Ani DiFranco - Both Hands
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มี.ค. 2012
- Her first track off her first album made in 1990. All belongs to righteous babe records.
Lyrics from her site:
i am walking out in the rain
i am listening to the low moan of the dial tone
again
i am getting nowhere with you
i can't let it go and i can't get through
the old woman behind the pink curtains
and the closed door
on the first floor
she's listening through the airshaft
to see how long
our swan song can last
both hands
now use both hands
no don't close your eyes
i am writing
graffiti on your body
i am drawing the story
of how hard we tried
i am watching your chest rise and fall
like the tides of my life
and the rest of it all
your bones have been my bed frame
and your flesh has been my pillow
i've been waiting for sleep
to offer up the deep with both hands
in each other's shadow we grew less and less tall
and eventually our theories couldn't explain it all
so i'm recording our history
now on the bedroom wall
and when we leave the landlord will come
and paint over it all - เพลง
I think she's one of the most exquisite, talented, original and brilliant guitar player and songwriter of her generation. She's a rare pearl. It's incredible, to me, how she's able to compose meticulous and refined guitar harmonies while sticking them with articulate lyrics and meaningful words...she really is an artist.
+1
I was visiting my sister across the country when i was 16.. LOTS of 1st that year! 1st time traveling outta New England 1st time on a plane.. BOTH those things being done ALONE was a 1st in it's OWN to celebrate!! Sister was working as a live in employee in a "battered women shelter" I had obvi heard of them but never got up close and personal like that! I learned SSOOOO MUCH!!!! Sister was and still is a big fan of Ani, and the 1st song she played that got my attention was "Untouchable Face" I thought I was SSOO DAMN COOL belting out the lyrics to that song! F you and your untouchable face and f you for existing in the 1st place! Lyrics like THAT at 16 years old.. Yeeaaa I was HOOKED! It wasn't until I got older that I felt the weight of her topics and the way she delivered them.. I'm now 40 YEARS OLD and I STILL love Ani just as much as I did almost 25 years ago! In fact MORE SO now. I've learned that she's pretty damn timeless! As the years go on and I gain new experiences, I hear those same songs I've known FOREVER now, in an entirely new way!
Rock on Ani we'll always love you!
P.s. Another amazing artist I discovered that year and still love in the same manner is Doria Roberts! Just a friendly suggestion for Ani fans!
In case you see this while playing this album on repeat, I love you, Cyn. hope we can talk again. I miss you.
My friend turned me on to Ani with her first record and I was hooked. My friend passed away today and I came here to both cope and say thank you! Pretty raw at the moment but “this too shall pass.”
Sending you so much love
@@aeconiglio thank you I do appreciate it. Not as raw at the moment and the music permeated the space between us
I just saw Ani the other night live for the first time and cried. She was integral to my coming out and being brave...
I remember the absolute joy and emotions that flooded me each and every song. Truly inspirational and so glad that you found her voice and it gave you the courage to be who you are!
Sorry for your loss.
Ani has been an inspiration since I saw her perform a solo concert when she was a blond hair beauty at 16 years of age.
This song has helped me a lot...reminds me of my former girlfriend who passed away from an overdose a month ago today. Just makes me think of all the crazy shit we went through together I hope wherever she is she still remembers me and knows how much I loved her.
I dated a hippie girl back in the day and she introduced me to Ani. Later when I was dating a different girl she wouldn't accept me liking Ani (because she knew the ex who introduced me to her) and resented when I'd try to get her to listen to her. Years later, after we had broken up but remained friends, she told me she eventually gave in and listened openly to Ani. She thanked me. Word of mouth is so great
i dated a girl who likes Ani, now with current girlfriends we pish ourselves laughing at how shite she is
@@bloodhound9638 Omg, I dont know why, but your comment made me laugh so hard!! I mean, I happen to love Ani, but still....funny is funny.
wow cool story bro xD
That's sad. Ani has great music and is a wonderful person.
This song... so many memories.
Ani's music makes me want to be a better person.
No matter how much you hate it (I'm using the word hate here!), you might consider taking your medicine again. 🙂
I recently went through a hard break up and this song popped up out of nowhere and I have honestly never been more touched by a piece of art. We tried so hard to make it work but neither of us were ready for each other.
