Ani DiFranco – Fixing Her Hair (Guitar)

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she's looking in the mirror

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she's fixing her hair

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and I touch my head to feel

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what isn't there

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she's humming a melody

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we learned in grade school

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she's so happy

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and I think

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this is not cool

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'cause I know the guy

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she's been talking about

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I have met him before

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and I think

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what is this beautiful beautiful woman

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settling for?

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she bends her breath

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when she talks to him

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I can see her features begin to blur

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and she pours herself

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into the mold he made for her

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and for everything he does

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she has a way to rationalize

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she says he don't mean what he do

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she tells me he called

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to apologize

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he says he loves her

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he says he's changing

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and he can keep her warm

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and so she sits there like america

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suffering through slow reform

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but she'll never get back the time

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and the years go, sneak by

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one by one

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she is still playing the martyr

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I am still praying for revolution

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and she still doesn't have what she deserves

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but she wakes up smiling every day

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she never really expected more

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that's just not the way we are raised

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and I say to her,

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you know,

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there's plenty of really great men out there

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but she doesn't hear me

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she's looking in the mirror

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she's fixing her hair