Red Letter Year Lyrics - Red Letter Year - Ani Difranco

New years eve we dropped mushrooms 

And danced around the house 

Making music with everything that we found 

Incantation replaced resolution 

And we vowed to allow each perfection 

That we could be 

And the goddess sent word 

That this would be a red letter year 

They didn't mention how much shit was gonna change around here 

It's just as well we weren't swollen with unfocused dread 

We had visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads 

Dancing in our heads 

First you go under and then you coming up gives you bends 

And when you break the surface 

And all you see is your friends 

So you grab your purple crayon 

And flush out the picture behind 

And finally the whole world is made of one unbroken line 

One unbroken line 

And when you wake up sick as a dog 

With dull eyes and really bad hair 

Standing under a lit sign with the words on air 

And the water is rising 

It's coming in everywhere 

Just remember you are there 

You're always, always there. 

And representing the white race 

A man with a monkey for a face 

Is flying over in his helicopter 

Whistling dixie and playing dumb 

In a town that might put a gun to your throat 

Or rip the roof right off your place 

There's a mold crawling up the walls 

And falling asleep in your lungs 

And you and I both know how to drink some 

We will always have work in this town 

Besides the police are stationed at the bridge 

And they're preventing passage to higher ground 

So let's pull up some barstools 

And get ourselves a ringside seat 

For one unnerving moment 

They're gonna show the truth on T.V