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song of the day: marina and the diamonds, hollywood

09 March 2010, 9.16 | Tags song of the day | No comments »

xoxo,

coco

song of the day: 32 flavors

08 March 2010, 5.00 | Tags song of the day | Comment (1)

My friend lola tweeted some lyrics from this song last night and it totally brought me back to Newmarket driving around in my Mum’s Volvo listening to my Women and Songs cd. Classic!

Although the above Alana Davis version was on the Women and Songs cd, the song was actually written and originally recorded by the super talented Ani Difranco. Here’s her version live

the lyrics are so good that it is absolutely necessary for me to re-print them here. lol. i love song lyrics!!!

squint your eyes and look closer
I’m not between you and your ambition
I am a poster girl with no poster
I am thirty-two flavors and then some
and I’m beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
cause someday you’re going to get hungry
and eat most of the words you just said

both my parents taught me about good will
and I have done well by their names
just the kindness I’ve lavished on strangers
is more than I can explain
still there’s many who’ve turned out their porch lights
just so I would think they were not home
and hid in the dark of their windows
til I’d passed and left them alone

and god help you if you are an ugly girl
course too pretty is also your doom
cause everyone harbors a secret hatred
for the prettiest girl in the room
and god help you if you are a pheonix
and you dare to rise up from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy
while you are just flying back

I’m not trying to give my life meaning
by demeaning you
and I would like to state for the record
I did everything that I could do
I’m not saying that I’m a saint
I just don’t want to live that way
no, I will never be a saint
but I will always say

happy monday!

coco