Despite our Differences Trivia Quiz

Answer: I Believe in Love

"I Believe in Love" is a typical Emily ballad about the redemptive power of love.
"I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend
And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again
I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough
And I believe in you and I believe in love."

Answer: "Dirt and Dead Ends" and "They Won't Have Me"

As a resident of rural Georgia as well as an activist for indigenous peoples, Amy feels an obligation to defend rural lifestyles and protect wild lands. Both songs capture this passion. In "Dirt and Dead Ends," Amy sings:
"It's been you and me on this frontier
trying not to be suburban pioneers.
Fightin' off the pavers
and the associations,
and the covenants against the trailers."
In "They Won't Have Me" she questions "Who's gonna keep the farmland
from the sub-division man?"

Answer: Strong women

This song describes the power of strong women, and the rediscovery of the feminine power of change- "Pushed under by the main press, buried under a code of dress, Relegated by the Vatican, But you can't keep a spirit down that wants to get up again"

I normally prefer Amy's songs to Emily's, but the songs of hers that I like, I like very much! This toe-tapping, anti-Bush, pro-feminist paean is one of her best, and has even inspired a "Pendulum Swinger" dance at IG concerts!

Answer: All the Way

"All the Way" contains imagery about a truck crash. The theme has surfaced in songs such as "Watershed" ("Twisted guard rails on the highway, broken glass on the cement...) "Galileo ("And then I think about my fear of motion, which I never could explain, some other fool across the ocean years ago must have crashed his little airplane...") and "All That We Let In" " when all that guards us is a single centerline..."

Answer: Little Perennials

In a radio interview, Amy explained that the song was titled "Little Perennials" because she has relatives that, like seedlings, just keep popping up everywhere!

Answer: Meth labs

Inspired by some of her neighbors in rural Georgia, the song captures the despair and hopelessness that can lead even a "nice guy" to become a drug manufacturer.
"You're looking at foreclosure
and doing time,
and it don't sound good this time.
They found the meth and the scales,
and the wife that made your life hell.
All that time you were telling me
you were fine."

Answer: The demise of punk bands

Amy's "punk side" has been far more visible on her solo efforts, "Stag" and "Prom." This is by far the most punked-out song she has done on an Indigo Girls album.
"Free to be a loser
Were the ticket prices too high?
Free to be a trend
Were the lights too bright?
Free to be a backlash over and over again.
Was it all a bunch of hype? "

Answer: Fourth of July

Amy's soft and sad "Three County Highway" laments lost opportunities and life on the road.
"I drive a three county highway
And every one of them towns got a firework show
It's 4th of July and I'm just now getting home,
On the horizon I can see them all unfold"

Answer: Lay My Head Down on You

Emily's version:
"Was it so long ago
that we sat and talked in your car?
Your things were all packed
and the place you were headed not really that far.
Years later I think
that I would have been much more alive
To have taken you up on your offer and taken that drive"

Answer: Pendulum Swinger

The first song was penned during the reign of George Bush Senior, "Pendulum Swinger" tackles his son, George W. Bush.
"What we get from your war walk
The ticker of the nation breaking down like a bad clock
I want the pendulum to swing again
So that all your mighty mandate was just spitting in the wind "