Ani Difranco - Red Letter Year lyrics

New Year's 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 Goddess sent word that this would be a red letter year They didn't mention how much sh** 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 Oh, first you go under and then coming up gives you bends And when you break the surface 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're always, always there And representing the white race a man with a monkey for a face Is flying over in his helicopter whistling Dixie and playing dumb In a town that might put a gun to your throat Or rip the roof right off 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 pa**age to higher ground So let's pull up a barstool and get ourselves a ringside seat For one unnerving moment they're gonna show the truth on TV