\u00ab\u00a0they were digging a new foundation in manhattan
\nand they discovered a slave cemetary there
\nmay their souls rest easy
\nnow that lynching is frowned upon
\nand we’ve moved on to the electric chair<\/p>\n
and i wonder who’s gonna be president, tweedle dum or tweedle dummer?
\nand who’s gonna have the big blockbuster box office this summer?
\nhow about we put up a wall between houses and the highway
\nand you can go your way, and i can go my way
\nexcept all the radios agree with all the tvs
\nand all the magazines agree with all the radios
\nand i keep hearing that same damn song everywhere i go
\nmaybe i should put a bucket over my head
\nand a marshmellow in each ear
\nand stumble around for
\nanother dumb-numb week for another hum drum hit song to appear<\/p>\n
people used to make records
\nas in a record of an event
\nthe event of people playing music in a room
\nnow everything is cross-marketing
\nits about sunglasses and shoes
\nor guns and drugs
\nyou choose<\/p>\n
we got it rehashed
\nwe got it half-assed
\nwe’re digging up all the graves
\nand we’re spitting on the past
\nand you can choose between the colors
\nof the lipstick on the whores
\ncause we know the difference between
\nthe font of 20% more
\nand the font of teriyaki
\nyou tell me
\nhow does it make you feel?<\/p>\n
you tell me
\nwhat’s real?
\nand they say that alcoholics are always alcoholics
\neven when they’re as dry as my lips for years
\neven when they’re stranded on a small desert island
\nwith no place in 2,000 miles to buy beer
\nand i wonder
\nis he different?
\nis he different?
\nhas he changed what’s he about?…
\nor is he just a liar with nothing to lie about?<\/p>\n
am i headed for the same brick wall
\nis there anything i can do about
\nanything at all?
\nexcept go back to that corner in manhattan
\nand dig deeper, dig deeper this time
\ndown beneath the impossible pain of our history
\nbeneath unknown bones
\nbeneath the bedrock of the mystery
\nbeneath the sewage systems and the path train
\nbeneath the cobblestones and the water mains
\nbeneath the traffic of friendships and street deals
\nbeneath the screeching of kamikaze cab wheels
\nbeneath everything i can think of to think about
\nbeneath it all, beneath all get out
\nbeneath the good and the kind and the stupid and the cruel
\nthere’s a fire just waiting for fuel<\/p>\n
there’s a fire just waiting for fuel\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n
ani difranco – fuel<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00ab\u00a0they 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 and we’ve moved on to the electric chair and i wonder who’s gonna be president, tweedle dum or tweedle dummer? and who’s gonna have the big blockbuster box office […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unfinished-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}