Your Next Bold Move - Ani DiFranco

Off the album revelling (of the 2-disk set "Revelling and Reckoning").

If anyone would like to buy this set from me for, say, 3 bucks (if you pay for shipping too), up for bargain, I'll send it right over :) It's in mint condition, I promise!

I think these lyrics provide an important message perfect for the times we live in:

Coming of age during the plague
of reagan and bush
Watching capitalism gun down democracy
It had this funny effect on me
I guess

I am cancer
I am HIV
and i'm down at the Blue Jesus
Blue Cross hospital
Just lookin' up from my pillow
feeling blessed

And the mighty multinationals
have monopolized the oxygen
So it's as easy as breathing
for us all to participate

Yes they're buying and selling
off shares of air
And you know it's all around you
but it's hard to point and say "there"
so you just sit on your hands
and quietly contemplate

Your next bold move
The next thing you're gonna need to prove
to yourself

What a waste of thumbs that are opposable
to make machines that are disposable
and sell them to seagulls flying in circles
around one big right wing

Yes, the left wing was broken long ago
by the slingshot of cointelpro
And now it's so hard to have faith in
anything

Especially your next bold move
Or the next thing you're gonna need to prove
to yourself

You want to track each trickle
back to its source
And then scream up the faucet
'til your face is hoarse
'cause you're surrounded by a world's worth
of things you just can't excuse

But you've got the hard cough of a chain smoker
and you're at the arctic circle playing strip poker
and it's getting colder and colder
everytime you lose

So go ahead
Make your next bold move
Tell us
what's the next thing you're gonna need to prove
to yourself

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[MrJoeCage]

she is so brilliant. i am continually in awe.

[Khakidoodler]

I've been thinking about this song lately, what with Bush on his way out - the first line just kills

[vannwhitecrow]

love, love, love this woman! I love her voice and all she stands for. she is so talented and I have been a fan for years now and my love for her and her music only grows with every new song. she is so great!!!

[briteness]

Ani for President!

[CouganSmith]

@okremington - because it's a beautiful song. :)

[mantz007]

@okremington Maybe because you are easy to manipulate?

[deliciousmorton]

How do you go from Your Next Bold Move to Yes We Can?

[roseinthepages]

will always be in love with her. beauty.

[okremington]

why does this song make me cry?

[Eliasn]

@strangeaslife There is one version on this album and another one on the Canon album, which i think is better tbh.

[hexgoblinwand]

i love her. she's amazing.