Ani Difranco Red Letter Year Lyrics

Red Letter Year Lyrics

New Year's Eve, we dropped mushrooms and danced around the house

Making music with everything that we found

Incantation replaced resolution

And we vowed to allow each perfection that we could be



And the Goddess sent word that this would be a red letter year

They didn't mention how much shit was gonna change around here

It's just as well we weren't swollen with unfocused dread

We had visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads

Dancing in our heads



Oh, first you go under and then coming up gives you bends

And when you break the surface all you see is your friends

So you grab your purple crayon and flesh out the picture behind

And finally the whole world is made of one unbroken line

One unbroken line



When you wake up sick as a dog with dull eyes and really bad hair

Standing under a lit sign with the words on air

And the water is rising, it's coming in everywhere

Just remember you are there, you're always, always there



And representing the white race a man with a monkey for a face

Is flying over in his helicopter whistling Dixie and playing dumb

In a town that might put a gun to your throat

Or rip the roof right off your place

There's a mold crawling up the walls and falling asleep in your lungs



And you and I both know how to drink so

We will always have work in this town

And besides the police are stationed at the bridge

And they're preventing passage to higher ground

So let's pull up a barstool and get ourselves a ringside seat

For one unnerving moment they're gonna show the truth on TV