Ani Difranco Lag Time Lyrics

Lag Time Lyrics

There's really no hope for me and that three second rule

Somethin' gets dropped and still I'm the slowest damn fool

Slow to realize what's really going on

Slow to know in a moment who or what has gone wrong



I wanna tighten down on the lag time

I gotta tighten down on the lag time

I gotta tighten down on the lag time

I gotta tighten down on the lag time



Your consonants were buzzing around your head like flies

Your true colors were showing and your shape and your size

You were drinking your way though it

I was shrinking right there inside of my clothes

My eventual twenty/twenty, arms crossed, tapping her toe



I gotta tighten down on the lag time

I gotta tighten down on the lag time

I gotta tighten down on the lag time

I gotta tighten down on the lag time



Survivors are part turtle, we are part potato bug

We know enough to go fetal 'til it's still up above

And you gotta crawl through the desert

Between when you hear it and when you can play it with your hands

Just to rendezvous with whoever you are when you finally understand



I gotta tighten down on the lag time

I gotta tighten down on the lag time

I wanna tighten down on the lag time

I gotta tighten down on the lag time



I gotta tighten down on the lag time

I gotta tighten down on the lag time

I gotta tighten down on the lag time