--- Michael Paz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ani DiFranco was scheduled to appear on "Late
> Night with David Letterman"
> > tonight. She had planned to perform "Subdivision,"
> a song about rascism that
> > begins, "White people are so scared of black
> people, they bulldoze out to the
> > country." Producers at "Late Night" tried to
> convince her to sing a more
> > "up-beat" song. When she refused, her segment was
> cancelled.
> >
> > You can read the article at
> >
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17763-2001Jul18.html
because i think it's important, i'm going to print the
lyrics to the song this was about. sorry for the
pro-ani bandwidth, but in light of the recent
discussion on race, i think it relevant.
alison e. in nyc
"subdivision"
--ani d.
white people are so scared of black people
they bulldoze out to the country
and put up houses on little loop-dee-loop streets
and while america gets its heart cut right out of its
chest
the berlin wall still runs down main street
separating east side from west
and nothing is stirring, not even a mouse
in the boarded-up stores and the broken-down houses
so they hang colorful banners off all the street lamps
just to prove they got no manners
no mercy and no sense
and i'm wondering what it will take
for my city to rise
first we admit our mistakes
then we open our eyes
the ghosts of old buildings are haunting parking lots
in the city of good neighbors that history forgot
i remember the first time i saw someone
lying on the cold street
i thought: i can't just walk past here
this can't just be true
but i learned by example
to just keep moving my feet
it's amazing the things that we all learn to do
so we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughter
serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water
and the old farm road's a four-lane that leads to the
mall
and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall
i'm wondering what it will take
for my country to rise
first we admit our mistakes
and then we open our eyes
or nature succumbs to one last dumb decision
and america the beautiful
is just one big subdivision
words and music by ani difranco ) 2001 righteous babe
music / BMI
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