Lyrics to
Shroud

This version of Shroud was released by Ani Difranco in 2006.

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I had to leave the house of fashion
And go forth naked from its doors
’cause women should be allies
And not competitors
I had to leave the house of god
Because the cross replaced the wheel
And the goddesses were all out in the garden
With the plants that nurture and heal

I had to leave the house of privilege
Spend Christmas homeless and feeling bad
To learn privilege is a headache
That you don’t know that you don’t have
I had to leave the house of television
To start noticing the clouds
It’s amazing the stuff you see when
You finally shed that shroud

I had leave the house of conformity
In order to make art
I had to be more and less true
To learn to tell the two apart
I had to leave the house of fear
Just about as soon as I could crawl
Ignore my face on a wanted poster
Stuck to the post office wall

I had leave the house of self-importance
To doodle my first tattoo
To realize a tattoo is no more permanent
Than I am, and who
Ever said that life is suffering
I think they had their finger on the pulse of joy
Ain’t the power of transcendence
the greatest one we can employ

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Ani Difranco has released many songs over the years besides Shroud. Ani Difranco released songs from 1989 to 2008 spanning across albums like Ani Difranco, Not So Soft, Imperfectly, Puddle Dive, Out Of Range, Not A Pretty Girl, Dilate, Little Plastic Castle, Up Up Up Up Up Up, To The Teeth, Revelling/Reckoning: Revelling Disc, Revelling/Reckoning: Reckoning Disc, Evolve, Educated Guess, Knuckledown, Reprieve, and Red Letter Year. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Ani Difranco.

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