Evolve Lyrics by Ani Difranco

Evolve

I walk in stride with people
Much taller than me
And partly its the boots but
Mostly its my chi
And Im becoming transfixed
With nature and my part in it
Which I believe just signifies
Im finally waking up

And theres this moth outside my kitchen door
Shes bonkers for that bare bulb
Flying round in circles
Bashing in her exoskull
And out in the woods she navigates fine by the moon
But get her around a light bulb and shes doomed

She is trying to evolve
Shes just trying to evolve

Now lets get talking reefer madness
Like some arrogant government cant
By any stretch of the imagination
Outlaw a plant
Yes, their supposed authority over nature
Is a dream
Cmon people
Weve got to come clean

Cuz they are locking our sons
And our daughters in cages
They are taking by the thousands
Our lives from under us
Its a crash course in religious fundamentals
Now lets all go to war
Get some bang for our buck

I am trying to evolve
Im just trying to evolve

Gunnin for high score in the land of dreams
Morbid bluish-white consumers ogling luminous screens
On the trail of forgetting
Cruising without a care
The jet set wont abide by that pesky jet lag
And our lives boil down to an hour or two
When someone pulls a camera out of a bag

And I am trying to evolve
Im just trying to evolve

So I walk like Im on a mission
Cuz thats the way I groove
I got more and more to do
I got less and less to prove
It took me too long to realize
That I dont take good pictures
Cuz I have the kind of beauty
That moves