Album: Ani DiFranco
Song: Work Your Way Out


Work Your Way Out

Lying on the floor
Four stories high
In the corridor
Between the asphalt and the sky
I am caught like bottled water
The light daughter

I wonder what you look like
Under your t-shirt
I wonder what you sound like
When you're not wearing words
I wonder what we have
When you're not pretending
And it is never ending
Haven't you heard

I don't need to tell you what this is about
You just start on the indside
And work you way out

We are all polylingual
But some of us pretend
That there is virtue in relying
On not trying to understand
We're all citizens of the womb
Before we subdivide
Into sexes and shades
This side
That side

I don't need to tell you what it is about
You just start on the inside
And work your way out

Undressing for the fan like it was a man
Wondering about all the things
That I'll never understand
There are some things that you can't know
Unless you've been there
But oh how far we could go if we started to share

i don't need to tell you what it is about
You just start on the inside
And work your way out