Song Lyrics Ani Difranco - W T C Poem    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> A>> Ani Difranco Singer Lyrics [Ani Difranco other resources]>> W T C Poem Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Ani Difranco Music Title/Track: W T C Poem Theme ID: 24898 Album: N/A yes, yes, yes, us people are just poems we're 90% metaphor with a leanness of meaning bordering upon hyper distillation and once upon a time we were moonshine rushing down the throat of a giraffe yes, rushing down the long hallway despite what the PA announcement said yes, rushing down the long stairs with the whiskey of eternity fermented and distilled to eighteen minutes burning down our throats down the hall down the stairs in a building so tall that it will always be there yes it's part of a pair there on the bow of Noah's Ark the most prestigious couple just kicking back parked against a perfectly blue sky on a morning beatific in its Indian Summer breeze on the day that America fell to its knees after strutting around for a century without saying thank you or please the shock was subsonic and the smoke was deafening between the setup and the punch line because we were all on time for work that day we all boarded that plane for to fly and then when the fires were raging we all climbed up on the windowsill and then we all held hands and jumped into the sky every borough looked up when it heard the first blast and then every dumb action movie was summarily surpassed and the exodus uptown by foot and motorcar looked more like war than anything I've seen so far yes it looked more like war than anything I've seen so far so fierce and ingenious, a poetic specter so far gone that every jackass newscaster was struck dumb and stumbling over 'oh my god' and 'this is unbelievable' and on and on and I'll tell you what, while we're at it, you can keep the Pentagon, you can keep the propaganda and each and every tv that's been trying to convince me to participate in some prep school punk's plan to perpetuate retribution perpetuate retribution even as the blue toxic smoke of our lesson in retribution is still hanging in the air and there's ash on our shoes and there's ash in our hair and there's a fine silt on every mantle from Hell's Kitchen to Brooklyn and the streets are full of stories sudden twists and near misses and soon every open bar is crammed to the rafters with tales of narrowly averted disasters and the whiskey is flowing like never before as all over the country folks just shake their heads, and pour so... here's a toast to all the folks who live in Palestine, and Iraq, and El Salvador. here's a toast to the folks living on the Pine Ridge Reservation with GI Joe still coming back for more here's a toast to all those nurses and doctors who daily provide women with a choice who stand down a threat the size of Oklahoma City just to listen to a young woman's voice here's a toast to all the folks on death row right now awaiting hot oil or guillotine who are shackled there with dread and can only escape into their heads to find peace in the form of a dream cause take away our Playstations and we are a 3rd world nation under the thumb of some blue blood royal son who bought the Oval Office in that phony election and I'll tell you while we're at it, let me state unequivocally, he is not President of Me, he is not President of me cuz I, I am a poem heeding hyper distillation I've got no room for a lie so verbose I'm looking out over my whole human family and I'm raising my glass in a toast here's to our last drink of fossil fuels, let us vow to get off of this sauce shoo away the swarms of commuter planes and find that train ticket we lost cause once upon a time the line followed the river and peeked into all the backyards where the laundry was waving out on the line and the graffiti was teasing us from brick walls and bridges we were rolling over ridges through valleys under stars i dream of touring like Duke Ellington in my own railroad car i dream of waiting on the big wooden benches in the grand station aglow with grace and then standing out on the platform and feeling the air on my face give back the night its distant whistle give back the night its distant whistle give the darkness back its soul give the big oil companies the finger and relearn how to rock and roll yes, the lessons are all around us and the truth is waiting there so it's time to pick through the rubble, clean the streets, and clear the air tell our government to pull its big dick out of the sand of someone else's desert and put it back in its pants and quit the hypocritical chants of 'freedom forever' cause when one lone phone rang in two thousand and one at ten after nine on nine one one, which is the number we all called when that lone phone rang right off the wall right off our desk and down the long hall down the long stairs in the building so tall that the whole world stopped just to watch it fall 10% metaphor and 90% tragedy shhhh, listen to the poetry. 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