32 Flavors Lyrics - So Much Shouting, So Much Laughing (live) - Ani Difranco

Squint your eyes and look closer 

I'm not between you and your ambition 

I am a poster girl with no poster 

I am thirty-two flavors and then some 

And I'm beyond your peripheral vision 

So you might want to turn your head 

'Cause someday you're going to get hungry 

And eat most of the words you just said 

Both my parents taught me about good will 

And I have done well by their names 

Just the kindness I've lavished on strangers 

Is more than I can explain 

Still there's many who've turned out their porch lights 

Just so I would think they were not home 

And hid in the dark of their windows 

Till I'd passed and left them alone 

And god help you if you are an ugly girl 

Course too pretty is also your doom 

'Cause everyone harbors a secret hatred 

For the prettiest girl in the room 

And god help you if you are a phoenix 

And you dare to rise up from the ash 

A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy 

While you are just flying past 

I'm not trying to give my life meaning 

By demeaning you 

And I would like to state for the record 

I did everything that I could do 

I'm not saying that I'm a saint 

I just don't want to live that way 

No, I will never be a saint 

But I will always say