shroud - Ani Difranco
Artist : “Ani Difranco”
Song title : “shroud”
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i had to leave the house of fashion
And go forth naked from its doors
Cause women should be allies
And not competitors
I had to leave the house of god
Because the cross replaced the wheel
And the goddesses were all out in the garden
With the plants that nurture and heal
I had to leave the house of privilege
Spend christmas homeless and feeling bad
To learn privilege is a headache
That you dont know that you dont have
I had to leave the house of television
To start noticing the clouds
Its amazing the stuff you see when
You finally shed that shroud
I had leave the house of conformity
In order to make art
I had to be more and less true
To learn to tell the two apart
I had to leave the house of fear
Just about as soon as i could crawl
Ignore my face on a wanted poster
Stuck to the post office wall
I had leave the house of self-importance
To doodle my first tattoo
To realize a tattoo is no more permanent
Than i am
And who
Ever said that life is suffering
I think they had their finger on the pulse of joy
And the power of transcendence
Made its grace a practice we can employ