In The Margins Lyrics - Reprieve - 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 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 finite 

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