Little Plastic Castle - Lyrics - Little Plastic Castle - Ani Difranco

Title: Little Plastic Castle
Album: Little Plastic Castle
Artist: Ani Difranco
Composer(s): Angela Difranco

Lyric:
In a coffee shop in a city
Which is every coffee shop in every city
On a day which is every day
I picked up the magazine
Which is every magazine
Read a story, then I forgot it right away

And they say, "Goldfish have no memory"
I guess their lives are much like mine
And the little plastic castle
Is a surprise every time
And it's hard to say, if they're happy
But they don't seem much to mind

From the shape of your shaved head
I recognized your silhouette
As you walked out of the sun and sat down
And the sight of your sleepy smile
Eclipsed all the other people
As they paused to sneer at the two girls from out of town

I said, look at you this morning
You are, by far, the cutest
But be careful getting coffee
I think these people want to shoot us
Or maybe there's some kind of local competition here
To see who can be the rudest

And people talk about my image
Like I come in two dimensions
Like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind
Like what I happen to be wearing
The day that someone takes a picture
Is my new statement for all of womankind

And I wish they could see us now
In leather bras and rubber shorts
Like some ridiculous new team uniform
For some ridiculous new sport
Quick someone call the girl police
And, and file a report

In a coffee shop in a city
Which is every coffee shop in every city
On a day which is every day

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Two Little Girls - Lyrics - Little Plastic Castle - Ani Difranco

Title: Two Little Girls
Album: Little Plastic Castle
Artist: Ani Difranco
Composer(s): Ani Difranco

Lyric:
You were fresh off the boat from Virginia
I had a year in New York City under my belt
We met in a dream, we were both nineteen
I remember where we were standing, I remember how it felt

Two little girls growing out of their training bras
This little girl breaks furniture, this little girl breaks laws
Two girls together, just a little less alone
This little girl cried wee wee wee all the way home, home

And we were always half crazy, now look at you, baby
You make about as much sense as a nursery rhyme
And love is a piano, dropped from the four storied window
And you were in the wrong place at the wrong time

And I don't like your girlfriend, you know I blame her
Never seen one of your lovers do you so much harm
And I loved you first and you know I would prefer
If she didn't empty her syringes into your arm, arm

Here comes a little naked me, padding up to the bathroom door
To find little naked you slumped on the bathroom floor
So I guess, I'll just stand here with my back against the wall
While you distill your whole life down to a 911 call

So now you bring me your bruises
So I can 'ooh' and 'aah' at the display
Maybe, I'm supposed to make one of my
Famous jokes that makes everything okay

Or maybe, I'm supposed to be the handsome prince
Who rides up and unties your hands
Or maybe, I'm supposed to be the furrowed-brow friend
Who think she understands

Here comes a little naked me, padding up to the bathroom door
To find little naked you slumped on the bathroom floor
So I guess, I'll just stand here with my back against the wall
While you distill your whole life down to a 911 call, call, call, call

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Pixie - Lyrics - Little Plastic Castle - Ani Difranco

Title: Pixie
Album: Little Plastic Castle
Artist: Ani Difranco
Composer(s): Ani Difranco

Lyric:
I'm a pixie, I'm a paper doll
I'm a cartoon
I'm a chipper cheerful free-for-all
And I light up a room

I'm a color-me-happy girl
Miss. Live And Let Live
And when they're out for blood
I'll always give

The man behind the counter looks like he's got
A half a dozen places he'd rather be
And furthermore it looks like he's prepared
To take it all out on me

Buddy, I don't really care what your problem is
Just don't make it mine
Come on kids, let's all hold hands
And pretend we're having a good time

Maybe you don't like your job
Maybe you didn't get enough sleep
Well, nobody likes their job
Nobody got enough sleep

Maybe you just had
The worst day of your life
You know there's no escape, there's no excuse
So just suck up, suck up and be nice

Be nice, be nice, be nice
Be nice, be nice, be nice

All the privileged white kids on TV
Playing at death
Brandishing their cold cuts with their ghostly make-up
And their heroine breath

And all the little fishes are flapping
Wildly on their hooks
While all the top critics find great meaning
In the telephone book

And the little emperor, he has no clothes
So he can't come out to play
And besides which life is suffering
And he likes it that way

