A Spade Lyrics - Reprieve - Ani Difranco

I will not lie down 

On the wrongful groundwork laid 

While it's still a radical sound 

Just to call a spade a spade 

Dear friends, women and men 

Please check my math once more 

In the totality of all war's history 

There's but one common denominator 

The answer is in the intention 

That lies behind the question 

Put that on your standardized 

Multiple choice 

I mean, how's this supposed to look to me? 

But half of divinity 

Out there trying to make harmony 

With only one voice 

You know, I've got experience 

Looking right past the obvious 

And I know what is so big and so close 

Is always the hardest stuff 

For us to reckon with 

The hardest stuff to know 

Dear friends, especially the women 

Tell me, are you up to the task? 

Of turning the wheel of human history 

At long last 

The answer is in the intention 

That lies behind the question 

Put that on your standardized 

Multiple choice 

I mean, how's this supposed to look to me? 

But half of divinity 

Out there trying to make harmony 

With only one voice 

I will not lie down 

On the wrongful groundwork laid 

While it's still a radical sound 

Just to call a spade a spade 

Dear friends, women and men 

What better time to face 

That we've been looking for the answer 

To war in the wrong place