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A Spade

2024-06-21

« Je ne viendrai pas m’allonger moi-aussi
sur des soubassements truqués de part en part,
En ces temps où il sonne encore “radical” d’appeler un chat un chat. »

La chanson figure vers la fin de Reprieve, l'album de 2006 (« Feminism ain't about equality, it's about reprieve. »).
Je l'avais commenté dans un billet du 10 mars 2008 : « Bateson, Ani Difranco et les chats » (aniblog).
À rapprocher de mon billet du 11 avril 2022 : « Abu Ghraïb et l'ethnographie réflexive ».
Mais j'aime autant laisser place à la musique :

soit dans cette version live trouvée sur youtube (Lakewood Oregon 3/2/05),
soit en version studio (magnifiquement mixée par l'époux, Mike Napolitano).

I will not lie down
On the wrongful groundwork laid
While it's still a radical sound
Just to call a spade a spade
Dear friends, women and men
Please check my math once more
In the totality of all war's history
There's but one common denominator

The answer is in the intention
That lies behind the question
Put that on your standardized
Multiple choice
I mean, how's this supposed to look to me?
But half of divinity
Out there trying to make harmony
With only one voice

You know, I've got experience
Looking right past the obvious
And I know what is so big and so close
Is always the hardest stuff
For us to reckon with
The hardest stuff to know
Dear friends, especially the women
Tell me, are you up to the task?
Of turning the wheel of human history
At long last

The answer is in the intention
That lies behind the question
Put that on your standardized
Multiple choice
I mean, how's this supposed to look to me?
But half of divinity
Out there trying to make harmony
With only one voice

I will not lie down
On the wrongful groundwork laid
While it's still a radical sound
Just to call a spade a spade
Dear friends, women and men
What better time to face
That we've been looking for the answer
To war in the wrong place

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