This woman shaped my whole adulthood. From 18 to 47. I can't thank her enough. She made me strong enough to get through one cheating husband. Filed for divorce the next day. Even named my cat after her. Not this song, but I am not a pretty girl, that's not what I do. But, this song, this makes me cry. Every damn time. So many memoires of listening to this. Makes me miss my best friend horribly.

@comradecarl8105

8 ай бұрын

Yea Ani is “pretty awesome”

@elleohwell1189

3 ай бұрын

I love you, friend. Hope you’re doing okay.

I'm 39 now and fuck this brings me back to when my older brother got me into Ani back in 1997. This album and Dilate are absolutely incredible works of art. As a guitarist she is just such a HUGE influence on me. Her playing and her riffs and melodies are bloody brilliant and then her VOICE and lyrics. Ani succeeded because she is just such a complete songwriter and performer.

@holographic555

Жыл бұрын

Dilate is beautiful and my song to my ex loves

I discovered ani about 4 years ago. I’m 29 now. Not too much time has past but I look back and see she’s a timeless great. Although not a commercial success, maybe that’s a blessing. One of those artists that has a time and place in everyone’s life.

I don't know what it is, but I can listen to this song on repeat for 5,231,255 years

@McBitchification

9 жыл бұрын

Nicraz00 Not five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes????

@frankfog5372

7 жыл бұрын

The whole album is absolutly superior ;-D ;-D ;-D

@frankfog5372

7 жыл бұрын

No ;-D

@sandypowlik

4 жыл бұрын

agreed. it comes into mind so often, takes me away again and again.

@richardjoy2233

4 жыл бұрын

Me too! Spent about 3 hours painting a room and listened to nothing else!

I haven’t listened to this in years. So many memories It Brought me to tears Laughter and tragedy Celebrations and fears All wrapped up together Six minutes across the years

@rhrh9128

2 жыл бұрын

she does that to us all, when we check back in after a needed hiatus from the relentless, thick potency. . . . . lol

@ShadyBooty

Ай бұрын

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I really like the piano here, the offbeat syncopation, which prepares the listener for a failed love story: two people who couldn't quite get it together somehow.

This song is like returning to visit a wound.

This song is so personal I feel like I am listening in on a couples argument that I shouldn’t be privy to. I love songs like this, songs that tell a story. I could imagine this whole scenario in my head… I hope she allowed him to be free and fall in love with someone who had time for him. ❤

@wc0424

26 күн бұрын

You're daft if you assume it's a he

I've been listening to Ani for 20 years.. introduced by my first girlfriend. Times were so different then. I was 15 years old and the world was at my feet. Amazing. Ani, thank you for being such a guiding light. This music means so much to me xx

A very beautiful woman introduced me to arni s music cant thank her enough

There was a time when I played music for a living & understood this song better than anyone should. It always hurts to hear it.

@frankfog5372

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, but in a good way ;-D

@maryamabdi7241

3 жыл бұрын

You avatar is funny 👍🏻

I wish this song wouldn't end.

@wc0424

26 күн бұрын

It never does

I remember the first time I heard this song … I remember thinking it was one of the saddest and truthful songs to point out ACTIONS speaking louder than words😢😢😢 thank YOU ANI…. Love you for being a REAL one with your entire “ not a pretty girl”album❤❤❤ love you all

I love Ani so much. Working out at the gym & crying over her beautiful voice!....Don't look at me!!!!

I still love this after so many years.

This song, to me is about communication and after a very different path, being confused on what life to lead with this new opportunity. The other is always strong and caring and supportive but it’s so hard to commit because of past failures. It surprises ani because she’s been working so hard and is so aggressive but she’s so tired that she finally is trying to put herself out there honestly to the one that sees her

Her voice is a salve for my soul.

*Shivers when the guitar kicks in at 2:06

The perfect song for broken hearts... My song, and hopefully the medicine I need for my broken heart... 💔😿

@ShadyBooty

Ай бұрын

❤

This album and 'Living In Clip' mean so much to me ❤

This hits even harder after quarantine...

"you are a china shop & i am a bull / you are really good food & i am full" is the most brutal lyric i ever heard 💀

@ShadyBooty

Ай бұрын

💔💔💔

i'm so glad i have my favorite music to count on , for the anguish

There's a smile in every tear.

this song is beautiful.. it affected me 15 years ago when i had a rubbish boyfriend. it moves me now when my partner of 10 years has died. i love it anyway. love it.. lovely

@oknon2539

4 жыл бұрын

Im so sorry for your loss. My deepest and most sincere condolences and much much love. RIP

@maryamabdi7241

3 жыл бұрын

RIP

This is just one gem after the other - Ani, girl, you are a treasure chest, a veritable cornucopia of Truth & Beauty, of Life, Light, Love & Laughter! I love you Ani, you my Soul-sister in music -) & Yes indeed "You're here & you're REAL" - You got my full attention & my deepest respect, me being a jazz-guitar player for more than 30 years, your music & lyrics are a wonder to behold - Just the right mix of Zen-like musical simplicity & immense lyrical depth ;-D Watch out folks, you are witnessing pure genius unfolding ;-) ;-D ;-p

No words to describe this songs beauty

@frankfog5372

7 жыл бұрын

How about Sublime?

@bonkatonka

7 жыл бұрын

perfect!

@skyebarkschat

4 жыл бұрын

i bet she could come up with the words to describe it! 😘

@bonkatonka

4 жыл бұрын

@@skyebarkschat If anyone can its definitely her!

