Long Ani Difranco Lyrics Trivia Quiz

Answer: "Both Hands"

"...And eventually our theories couldn't explain it all..." from "Both Hands" off of Ani's first album.

Answer: "The Slant"

This is a song that is almost not a song off of the first album.

Answer: "Firedoor"

This song is off of two albums, from the first album and then "Living in Clip" as a live version.

Answer: study me now

"...Someone's gotta be interested in how I feel just 'cause I'm here and I'm real..." Lyrics from "Firedoor" off the first album.

Answer: confrontation

"...And oh how I miss walking up to the edge and jumping in like I can feel the future on your skin..." Lyric from "Firedoor" off the first album.

Answer: butter

From "Out of Habit" off the first album.

Answer: "Letting The Telephone Ring"

"...I remember how you pretended, how you pretended to touch me. I remember how I couldn't bring myself to believe..."
From "Letting The Telephone Ring" off the first album.

Answer: "Anticipate"

"...We lost sight of everything when we have to keep checking our backs. I think we should all just smile, come clean and relax..."
From "Anticipate" off of "Not So Soft."

Answer: "Make Me Stay"

"...Go ahead, put my back against the wall. Give it all up or don't give it to me at all..." From "Make Me Stay" off of "Not So Soft."

Answer: left yet

"I've mapped out my course: looks like it's all uphill. I've got a heavy heart to carry but a very strong will..." From "Itch" off of "Not So Soft."

Answer: furious

"She asked me for a light and if I thought her hair looked okay. We grew out of the small talk into stuff strangers just don't say..."
Lyrics from "Brief Bus Stop" off of "Not So Soft."

Answer: "To just throw up your hands and say, 'This has nothing to do with me.'"

"'Cause I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands and say, "This has nothing to do with me. I just want to live as comfortably as I can. You got to look outside your eyes..." Lyrics from "Willing to Fight" off of "Puddle Dive."

Answer: "My I.Q."

"...In women and poor people. If more people were screaming then I could relax. But a good brain ain't diddley if you don't have the facts..." Lyrics from "My I.Q." off of "Puddle Dive."

Answer: "Buildings And Bridges"

"Buildings and bridges are made to bend in the wind. To withstand the world, that's what it takes. All that steel and stone is no match for the air, my friend. What doesn't bend breaks..." Lyrics from "Buildings and Bridges" off of "Out of Range."

Answer: happen naturally

"Life is a B movie. It's stupid and it's strange, a directionless story and the dialogue is lame. But in the he said she said sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally. Oh, yeah. Hell yeah..." Lyrics from "Hell Yeah" off of "Out of Range."

Answer: "Overlap"

"...I build each one of my days out of hope and I give that hope your name. And I don't know you that well but it don't take much to tell. Either you don't have the balls or you don't feel the same..." Lyrics from "Overlap" off of "Out of Range."

Answer: "The Diner"

"...Yes I know what time it is. In fact, I just checked. I even know the date and the month and the year. I know I haven't been sleeping. And when I do, I just dream of you, dear..." Lyrics from "The Diner" off of "Out Of Range."

Answer: person

"...There's a crowd of people harbored in every person. There are so many roles that we play. And you've decided to love me for eternity. I'm still deciding who I want to be today..." Lyrics from "Light of Some Kind" off of "Not A Pretty Girl."

Answer: "Superhero"

"...I found religion in the greeting card aisle. Now I know Hallmark was right. And every pop song on the radio is suddenly speaking to me.
Art may imitate life but life imitates T.V. 'Cuz you've been gone exactly two weeks: two weeks and three days. And let's just say that things look different now, different in so many ways..." Lyrics from "Superhero" off of "Dilate."

Answer: truth

"...Everything I do is judged. And they mostly get it wrong but oh well. 'Cuz the bathroom mirror has not budged and the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff that they say. And she looks me in the eye and says, 'Would you prefer the easy way? No? Well, o.k. then, don't cry.'" Lyrics from "Joyful Girl" off of "Dilate."

Answer: easy fun

"I'm going to go ahead and go boldly because a little bird told me that jumping is easy, that falling is fun. Up until you hit the sidewalk, shivering and stunned." Lyrics from "Swan Dive" off of "Little Plastic Castle."

Answer: "Independence Day"

"So many sheep I quit counting. Sleepless and embarrassed about the way that I feel, trying to make mole hills out of mountains, building base camp at the bottom of a really big deal. And did I tell you how I stopped eating? When you stopped calling me..." Lyrics from "Independence Day" off of "Little Plastic Castle."

Answer: Penny

"...We used to hold hands down those unfamiliar streets. You used to take me diving into the watery blue deep. But now you're trying to find every tiny treasure, every shiny penny of pleasure. Satisfy every selfish purpose before you swim back up to the surface..." Lyrics from "Come Away" off of "Up Up Up Up Up Up."

Answer: "Hat Shaped Hat"

"...I said, you are what you do. In order to prevent becoming what you're busy not doing and if you do do it truly and you arrive at it newly, then in the end you are absolved. And the problem of heaven is solved. And the man broke into a smile like he was breaking into song.
And he was broken and smiling and I was singing along and we agreed completely about most things..." Lyrics from "Hat Shaped Hat" off of "Up Up Up Up Up Up."

Answer: procrastination

"...And she leaned out the twenty-fifth floor window of her reply. And she felt like an actress just reading her lines when she finally said, 'Yes, this is really goodbye this time.' Far below was the blacktop and the tiny toy cars. And it all fell so fast, and it all fell so far..." Lyrics from "School Night" off of "Revelling and Reckoning."