Gratitude Lyrics by Ani DiFranco

Gratitude Lyrics

    thank you
    for letting me stay here
    thank you for taking me in
    thank you
    for the beer and the food
    thank you
    for loaning me bus fare
    thank you for showing me around
    that was a very kind thing to do
    thank you
    for the use of the clean towel
    thank you for half of your bed
    we can sleep here like brother and sister,
    you said

    but you changed the rules
    in an hour or two
    and I don't know what you
    and your sisters do
    but please don't
    please stop
    this is not my obligation
    what does my body have to do
    with my gratitude?

    look at you
    little white lying
    for the purpose of justifying
    what you're trying to do
    I know that you feel my resistance
    I know that you heard what I said
    otherwise you wouldn't need the excuse

    thank you
    for letting me stay here
    thank you for taking me in
    I don't know where else
    I would have turned
    but I don't come and go
    like a pop song
    that you can play incessantly
    and then foget when it's gone
    you can't write me off
    and you don't turn me on

    so don't change the rules
    in an hour or two
    I don't know what you and your
    sisters do
    but please don't
    please stop
    this is not my obligation
    what does my body have to do
    with my gratitude?

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