[ti:Shroud]
[ar:Ani Difranco]
[al:Reprieve]

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[03:35.98][00:07.44]Album:Reprieve
[03:23.28][00:01.35]Ani Difranco-Shroud
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[00:36.83]I had to leave the house of fashion
[00:40.28]And go forth naked from its doors
[00:43.87]'cause women should be allies
[00:47.55]And not competitors
[00:50.71]I had to leave the house of god
[00:53.87]Because the cross replaced the wheel
[00:57.56]And the goddesses were all out in the garden
[01:01.24]With the plants that nurture and heal
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[01:21.16]I had to leave the house of privilege
[01:24.30]Spend christmas homeless and feeling bad
[01:27.51]To learn privilege is a headache
[01:30.92]That you don't know that you don't have
[01:34.93]I had to leave the house of television
[01:38.82]To start noticing the clouds
[01:42.14]It's amazing the stuff you see when
[01:46.89]You finally shed that shroud
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[02:06.03]I had leave the house of conformity
[02:09.65]In order to make art
[02:13.21]I had to be more and less true
[02:16.50]To learn to tell the two apart
[02:20.44]I had to leave the house of fear
[02:24.03]Just about as soon as I could crawl
[02:27.90]Ignore my face on a wanted poster
[02:32.00]Stuck to the post office wall
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[02:51.74]I had leave the house of self-importance
[02:55.43]To doodle my first tattoo
[02:58.84]To realize a tattoo is no more permanent
[03:02.71]Than I am, and who
[03:07.12]Ever said that life is suffering
[03:10.55]I think they had their finger on the pulse of joy
[03:14.15]And the power of transcendence
[03:18.05]Made its grace a practice we can employ
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