Your Next Bold Move Lyrics - Ani Difranco

Coming of age during the plague 

Of Reagan and Bush 

Watching capitalism gun down democracy 

It had this funny effect on me 

I guess 

I am cancer 

I am HIV 

And I'm down at the blue Jesus 

Blue cross hospital 

Just lookin' up from my pillow 

Feeling blessed 

And the mighty multinationals 

Have monopolized the oxygen 

So it's as easy as breathing 

For us all to participate 

Yes they're buying and selling 

Off shares of air 

And you know it's all around you 

But it's hard to point and say "there" 

So you just sit on your hands 

And quietly contemplate 

Your next bold move 

The next thing you're gonna need to prove 

To yourself 

What a waste of thumbs that are imposable 

To make machines that are disposable 

And sell them to seagulls flying in circles 

Around one big right wing 

Yes, the left wing was broken long ago 

By the slingshot of cointelpro 

And now it's so hard to have faith in 

Anything 

Especially your next bold move 

Or the next thing you're gonna need to prove 

To yourself 

You want to track each trickle 

Back to its source 

And then scream up the faucet 

'til your face is hoarse 

'cause you're surrounded by a world's worth 

Of things you just can't excuse 

But you've got the hard cough of a chain smoker 

And you're at the arctic circle playing strip poker 

And it's getting colder and colder 

Every time you lose 

So go ahead 

Make your next bold move 

Tell us 

What's the next thing you're gonna need to prove 

To yourself