Ani DiFranco - School night

[ShirleyAndCookie]

This song is so spot on, it allows you to feel the pain of all three people in this situation. I love Ani Difranco, and her ability to to capture all those stirred up feelings in my heart, and put them in words that I can understand. Thank you for this video, I love what you have done with it!

[Blume257]

I just love all to songs of her.. shes the best!!!

[MrJoeCage]

i had lost a love and was running to take my mind off of it. This song came on my ipod and it literally took my legs from under me. for 5 minutes all i could do was kneel on the shoulder and cry. poignant, moving stuff.

[KusumaPrabhak]

This song is just so damn good. I never bought this album but I seriously want to cry every time I hear this.

[PurpleAsparagus]

@KusumaPrabhak This song punches you in the gut even harder after you've listened to everything that comes before it on the 'Reckoning' disc. Both discs are great listens all around, plus, it has crazy cool packaging (or at least it did when I bought it ten years ago.

[wastingawayagain]

I like this. I listen and watch it a lot. I like the way it highlights the beautiful, poetic lyrics. I sent it to a friend who likes it too. She says the lyrics are evocative.

[lunarlove77]

absolutely stunning.

[strangeaslife]

Undoubtedly one of her best songs. In my top 3 favorites.

I just think that the text in this video takes away from the song. It'd be nice to be able to find this song on here with images or something. The text is hard to ignore and distracts from her singing and playing. :(

[Lastpaw]

@strangeaslife ....couldn't you just close your eyes?

[strangeaslife]

@Lastpaw Are you serious? I have the CD. Why would I sit on YouTube just listening to a song, with my eyes closed? That's stupid. I was looking for a video with this song to show my friend and introduce her to Ani, and the lyrics distract from the weight of the song if you're listening to it for the first time. So yeah... I'll just close my eyes... WTF.

[Lastpaw]

@strangeaslife Why WOULD you be on youtube listening to a song you have on a CD then, bitch? God, you say it distracts, so what would you do? I dunno, SHUT YOUR GOD DAMN FUCKING EYES. BUT GOD FORBID I TRY TO HELP ANY-FUCKING-ONE.

[strangeaslife]

@Lastpaw Wow - you clearly have issues much more serious than whatever you're trying to project onto me. Did you see that I said I WAS SENDING IT TO A FRIEND to INTRODUCE HER TO ANI. Why the hell do you care so much? Get a life and quit responding to my posts because I'm tired of getting email updates from YouTube that your dumbass has commented again. Get over it. You weren't helping, you were being an asshole. Get a life.

[Lastpaw]

@strangeaslife LETS SEE, YOU NEVER SAID THAT IN YOUR ORIGINAL POST. But your right. Your a god/godess, who is never wrong, probably has some big nice life. Y'know what, whatever. I'm done with life. Thanks for pushing me the final step off a bridge. Thanks.

[strangeaslife]

@Lastpaw Actually, I did. So read it again. And get some counselling or something so you can stop harassing people on YouTube over stupid crap to make yourself feel tough.

[lunarlove77]

just magick. pure . magick.

[turbobugwoman]

beautifully done. beautiful.

[TuesBiitch676]

god i freaking love this song

[haidendow]

This will always be my favorite.

[TheMelissaNakama]

Sounds like a gigalow song. This land is your land type of deal. Just in a very roundabout manner.

[zaphodzarniwoop]

My favorite song of hers. It's such an insanely pure distillation of emotion; the poetry and music fit and complement each other so well.

[QueXseraXsera]

Soo pretty, but soo sad!

[juliannaryan]

this song is sooo sad, but i feel every single word of it as if she is looking into my life somehow. "She's bent over from the business of begging forgiveness, while frantically running around putting out fires"

[perfidalbione]

but then what kind of scale

compares the weight of two beauties

the gravity of duties

or the ground speed of joy?

tell me what kind of gauge

can quantify elation?

what kind of equation

could i possibly employ?

[chrispiechoc]

"The fact that I adore you is just one of my truths..."

[Megara]

I love her lyrics. She's such an amazing poet and musician!

[sirenita37]

Wow, I really like what you did with the lyrics in this video. Good job.

[rachw00]

Thank you! i love this song. Beautiful job.

