There are so many Ani Difranco songs that make me cry - or that easily invoke me to become passionate about things I didn't know I had any passion for.
There is no way to explain how much impact Ani has had on my life and my feelings. It has been a mind-opening trip and there are so many choice albums to delve into.
One of these amazing albums is called Reveling and Reckoning.
It's a double CD with everything you can imagine to offer, including for the first time in Ani's album history, some guitar ramblings (sans vocals) by Ani that don't necessarily need a song structure to express a strong emotion/sentiment/story.
some of my favs include: School Night, Grey, and Garden of Simple.
Today I'm posting a song that still puts me in a state of aw. The crafting of poetry and chords and dynamics is unmatched. Like nearly every Ani song.
Just an ode to devotion and the tough times we go through for the people we fall for. I guess that could be referred to as life for some of us...which does make it pretty big. Ani has a way of explaining the hardships of the world in the most poetic and comforting ways...so that you never feel like you're alone, even when your "little pink heart" is aching. (Ani Difranco, Grey)
and it's hard to feel like
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when all you seem to do is
referee
epic fucking song.
<3
'cause the finish line is a shifty thing,
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you are still the song I sing
to myself when I'm alone.
(and CRY)
Oh you guys. <3 I hadn't listened to any Ani since I was 19-20...that is until I met you guys. Since then, she come up pretty often. I remember being my first Ani cd when I was 17. I bought at the HMV downtown Montreal and I had no idea which of her albums to buy, cause I didn't know her music, but I had heard about he and thought I might like her stuff. I ended up picking Little Plastic Castle and I was blown away. I think I played Gravel over and over again when my then boyfriend and I broke up.
ReplyDeleteOh man, the above comment is rife with spelling mistakes. being = buying...and so forth...
ReplyDeleteyou can doubt anything
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long enough....
cause what happens always
adjusts
to fit what happened after that....