And the little guy is not so friendly
But you know life has been cruel
So wipe that smile off your face, baby
And try to be cool

Maybe you don't like your job
Maybe you didn't get enough sleep
Nobody likes their job
Nobody got enough sleep

Maybe you just had
The worst day of your life
But you know there's no escape and there's no excuse
So just suck up and be nice

Be nice, be nice, be nice
Be nice, be nice, be nice

Yeah, I would like to perfect the art
Be studiously aloof
Like life is just a boring chore
And I'm living proof

I could join forces with an army
Of ordinary hipsters
Then I guess I'd be out of a job
So I guess that's out of the picture

'Cause I'm a pixie, I'm a paper doll
I'm a cartoon
I'm a chipper cheerful free-for-all
I light up a room

I'm the color-me-happy girl
Miss. Live And Let Live
And when they're out for blood
I'll always give

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Glass House - Lyrics - Little Plastic Castle - Ani Difranco

Title: Glass House
Album: Little Plastic Castle
Artist: Ani Difranco
Composer(s): Angela Difranco

Lyric:
Sitting in my glass house
While your ghost is sleeping down the hall
Watching little birds fly
Kamikaze missions into the walls
Think I'm gonna stay in today
Sit on my couch and watch them fall

Life just keeps getting harder
And it just keeps getting harder to hide
Darker it is around me, easier it is to see inside
And outside the glass the whole world is magnified
And it's half an inch from here to the other side

I guess that push has come to this
So I guess this must be shove
But before you throw those stones at me
Tell me, what's your house made of?

And if think you know what I'm doing wrong
You're gonna have to get in line
Yeah, but for the purpose of this song
Let's just say I'm doing fine, I guess I'm doing fine

Trapped in my glasshouse
Crowd has been gathering outside since dawn
I make a pot of coffee
While a catastrophe awaits me out on the lawn
Think I'm going to stay in today
I pretend like I don't know what's going on

Yeah, I guess that push has come to this
So I guess this must be shove
But before you throw those stones at me
Tell me, what's your house made of?

And if you think you know what I'm doing wrong
You're gonna have to get in line
Yeah, but for the purpose of this song
Let's just say I'm doing fine, I think I'm doing fine
Doing fine, doing fine, doing fine

Sitting in my glass house
I am sitting in my glass house
I am sitting in my glass house
I am, I am, oh

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Deep Dish - Lyrics - Little Plastic Castle - Ani Difranco

Title: Deep Dish
Album: Little Plastic Castle
Artist: Ani Difranco
Composer(s): Ani Difranco

Lyric:
Cold and drizzly night in Chicago's deep dish
Fluorescent light of the bathroom shows my hands as they are
See and eyelash on my cheek pick it off and make a wish
And walk back out into the bar

Wind at the windows, neon lights the patterned panes
The waitress wields the weight of her tray around her palm
The doorman cups his hands and lights his cigarette again
And the rain marches on

This is only a possibility in a world of possibilities
There are obviously there are many possibilities
Ranging from small to large, before long there will be short
Before short there's nothing when there was nothing
There was always the possibility of something becoming what it is

Don't even bother trying to say something clever
Clever is as clever does no matter what it says
I'm looking for a sign that says you're for real this time
But I don't trust what's in your head

I walk up to the bar and point at the top shelf
Then I throw my head back and laugh at myself
I raise a toast to all our saviors each so badly behaved
It's too bad that their world is the one that they saved

Now you gotta dance with me, now is when its gotta be
'Cause I can't wait for the dance floor to fill in
If you wanna dance with me, I'll show you how it's gonna be
'Cause I can't wait for the band to begin

There's a spider spinning cobwebs from your elbow to the table
While my eyes ride the crowd in a secret rodeo
I smile with my mouth, lift my watch up to the light
And say, "Oh, look, I have to go"

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Fuel - Lyrics - Little Plastic Castle - Ani Difranco

Title: Fuel
Album: Little Plastic Castle
Artist: Ani Difranco
Composer(s): Ani Difranco

Lyric:
They were digging a new foundation in Manhattan
And they discovered a slave cemetery there
May their souls rest easy now that lynching is frowned upon
We've moved on to the electric chair

And I wonder who's gonna be president
Tweedledum or tweedle dumber?
And who's gonna have the big
Blockbuster box office this summer

