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In the year I was born,
The Wall went up.
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And many people decided
to move west to freedom.
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Mother threw me
into a wheelbarrow
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and headed east.
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The Communists
gave her a job
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teaching sculpture
to limbless children.
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Most of my time
was spent
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Iistening
to American Forces Radio.
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We are freaks
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We follow the code of freaks
We are freaks!
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We stand back
We are freaks
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We do what we please
and do what we choose
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We are bad...
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Our apartment
was so small,
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that mother made me play
in the oven.
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One of us,
one of us...
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Late at night,
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I would listen to the voices
of the American masters:
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Toni Tenille,
Debby Boone,
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Anne Murray--
who was actually a Canadian,
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working in
the American idiom.
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And then there were
the crypto-homo rockers:
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Lou Reed, lggy Pop,
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David Bowie--
who was actually an idiom
:21:31
working in America
and Canada.
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These artists,
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they left as deep
an impression on me
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as that oven rack
did on my face.
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To be a young American
in muskrat love,
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soft as an easy chair,
not even the chair,
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"I am," I said,
"Have I never been mellow?"
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And the coloured girls sing...
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Do, do-do, do-do,
do, do-do
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Do, do-do, do-do,
do, do-do