Cold & Mean Lyrics - Ani Difranco

You are listening to the phone ring 

Like a church bell sounding out the hour. 

And the ringing cuts the silence 

Like a knife leaving little pieces left of your life. 

You are watching the night shadows grow tall s 

Swallowing you in terror like the foot on the wall. 

Shake me down to the soil of a dream. 

Take me whole and take me clean. 

Take me from this reality cold and mean. 

Cold and mean. 

I can't answer I can't speak to anyone 

Not until I witness the next rising of the sun. 

It's this darkness it's like a lead weight in my shoe. 

I couldn't rise to answer even if I wanted to. 

Shake me down to the soil of a dream. 

Take me whole and take me clean. 

Take me from this reality cold and mean. 

Shake me down to the soil of a dream. 

Take me whole and take me clean. 

Take me from this reality cold and mean. 

Shake me down to the soil of a dream. 

Take me whole and take me clean. 

Take me from this reality cold and mean. 

Cold and mean.