Lyrics for two little girls as interpreted by aur0ra

two little girls Lyrics
you were fresh off the boat from virginia
i had a year in new york city under my belt
we met in a dream
we were both nineteen
i remember where we were standing
i remember how it felt
two little girls growing out of their training bras
this little girl breaks furniture, this little girl breaks laws
two girls together
just a little less alone
this little girl cries wee wee
all the way home

you were always half crazy, now look at you baby
make about as much sense as a nursery rhyme
love is a piano dropped out a four story window
and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time

i don't like your girlfriend, i blame her
never seen one of your lovers do you so much harm
i loved you first and you know i would prefer
if she didn't empty her syringes into your arm

here comes little naked me padding up to the bathroom door
to find little naked you slumped on the bathroom floor
so i guess i'll just stand here with my back against the wall
while you distill your whole life down to a 911 call

so now you bring me your bruises
so i can oh and ah at the display
maybe i'm supposed to make one of my famous jokes that makes everything ok
maybe i'm supposed to be the handsome prince who rides up and unties your hands
or maybe i'm supposed to be the furrow-browed friend who thinks she understands

here comes little naked me padding up to the bathroom door
to find little naked you slumped on the bathroom floor
so i guess i'll just stand here with my back against the wall
while you distill your whole life down to a 911 call

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gay retro chick
03-30-2002

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awesome in concert. this song still makes me crazy

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Moonglow
08-16-2002

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Hey everyone, this is such a wonderful song, I love it so much. Does anyone know if it is actually about Ani's personal life, and if she is a lesbian? Thanks, just wondering :) - Dina

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stellanariousmanic
03-18-2003

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well, i love this song.. i'm not sure what it's based on exactly, since i know very little about her personal life.. but i'm almost positive she's bisexual.

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afflikted
04-11-2003

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Ani ..is the most notorious lesbian singer..besides Melissa Etheridge of course. the Ex lover gets into drugs with her new lover but comes back to her for strength but theres not much she can do.

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rainbows3xx
06-26-2004

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ani difranco is not a lesbian, she's bisexual.

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SpaceCase914
10-17-2004

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afflikted is right... ani's a major lesbian... she's had boyfriends, but she's always gone back to the women... who wouldnt?

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killstar
10-23-2004

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haha nice to above. women are delish.

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whatslifelike
10-26-2004

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This is my favorite Ani song...it gives me such a sense of who she is. Here she's this scared, innocent little girl desperately trying to save her friend from something she doesn't understand herself (drugs). Ani is trying to help her ex, who's new girlfriend is hurting her. God i can relate so much to that feeling of trying to delve into the unknown and save someone you love, yet not knowing just how much to interfere.

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precipitate
01-06-2005

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This song tears me up, the melody of the chorus bit is so so beautiful. I had no clue she was a lesbian. or bisexual, whatever. amazing song.

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section
03-17-2005

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all you morons are wrong. ani isnt a lesbian. one of my good friends sisters is married to her partner at righteous babe and i know for a fact. so learn something before you talk.

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section
03-17-2005

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and you morons think her girlfriend is real. its a fucking metaphor for a drug. jesus

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precipitate
04-05-2005

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http://content.gay.com/channels/home/women/history_difranco.html?from=arts_inc


Ani Difranco is bisexual, dear. Let's get all worked over someone's sexual orientation.

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youaresweetinsanity
04-28-2005

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Wonderful song. I do not think this song is about a lover..."I loved you first"

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youaresweetinsanity
04-28-2005

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Sorry, cut myself off. "I loved you first"

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youaresweetinsanity
04-28-2005

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FUCKER. It's so raw, so selfish, and I love it.

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precipitate
03-10-2006

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a year later and it still drives me to tears!

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Booyacka
05-18-2006

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I love this song too. I'm 20 now and only just barely started living out my own life, and despite the drugs and depressing stuff that goes on in the song, I still hope it'll be the song that I'll refer to to think back of my early-adult days.

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Ani_Smith
06-17-2006

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Her ex is definetly doing drugs, though i'm not sure from the lyrics that her ex's new relationship is just drugs. If this were the case I don't think she would say "if she didn't empty her syringes into your arm". If it is supposed to be just a general metaphor for drugs it would be hacky to use this reference, and Ani is more clever than that. I think of it as a song about her ex breaking up and starting to hang out with this girl who either got her hooked on dope or is still doing it with her.

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farewelltheme
06-29-2006

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"i don't like your girlfriend, i blame her
never seen one of your lovers do you so much harm
i loved you first and you know i would prefer
if she didn't empty her syringes into your arm"

She had a girlfriend who got involved in drugs. The girlfriend left. She came back.

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city212girl
07-25-2006

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I think that every song Ani writes is a little truth clipping from her life. As she said before, "If you don't live what you sing about your mirror is gonna find out." So I do think this happened to her..... As far as her sexuality, who cares?? She's amazing!! If you must question that, listen to "In or Out." She obviously doesn't have a preferance either way... "I've got no critera for sex or race"..... there ya go from the woman herself!!! As for this song... It's absolutely beautiful!!

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folkitup
12-31-2006

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stop calling people morons

please

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minze08
02-09-2007

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i love your line, citygirl: "every song Ani writes is a little truth clipping from her life." it's so true, and remarkable how her little truth clippings so closely resemble truth clippings from other lives... i love how her songs speak to so many people in so many ways.
i love it when she sings "this little girl cries wee wee
all the way home..." and it sounds like a subway/ train horn. awesome touch. i always thought that it was "this little girl cried oui oui all the way home", as in screaming "YES!" all the way home?
No matter. awesome song. ani is a goddess.

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skarredmunkey
08-04-2007

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I love the first two lines:
"You were fresh off the boat from virginia
i had a year in new york city under my belt"
This metaphor for differing sexual experiences is amazingly clever. She is such a talented lyricist.

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ShyDandelions
03-31-2008

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DiFranco is definitely bisexual.
This song is definitely about niavety.
The first two lines clearly state that, "fresh off the boar from Virginia" and "a year of New York City under my belt."
The reference to training bras and nursery rhymes also cues you into the niave part.
In the girls niavety she turns to drugs.
I don't think the girlfriend is an actual person, just an addiction that the girl is treating like a lover.

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yentruck
09-11-2008

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I find it a tad bit ironic that everyone is trying to put her sexuality into some sort of definitive box when even she chooses not to define it.

I find this song really sad.

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