Ani DiFranco - Do or Die (Official Music Video)

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"Do or Die" from Ani DiFranco's 22nd studio album 'Revolutionary Love' out now on Righteous Babe Records. Available here: http://righteousbabe.ffm.to/revolutionary-love.oyd

CREDITS:
Created in collaboration with Dancing Grounds and New Orleans Dance Collective
Choreography: Kristal Jones and Laura Stein
Dancers: Alexcia Morgan, Amaya Smith, Amira Mumford, Brieze Levy, Chanice Holmes, Daniel Gray, Janet Andrews, Jessica Eugene, Kristal Jones, Randall Rosenberg, Regan Phelps
Director and editor: Zoe Boekbinder
Video: Sean O'Grady, Justin Nunnink, and Susan Alzner
Production assistant: Katie Harvey
(Special thanks to Susan Alzner for creative consulting.)

LYRICS:
do you ever just want to give up?
well, me too
are you shocked by what people get
get used to?
do you wake up in a cold sweat?
well, that’s sane
at least you got a little brain left
you got a little brain

cuz there’s foxes in the hen house
and bad news every day
and right there on pennsylvania avenue
the sheetless kkk
and there’s models wielding microphones
chasing maniacs around
and everything’s on fire
and there’s twisters touching down

and i know you got to fight your adrenaline
just to be a gentleman
and you know i got to fight my amygdala
just to keep hearin ya

but we can do this
if we try
if we do this
like it’s do or die
yes, we can do this
if we try
if we do this
like it’s do or die

so let’s pause
let us regroup
let us recover
let us recoup
let us remember
that we are charmed
let us look down at our hands
and remember we’re armed

cuz yankee doodle dandy didn’t feel free once
so he used his pen to pick the locks
and yankee doodle dandy did some doosey kinda carpentry
when he fashioned that ballot box

and if you think your vote doesn’t matter
then you’re not paying attention
yes, everything they do, they do
to keep you from their invention

yes, if you think your vote doesn’t matter
then you’re not paying attention
everything they do, they do
to keep you from their invention

but we can do this
if we try
if we do this
like it’s do or die
yes, we can do this
if we try
if we do this
like it’s do or die

do you ever just want to give up?
well, me too
are you shocked by what people get
get used to?
do you wake up in a cold sweat?
well, that’s sane
least you got a little brain left
you got a little brain

and we can do this
if we try
if we do this
like it’s do or die
yes, we can do this
if we try
if we do this
like it’s do or die

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