Hello Birmingham Lyrics

The song Hello Birmingham is performed by Ani Difranco in the album named Canon in the year 2007 .



Hold me down, I am floating away into the overcast skies
Over my home town on election day
What is it about Birmingham?
What is it about Buffalo?

Did the hate filled want to build bunkers
In your beautiful red earth?
They want to build them in our shiny white snow
And now I've drawn closed the curtains in this little booth

Where the truth has no place to stand
And I am feeling, oh, so powerless
In this stupid booth
With this useless little lever in my hand

And outside my city is bracing
For the next killing thing
Standing by the bridge
And praying for the next Doctor Martin Luther King

It was just one shot
Through the kitchen window
Just one or two miles from here
If you fly like a crow

A bullet came to visit a doctor
In his one safe place

A bullet ensuring the right to life
Whizzed past his kid and his wife
And knocked his gla*ses right off of his face

And the blood poured off the pulpit
Yeah, the blood poured down the picket lines
And the hatred was immediate, yeah
And the vengeance was divine

So they went and stuffed God
Down the barrel of a gun
And after Him
They stuffed his only son

Hello Birmingham; it's Buffalo
I heard you had some trouble down there again
Just calling to let to know
That somebody understands

I was once escorted through the doors
Of a clinic by a man in a bulletproof vest
And no bombs went off that day
So I am still here to say

Birmingham, I'm wishing you all of my best
Oh, Birmingham, I'm wishing you all of my best
Oh, Birmingham, I'm wishing you all of my best
On this election day




Ani Difranco - Canon

Sep 2007

  1. Fire Door
  2. God's Country
  3. You Had Time
  4. Buildings and Bridges
  5. Coming Up
  6. Cradle & All
  7. Shy
  8. 32 Flavors
  9. Dilate
  10. Distracted
  11. Gravel
  12. Untouchable Face [Explicit]
  13. Joyful Girl
  14. Little Plastic Castle
  15. Fuel
  16. As Is
  17. Napoleon
  18. Shameless
  19. Hello Birmingham
  20. This box contains
  21. Grey
  22. Prison Prism
  23. Marrow
  24. Here For Now
  25. Subdivision
  26. Rain Check
  27. Swim
  28. Paradigm
  29. Manhole
  30. Studying Stones
  31. Hypnotized
  32. 78% H2O
  33. Millennium Theater
  34. Your Next Bold Move
  35. Both Hands
  36. Overlap


Hello Birmingham