Old Old Song Lyrics

The song Old Old Song is performed by Ani Difranco in the album named Revelling/Reckoning in the year 2001 .



I'll sing you a song that starts out descriptive
And locates a time and a place
Like a dinner table where a whole family
Is just sitting down to say grace

An old old song that moves into action
Taking its sweet sweet time
And waits until we all say Amen
Again and again in rhyme

It's the story of a father and a mother
Who battle each other over nothin'
With a couple of kids trying to figure
Which way the plot's spinning
Who's winning and who is bluffing

It's a story as common as a penny, son
It ain't really worth anything to anyone

Poor little sore little song
That aches like a muscle each time that it moves
Sad little song that you play
And you play and you play and you play 'til you lose

While history is outside writing
A recipe book for every earthly pain
This song is inside finger painting dark swirls
Again and again and they all look the same

'Cuz what if you come home from school one day
And you find your whole family's at war
And there's this ominous silence just waiting to be broken
And there's secret places for hiding underneath the floorboards

And everyone seems to be bracing
For the subharmonic thunder of the next bomb
And everyone seems to be waiting for the cops to bust in
With their guns drawn at the bleak light of dawn

It's a story as common as a penny, son
I don't think it's worth anything to anyone




Ani Difranco - Revelling/Reckoning

Apr 2001

  1. Ain't That the Way
  2. O.K.
  3. Garden of Simple
  4. Tamburitza Lingua
  5. Marrow
  6. Heartbreak Even
  7. Harvest
  8. Kazoointoit
  9. Whatall Is Nice
  10. What How When Where Why Who
  11. Fierce Flawless
  12. Rock Paper Scissors
  13. Beautiful Night Reckoning
  14. Your Next Bold Move
  15. This Box Contains...
  16. Reckoning
  17. So What
  18. Prison Prism
  19. Imagine That
  20. Flood Waters
  21. Grey
  22. Subdivision
  23. Old Old Song
  24. Sick of Me
  25. Don't Nobody Know
  26. School Night
  27. That Was My Love
  28. Revelling
  29. In Here


Old Old Song