J-Ani DiFranco

[00:00.54]Ani Difranco - J [00:02.10]. [00:28.11]Can't sit on my porch and smoke a J [00:31.49]And remember how peaceful life can be [00:34.80]But all night long are a bunch of pushers [00:38.05]Selling drugs right there on my TV [00:41.73]Drugs that whether or not I buy [00:44.86]Are gonna end up in my water supply [00:48.24]Along with who knows what else, who knows when, [00:50.73]Just gotta take a deep breath and drink it in [00:55.74]. [01:01.61]And 'round here there's one thing people know [01:04.99]It's that government ain't there for you, it's all for show [01:08.49]And I'm trying to tell them it don't have to be so [01:11.80]But I can understand that their confidence is low [01:15.24]Cause 'round here people're so high they can't see [01:18.80]Over the tops of the tall pine trees [01:22.17]Down to the mouth of the Mississippi [01:24.86]. [01:28.05]Oh, blood ignited in a blighted sky [01:39.05]Oh, blood on the water like we all could die [01:42.30]Blood in the reeds glistening in the sun [01:45.42]Blood on our hands, each and everyone, [01:49.05]Here in the calm before the wars [01:52.30]When the earth shrugs us off like dinosaurs [01:55.80]Here in the sunset days of yore [01:58.99]The first signs washing ashore [02:02.93]. [02:09.30]And goddess, come and lift us here in deepest Louisiana [02:15.92]In the gut, where hunches come from [02:18.87]A message goes out loud as it can [02:24.61]. [02:27.61]And you'd have thought we'd have come more far somehow [02:31.05]Since the changing of the guard and all [02:34.24]I mean dude could be FDR right now [02:37.61]And instead he's just shifting his weight [02:40.11] [02:41.09]And the disappointment is the knockout blow [02:44.59]Filmed in torturous slow-mo [02:47.77]Oh hope, please come where I can see [02:51.02]Don't let the poison get the best of me [02:54.96]. [03:01.40]And goddess, come and lift us here in deepest Louisiana [03:06.96]In the gut, where hunches come from [03:11.02]A message goes out loud as it can [03:16.77]. [03:19.27]Of, truth is for telling, truth is foretold [03:23.40]Truth is for those with the guts to behold [03:26.52]We got vampires down here in Louisiana [03:29.84]We need voodoo dolls, we need talisman [03:33.02]We need wooden stakes and shards of light [03:36.65]We need harbingers riding through the night [03:39.77]We need fountain pens, we need whale harpoons [03:43.52]To overthrow the oil tycoons [03:46.59]. [03:46.90]Cause there's no fish in the water, no birds in the sky [03:50.34]No life in the soil, no end to the lie [03:53.46]No time like the present and it's passing us by [03:56.84]But it's never too late, never too late to try [04:00.15]Cause if we all had to change, we all just would [04:03.40]And we would move closer and that would be good [04:07.02]And we would buy local and we would buy less [04:10.35]And we'd realize that wasn't our happiness [04:13.98]No, that wasn't our happiness [04:17.29]No, that wasn't our happiness [04:20.60]No, that wasn't our happiness [04:24.04]No, that wasn't… [04:26.04]. [04:34.10]And goddess, come and lift us here in deepest Louisiana [04:40.85]And goddess, come and lift us here in deepest Louisiana [04:47.23]And goddess, come and lift us here in deepest Louisiana [04:54.23]In the gut, where hunches come from [04:57.35]A message goes out loud as it can