I am walking out in the rain
And I am listening to the low moan
Of the dial tone again
And I am getting
Nowhere with you
And I can't let it go
And I can't get through
And the old woman behind the pink curtains and the closed door
On the first floor
She's listening through the air shaft
To see how long our swan song can last
And both hands
Now use both hands
Oh, no don't close your eyes
I am writing
Graffiti on your body
I am drawing the story of
How hard we tried
How hard we tried
And I am watching your chest rise and fall
Like the tides of my life
And the rest of it all
And your bones have been my bedframe
And your flesh has been my pillow
I have been waiting for sleep
To offer up the deed with both hands
Oh oh with both hands
In each other's shadows we grew less and less tall
And eventually our theories couldn't explain it all
And I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall
And when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all
And I am walking out in the rain
And I am listening to the low moan of the dial tone again
And I am getting nowhere with you
And I can't let it go
And I can't get through
And both hands
Please use both hands
Oh, no don't close your eyes
I am writing graffiti on your body I am drawing the story of
How hard we tried
Hard we tried
How hard we tried
Yep, I keep coming back to Ani 30 years now!!!
I'd never heard of Ani DiFranco before but was listening to Spotify on random shuffle & this song started playing... I was immediately hooked! Playing it on repeat. Another song of hers which I've discovered & also love is "32 flavors" ❤️
Know it’s 3 yrs later, but pls play Swan Dive.
@@katerietroutman1 thank you, I just listened and enjoyed it. 3 years ago I made a playlist on Spotify of some Ani DiFranco songs and I still listen to that playlist today... It has 32 Flavors, Not a Pretty Girl, Hide and Seek, Fixing Her Hair, Untouchable Face, Both Hands, What If No One's Watching and Sorry I am.
wow......takes me waaaay back. good times, bad times--at least they were times.
Amazing, I've only just found her and she is outstanding
Still get this song in my mind whenever I'm thinking of a lost love. Actually helps🙃 love to sing it loud at the ocean 🌟
I've seen Ani many times
...one of my favorite artists of all time....& Ani you could still Rock the bald head!!!!🥰🥰🥰
Thank you Ani
I only wish I could tell her how much she has effected my whole life.. I honestly would just another lost soul.. shes my hero
+sky lipscomb This song in particular
I'm always happy to hear that she has saved so many ppl
Same here ^^
Right before watching her live in 2007. I researched her and noticed she made all these great albums in the 90s and went to see her in Santa Cruz. Her early albums is unmatchable to her mid 2000s to recent music.
She was phenomenal in the 90's and put on amazing shows!
all 90's kids liek if you remember dial tones!!!1!
Ani. This is a very important song to me. I’m currently 42 years old and knew you from another time it seems when I was a young and hippie type. I had an older cat that loved me singing this song to him a few years ago before he passed, he would get excited about it through the whole song. He’s passed. And now I have another older cat, alive when I sang it to my older one previously, and he likes me singing this specific song acapella as well. I don’t know why but they have both liked this song and Jessica Rabbit song. And that’s it. No others. I thank you still, after so long, for this amazing song.
This is the song that made me fall in love with Ani in 1998. One of my faves ever since💫Have seen her numerous times in concert, mainly in St. Louis, MO (my hometown), also Flagstaff, AZ (where I was going to school at the time I was introduced to her music). Oh, and Colorado…Red Rocks. Only concert I have been to there.
There's a radio station in Canada called 102.1 the edge. Every Sunday Alan Cross does ongoing history of music and he was talking about Alt Rock and folk rock/ music and the woman that help pioneered it. when he finished talking about ani difranco and her life and her fame this was the song he played. It hit me like a truck I can't believe I never heard of her before this.
#pirates
i still wonder to this day if she knows how much she meant to me.
how would she know?
I feel you bro he meant so much to me and I wonder if he's happy with whoever he's with now it hits me like a ton of bricks breaking on the asphalt. Glad I've got God but it'll never be the same without him.
Oh my...that is so well said
@@unxiam yesssssss see as a Z as**
She knows, because you are not alone. She knows there are many like you, and she acts accordingly.
I'm going to see Ani tonight in Minneapolis...just visiting her old stuff. thanks for the upload xxoo
I loved this song for the past 14 years!
Greatest reminiscing-a-failed-first-real-love-relationship song of all time.
Truth (son’s account)
hi my name is ani and i got my name because on the way home when my mom found out she was having a girl she was listening to both hands on the way home and she said i want to name her ani 13 years ago. i am 13 years old with the name of ani and i want to start my singing but idk how my friends and family say i have an amazing voice
+Ani Joy Good luck. I hope you do an excellent job.
+Ani Joy Go Ani!!!
Vanessa car
Vanessa carlysle operator
Fabernshbi
We’ll sing away. young lady.
love love love this songs
going through a breakup right now. it's amazing how it feels like she wrote this song about us.
***** as it did 15 years ago for me.
+TheAxiomChronos i dont remember writing this...i must still be a mess.
Beautiful and timeless...
This is beautiful. Her voice, the story in the lyrics, the whole thing. My go-to genre is generally heavy metal, but this song is real good.