How 'bout we put up a wall
Between the houses and the highway
And then you can go your way
And I can go my way

Except all the radios agree with all the TVs
And all the magazines agree with all the radios
And I keep hearing that same damn song
Everywhere I go

Maybe I should put a bucket over my head
And a marshmallow in each ear
And stumble around for another dumb numb week
For another hum drum hit song to appear

People used to make records as in a record of event
The event of people playing music in a room
Now everything is cross-marketing
It's about sunglasses and shoes
Or guns or drugs, you choose

We got it rehashed, we got it half-assed
We're digging up all the graves
And we're spitting on the past
And we can choose between the colors
Of the lipstick on the whores

'Cause we know difference
Between the font of twenty percent more
And the font of Teriyaki, you tell me
How does it make you feel?
You tell me what's real

And they say that alcoholics are always alcoholics
Even when they're as dry as my lips for years
Even when they're stranded on a small desert island
With no place in two thousand miles to buy beer

And I wonder is he different is he different, has he changed
What he's about or is he just a liar
With nothing to lie about
I'm headed for the same brick wall
Is there anything I can do about anything at all

Except go back to that corner in Manhattan
And dig deeper, dig deeper this time
Down beneath the impossible pain of our history
Beneath unknown bones
Beneath the bedrock of the mystery

Beneath the sewage system an the path train
Beneath the cobblestones and the water main
Beneath the traffic of friendships and street deals
Between the screeching of kamikaze cab wheels wheels

Beneath everything I can think of to think about
Beneath it all, beneath all get out
Beneath the good and the kind and the stupid and the cruel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel

There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel

There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting for fuel
There's a fire just waiting

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Independence Day - Lyrics - Little Plastic Castle - Ani Difranco

Title: Independence Day
Album: Little Plastic Castle
Artist: Ani Difranco
Composer(s): Ani Difranco

Lyric:
We drove the car to the top of the parking ramp
On the 4th of July
We sat out on the hood with a couple of warm beers
And watched the fireworks explode in the sky
And there was an exodus of birds from the trees
But they didn't know we were only pretending

And the people all looked up and looked pleased
And the birds flew around like the whole world was ending and
And I, I don't think war is noble
And I don't like to think that love is like war
But I gotta big hot cherry bomb
And I wanna slip it through the mail slot of your front door

Now you can't leave me here
I've got your back now
You'd better have mine
'Cuz you say the coast is clear
You say that all the time

So many sheep I quit counting
Sleepless and embarrassed about the way that I feel
Trying to make mole hills out of mountains
Building base camp at the bottom of a really big deal
Did I ever tell you how I stopped eating
When you stopped calling me?
And I was cramped up shitting rivers for weeks
And pretending that I was finally free

Now you can't leave me here
Yeah, now that you're back
You better stay this time
'Cuz you say the coast is clear
But you say that all the time

We drove the car to the top of the parking ramp
On the 4th of July
And I planted my dusty boots on the bumper
And sat on the hood and looked up at the sky

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Pulse - Lyrics - Little Plastic Castle - Ani Difranco

Title: Pulse
Album: Little Plastic Castle
Artist: Ani Difranco
Composer(s): Ani Difranco

Lyric:
You crawled into my bed that night
Like some sort of giant insect
And I found myself spellbound at the sight of you
Beautiful and grotesque and all the rest of that bug stuff

Bluffing your way into my mouth
Behind my teeth, reaching for my scars
That night we got kicked out of two bars
And laughed our way home

That night you leaned over and threw up into your hair
I held you there thinking I would offer you my pulse
If I thought it would be useful
I would give you my breath except

The problem with death is
We have some hundred years
And then they can build building on our only bones
A hundred years and then your grave is not your own

We lie in our beds and our graves
Unable to save ourselves
From the quaint tragedies we invent and undo
From the stupid circumstances we slalomed through

I realized that night that the, the hall light
Which seemed so bright when you turned it on
Is nothing compared to the dawn which is nothing
Compared to the light which seeps from me while you're sleeping

Cocooned in my room
Beautiful and grotesque resting
That night we got kicked out of two bars
And laughed our way home

I thought I would offer you my pulse
I would give you my breath

I would offer you my pulse
I would give you my breath
I would offer you my pulse
I would give you my breath

