Hour Follows Hour - Ani DiFranco

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Hour follows hour like water follows water
Everything is governed by the rule
of 'one thing leads to another'
You can't really place blame
'cause blame is much too messy
Someone's bound to get on you
while you were trying to put it on me

And don't fool yourself into thinking things are simple
Nobody's lying still the stories don't line up
Why do you try to hold on to what you'll never get a hold on?
You wouldn't try to put the ocean in a paper cup

'Cause I have had something to prove
as long as I know there's something that needs improvement
And you know that every time I move
I make a woman's movement.
And first you decide what you've gotta do
then you go out and do it
And maybe the most we can do
is just to see each other through it.

Hour follows hour like water in a river
And from one to the next
We don't know what each hour will deliver
We just call it like we see it
Call it out loud as we can
and then afterwards we call it all water over the dam

Maybe the moral higher ground
ain't as high as it seems
Maybe we are both good people
who've done some bad things
I just hope it was okay
I know it wasn't perfect
I hope in the end we can laugh
and say it was all worth it

'Cause I have had something to prove
as long as I know something that needs improvement
And you know that every time I move
I make a woman's movement
And first you decide what you've gotta do
and then you go out and do it
And maybe the most that we can do
is just to see each other through it.

We make our own gravity to give weight to things
Then things fall and they break and gravity sings
We can only hold so much is what I figure
Try and keep our eye on the big picture,
picture keeps getting bigger.

And too much is how I love you
but too well is how I know you
And I've got nothing to prove this time,
just something to show you
I guess I just wanted you to see
that it was all worth it to me

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Ani DiFranco (born Angela Maria DiFranco; September 23, 1970) is an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, songwriter, feminist icon and businesswoman from New York state.

Although much of DiFranco's material is autobiographical, it is often also strongly political. Many of her songs are concerned with contemporary social issues such as racism, sexism, sexual abuse, homophobia, reproductive rights, poverty, and war. DiFranco's guitar playing is often characterized by a signature staccato style, rapid finger picking and many alternate tunings. She delivers many of her lines in a speaking style notable for its rhythmic variation. Her lyrics, which often include alliteration, metaphor, word play and a more-or-less gentle irony, have also received praise for their sophistication. She has released 19 solo albums (not including collaborative albums or live albums), all of which were released on her own independent record label, Righteous Babe Records (which she formed in 1989 at the age of 19).

DiFranco has been a critical success for much of her career, though not a commercial one by major label standards, with a career album average of 72 on Metacritic. Living in Clip, DiFranco's 1998 double live album, is the only one to achieve gold record status to date. DiFranco has been praised by the Buffalo News as the "Buffalo's leading lady of rock music". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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