The Million You Never Made — текст песни (Ani Difranco)

The air comes off the ocean

The city smells fishy

The air is full of fish and mystery

Whispering who, what, when

I am warning you I am weightless

And the wind is always shifting

So dont hang anything on me

If you ever want to see it again

I am telling you Im different than you

Think I am



And you can dangle your carrot

But I aint gunna reach for it

Cuz I need both my hands

To play my guitar

And life is a sleezy stranger

Who looks vaguely familiar

Flirting with a bimbo named disaster

At the end of the bar

And I am telling you that I am different

Than you are



At night when youre asleep

Self-hatreds going to creep in

And try to blame it on the devil

The one whos bed you sleep in

And dont tell me what they did to you

As though you had no choice

Tell me, isnt that your picture?

Isnt that your voice?

If you dont live what you sing about

Your mirror is going to find out

Oh yeah



Id like to go to all the pretty parties

Where all the pretty people go

And I aint really all that pretty

But nobody will know

Cuz everybody loves you

When youre a star

And nobody questions

What it takes to go that far

And life is a sleezy stranger

And this is his favorite bar



No I dont prefer obscurity

But Im an idealistic girl

And I wouldnt work for you

No matter what you paid

And I may not be able

To change the whole fucking world

But I could be the million

That you never made

Oh yeah



I could be the million that you never made

I could be the million that youll never make

Youre looking at the million that youll never make