whatever, guy. this song is incredible. all the way through. here's my interpretation. (still kinda sketchy.)
up up up up up up, points the spire of the steeple.
but god's work isn't done by god
it's done by people
(People do things. not God. you can't credit someone else for something YOU did.)
up up up up up up, points the fingers of the trees.
the lumberjacks
with their bloody axes
are on their knees
(hmmm i'm gonna say this is about repentance? maybe cutting trees is not really a good thing. and maybe since they're on their knees, they're realizing what they've done wrong and regretting? (i honestly don't know))
and just when you think that you've got enough, enough grows. (when you think you have everything you need, more things turn into needs and you need more. (for most people))
and everywhere that you go in life, enough knows. (i want to say enough is a noun in this line. the enough that grows in the previous line is the enough that knows. (again, ?)
up up up up up up, dances the steam from the sewer.
as she rounds the corner
the brutal wind blows right through her
(I think about big city living. and the numbness that builds up in people because of the city)
up up up up up up raises the stakes of the game.
each day sinks its bootprint into her clay
and she's not the same
(same thing. big city numbness.)
and half of learning how to play
is learning what not to play (self explanitory, and very true.)
and she's learning the spaces she leaves
have their own things to say (the things she isn't sure about, tell her that she isn't complete.)
then she's trying to sing just enough
so that the air around her moves
and make music like mercy
that gives what it is
and has nothing to prove
(music is ani's escape, and career, ect. obviously. and in most of her songs, she isn't trying to ram her thoughts and believes down your throat. "i am just singing my own truth" as she said in another song.
Her music has nothing to prove to anyone. her music is simply a relection of herself and her thoughts.)
she crawls out on a limb
and begins to build her home
it's enough just to look around
to know she's not alone
(I am about to move out of my parents house, and so this verse means something different to me. but i don't think that's what she meant. i think she's saying like.. going out on a limb, doing something drastic. (like her music and the judgment that ensues it.) and then looking around and realizing she's not the only one with the same ideas that she has.)
all together, this song is about getting by in whatever circumstance you happen to be placed in. if you are as smart as Ani Difranco, there's gonna be a lot of judgment and critsizm from the more stupid people in the world.
idk. that's just my interpretation of this song. and i could be wrong. besides the meaning, the beat is super cool and relaxing too. i love it.
whatever, guy. this song is incredible. all the way through. here's my interpretation. (still kinda sketchy.)
up up up up up up, points the spire of the steeple. but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people (People do things. not God. you can't credit someone else for something YOU did.)
up up up up up up, points the fingers of the trees. the lumberjacks with their bloody axes are on their knees (hmmm i'm gonna say this is about repentance? maybe cutting trees is not really a good thing. and maybe since they're on their knees, they're realizing what they've done wrong and regretting? (i honestly don't know))
and just when you think that you've got enough, enough grows. (when you think you have everything you need, more things turn into needs and you need more. (for most people)) and everywhere that you go in life, enough knows. (i want to say enough is a noun in this line. the enough that grows in the previous line is the enough that knows. (again, ?)
up up up up up up, dances the steam from the sewer. as she rounds the corner the brutal wind blows right through her (I think about big city living. and the numbness that builds up in people because of the city)
up up up up up up raises the stakes of the game. each day sinks its bootprint into her clay and she's not the same (same thing. big city numbness.)
and half of learning how to play is learning what not to play (self explanitory, and very true.) and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say (the things she isn't sure about, tell her that she isn't complete.) then she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove (music is ani's escape, and career, ect. obviously. and in most of her songs, she isn't trying to ram her thoughts and believes down your throat. "i am just singing my own truth" as she said in another song. Her music has nothing to prove to anyone. her music is simply a relection of herself and her thoughts.)
she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home it's enough just to look around to know she's not alone (I am about to move out of my parents house, and so this verse means something different to me. but i don't think that's what she meant. i think she's saying like.. going out on a limb, doing something drastic. (like her music and the judgment that ensues it.) and then looking around and realizing she's not the only one with the same ideas that she has.)
all together, this song is about getting by in whatever circumstance you happen to be placed in. if you are as smart as Ani Difranco, there's gonna be a lot of judgment and critsizm from the more stupid people in the world.
idk. that's just my interpretation of this song. and i could be wrong. besides the meaning, the beat is super cool and relaxing too. i love it.