Strange Emotion - Shy Child

[ti:Studying Stones]
[ar:Ani DiFranco]
[al:Knuckle Down]
[by:]
[offset:500]
[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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