Ani Difranco - BACK BACK BACK lyrics

rate me

Back, back, back

In the back of your mind are you learning an angry language?

Tell me, boy

Boy

Boy, are you tending to your joy, or are you just letting it vanquish?

Yeah, back, back, back

In the dark of your mind where the eyes of your demons are gleaming

Are you mad

Mad

Mad about the life you never had

Yeah, even when you are dreaming?

Who are these old, old, old people in these nursing homes

Just scowling away at nothing?

Like big rag dolls

Just cursing at the walls and pulling out all of their stuffing

Yeah, every day is a door leading back to the core

Yes, old age will distill you

And if you're this, this, this full of bitterness now

Some day it will just fill you

When you sit right down in the middle of yourself

You're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair

So renovate your soul before you get too old cuz you're gonna be housebound there

When you're old you fold up like an envelope and you mail yourself right inside

Yeah, and there's nowhere to go except out, real slow

Are you ready, boy, for that ride?

Your arrogance is gaining on you, and so is eternity

You better practice happiness

You better practice humility

Yeah, you took the air

You took the time

You were fed and you were free

You'd better put some beauty back, yeah, while you got the energy

You'd better put some beauty back, yeah, while you got the energy

Back, back, back

In the back of your mind are you learning an angry language?

Tell me, boy

Boy

Boy, are you tending to your joy, or are you just letting it vanquish?

Yeah, back, back, back

In the dark of your mind where the eyes of your demons are gleaming

Are you mad

Mad

Mad about the life you never had

Even when you're dreaming?