Swing

Fun music- this used to be one of my favorites to listen to while closing up the little shop I once worked at. Good funky rhythm and fun, tongue-dancing lyrics to sing along with. One of the scarce songs where Ani isn't really delivering any sort of message or going on a mini tirade of sorts, rather she's just going with a general idea and rolling it around a bit while she and Maceo Parker (guest artist on this song) get their musical groove on.

To me she is saying that life can wear her, but she gets up and rocks the boat around a bit and does what else she can to keep herself up.

Are you weary as water? In a faucet left dripping With an incessant sadness Like a sad record skipping And an ugly and ornery and shadowy dread Lurking like a troll under the bridge Between your heart and your head

She came to and her whole life was how she remembered it She had a mouth full of fur and she was laughing She parked her hearse across three spaces posted "motorcycles only" and jumped out shouting What the cuss could make a nice girl like us feel so lonely?

Are you weary as water? In a faucet left dripping With an incessant sadness Like a sad record skipping With an ugly and ornery and shadowy dread Lurking like a troll under the bridge Between your heart and your head

Please dumb blind kind sir Lend little miss listless a little bit of christmas She's been a real good girl But now she's stuck here The world is so little and still Mysterious and ominous as ever before Like an unmarked bottle full of pills On the shelf right next to the thing You were reaching for

Are you weary as water? In a faucet left dripping With an incessant sadness Like a sad record skipping And an ugly and ornery and shadowy dread Lurking like a troll under the bridge Between your heart and your head

Swing the groove 'round here Where I can reach it When I get my ass back on track I know I'm gonna need it, I'm really gonna need it Swing shift until I get the money Buy me and my baby a moon full of honey Then I'm gonna turn off the nagging voice that follows me to bed and fills my head with:

("You suck") Are you weary as water? ("What did you do that for?") In a faucet left dripping With an incessant sadness Like a sad record skipping With an ugly and ornery ("Well you could have just...") and shadowy dread ("You didn't have to...") Lurking like a troll under the bridge ("You were so close...") Between your heart and your head

She came to and her whole life was how she remembered it She had a mouth full of fur and she was laughing She parked her hearse across three spaces posted "motorcycles only" and jumped out shouting What the cuss could make a nice girl like us feel so lonely? So lonely?

Are you weary as water?

In a faucet left dripping

With an incessant sadness

Like a sad record skipping

If you're diggin on the sound No walls up, break it down Uh happiness, spread it all around Racism thump it in the ground

So if you're diggin on the sound No walls up, break it down Uh ignorance thump it in the ground Then happiness spread it all around

Check

Who said Folk and Hip Hop can't latch Put us together on the stage and light a match Kaboom Guess who stepped in the room Sweeping you off your feet Like we had a broom With Ani Difranco and Maceo Add a little freestyle flow and who knows Put a little scratchin into the mix And it's enough to get you high if you need a fix

So if you're diggin on the sound Uh no walls up, break it down Uh ignorance thump it in the ground Happiness spread it all around

So if you're diggin on the sound No walls up, break it down Racism thump it in the ground Uh happiness, spread it all around Uh if you're diggin on the sound