Not So Soft-Ani Difranco

[ti:Not So Soft] [ar:Ani Difranco] [al:Like I Said] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Not So Soft - Ani Difranco [00:32.06]In a forest of stone [00:34.24]Underneath the corporate canopy [00:35.30]Where the sun [00:36.68]Rarely [00:36.93]Filters [00:37.55]Down [00:38.36]The ground [00:38.99]Is not so soft [00:41.36]Not so soft [00:45.79] [00:49.06]They build buildings to house people [00:51.12]Making money [00:52.37]Or they build buildings to make money [00:54.18]Off of housing people [00:55.80]Its true [00:56.80]Like a lot of things are true [00:58.29]I am foraging for a phone booth on the forest floor [01:00.52]That is not so soft [01:01.52]I look up [01:02.08]It looks like the buildings are burning [01:03.33]But its just the sun setting [01:04.33] [01:10.07]The solar system calling an end [01:12.37]To another business day [01:13.81]Eternally circling signally [01:14.50] [01:15.70]The rythmic clicking on and off [01:17.44]Of computers [01:18.32]The pulse [01:20.75]Of the american machine [01:25.06]The pulse [01:27.12] [01:28.80]That draws death dancing [01:30.30]Out of anonymous side streets [01:31.55]You know [01:32.05]The ones that always get dumped on [01:33.79]And never get plowed [01:36.24] [01:39.42]It draws death dancing [01:40.66]Out of little countries [01:41.66]With funny languages [01:42.28]Where the ground is getting harder [01:44.53]And it was [01:45.19]Not [01:45.50]That [01:45.75]Soft [01:47.12]Before [01:52.24]Those who call the shots [01:54.05]Are never in the line of fire [01:56.05]Why [01:56.98]Where theres life for hire [01:59.54]Out there [01:59.91]If a flag of truth were raised [02:01.60]We could watch every liar [02:03.16]Rise to wave it [02:04.22]Here [02:04.78]We learn america like a script [02:06.78]Playwright [02:07.16]Birthright [02:07.59]Same thing [02:08.15]We bring [02:08.84]Ourselves to the role [02:12.40]Were all rehearsing for the presidency [02:13.71]I always wanted to be [02:15.52]Commander in chief [02:16.27]Of my one woman army [02:25.71]But I can envision the mediocrity [02:27.09]Of my finest hour [02:29.77]Its the failed america in me [02:34.01]Its the fear that lives [02:36.38]In a forest of stone [02:38.32]Underneath the corporate canopy [02:39.55]Where the sun [02:40.61]Rarely [02:41.17]Filters [02:41.67]Down [02:42.42]And the ground [02:44.35]Is not so soft