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We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road,I guess that's what they call character,I guess that's just the way it goes,better to be dusty than polished,like some store window mannequin,why don't you touch me where i'm rusty,let me stain your hands
We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road,I guess that's what they call character,I guess that's just the way it goes,better to be dusty than polished,like some store window mannequin,why don't you touch me where i'm rusty,let me stain your hands
Approximate author period: c. 1989 AD · modern
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- Ani DiFranco
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- Approximate author period: c. 1989 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Ani DiFranco, based on documented activity in 1989. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232462 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232462 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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