I think this is my favorite of her songs. Beautiful.
Thank you so much for the upload. My best friend sang this song to me so beautifully about 18 years ago. Incredible how many memories a single song can carry.
My gf introduced me to this song and now it's mine and her sing
Amazing!! 🙌
So beautiful! The guitar is magnificent...
When I was 11, my mom thought this song would turn me gay. You know what, she was right. Thanks, Ani!
She is my favorite folk singer she is amazing I love her.
I can't belive I forgot all about this song, it's absolutely incredible - why does it make me want to cry?
mickenoss it should, nothing wrong with that.
because beauty makes you cry
i am crying
That's awesome Ani Difranco is a 90s music. Her best time has to be her 1st; 4 albums.
her first 4 albums were great, but I actually think Red Letter Year might be my favorite. It was phenomenal
I met Ani in the forest once. She is a fantastic woman.
A force of nature was Ani...love this song like a lost something that hurts to be blue...I love Ani DiFranco. I give her my heart!
Not was Ani! She’s still amazing, eh! ❤
I LOVE YOU ANI you are so blessed amazing voice so beautiful xoxoxoxoxoxoxox
Forgot how much I loved this song...💫💫💫
I fell in love with her music on first listen of this opening track.
love it
She is exquisite...
My favorite Ani song.
My sweet treasure of strength…mama u supply me with drive! Since 1990’s let’s go!
I hear this as Ani wrote it. That dang swan song. Glad she moved beyond. It's my turn. I got folks waiting on me...
Love her music!
kind of the most important song in my life. Viva Ani!
as beautiful as a dolphin bird
Voice of an Angel luv.
I introduced this to a couple Kiwis, and now they have words to express what I and they felt as relationships full of passion, but too little effort to stop hurting someone, finally ended. And loss of that passion.
You gave many people words.
You're now popular in Remuera.
She is my favorite singer
Still love her just as much
i've been waiting for sleep
to offer up the deep with both hands
in each other's shadow we grew less and less tall
and eventually our theories couldn't explain it all
so i'm recording our history
now on the bedroom wall
and when we leave the landlord will come
and paint over it all
Ani in my heart forever.x
One of the all time best
hello adifranco, the first show of you in michigan on near huron - was on the mezzanine for not a pretty girl tour. you chose this song to be the encore. then they our school daily paper said it was this song title 'both hands'. thank you for this greatest hits cover. elle for the bridge on the wall
never heard it, loved it
She played our student union in Orono Maine and hooked us all back in the day...
too nice!
Just found Ani and this track, gives me the feels about memories I will still make
Angel DiFranco
simplicity at it's finest.
I'm just sad ATM. Lots of tears. It's goanna be OK. Ani is going to guide me through it. We've done it before a few years ago. I'm safe.
this song is 28 years old
Possibly the sexiest song ever.
I had the priveledge of seeing her live at Luther Burbank in like 1991 soooo cool.
I saw her about 20 years later.
She looks great with barely hair there but very hot with long hair. Hope I still have pictures of me taking pictures of the band. She's classic like 2 Pac.
Contra 2075 +5 for Barely Hair There
My parents got to meet her in Cali years ago, my mom would get emails from her whenever she was gonna be in Oregon doing a concert
preach my sister
This was so much of my brain at one time.
I still want to write on my walls.
Only I didn’t want a tattoo… unless I would never get bored of it. I wanted something that would show my love for another and so far the only tattoo I think that might last would be for kids ( but I would want them to help design it). You left your impression on me. I made you… but you claimed me.
Watching a tiktoker inspired by Ani was the highlight of my year.
Such a sad, sad song.
Did alot of drugs and found the woman inside in me to her amazing music
Nice
I am walking
out in the rain
and I am listening to the low moan
of the dial tone again
and I am getting
nowhere with you
and I can't let it go
and I can't get through...
the old woman behind the pink curtains
and the closed door
on the first floor
I am drawing the story of how hard we tried
hard we tried
how hard we tried
I was a street kid at 15. She means so much to me
First time I heard this type of song. Not sure what I think about it.
HISSSSSS
gods, such an accurate description of life as a lesbian
Still trying to get through to them, Ani😩
Listening to see how long the Swan Song will last...
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I should have listened to my high school girlfriend; Ani Difranco rules!
I was finally told why I was named ani, I'm not mad
genius
where does she get her courage!!
90.5 WBER Brought me here.
The only station that matters.
"Your last swan dance" - unknown.
i dont want love to hurt me again
Ash, you're fine just listen to this and let it pass.
Wow. What year . ?
490,000 views and they're all mine.
any one know the tabs?
This is my recital song
Whoever wrotempopl?,
Perfect
For you dhara