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Artist/Band: Ani DiFranco
Lyrics for Song: True Story Of What Was
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Ani DiFranco



The light blue flickering rhythm

Of the neighbor's big console T.V.

Is basking on the ceiling

Of another insomniac spree

And outside sleep's open window

Between the drops of rain

History is writing a recipe book

For every earthly pain



Oh to clean up the clutter of echoes

Coming in and out of focus

Words spoken

Like locusts

Sing and sing

In my head



And thing is

They often seem

In my memory's long dream

To be superfluous to

The true story of what was



Cuz



Real is real regardless

Of what you try to say

Or say away

Real is real relentless

While words distract and dismay

Words that change their tune

Though the story remains the same

Words that fill me quickly

And then are slow to drain

Dialogues that dither down reminiscent

Of the way it likes to rain

Every screen

A smoke screen

Oh to dream

Just for a moment

The picture

Outside the frame



Then in a flash

The light blue horizon

Spanning a sudden black

Is sucked into the vanishing point

And quiet rushes back

To search for the downbeat

In a tabla symphony

To search in the darkness

For someone who looks like me



(Though I'm not really who I said I was

Or who I thought I'd be)



Just a collection of recollections

Conversations consisting

Of the kind of marks we make

When we're trying to get a pen to work again



A lifetime of them!



Cough...cough...ahem...



I say to me

Now here listening

I say to the locusts

That sing and sing to me sitting

Now here on the front porch swing of my eyes...

I hereby amend

Whatever I've ever said

With this sigh


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Ani DiFranco


Ani DiFranco
"Other Songs - Ani DiFranco"


1. Aids
2. Alla This
3. Asked You First
4. Astronaut (Ft Radiohead)
5. Christians & Pegans
6. Cold And Mean (Answering Machine)
7. Come Away From It
8. Doe, Re, Mi
9. Emancipated Minor
10. Fair Weather
11. Glass House
12. Good Luck
13. Handsome Musician
14. Heart Break Even
15. How Long Can It Last
16. Hurricane
17. I Loved You, So What
18. Landing Gear
19. Lost Womans Song
20. Million You Never Made
21. My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage
22. No Reason To Come Home
23. North Main Street
24. Oh My My
25. One Times One Times One
26. Perfect Fingers
27. Pixie (Be Nice)
28. Present/Infant
29. Red Letter Year
30. Round A Pole
31. Silver Ingrid
32. Sistersong
33. Smiling Underneath
34. So What?
35. Star Matter
36. Submerged
37. Subway
38. The Atom
39. This Bouquet
40. To Be Free
41. True Story Of What Was
42. Up Up Up Up Up Up
43. Way Tight
44. When Doves Cry
45. When I'm Gone
46. When You Were Mine
47. Wishin' And Hopin'