I would offer you my pulse
I would give you my breath
I would offer you my pulse
I would give you my breath

I would offer you my pulse
I would give you my breath
I would offer you my pulse
I would give you my breath

I would offer you my pulse
I would give you my breath
I would offer you my pulse
I would give you my breath

I would offer you my pulse
I would give you my breath
I would offer you my pulse
I would give you my breath

I would offer you my pulse
I would give you my breath
I would offer you my pulse
I would give you my breath

I would offer you my pulse
I would give you my breath

I told you
Keep holding
Keep holding
Let's just stay here

That's beautiful

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As Is - Lyrics - Little Plastic Castle - Ani Difranco

Title: As Is
Album: Little Plastic Castle
Artist: Ani Difranco
Composer(s): Ani Difranco

Lyric:
You can't hide behind social graces
So don't try, be all touchy, feely
'Cause you lie in my face of all places
But I got no problem with that really

What bugs me is that you believe what you're saying
What bothers me, that you don't know how you feel
What scares me, that while you're telling me stories
You actually believe that they are real

And I got no illusions about you, guess what I never did
When I said, when I said, "I'll take it", I meant, I meant as is
As is, as is, as is, as is, as is, as is, as is, as is, as is, as is, as is

Just give up and admit you're an asshole
You would be in some good company
And I think you'd find that your friends would forgive you
Or maybe I am just speaking for me

'Cause when I look around, I think this, this is good enough
And I try to laugh, whatever life brings
'Cause when I look down I just miss all the good stuff
When I look up, I just trip over things

And I've got no illusions about you, guess what I never did
When I say, when I say, "I'll take it" I mean, I mean as is
As is, as is, as is, as is, as is, as is, as is, as is, as is, as is, as is

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Loom - Lyrics - Little Plastic Castle - Ani Difranco

Title: Loom
Album: Little Plastic Castle
Artist: Ani Difranco
Composer(s): Ani Difranco

Lyric:
You always got those dark sunglasses
Covering half your face
But if you promise to take them off
Promise I won't squander your gaze

I will be picturesque, I will be nice
I won't do anything, you can't tell your own wife
I will think before I act, I will think twice
Just let me see your eyes

Each time we've spoke and put in our tokens, ridden the tilt-a-whirl
And I was giggling and dizzy, flirting like a 12 year old girl
The carnival of you and me was coming to town
Watch how we spin and spin and then fall down
Now we just say hello and head for firmer ground

You are the one-way glass that watches me
Standing in line at the bank
I always looks into your glasses
Like a cat looks into a fish tank

But all I could ever see was the specter of me reflected
I want a monument of a friendship
That we never had erected
I wanted to take up lots of room, I wanted to loom

You always got those dark sunglasses
Between us when we talk, yeah
But after the party is over if you wanna take a walk
We could just look around, not do nothing wrong
Try to be at least as brave as our songs
I will bring my heart, I will bring my face
You name the time and place

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Overcome - Lyrics - V - Live

Title: Overcome
Album: V
Artist: Live
Composer(s): Chad Alan Gracey, Ed Kowalczyk, Edward Joel Kowalczyk, Chad David Taylor, Patrick Dahlheimer

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Lyric:
Even now the world is bleeding
But feeling just fine all numb in a castle
Where we're always free to choose never free enough to find
I wish something would break 'cause we're running out of time

And I am overcome, yeah
I am overcome
Holy water in my lungs
I am overcome

These women in the street pulling out their hair
My master's in the yard giving light to the unaware
This plastic little place is just a step amongst the stairs

And I am overcome, yeah
I am overcome, baby
Holy water in my lungs, yeah
I am overcome

So drive me out, yeah out to that open field
Turn the ignition off and spin around
Your help is here but I'm parked in the open space
But locking the gates of love

And I am overcome, oh yeah
I am overcome, baby
Holy water in my lungs, yeah
I am overcome, yeah

I am overcome, oh Lord
I am overcome, baby
Holy water in my lungs
Holy water, holy water
I am overcome

Beautiful drowning this beautiful drowning
This holy water, this holy water, is in my lungs
And I am overcome, I am overcome, yeah
Heh, I, heh, I, heh, I am overcome, I am overcome Lord

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