| Ani DiFranco – Out of Habit Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| uh yeah she's NOT referring to repetitive unsatisfying sex so much as deeply wounding sexual experiences...hence the "would that won't heal" part. there's a pretty big difference. | |
| Ani DiFranco – 'Tis of Thee Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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By far one of my fave ani songs. Actually basing my dissertation research on the political/social themes she so deftly deconstructs for us. And as for this stanza, "why don't you just go ahead and turn off the sun 'cause we'll never live long enough to undo everything they've done to you" well, that's just brilliant. She obviously is a Judith Butler fan and is referring to the fact that we are inscribed within a violent identity discourse before we are even born, and the extent to which our lives are just reproduction after reproduction of those power formations is completely inescapable. |
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| Ani DiFranco – Gratitude Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Possibly the most important song of my college years...was "instrumental" in my recovery/healing process. I think it actually taught me about empowerment in a way I didn't understand before. Although I can't revisit it really because everything just comes bubbling up. Which just goes to say, recovery from this kind of experience is not a linear progression, and it's never complete. I think Ani gets that. | |
| Missy Higgins – Peachy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is about the frustration/bitterness of wanting or even being with someone who is not available-- in a relationship, married, etc. She's singing about wanting the other person to empathize with the situation they're in together and feelings of guilt ("I hate this taste, don't you"), but the other person has a perfectly great "peachy" life already, and she's just an added bonus. The other person is having their "cake" (their peachy life) and eating it to (having someone else to "fall onto"), so to speak. She's especially frustrated because it sounds like this other person started it too ("It can't be my fault that you talk to me that way you do"), and in the end she's still the one suffering. I may be projecting my "other woman" experience onto these lyrics, but it's definitely what I think it,s about. | |
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