Lyrics Evolve - Ani DiFranco

Evolve

I walk in stride with people
Much taller than me And partly its the boots but
Mostly its my chi
And Im becoming transfixed
With nature and my part in it Which I believe just signifies
Im finally waking up And theres this moth outside my kitchen door
Shes 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 shes doomed
She is trying to evolve
Shes just trying to evolve
Now lets get talking reefer madness
Like some arrogant government cant
By any stretch of the imagination
Outlaw a plant
Yes, their supposed authority over nature
Is a dream
Cmon people
Weve 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 Its a crash course in religious fundamentals
Now lets all go to war
Get some bang for our buck
I am trying to evolve
Im 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 wont 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
Im just trying to evolve
So I walk like Im on a mission
Cuz thats 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 dont take good pictures
Cuz I have the kind of beauty
That moves