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Artist/Band: Ani DiFranco
Lyrics for Song: My I.Q.
Lyrics for Album: So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter [2002]



when i was four years old

they tried to test my i.q.

they showed me a picture

of 3 oranges and a pear

they said,

which one is different?

it does not belong

they taught me different is wrong

but when i was 13 years old

i woke up one morning

thighs covered in blood

like a war

like a warning

that i live in a breakable takeable body

an ever increasingly valuable body

that a woman had come in the night to replace me

deface me

see,

my body is borrowed

yeah, i got it on loan

for the time in between my mom and some maggots

i don't need anyone to hold me

i can hold my own

i got highways for stretchmarks

see where i've grown

i sing sometimes

like my life is at stake

'cause you're only as loud

as the noises you make

i'm learning to laugh as hard

as i can listen

'cause silence

is violence

in women and poor people

if more people were screaming then i could relax

but a good brain ain't diddley

if you don't have the facts

we live in a breakable takeable world

an ever available possible world

and we can make music

like we can make do

genius is in a back beat

backseat to nothing if you're dancing

especially something stupid

like i.q.

for every lie i unlearn

i learn something new

i sing sometimes for the war that i fight

'cause every tool is a weapon -

if you hold it right.


Album Lyrics: So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter [2002]


Ani DiFranco
"So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter [2002]"


1. Gratitude
2. Not A Pretty Girl
3. Ain't That The Way
4. Rock Paper Scissors
5. Reckoning
6. Revelling
7. Swandive
8. What How When Where (Why Who)
9. To The Teeth
10. Welcome To:
12. Self Evident
13. My I.Q.
14. Jukebox