Coming Up-Ani Difranco

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:19.83]Our father who art in a penthouse [00:22.17]Sits in his 37th floor suite [00:24.30]And swivels to gaze down [00:25.68]At the city he made me in [00:27.66]He allows me to stand and [00:29.37]Sollicit graffiti until [00:30.54]He needs the land I stand on [00:33.69]I in my darkened threshold [00:35.07]Am pawing through my pockets [00:36.24]The receipts the bus schedules [00:37.56]The matchbook phone numbers [00:38.49]The urgent napkin poems [00:39.63]All of which laundering has rendered [00:41.91]Pulpy and strange [00:43.77]Loose change and a key [00:45.15]Ask me [00:51.00]Go ahead ask me if I care [00:52.92]I got the answer here [00:53.76]I wrote it down somewhere [00:54.84]I just gotta find it [01:05.16]I just gotta find it [01:05.70]Somebody and their spraypaint got too close [01:07.41]Somebody came on too heavy [01:08.46]Now look at me made ugly [01:09.51]By the drooling letters [01:10.71]I was better off alone [01:12.00]Ain't that the way it is [01:12.81]They don't know the first thing [01:14.01]But you don't know that [01:14.61]Until they take the first swing [01:16.44]My fingers are red and swollen from the cold [01:18.42]I'm getting bold in my old age [01:19.92]So go ahead try the door [01:21.54]It doesn't matter anymore [01:23.16]I know the weakhearted are strongwilled [01:25.20]And we are being kept alive [01:26.64]Until we're killed [01:27.99]He's up there the ice [01:30.06]Is clinking in his glass [01:33.27]I don't ask [01:33.93]I just empty my pockets and wait [01:42.12]It's not fate [01:43.80]It's just circumstance [01:45.60]I don't fool myself with romance [01:47.58]I just live [01:48.45]Phone number to phone number [01:49.74]Dusting them against my thighs [01:51.00]In the warmth of my pockets [01:52.26]Which whisper history incessantly [01:53.79]Asking me [01:54.33]Where were you [02:01.32]I lower my eyes [02:02.07]Wishing I could cry more [02:03.84]And care less [02:05.34]Yes it's true [02:06.54]I was trying to love someone again [02:08.10]I was caught caring [02:09.21]Bearing weight [02:09.99]But I love this city this state [02:12.81]This country is too large [02:14.76]And whoever's in charge up there [02:16.08]Had better take the elevator down [02:17.22]And put more than change in our cup [02:19.14]Or else we [02:21.69]Are coming [02:23.58]Up