Ani Difranco The Slant lyrics

The slant, a building settling around me
My figure female framed crookedly
In the threshold of the room
Door scraping floorboards, with every opening
Carving a rough history of bedroom scenes

The plot hard to follow
The text obscured in the fields of sheets
Slowly gathering the stains of seasons spent lying there
Red and brown, like leaves fallen
The colors of an eternal cycle

Fading with the
Wash cycle and the rinse cycle
Again an unfamiliar smell
Like my name misspelled or misspoken
A cycle broken

The sound of them strong
Stalking, talking about their prey

Like the way hammer meets nail
Pounding, they say
Pounding out the rhythms of attraction
Like a woman was a drum like a body was a weapon

Like there was something more
They wanted than the journey
Like it was owed to them, steel toed they walk
And I'm wondering why this fear of men
Maybe it's because I'm hungry

And like a baby I'm dependent on them
To feed me, I am a work in progress
Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding
Offering me intricate patterns of questions
Rhythms that never come clean