Sorry I Am

Ani DiFranco

i'm sorry i didn't sound more excited on the phone
i'm sorry that after all these years
i've left you feeling unrequited and alone, brought you to tears
i guess i never loved you quite as well as the way you loved me
i guess i'll never really be able to tell you how sorry
i am

and i don't know what it is about you
i just know it's not what it was
i don't know why red fades before blue it just does
and i don't know what it is about me
that i just can't keep still
i keep thinking someday i will make this all up to you
and maybe someday i will

i guess i never loved you quite as well
as the way you loved me
i guess i'll never really be able to tell you how sorry
i am
sorry i am
sorry i am
sorry i am


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    The beauty of this song, I think, is in the juxtaposition between the specificity of the imagery and voice and the sense of emotional broadness; I feel as though everyone who's ever been in love can relate to this song on some level, whether they would place themselves on the end of Ani's voice in the narrative, delivering the apology, or on the anonymous, unrequited addressee of her apology.

    And I'll reiterate the previously expressed opinion that attempting to reduce Ani to a sexual label or gender stereotype is narrow and misses the point of her art entirely.

    sumeragi_sluton January 24, 2009   Link

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