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Ani DiFranco

Binary

Release date: 9th June 2017

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"Binary" is a track by Ani DiFranco, from the album Binary, released 9th June 2017. Full lyrics are available below.

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Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco

Lyrics

Binary

Where are my sisters?

Where are my brothers?

Where is my family

Who takes care of each other?

In the blue glow of gizmos

Lurk despots in diapers

And cyborgs with bullhorns

And crackpots and snipers

Like robots so cold

With such ease they dismiss you

Sooner fuck you then kiss you

Sooner kick you and diss you

They got networks like insects

With webs of deception

They'll trap you, cocoon you

Like a department of correction

They come in all colors

All sexes and creeds

They got all kind of issues

They got our kind of needs

Little laboratory monkeys

Raised with no hugging

Just a wire cage mom

And lab coats muggin'

I feel your anger

I feel your pain

I feel the aching hole in your soul that can't be named

[Chorus]

Yes consciousness is binary

Consciousness is spinning

Consciousness is a circuit

When consciousness is winning

Consciousness is binary

Consciousness is spinning

Consciousness is a circuit

When consciousness is winning

You gotta complete the circuit

Alone there's just no knowing

Yeah energy is destructive unless it is flowing

In the connection lies the spark

In the connection lies the art

You gotta be up in someone's countenance

Conversing with their heart

You gotta complete the circuit

Not just with human beings

With the sky above you

With the earth beneath your feet

When you complete the circuit

With everything that lives

Borders get blurry

And the rest is adjectives

(Where are my sisters?

Where are my brothers?

Where is my family

Who takes care of each other?)

[Chorus]

Consciousness is binary

Consciousness is spinning

Where are my sisters?

Where are my brothers?

Where is my family

Who takes care of each other?

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