The Slant-Ani Difranco

[ti:The Slant] [ar:Ani Difranco] [al:Ani DiFranco] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Slant (Remastered) - 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 [00:46.66] [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 [01:11.80] [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