Ani Difranco Animal Lyrics

Animal Lyrics

More and more there is this animal

Looking out through my eyes

At all the traffic on the road to nowhere

At all the shiny stuff around to buy



At all the wires in the air

At all the people shopping for the same blank stare

At America the drastic, that isolated geographic

That's become infested with millionaires



Yes and I think, when you grow up surrounded

By willful ignorance

You have to believe that mercy has its own country

And that it's round and borderless



And then you just grow wings

And rise above it all

Like there, where that hawk is circling

Above that strip mall



More and more there is this animal

Looking out through my eyes

Seeing that animals only take from this world

What they need to survive



But she is prowling through all the religions of men

Seeing that time and time and time again

Their Gods have made them special and above

Nature's law and the respect thereof



And I think when you grow up surrounded

By willful ignorance

You have to believe that mercy has its own country

And that it's round and borderless



And then you have to grow wings

And, and rise above it all

Like there where that hawk is circling

Above that strip mall



Ask any ecosystem

Harm here, is harm there and there and there?

And aggression begets aggression

It's a very simple lesson



That long preceded the king of heaven

And there's this brutal imperial power

That my passport says I represent

But it will never represent where my heart lives

Only vaguely where it went



'Cause I know when you grow up surrounded

By willful ignorance

You have to believe that mercy has its own country

And that it's round and borderless



And then you just grow wings

And, and rise above it all

Like there, where that hawk is circling

Above that strip mall