Lead on, lady!

Was talking to a friend about the glory that is Ani DiFranco, so I thought I'd post lyrics to a few songs that I try to live by...

"hour follows hour
like water follows water
everything is governed by the rule
of one thing leads to another.
you can't really place blame
cuz blame is much too messy
some was bound to get on you
while you were trying to put it on me.
and don't fool yourself
into thinking things are simple
nobody's lying still the stories don't line up.
why do you try to hold on
to what you'll never get a hold on?
you wouldn't try to put the ocean
in a paper cup.
hour follows hour like water in a river
and from one to the next
we don't know what each hour will deliver.
we just call it like we see it
call it out loud as we can
and then afterwards we call it all water over the dam.
maybe the moral higher ground
ain't as high as it seems
maybe we are both good people
done some bad things
i just hope it was okay
i know it wasn't perfect
i hope in the end we can laugh
and say it was all worth it.
cuz i have had something to prove
as long as i know something
that needs improvement
and you know that everytime i move
i make a woman's movement
and first you decide what you've gotta do
then you go out and do it
and maybe the most that we can do
is just to see each other through it.
we make our own gravity to give weight to things
then things fall and they break and gravity sings.
we can only hold so much is what i figure
try and keep our eye on the big picture
picture keeps getting bigger.
and too much is how i love you
but too well is how i know you
and i've got nothing to prove this time
just something to show you
i guess i just wanted you to see
that it was all worth it to me"
-Hour Follows Hour

"squint your eyes and look closer
i'm not between you and your ambition
i am a poster girl with no poster
i am thirty-two flavors and then some
and i'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
cause someday you're going to get hungry
and eat most of the words you just said

both my parents taught me about good will
and i have done well by their names
just the kindness i've lavished on strangers
is more than i can explain
still there's many who've turned out their porch lights
just so i would think they were not home
and hid in the dark of their windows
till i'd passed and left them alone

and god help you if you are an ugly girl
course too pretty is also your doom
cause everyone harbors a secret hatred
for the prettiest girl in the room
and god help you if you are a phoenix
and you dare to rise up from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy
while you are just flying past

i'm not trying to give my life meaning
by demeaning you
and i would like to state for the record
i did everything that i could do
i'm not saying that i'm a saint
i just don't want to live that way
no, i will never be a saint
but i will always say

squint your eyes and look closer
i'm not between you and your ambition
i am a poster girl with no poster
i am thirty-two flavors and then some
and i'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
cause someday you might find you're starving
and eating all of the words you said"
-32 Flavors