J - Ani DiFranco

[00:00.54]Ani Difranco - J
[00:02.10].
[00:28.11]Can't sit on my porch and smoke a J
[00:31.49]And remember how peaceful life can be
[00:34.80]But all night long are a bunch of pushers
[00:38.05]Selling drugs right there on my TV
[00:41.73]Drugs that whether or not I buy
[00:44.86]Are gonna end up in my water supply
[00:48.24]Along with who knows what else, who knows when,
[00:50.73]Just gotta take a deep breath and drink it in
[00:55.74].
[01:01.61]And 'round here there's one thing people know
[01:04.99]It's that government ain't there for you, it's all for show
[01:08.49]And I'm trying to tell them it don't have to be so
[01:11.80]But I can understand that their confidence is low
[01:15.24]Cause 'round here people're so high they can't see
[01:18.80]Over the tops of the tall pine trees
[01:22.17]Down to the mouth of the Mississippi
[01:24.86].
[01:28.05]Oh, blood ignited in a blighted sky
[01:39.05]Oh, blood on the water like we all could die
[01:42.30]Blood in the reeds glistening in the sun
[01:45.42]Blood on our hands, each and everyone,
[01:49.05]Here in the calm before the wars
[01:52.30]When the earth shrugs us off like dinosaurs
[01:55.80]Here in the sunset days of yore
[01:58.99]The first signs washing ashore
[02:02.93].
[02:09.30]And goddess, come and lift us here in deepest Louisiana
[02:15.92]In the gut, where hunches come from
[02:18.87]A message goes out loud as it can
[02:24.61].
[02:27.61]And you'd have thought we'd have come more far somehow
[02:31.05]Since the changing of the guard and all
[02:34.24]I mean dude could be FDR right now
[02:37.61]And instead he's just shifting his weight
[02:40.11]
[02:41.09]And the disappointment is the knockout blow
[02:44.59]Filmed in torturous slow-mo
[02:47.77]Oh hope, please come where I can see
[02:51.02]Don't let the poison get the best of me
[02:54.96].
[03:01.40]And goddess, come and lift us here in deepest Louisiana
[03:06.96]In the gut, where hunches come from
[03:11.02]A message goes out loud as it can
[03:16.77].
[03:19.27]Of, truth is for telling, truth is foretold
[03:23.40]Truth is for those with the guts to behold
[03:26.52]We got vampires down here in Louisiana
[03:29.84]We need voodoo dolls, we need talisman
[03:33.02]We need wooden stakes and shards of light
[03:36.65]We need harbingers riding through the night
[03:39.77]We need fountain pens, we need whale harpoons
[03:43.52]To overthrow the oil tycoons
[03:46.59].
[03:46.90]Cause there's no fish in the water, no birds in the sky
[03:50.34]No life in the soil, no end to the lie
[03:53.46]No time like the present and it's passing us by
[03:56.84]But it's never too late, never too late to try
[04:00.15]Cause if we all had to change, we all just would
[04:03.40]And we would move closer and that would be good
[04:07.02]And we would buy local and we would buy less
[04:10.35]And we'd realize that wasn't our happiness
[04:13.98]No, that wasn't our happiness
[04:17.29]No, that wasn't our happiness
[04:20.60]No, that wasn't our happiness
[04:24.04]No, that wasn't…
[04:26.04].
[04:34.10]And goddess, come and lift us here in deepest Louisiana
[04:40.85]And goddess, come and lift us here in deepest Louisiana
[04:47.23]And goddess, come and lift us here in deepest Louisiana
[04:54.23]In the gut, where hunches come from
[04:57.35]A message goes out loud as it can