The Arrivals Gate - Ani DiFranco

Gonna go out to the arrivals gate at the airport

And sit there all day

Watch people reuniting

Public affection so exciting

It even makes airports OK

Watching children run

With their arms outstretched

Just to throw those arms

Around their grandpa’s neck

Watching lovers plant kisses

Old men to their misses

At their arrivals gate

Watching a mother

With a mother’s smile

Don’t tell me to move

I just wanna sit here for a while

I have determined

It’s a sure cure for cancer

Watching excitement turn family dogs into dancers

At the arrivals gate

I got me a white bread sandwich

With some shredded lettuce

And I got me a ringside view

For my quaint little fetish

I just wanna drain my pink little heart of all its malice

And kick back for the afternoon

In this fluorescent palace

Everybody’s in a hurry

Here in purgatory

Except for me

I’m where I need to be

At the arrivals gate