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i remember this from living in clip

Had the awesome privilege of seeing her play in Fayetteville, helluva show, she's sooooooooooo, you know 😁 ❣️

Literally got chills. What an amazing artist 💖✌

good lord, what a performance . . ..

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Love

Trash 😢

I’m kind of surprised at how many people missed the point of what it’s like to perform a song while being distracted by audience member singing along. It’s only happened to me a few times, and it can get your mind off track… sing my story with your projection at home or wherever, and please! It’s yours there. If I hear you (on or off key), I might miss a moment to change something up, or forget the lyrics, etc. I just watched a live Billie Eilish video w/boygenius. I bet it was great, but the audience sang over them all. I understand the bonding of it - we’ve all done it - but you just watched people move their mouths to your personal sound track and 40K backup singers. That said, I’m 53 and I was lucky enough to see Ani in the early 90s. So good then and now.

Why i am inspired to learn guitar. Thank you Jon Rowley, for encouraging me.

i've watched this doc so much i can recite what she says verbatim

Hell yeah!

if we absorb what we heard here....if we could take it in. well

Shameless is good?

Shameless: the Yngwie Malmsteen Remix 🤣

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So good to see this again! ❤

Wildly original artist...Saw her in late 2022 in New York (Webster Hall) -- absolutely fantastic show.

2023/May11

I love that Ani can engineer her music! ❤ she's just so great!

Listen. This version better be on the 25th anniversary remastered release. IJS.

I live in Sydney Australia, and I flew to the cold coast for her concert in Brisbane, this was a concert I'll never forget she was like this performance all night from one start to finish, she bounced around ,changing only a few guitar, absolute incredible artist to see live. arni de franco is her music ,

Well shot video.

Just read her autobiography and I seem to recall that 2007 was not a good year for her emotionally. You can't see that on stage, because she is on fire.

What a REAL woman acts and looks like! 🔥 ♀️

The folks at Letterman said, "Please don't do Subdivision. Can you do a peppier song instead?" They really said that. Ani said no and it would be a while before they asked her back. In her autobiography, Ani said, "They never invited her back" but I see her video on CZcams of a Letterman performance, so perhaps she misremembered?

Singing politically biased songs.. yeah, way to go in 2022 smh you actually divide us more by doing it..

Happy with those tires? I bought the C3 and realized they are super soft and gonna return them for C2

Long time Ani fan, her random ramblings are my favorite.

I despise it when the audience sings along. We are not there to hear members of the audience. I wish they would all just shut the fuck up and let the artist sing.

I remember when this DVD came into being. Newly to me at the show that year any who.. o don't I miss those glorious righteous days where love and lust and intensity ruled my skies and I truly believed we were going to change the world. Naivete is a beautiful, confusing son of a gun isn't she.

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When she performs this song in Philly, it becomes Hoagiedivision.

unbelievable. and JEEZ, she doesn't even have her drummer!

Amazing song, one of my favorites of all time!

I'm cradling the softest, warmest part of you in my hands Feels like a little baby bird Fallen from the nest I think that your body is something I understand I think that I'm happy I think that I'm blessed But I've had a lack of inhibition I've had a loss of perspective I've had a little bit to drink And it's making me think That I can jump ship and swim That the ocean will hold me That there's got to be more Than this boat I'm in They can call me crazy if I fall All the chance I need Is one-in-a-million And they can call me brilliant If I succeed Gravity is nothing to me I'm moving at the speed of sound I'm just gonna get my feet wet Until I drown I teeter between tired And really, really tired I'm wiped out and I'm wired But I guess that's just as well 'Cause I've built my own empire Out of car tires and chicken wire And now I'm queen of my own compost heap And I'm getting used to the smell I've had a lack of information I've had a little revelation I'm climbing up on the railing Trying not to look down I'm going to do my best swan dive Into shark infested waters I'm going to pull out my tampon And start splashing around 'Cause I don't care if they eat me alive I've got better things to do than survive I've got the memory of your warm skin in my hands And I've got a vision of blue sky and warm land I'm cradling the hardest, heaviest part of me in my hands The ship is pitching and heaving Our limbs are bobbing and weaving I think this is something I understand I think I need a couple vaccinations For my far-away vacation I'm gonna go ahead and go boldly 'Cause a little bird told me That jumping is easy And falling is fun Right up until you hit the sidewalk Shivering and stunned They can call me crazy if I fall All the chance I need Is one-in-a-million And they cal call me brilliant If I succeed Gravity is nothing to me I'm moving at the speed of sound I'm just going to get my feet wet Until I drown Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Ani Difranco Swan Dive lyrics © A Side Music LLC D/B/A Modern Works Music Publishing

Ani breathes fire and life and death and everything, everything into this song. So grateful to be here now 🔥

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Thank you Love!

Might have been at than show...

Best performance of this song

Ani is my addiction... I love her and yet I have never met her... The way she writes is in depth and bold and I can picture it all... I love the metaphors😁❤️ she's got the most bold beauty I've ever heard... The first time I heard her it was the song not angry anymore off her up up up album.. only I didn't know that or her name even. I was getting a ride and that song opened me up.. I bawled it was the most beautiful song I had ever heard. Been on the look out ever since. Bought 4 albums before I found that song BTW

Not sure I like this arrangement. The musical dialogue with Sickafoose normally works, but here it sounds a bit off to my ears.

Wow. Its true everything does get better with age. This song has always reached out to me, spoken to me (not-so-silently), and now so many years later the message is even stronger. Thank you for creating this amazing anthem.

Beautifully poignant

Love you, Ani!!!🥦🌲🍀🌿🌱💚🎵

4:10 Cattle Decapitation gone folk

A more polite genre of McCreepy

2:38 to 2:56 at 0.75× speed 😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈

Oh shit, 0.75× speed from the start on this one 😊