Meander - Lyrics

Fuel

Ani diFranco - Little Plastic Castle

they were digging a new foundation in manhattan
and they discovered a slave cemetary there
may their souls rest easy
now that lynching is frowned upon
we've moved on to the electric chair
and i wonder who's gonna be president,
tweedle-dum or tweedle-dumber
and who's gonna to have
the big box office block-buster this summer
and how about we put up a wall
between the houses and the highway
and you can go your way
and i can go my way

except all the radios agree with all the tvs
and the magazines agree with all the radios
and i keep hearing that same damn song everywhere i go
maybe i should put a bucket over my head
and a marshmallow in each each ear
and stumble around for another dumb numb week
for hum-drum hit song to appear

people used to make records
as in a record of an event
the event of people playing music in a room
now everything is cross-marketing
it's about sunglasses and shoes
or guns and drugs, you choose
we got it rehashed
we got it half-assed
we're digging up all the graves
and we're spitting on the past
and we can choose between the colours
of the lipstick on the whores
because we can tell the difference
between the font of 20% more and the font of teriyaki
you tell me 'how does it make you feel?'
you tell me what's real

and they say that alcoholics are always alcoholics,
even when they're dry as my lips for years
even when they're stranded on a small desert island
with no place in two thousand miles to buy beer
and i wonder is he different, is he different,
has he changed? what is he about?
or is he a liar with nothing to lie about?
am i headed for the same brick wall?
is there anything i can do about anything at all?
except back to that corner in manhattan
and dig deeper, dig deeper this time

down beneath the impossible pain of our history
beneath the unknown bones
beneath the bedrock and the mystery
beneath the sewage system and the path train
beneath the cobblestones and the water main
beneath the traffic, the friendships and street deals
beneath the screeching of kamikaze cab wheels
beneath everything i can think of to think about
beneath it all, beneath all get out
beneath the good and the kind and the stupid and the cruel
there's a fire that's just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel

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Accidental Kelly Street	Frente	Marvin the Album
All the Lilacs in Ohio	John Hiatt	The Tiki Bar is Open
And	Anya Stevens	Silhouettes
Angel	Sarah Slean	Universe
Annie's Song	John Denver	Back Home Again
Barrett's Privateers	Stan Rogers	Fogarty's Cove
Big Yellow Taxi	Joni Mitchell	Ladies of the Canyon
Birdhouse in Your Soul	They Might Be Giants	Flood
Black Day in July	Gordon Lightfoot	Did She Mention My Name?
Blue Parade	Sarah Slean	blue parade
Book Smart, Street Stupid	Sarah Slean	Night Bugs
Both Hands	Ani diFranco	Like I Said
Brick	Ben Folds Five	Whatever and Ever, Amen
Bullets	Hawksley Workman	For Him And The Girls
Climbing Up The Walls	Sarah Slean	Universe
Coffee Stain	Sarah Harmer	You Were Here
Crash and Burn	Savage Garden	Affirmation
Crash Into Me	Dave Matthews Band	Crash
Democracy	Leonard Cohen	The Future
Diving in the Deep End	Natalie Imbruglia	Left of the Middle (Japan)
Don't Speak	No Doubt	Tragic Kingdoms
Down So Long	Jewel	Spirit
Duncan	Sarah Slean	Night Bugs
Eliot	Sarah Slean	blue parade
Elisabeth	Billy Gilman	One Voice
First Sight	Dancing for Nickels	Dancing for Nickels
Free Fallin'	Tom Petty	Full Moon Fever
Fuel	Ani diFranco	Little Plastic Castle
Graceland	Paul Simon	Graceland
Gulf War Song	Moxy Fruvous	Bargainville
Gummi Bears Theme	Rockapella
Haircut	The Waifs	A Brief History
Hanging By A Thread	Jann Arden	Happy?
High and Dry	Radiohead	The Bends
Holiday in Spain	Counting Crows	Hard Candy
Home For A Rest	Spirit of the West
I Don't Like Mondays	The Boomtown Rats	The Fine Art Of Surfacing
If I Had A Million Dollars	Barenaked Ladies	Gordon
Innocence Maintained	Jewel	Spirit
Iris	Goo Goo Dolls	Dizzy Up The Girl
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)	REM	Document
Karma Police	Radiohead	OK Computer
Knockin' On Heaven's Door	Guns N' Roses	Use Your Illusion II
Late In The Evening	Paul Simon	One Trick Pony
Life Uncommon	Jewel	Spirit
Lightning Crashes	Live	Throwing Copper
Lost Together	Blue Rodeo	Lost Together
Man On The Moon	REM	Automatic For The People
Mary Ellen Carter	Stan Rogers	Home In Halifax
Meet Virginia	Train	Train
Morning Has Broken	Cat Stevens	Teaser and the Firecat
Mrs Potter's Lullaby	Counting Crows	This Desert Life
My Country 'Tis of Thee	Ani diFranco	Up Up Up Up Up Up
My Number	Tegan and Sarah	This Business Of Art
Never is a Promise	Fiona Apple	Tidal
Nightswimming	REM	Automatic For The People
Northrop Frye	whiteelephant.ca
One Voice	Billy Gilman	One Voice
Rain King	Counting Crows	August and Everything After
Rest Stop	Matchbox 20	Mad Season
Round Here	Counting Crows	August And Everything After
Sailor's Rest	Stan Rogers	Home in Halifax
Silent All These Years	Tori Amos	Little Earthquakes
Slide	Goo Goo Dolls	Dizzy Up The Girl
Stay	Lisa Loeb	Tails
Streets of London	Roger Whittaker	Legendary
Summertime	Gershwin and Heyward	Songs for Clem
Sumo	RASA
Superhero	Dancing for Nickels	Dancing for Nickels
Superman's Song	Crash Test Dummies	The Ghosts That Haunt Me
That Day	Natalie Imbruglia	White Lilies Island
The Drinking Song	Moxy Fruvous	Bargainville
The Freshmen	Verve Pipe	Villains
The Longest Time	Billy Joel	An Innocent Man
The Sound Of	Jann Arden	Happy?
The Sweetest Thing	U2	The Best Of 1980-1990
Tomorrow Morning	Natalie Imbruglia	Big Mistake (Australia)
Trudeau	whiteelephant.ca
Uniform Grey	Sarah Harmer	You Were Here
Untouchable Face	Ani diFranco	Dilate
Walking In Memphis	Marc Cohn	Walking in Memphis
We Want A Rock	They Might Be Giants	Flood
Wish You Were Here	Pink Floyd	Wish You Were Here
Witch of the Westmorland	Stan Rogers
With Or Without You	U2	The Joshua Tree
Yesterday	The Beatles	"Yesterday" ...And Today
You Had Time	Ani diFranco	Out of Range
You Were Here	Sarah Harmer	You Were Here

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