Lag Time Lyrics - Knuckledown - Ani Difranco

There's really no hope for me 

And that three second rule 

Somethin' gets dropped 

And still I'm the slowest damn fool 

Slow to realize what's really going on 

Slow to know in a moment 

Who or what has gone wrong 

I want to tighten down on the lag time 

Your consonants were buzzing 

Around your head like flies 

Your true colors were showing 

And your shape and your size 

You were drinking your way though it 

I was shrinking right there inside of my clothes 

My eventual twenty/twenty 

Arms crossed 

Tapping her toe 

I gotta tighten down on the lag time 

Survivors are part turtle 

We are part potato bug 

We know enough to go fetal 

'til it's still up above 

And you gotta crawl through the desert 

Between when you hear it 

And when you can play it with your hands 

Just to rendezvous with whoever you are 

When you finally understand 

I gotta tighten down on the lag time 

I want to tighten down on the lag time 

Gotta tighten down on the lag time