32 Flavors
Squint your eyes and look closer
I'm not between you and your ambition
I'm a poster girl with no poster
I am 32 Flavors and then some.
I'm beyond your peripheral vision,
so you might want to turn your head.
'Cause one day you're going to be hungry,
and eat most of the words you just said.
Both my parents have taught me about good will.
And I have done well by their names
just the kindness that I've lavished on strangers
is more than I can explain.
still there's many who've turned off the porch lights just so I would think they we're not home.
And hid in the dark of their windows
'til I passed and left them alone.
God you help you if you are an ugly girl,
of course too pretty is also your doom
'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred
for the prettiest girl in the room.
And God help you if you are a pheonix,
and you dare to rise up from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy,
while you are just flying back.
I'm not trying to give my life meaning,
by demeaning you
and I would like to state for the record
I did everything that I could do,
I'm not saying that I am a saint,
I just don't wanna live that way.
No, I'll never be saint
but I will always say....
Squint your eyes and look closer
I'm not between you and your ambition
I'm a poster girl with no poster,
I am 32 Flavors and then some
and I'm beyond you're peripheral vision,
so you might want to turn your head,
because one day you will find you are starving,
and eating all of the words you just said.
Ani DiFranco
Be the pheonix, not the jealous.
