[00:00.00]ani difranco - studying stones
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[00:39.64]i am out here studying stones
[00:42.96]trying to learn to be less alive
[00:46.23]using all of my will
[00:48.03]to keep very still
[00:49.69]still even on the inside
[00:52.65]i’ve cut all of the pertinent wires
[00:56.01]so my eyes can’t make that connection
[00:59.07]i am holding my breath
[01:00.84]i am feigning my death
[01:02.41]when i’m looking in your direction
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[01:06.01]’course numb is an old hat
[01:08.94]old as my oldest memories
[01:12.56]see that one’s my mother
[01:14.43]and that one’s my father
[01:16.04]and that one in the hat, that’s me
[01:18.87]it’s a skill i’d hoped to abandon
[01:22.19]when i got out on the open road
[01:25.42]but any more pent up emotion
[01:27.71]and i think i’m gonna explode
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[01:59.45]there’s never been an endeavor so strange
[02:02.85]as trying to slow the blood in my veins
[02:06.55]to keep my face blank
[02:07.82]as a stone that just sank
[02:09.51]until not a ripple remains
[02:12.83]i am high above the tree line
[02:16.52]sitting cross legged on the ground
[02:20.08]when all of the forbidden fruit has fallen and rotted
[02:23.23]that’s when i’m gonna come down
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[02:26.79]’course numb is an old hat
[02:29.74]old as my oldest memories
[02:33.32]see that one’s my mother
[02:35.25]and that one’s my father
[02:36.86]and that one in the hat, that’s me
[02:39.73]it’s a skill i’d hoped to abandon
[02:43.02]when i got out on the open road
[02:46.31]but any more pent up emotion
[02:48.78]and i think i’m gonna explode
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