Ani Difranco - Rock Paper Scissors

lyrics:
it's rock paper scissors as to whether
i will get over you at all
it's hand against hand and both hands are mine
it's standing in a circular line
which is not to say that i'm not also happy
a happy meal with a surprise inside
surprise surprise here's another bright light in your eyes
exposing all the stuff you're not calculating enough to hide
this melancholy that i carry makes me feel so grown up
at my kitchen table doing shots of resignation
i never thought i'd see the day when i would say i give up
and break the stallions of my wildest expectations
but i do not want to know you this way
surrounded by so much pain
but how am i supposed to let go of you this way
like a bird into the sky of my brain?
i think i could accept all these dark colors
as just part of some bigger color scheme
if it wasn't for that drippy string quartet of sadness
underscoring each smiling scene
desire drags me right out of myself
like a gas-soaked rope tied to a piece of coal
and i'm getting pretty good at looking at the bright side
while the flames rip along the sand and swallow me whole

[@josiecameron4349]

This song is Everything. So Inspiring. Makes me want to leap, paint, cook.....all of it......LIVE OUT LOUD in all the colors!!!!! ❤💛💜🧡💚💙💖

[@oliveoil4380]

This is not a happy song…🤔

[@billyalarie929]

These lyrics are perfect, the delivery is perfect, the music accompanying is a perfect compliment, the melody is perfect…

[@mjkrein]

"To the Teeth" is an indisputable masterpiece... and this album is also under-appreciated. The musical and lyrical culmination of one of the most gifted talents of our time.

[@oliveoil4380]

This song. I listened to it at least 20 times a day from 2003 to 2006. You do the math.
I’m still listening now, July 2021. Shit has changed, and changed again and f&ck if it hasn’t changed another time and landed me in the same shitty place I started from. Thanks ma n pa. You guys dead yet?

[@oliveoil4380]

Yep. Still here.

[@oliveoil4380]

I want to die. Ani has kept me going for 16 years. This song especially.

[@oliveoil4380]

20 years now. Love you Ani girl

[@Tiggler80]

I FUCKING LOOOOVE THIS MASTERPIECE! I onlny wish there were more versios of this tune online!!

[@oliveoil4380]

Masterpiece

[@MountainTaoist]

Simply fucking brilliant...