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My IQ - Ani Difranco |
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When I was four years old |
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They tried to test my I Q |
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They showed me a picture of 3 oranges and a pear |
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They said which one is different |
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It does not belong |
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They taught me different is wrong |
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But when I was 13 years old |
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I woke up one morning |
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Thighs covered in blood |
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Like a war |
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Like a warning |
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That I live in a breakable takeable body |
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An ever-increasingly valuable body |
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That a woman had come in the night to replace me |
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Deface me |
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See my body is borrowed |
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Yeah I got it on loan |
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For the time in between my mom and some maggots |
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I don't need anyone to hold me |
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I can hold my own |
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I got highways for stretchmarks |
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See where I've grown |
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I sing sometimes |
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Like my life is at stake |
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'Cause you're only as loud |
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As the noises you make |
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I'm learning to laugh as hard |
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As I can listen |
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'Cause silence |
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Is violence |
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In women and poor people |
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If more people were screaming then I could relax |
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But a good brain ain't diddley |
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If you don't have the facts |
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We live in a breakable takeable world |
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An ever available possible world |
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And we can make music |
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Like we can make do |
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Genius is in a back beat |
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Backseat to nothing if you're dancing |
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Especially something stupid |
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Like I Q |
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For every lie I unlearn |
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I learn something new |
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I sing sometimes for the war that I fight |
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'Cause every tool is a weapon - |
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If you hold it right |