[vellerb]

hey, thanks (and to all of you for the comments). think i could've done a lot better work, especially toward the end doesn't feel quite right, but still thanks a lot for not noticing the mistakes

[reaprscall]

definitely one of her best. Thanks for posting!

Also, I love what you did with the lyrics during the first 'chorus.' When I read them from top to bottom after they had all appeared, it was an interesting way of interpreting the song...whether you did it on purpose or not.

[vellerb]

now I can see what you mean... definitely not on purpose, didn't even occure, but certainly could have been as it makes sense to me too.. on a personal life-like level, unfortunately. hm.

[vivianmari]

this must be her saddest song, its totally heartbreaking

[sisifo37]

de lo mejor de Anita junto con dilate, joyfulgirl, you had time... bueno de las baladas luego tiene canciones más inteligentes. Excelente toda ella

[abhishekaggy1]

beautiful song!

[chelseaarocks]

lovely video. the way the words appear and fade away matches the lyrics and tone of the whole song. and anis lyrics are amazing as well.. so much emotion and poetic beauty

[RidersCanucks]

One of the best lyrical songs of all time IMO.

[donna477]

she has the most amazing way of describing her feelings:-So she built a skyscraper of procrastination...she leaned out the twenty-fifth floor window

--...choking on the smoke of unthinkable choices...haunted by the voices of so many desires,...bent over ...business ..begging forgiveness,While ...running ...putting out fires

Every song since the early 90's has so much, except I haven't heard much of RLY, after a few listens, nothing has stuck out. If anyone has a fav on there let me know.

[lambojivequeen]

she sounds like angel when she sing this

[lambojivequeen]

thi made me cry lol

[louisejuniper]

My fav Ani song, Independence day is also amazing!

[makeshiftpoet]

The worst part about listening to this song is that it completely captures a huge part of my life at the moment. I'm in love with a woman, and I share my life with her, but there's someone else I could love just as much. Like the narrator in the song, I just have to leave her in the dark although she illuminates parts of me that I didn't even know existed.

[vellerb]

..and I know about the role being kept in the dark. So for a while now, I hate this song.

[myporchlight]

this is one of my favorite ani songs.

[MrJoeCage]

this is a great song.

[1andoneis3]

lil' choked up are we?

[bloofy]

*cough* I don't get it :(

[lambojivequeen]

i think its about her leaving some one 4 some one else

[MMAniac76]

While she tells a painful story, the emotions are VERY positive and mature. Just amazing...

[bellelover101]

Everytime I listen to it, it gets more and more beautiful.

[gunchibaiyya]

Finally, a song that does not use "oh baby baby" or "you are my life", or "let's rock the party", or similar such regular crap.

[TheTattooedGirl]

This is one of my favorite Ani songs-- and there are a lot to choose from, seeing as how I have all of her albums lol

Thank you for uploading this video. You rock.

[gofshteyn]

sounds kind of like famous blue raincoat

[oldie1979]

I seen her live, unfortunetly she did not preform this song.

[robertschrader]

It's funny--in a lot of ways, R/R is Ani's weakest album, but it contains some of her most amazing song: School Night, Marrow, So What, et al.

[ravermuse]

how can you say R/R is her weakest!?

i mean,it is great album,

and i love it!

and also agree with that it contains some of

her most amazing songs;)

[hatgirl09]

how can it be weak if it contains amazing songs? hm... maybe it's too late to follow you. but i don't follow you... ;-)

[kekoaT]

no i understand... many of ani's best album's have a continuity that is lacking in R/R

[AniSmith]

I hate when people object to you calling something someone's "weakest" without giving an example of an album that worse. I don't know if R/R is Ani's worst... but even great artists have an album that is their worst. Either way... I love school night and So What so much.

[jaenadar]

Thank you so much for uploading this. It's my favorite Ani DiFranco song and it's really meant a lot to me through the years :)

[Twatatouille]

Reckoning is the only Ani album I know and this with Grey and so many others, haunt me still. I love her songs and her delivery. Sublime...

[walkbyfaith03]

one of my faves too, but heartbreaking

[cryptdoll]

love <3

[CarringtonJo]

this is the ultimate ani song. it haunts me so, but i truly love it.

[Justin1721]

You sure pegged it...truly haunting

[derekparfit]

this is by far one of my fave songs of hers...

[scott172]

same, the lyrics are so daunting