Ani Difranco Studying Stones Lyrics

Studying Stones Lyrics

I am out here studyin' stones

Tryin' to learn to be less alive

Usin' all of my will to keep very still

Still even on the inside

I've cut all of the pertinent wires

So my eyes can't make that connection

I am holding my breath, I am feignin' my death

When I'm lookin' in your direction



'Course numb is an old hat

Old as my oldest memories

See that one's my mother

And that one's my father

And that one in the hat, that's me

It's a skill, I'd hoped to abandon

When I got out on the open road

But any more pent up emotion

And I think, I'm gonna explode



There's never been an endeavor so strange

As tryin' to slow the blood in my veins

To keep my face blank as a stone that just sank

Until' not a ripple remains

I am high above the tree line

Sittin' cross legged on the ground

When all of the forbidden fruit has fallen and rotted

That's when I'm gonna come down



'Course numb is an old hat

Old as my oldest memories

See that one's my mother

And that one's my father

And that one in the hat, that's me

It's a skill, I'd hoped to abandon

When I got out on the open road

But any more pent up emotion

And I think, I'm gonna explode