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Artist/Band: Ani DiFranco
Lyrics for Song: Swan Dive
Lyrics for Album: Little Plastic Castle [1998]



Spoken to Audience:

Well Ummmm. Okay. How's this go. Oh Fuck.

Take some of the teeth out of the. Eww slicy.

I don't know why the fuck I play acoustic guitars

I hate that acoustic guitar sound.

Someone gave me one as a child and I guess I just haven't found anything better.



Sung:

I'm cradling the softest heaviest

Oh. Oh no. Lets try that again.

I'm cradling the softest warmest part of you in my hands.

It feels like a baby bird fallen from the nest.

I think that your body is something I understand.

I think that I'm happy. I think that I'm blessed.



But I've had a lack of inhibiton.

I've had a lost of perspictive.

And I've had a litte bit to drink

and it's making me think

that I can jump ship and swim

and the ocean will hold me,

that there's got to be more than the boat that I'm in.

Cuz they call me crazy if I fail.

All the chane that I need

is one in a million and they can call me brilliant

if I succeed.

Gravity is nothing to me

I'm moving at the speed of sound

I just want to get my feet wet

Untill I drown.



I teeter between tired

and really really tired

I'm wiped and I'm wired

but I guess it's just as well.

Cuz I've built my own empire

out of car tires and chicken wire

and now I'm queen of my own compost heap

and I'm getting used to the smell



And I've got a lack of information

and I've had a little revelation

And I'm climbing up on the railing

Trying not to look down.

And I'm going to do my best to swan dive

into shark infested waters.

I'm going to pull out my tampon and just start splashing around.



Cuz I don't care if they eat me alive

I've got better things to do than survive

I've got a memory of warm skin in my hand.

I've got a vision of blue sky and dry land



I'm cradling the hardest heaviest piece of me in my hands

And the ship is pitching and heaving and my limbs are bobbing and weaving

And I think that this is one thing I understand



I need a couple of vaccinations

For my faraway vacation

and I'm going to go ahead an go boldly

because a little bird told me

that jumping is easy

and falling is fun

right up untill you hit the sidewalk

shivering stunned.



Cuz they call me crazy if I fail.

All the chane that I need

is one in a million and they can call me brilliant

if I succeed.

Gravity is nothing to me

I'm moving at the speed of sound

I just want to get my feet wet

Untill I drown.


Album Lyrics: Little Plastic Castle [1998]


Ani DiFranco
"Little Plastic Castle [1998]"


1. Two Little Girls
2. Deep Dish
3. Loom
4. Pixie
5. Swan Dive
6. Glasshouse
7. Independence Day
8. Pulse