggression begets aggression [04:14.79]It's a very simple lesson [04:17.09]That long preceded any king of heaven [04:22.02]And there's this brutal imperial power [04:27.18]That my passport says I represent [04:32.14]But it will never represent where my heart lives [04:36.91]Only vaguely where it went [04:42.28]Cuz I know when you grow up surrounded [04:47.24]By willful ignorance [04:51.00]You learn that mercy has its own country [04:57.29]And that it's round and borderless [05:01.11]And then you just grow wings [05:05.42]And rise above it all [05:13.31]Like there [05:15.15]Where that hawk is circling [05:20.44]Above that strip mall