My I Q Lyrics - Puddle Dive - 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 stretch marks 

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