Evolve Lyrics - Evolve - Ani Difranco

I walk in stride with people 

Much taller than me 

And partly it's the boots but 

Mostly it's my chi 

And I'm becoming transfixed 

With nature and my part in it 

Which I believe just signifies 

I'm finally waking up 

And there's this moth outside my kitchen door 

She's bonkers for that bare bulb 

Flying round in circles 

Bashing in her exoskull 

And out in the woods she navigates fine by the moon 

But get her around a light bulb and she's doomed 

She is trying to evolve 

She's just trying to evolve 

Now let's get talking reefer madness 

Like some arrogant government can't 

By any stretch of the imagination 

Outlaw a plant 

Yes, their supposed authority over nature 

Is a dream 

C'mon people 

We've got to come clean 

'cause they are locking our sons 

And our daughters in cages 

They are taking by the thousands 

Our lives from under us 

It's a crash course in religious fundamentals 

Now let's all go to war 

Get some bang for our buck 

I am trying to evolve 

I'm just trying to evolve 

Gunnin' for high score in the land of dreams 

Morbid bluish-white consumers ogling luminous screens 

On the trail of forgetting 

Cruising without a care 

The jet set won't abide by that pesky jet lag 

And our lives boil down to an hour or two 

When someone pulls a camera out of a bag 

And I am trying to evolve 

I'm just trying to evolve 

So I walk like I'm on a mission 

'cause that's the way I groove 

I got more and more to do 

I got less and less to prove 

It took me too long to realize 

That I don't take good pictures 

'cause I have the kind of beauty 

That moves