Ani Difranco - Not So Soft lyrics

In a forest of stone

Underneath the corporate canopy

Where the sun rarely filters down

The ground is not so soft

Not so soft

They build buildings to house people

Making money

Or they build buildings to make money

Off of housing people

It's true

Like a lot of things are true

I am foraging for a phone booth on the forest floor

That is not so soft

I look up

It looks like the buildings are burning

But it's just the sun setting

The solar system calling an end to another business day

Eternally circling signally

The rythmic clicking on and off of computers

The pulse of the American machine

The pulse that draws death dancing

Out of anonymous side streets

You know

The ones that always get dumped on and never get plowed

It draws death dancing

Out of little countries

With funny languages

Where the ground is getting harder

And it was not that soft before

Those who call the shots are never in the line of fire

Why

Where there's life for hire out there

If a flag of truth were raised

We could watch every liar rise to wave it

Here we learn America like a script

Playwright

Birthright

Same thing

We bring ourselves to the role

We're all rehearsing for the presidency

I always wanted to be commander in chief of my one woman army

But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour

It's the failed America in me

It's the fear that lives in a forest of stone

Underneath the corporate canopy

Where the sun rarely filters down