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Ani DiFranco ~ Blood In The Boardroom


sitting in the boardroom the I'm-so-bored room listening to the suits talk about their world they can make straight lines out of almost anything except for the line of my upper lip when it curls dressed in my best greasy skin and squinty eyes I'm the only part of summer here that made it inside in the air-conditioned building decorated with coporate flair I wonder can these boys smell me bleeding though my underwear there's men wearing the blood of the women they love there's white wearing the blood of the brown but every woman learns to bleed from the moon and we bleed to renew life every time it's cut down I got my vertebrae all stacked up as high as they go I but I still feel myself sliding from the earth that I know so I excuse myself and leave the room say my period came early but it's not a minute too soon I go and find the only other woman on the floor is the secretary sitting at the desk by the door I ask her if she's got a tampon I could use she says oh honey, what a hassle for you sure I do you know I do I say it ain't no hassle, no, it ain't no mess right now it's the only power that I possess these businessmen got the money they got the instruments of death But I can make life I can make breath sitting in the boardroom the I'm-so-bored room listening to the suits talk about their world I didn't really have much to say the whole time I was there so I just left a big brown bloodstain on their white chair more free lyrics

sitting in the boardroom
the I'm-so-bored room
listening to the suits
talk about their world
they can make straight lines
out of almost anything
except for the line
of my upper lip when it curls
dressed in my best greasy skin
and squinty eyes
I'm the only part of summer here
that made it inside
in the air-conditioned building
decorated with coporate flair
I wonder
can these boys smell me bleeding
though my underwear

there's men wearing the blood
of the women they love
there's white wearing the blood of the brown
but every woman learns to bleed from the moon
and we bleed to renew life
every time it's cut down
I got my vertebrae all stacked up
as high as they go
I but I still feel myself sliding
from the earth that I know
so I excuse myself and leave the room
say my period came early
but it's not a minute too soon

I go and find the only other woman on the floor
is the secretary sitting at the desk by the door
I ask her if she's got a tampon I could use
she says
oh honey, what a hassle for you
sure I do
you know I do
I say
it ain't no hassle, no, it ain't no mess
right now it's the only power
that I possess
these businessmen got the money
they got the instruments of death
But I can make life
I can make breath
sitting in the boardroom
the I'm-so-bored room
listening to the suits talk about their world
I didn't really have much to say
the whole time I was there
so I just left a big brown bloodstain
on their white chair

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