Fixing Her Hair Lyrics by Ani DiFranco

Fixing Her Hair Lyrics

    she's looking in the mirror
    she's fixing her hair
    and I touch my head to feel
    what isn't there
    she's humming a melody
    we learned in grade school
    she's so happy
    and I think
    this is not cool
    'cause I know the guy
    she's been talking about
    I have met him before
    and I think
    what is this beautiful beautiful woman
    settling for?

    she bends her breath
    when she talks to him
    I can see her features begin to blur
    as she pours herself
    into the mold he made for her
    and for everything he does
    she has a way to rationalize
    she says he don't mean what he do
    she tells me he called
    to apologize

    he says he loves her
    he says he's changing
    and he can keep her warm
    and so she sits there like america
    suffering through slow reform
    but she'll never get back the time
    and the years sneak by
    one by one
    she is still playing the martyr
    I am still praying for revloution

    and she still doesn't have what she deserves
    but she wakes up smiling every day
    she never really expected more
    that's just not the way we are raised
    and I say to her,
    you know,
    there's plenty of really great men out there
    but she doesn't hear me
    she's looking in the mirror
    she's fixing her hair

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