Reprieve-Ani DiFranco

[00:00.000] 作词 : DiFranco [00:00.61]manhattan is an island [00:01.72]like the women who are [00:03.51]surrounded by children in the car [00:05.47]surrounded by cars [00:06.88] [00:07.13]or manhattan was a project [00:09.63]that projected the worst of mankind [00:12.10]first one and then the other [00:14.32]has made its mark on my mind [00:16.19] [00:19.03]it's sixty years later [00:21.12]near the hypo-center of the a-bomb [00:23.49]i'm standing in the middle of hiroshima [00:25.57]watching a twisted old eucalyptus tree wave [00:29.35]one of the very few lives [00:30.67]that survived and lives on [00:32.67]remembering the day [00:34.02]it was suddenly thousands of degrees [00:36.02]in the shade [00:37.52] [00:37.77]and what all of nature gave birth to [00:39.45]terror took in a blinding raid [00:42.86]with the kind of pain [00:44.02]it would take cancer so many years just to say [00:47.52] [00:51.52]ani difranco-reprieve [00:56.28] [00:57.50]oh to grow up gagged and blindfolded [00:59.96]a great big mans world in your little girls head [01:03.00]the voice of the great mother drowned out [01:04.87]in the constant honking haunting [01:06.36]the accident scene up ahead [01:11.30]oh to grow up hypnotized [01:12.35]and then try to shake yourself awake [01:15.31]cause you can sense what has been lost [01:18.49]cause you can sense what is at stake [01:20.46] [01:22.80]yeah it took me a few years [01:24.08]to catch on that those days [01:25.35]i catch everyone's eye [01:26.88]correspond with those nights of the month [01:29.55]when the moon gleans like an egg in the sky [01:32.30]and men are using a sense they don't even know [01:34.71]they have just to watch me walk by [01:36.99]and me, i'm supposed to be sensible, [01:39.21]leave my animal outside to cry [01:42.99]but when all of nature conspires [01:44.47]to make me her glorious whore [01:46.93]it's cause in my body [01:48.03]i hold the secret recipe of precisely [01:51.60]what life is for [01:52.65] [01:52.84]and the patriarchy that looks to shame me for [01:55.24]it is the same one making war [01:57.43]and i've said too much already [01:59.49]but i'll tell you something more [02:04.08]to split yourself in two [02:06.46]is just the most radical thing you can do [02:08.59]so girl if that **** ain't up to you, [02:10.40]then you simply are not free [02:12.62]cause from the sunlight on my hair [02:14.44]to which eggs i grow to term [02:16.72]to the expression that i wear, [02:18.91]all i really own is me [02:21.20] [02:22.82]i mean to split yourself in two [02:25.05]is just the most radical thing you can do [02:27.42]goddess forbid that little adam [02:29.97]should grow so jealous of eve [02:32.88] [02:34.95]and in the face of the great farce [02:38.63]of the nuclear age [02:40.01]feminism ain't about equality, [02:42.57]it's about reprieve [02:43.82] [02:44.78]album:reprieve