Ani Difranco- Carnegie Hall

I just got the new Ani Difranco album. It was one of those unexpected finds when I was in HMV looking for a totally different album and there it was. It's a bootleg of one of her live shows, at Carnegie Hall (hence the name). I started listening to her music when I was in grade 10, and it affects me now as much as it did then.
I LOVE the song/poem "Self-Evident"... Check it out...

Self Evident

yes, us people are just poems

we're 90 % metaphor

with a leanness of meaning

approaching hyper-distillation

and once upon a time

we were moonshine

rushingdown the throat of a giraffe

yes, rushing down the long hallway

despite what the p.a announcement says

yes, rushing down the long stairs

with the whiskey of eternity

fermented and distilled

to eighteen minutes

burning down our throats

down the hall

down the stairs

in a building so tall

that it will always be there

yes, it's part of a pair

there on the bow of noah's ark

the most prestigious couple

just kickin back parked

against a perfectly blue sky

on a morning beatific

in its indian summer breeze

on the day that america

fell to its knees

after strutting around for a century

without saying thank you

or please

and the shock was subsonic

and the smoke was deafening

between the setup and the punch line

cuz we were all on time for work that day

we all boarded that plane for it to fly

and then while the fires were raging

we all climbed up on the windowsill

and then we all held hands

and jumped into the sky