Red Letter Year - Ani DiFranco

New years eve we dropped mushrooms

And danced around the house

Making music with everything that we found

Incantation replaced resolution and we

Vowed to allow each perfection that we could be

And the goddesses sent word that this would be a red letter year

They didn’t mention how much shit was gonna change around here

It’s just as well we weren’t swollen with unfocused dread

We had visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads

Dancing in our heads

First you go under and then you coming up gives you the bends

And when you break the surface

And all you see is your friends

So you grab your purple crayon

And flesh out the picture behind

And finally the whole world is made of one unbroken line

One unbroken line

When you wake up sick as a dog

With dull eyes and really bad hair

Standing under a lit sign with the words «on air»

And the water is rising

It’s coming in everywhere

Just remember you are there

You are always, always there

And representing the white race

Is a man with a monkey for a face

Is flying over in a helicopter

Whistling dixie and playing dumb

In a town that might put a gun to your throat

Or rip the roof right off of your place

There’s a mold crawling up the walls

And falling asleep in your lungs

And you and i both know how to drink so

We will always have work in this town

And besides the police are stationed at the bridge

And they’re preventing passage to higher ground

So let’s pull up a bar stool and get ourselves a ring side seat

For one unnerving moment

They’re gonna show the truth on tv