@kylersaurus42

3 жыл бұрын

Ethereal

This album has SO many great songs, I can't help but listen to them all. Although sad, it's still beautiful to listen to.

I never tire of this beautiful song.....

If I never had to hear another piece of music.

Doesn't this just make you want to breathe differently?

@nitabarrowzimmerman3882

8 жыл бұрын

Yea

@frankfog5372

7 жыл бұрын

Well, if you mean trying to try to take in ALL of life, with it's mountains & valleys of emotion, it's Summer's and it's Dark nights of the Soul, then YES ;-D ;-D ;-D

@CarrieUwU

6 жыл бұрын

Wut?

@amaznjake

4 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love this response. I never would have thought that unless I had read it. And yet so true.

.... This song has always been to me the thought of my brother Tim picking me up after I've to the best of my ability lived.. and concluded... what I could

The only song I can ever remember to play on the piano for the last 20 years.

Tori deserved better. For her love had burned brighter than a thousand lit fireflies and depend with lust, forever and more, always remaining ‘hers’. 🥺❤️

@drliz6783

3 жыл бұрын

Tori?

@averagehooligan620

Жыл бұрын

That movie is devastatingly sad

Lost and delirious 😍😍😍😍😍

@sammstarr4427

2 жыл бұрын

i came out to my lil brother after that movie...the feels

A very beautiful and complicated lady brought this song into my life at a time when I needed it. Thank you forever Billi. X

Agreed. Ani is genius!!!

still the one.

Still my spirit sister.🌠✨⭐

So beautiful and moving.

Great Song.

This song gets in me so deep. This was my breakup song for my first love. I was the bull 😔 Also, I love Ani for life! 💪

So beautiful, Thank you

Nobody spits it like she does...

I get to this song because of Nick Hornby (31 songs)

She wrote it for the movie lost and delirious. I wish I could find that movie ~

@miguelmarquez4192

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info. Remember the movie vaguely but didnt know that or remember the song in it. I was probably 12 tho so...

@yuyuyashasrain

5 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure I got my copy from amazon. Saw this before coyote ugly, still can’t think of piper perabo as anyone but paulie

@Neuroneos

4 жыл бұрын

She didn't write it "for" the movie though. This song was written in 1994 and the movie came out in 2001.

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she had a friend send her this song and it was the most beautiful thing she ever heard her world was ending and after she was raped and destroyed they did it all over to her again and again destroying her until there was very little left to hold onto all these years and years and years sometimes she tried to speak up she called her dr. called the counselors she realized she was talking to stone hearts long ago and so it went on and she knew she was really dead after all they would never stop doing to her what they had been doing to her for years-she had a friend once who sent her this song.

@notyou6684

4 жыл бұрын

Many many tears for her

My first girlfriend showed me this lesbian movie. Wherein she jumps off the roof in the end. That's why I remember this song so well.

@Mikka.Landry

Жыл бұрын

Lost and Delirious ❤️

❤

💘

Nick Hornby brought me here

Ani d! Love ya from 2001

😭

ani helped me through my divorce i had gingvitis and she and her music helped me through it now i can say im almost plaque free..... i even named my dead hamster after her

@samuelgoldie

4 жыл бұрын

beautiful, i heard it on its debut tour, true does not even begin to describe it

this was in the about a boy authors book- you dont read so dont trouble yourself

Ok, what gives?? This is not the original recording of this song!?

How nice you get paid for every view of ani's songs you upload .. NOT!

Love this song, but I just now realized it was trying to be a Tori Amos jam lol

@drliz6783

3 жыл бұрын

Whatcha mean?

@lot110

Жыл бұрын

Ani jam! iSong is a F'nk ani difranco jam!

This song upsets me. It made me realise a failing in Ani's song writing. There's a ridiculous amount of the 'he said', 'she said', 'I said', 'you said' stuff. Not in regards to relating a story with characters, that part is good, but in the direct construction of the back and forth of a conversation where she's actually stating the terms as if reading an inelegant book. She puts 7 of them in the space of 10 lines in this song and it really highlighted the technique and now it makes me cringe a little whenever I hear it in every second song she sings. If it wasn't for the complete saturation in this song I probably wouldn't have even noticed it everywhere else. And it doubly sucks cos the music on this one has great atmosphere to match the message. :/

@carsont7215

9 жыл бұрын

spinycrayfish interesting to know it impacted you so...

@spinycrayfish

9 жыл бұрын

Carson Thaler It's just a little disappointing really, has impacted the way I hear Ani...

@carsont7215

9 жыл бұрын

I know and further along, you'll see why she does it. It irritated me to a great extent too, but it'll eventually irk you less as you let it go and explore some of her other works. Could be me though. Considering that I've been severely abused by women my whole life, it's a statistical improbability that she is one of my top 5 favorite musicians. Men who go through what I've been put through usually end up as serial murderers. I've done the opposite and have reconciled her angst so that I know how not to hurt others as well... Pretty accomplishing really, but I just wanted you to know that I understand how you feel... i do...

@zachhudson3582

8 жыл бұрын

+spinycrayfish Interesting. I just hear it as part of a pattern. Poets use repetition and patterns like this all the time. Think of Leonard Cohen's "Susanne" and Mike Scott's "Bring 'Em All In".

@GypsyGyrly

8 жыл бұрын

interesting interpretation. I've met Ani, there's no animosity in her lovely soul... she's an unexpected and sudden sister to me and perhaps it's that I've been in her position, The Bull as it were, that makes this song so familiar and tender. it does hurt. it all hurts though... doesn't it?