In The Margins - Ani DiFranco

Such an intent stare

One eye at a time

Your talons like fish hooks

You are a rare bird

The kind I wouldn’t even mind

Writing in the margins of my books

Sometimes I see myself

Through the eyes of a stray dog

From an alley across the street

And my whole mission just seems so finite

My whole saga just seems so cheap

I mean I know that now is all there is

And love’ll just makes you cry

So I live for the sight of a rare bird

Suddenly flying by

And I meet your stare

One eye at a time

Writing in the margins

Of my mind

Sometimes I see myself

Through the eyes of a stray dog

From an alley across the street

And my whole mission just seems so fine

My whole saga just seems so cheap

And that’s when your song calls to me

From way up in a tree

And I look up

And the whole world

Is as it should be