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We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

Dar Williams

A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to “As Cool As I Am,” it’s not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.
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Artist Different Song
But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you’re worth?
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Come Notion Space
I came out of that and said I don’t want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.
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Discover Feelings Optimism Optimistic
The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it
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Goodbye Passed School Summer
A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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Albums Play Song
Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
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Life Romance Therapy
The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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Light Night Revenge
We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.
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Done Morning Up Wake
We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
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Language Much Taken Too
[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.
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Cities Country Reality
I remember doing “As Cool As I Am” and Steve Miller, the producer, saying “I really hear a drum loop here. I want to play it for you.”
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Play Sound Thinking
A straightforward capitalist society would’ve cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.
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Friend Psychotherapy Society Straightforward
I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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Kids Parent People
Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
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Echo Kindness Time
There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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People Play Song
And you bring your words, But you’re just like them, You’re unprepared ‘Cause you don’t know the terrain
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Causes Knows Terrain

We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

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