The Slant-Ani Difranco

[ti:The Slant] [ar:Ani Difranco] [al:Like I Said] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Slant - Ani Difranco [00:01.08]The slant [00:03.01]A building settling around me [00:04.76]My figure female framed crookedly [00:08.19]In the threshold [00:08.88] [00:09.49]Of the room [00:10.30]Door scraping floorboards [00:11.80]With every opening [00:12.92]Carving a rough history [00:15.29]Of bedroom scenes [00:16.48]The plot hard to follow [00:18.66]The text obscured [00:19.41]In the fields of sheets [00:20.47]Slowly gathering the stains [00:22.10]Of seasons spent lying there [00:25.14]Red and brown [00:26.32]Like leaves fallen [00:27.26]The colors of an eternal cycle [00:29.69]Fading with the [00:31.20]Wash cycle [00:33.45]And the rinse cycle [00:35.88]Again an unfamiliar smell [00:38.35]Like my name misspelled [00:39.54]Or misspoken [00:41.72]A cycle broken [00:44.28]The sound of them strong [00:45.71]Stalking talking about their prey [00:47.09]Like the way hammer meets nail [00:48.96]Pounding they say [00:50.52]Pounding out the rhythms of attraction [00:52.33]Like a woman was a drum like a body was a weapon [00:54.64]Like there was something more they wanted [00:56.07]Than the journey [00:56.82]Like it was owed to them [00:59.13]Steel toed they walk [01:00.75]And Im wondering why this fear of men [01:05.43]Maybe its because Im hungry [01:06.93]And like a baby Im dependent on them [01:09.49]To feed me [01:10.80]I am a work in progress [01:12.48]Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding [01:14.97]Offering me intricte patterns of questions [01:17.22]Rhythms that never come clean [01:20.38]And strengths that you still havent seen