The Slant (2019 Remaster)-Ani Difranco

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[00:00.00]The Slant (2019 Remaster) - Ani Difranco
[00:02.85]The slant
[00:03.47]A building settling around me
[00:04.92]My figure female framed crookedly
[00:07.92]In the threshold
[00:09.04]Of the room
[00:10.23]Door scraping floorboards
[00:12.35]With every opening
[00:13.85]Carving a rough history
[00:15.98]Of bedroom scenes
[00:17.35]The plot hard to follow
[00:19.23]The text obscured
[00:21.04]In the fields of sheets
[00:22.48]Slowly gathering the stains
[00:24.48]Of seasons spent lying there
[00:27.29]Red and brown
[00:28.73]Like leaves fallen
[00:29.91]The colors of an eternal cycle
[00:32.42]Fading with the
[00:33.66]Wash cycle
[00:34.80]And the rinse cycle
[00:37.86]Again an unfamiliar smell
[00:40.66]Like my name misspelled
[00:42.54]Or misspoken
[00:43.92]A cycle broken
[00:47.66]The sound of them strong
[00:50.16]Stalking talking about their prey
[00:52.55]Like the way hammer meets nail
[00:54.66]Pounding they say
[00:56.23]Pounding out the rhythms of attraction
[00:58.80]Like a woman was a drum like a body was a weapon
[01:00.86]Like there was something more they wanted
[01:03.42]Than the journey
[01:04.61]Like it was owed to them
[01:06.86]Steel toed they walk
[01:08.36]And Im wondering why this fear of men
[01:12.42]Maybe its because Im hungry
[01:14.67]And like a baby Im dependent on them
[01:17.36]To feed me
[01:18.11]I am a work in progress
[01:20.17]Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding
[01:23.36]Offering me intricte patterns of questions
[01:26.30]Rhythms that never come clean
[01:29.24]And strengths that you still havent seen