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Lyrics for 'My Iq' by 'Ani Difranco'
When I Was Four Years Old
They Tried To Test My I.q.
They Showed Me A Picture
Of 3 Oranges And A Pear
They Said,
Which One Is Different?
It Does Not Belong
They Taught Me Different Is Wrong
But When I Was 13 Years Old
I Woke Up One Morning
Thighs Covered In Blood
Like A War
Like A Warning
That I Live In A Breakable Takeable Body
An Ever-increasingly Valuable Body
That A Woman Had Come In The Night To Replace Me
Deface Me
See,
My Body Is Borrowed
Yeah, I Got It On Loan
For The Time In Between My Mom And Some Maggots
I Don't Need Anyone To Hold Me
I Can Hold My Own
I Got Highways For Stretchmarks
See Where I've Grown
I Sing Sometimes
Like My Life Is At Stake
'cause You're Only As Loud
As The Noises You Make
I'm Learning To Laugh As Hard
As I Can Listen
'cause Silence
Is Violence
In Women And Poor People
If More People Were Screaming Then I Could Relax
But A Good Brain Ain't Diddley
If You Don't Have The Facts
We Live In A Breakable Takeable World
An Ever Available Possible World
And We Can Make Music
Like We Can Make Do
Genius Is In A Back Beat
Backseat To Nothing If You're Dancing
Especially Something Stupid
Like I.q.
For Every Lie I Unlearn
I Learn Something New
I Sing Sometimes For The War That I Fight
'cause Every Tool Is A Weapon -
If You Hold It Right.
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