Author: Indigo Girls
Album title: Strange Fire
Make it Easier
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i'm in search of greener pastures, don't like my
garden's what i said, although i'm working harder than
last year, i'm still deep in the red, i am rowing as hard
as i can, and they're selling me up a stream, i'm always
one more step away from the american dream.  i got a
chip o
The Girl Tried To Kill Me lyrics

[Verse One:]

Yo! I met this girl the other night
Hype super-dope body and face, her mini-skirt tight
Talkin' 'bout legs and lips, mindblowin' hips
Had to cross my l
n my shoulder about the size of a mental block,
i've got someone on the telephone trying to sell me a
future in stock, maybe i work too hard to be happy,
and i should practice letting go, but it's hard not to
rock the boat when you're sailing against the
undertow.
chorus: i want to slide into the black and wear the
        black mask, i might not get what i lack, but it
        doesn'
Here I Am lyrics

Here I am. Ill stand my ground.
Holding fast. Strong and proud.
All alone. My head raised high.
I wont breakdown before I die.
I try to disguise my destitution,
By fashioni
 hurt to ask if i want to sail, i need my
        life to be breezier i said, please, god, or
        someone, make it easier
i went to sunday school every sunday swallowed the
bait and i got the hook and when i needed something
someday i would read the good book.  tell me, what
does it take to get ahead?  sometimes i know i'd sell
my soul when it looks like everybody else is flying,
Old School lyrics

Here we go; we gonna send this one out to the old school
All these motherfuckers in the Bronx, and Brooklyn, and Staten Island
Queens, and all the motherfuckers that laid it down, the 
and i'm crawling in the hole maybe if i open my own
business, maybe if i buy a lottery ticket, someone
tell me what is the secret to getting out of the thicket?
give me more than just a sample, i need a whole lot of
glory then my life become an example of the american
success story.
chorus:
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