• Is this:
  
  • the 50s?
    
  • 1999?
    
  
  
• All I wanted to do:
  
  • play my guitar
    
  • sing
    
  
  
• Don't:
  
  • bet your future on the roll of a dice
    
  • be late again
    
  
  
• Do:
  
  • remember lightning never strikes twice
    
  
  
• Gotta get:
  
  • back in time
    
  • back, Marty
    
  
  

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• Istanbul:
  
  • not Constantinople
    
  • a Turkish delight on a moonlit night
    
  
  
• Every girl in Istanbul:
  
  • lives in Istanbul
    
  • does not live in Constantinople
    
  
  
• Old New York:
  
  • once New Amsterdam
    
  • unsure why it was changed -> popular?
    
  
  
• Constantinople:
  
  • long time gone
    
  • got the works
    
  
  

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• People whose business it is:
  • the Turks

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• Girl from high school
• Neither too simple nor too kind
• New Wave fan
• Since changed -> another kind


• Thinks she's Edith Head
• Or Helen Gurley Brown
• Or other cultural figure (little-known)


• Ways to know she's not
• Accent in her speech she didn't have growing up


• Recent Interactions
• Christmas
• Reflection in window
• Talking to herself


• Neither too simple nor too kind
• Complicated
• Stuck in my mind

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• Things across which Daddy has flown:
  • the ocean
  
  
• Things which Daddy has left behind for me:
  • a memory
  • unknown
  
  
• Things which we don't need:
  • no education
    
  • no thought control
    
  • no dark sarcasm in the classroom
  
  
• Conditions in which teachers are requested to leave them/us kids:
  • alone
  
  
• Things the having of which is dependent upon the eating of meat:
  • pudding
  
  
• Things which I don't need:
  • no arms around me
  • no drugs to calm me
  • anything at all
  
  
• Things which I have seen:
  • the writing on the wall
  
  
• Things which, all in all, are or were just bricks in the wall:
  • it
  • you

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• The problem:
  
  • too much technology

• Machines:
  
  • save our lives
    
  • dehumanize

• I am:
  
  • just a man
    
  • the modern man
    
  • Kilroy!

• I am not:
  
  • a robot without emotions
    
  • what you see
    
  • a hero
    
  • a saviour

• I've got:
  
  • a secret
    
  • a human heart
    
  • boiling blood
    
  • an IBM brain

• I need:
  
  • someone
    
  • somewhere to hide
    
  • control

• I want:
  
  • to thank you [Mr. Roboto]

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• I've
  
  • Paid my dues
    
  • Done my sentence
    
  • Had my share of sand kicked in my face
    
  
  
• Bad mistakes
  
  • I've made a few
    
  
  
• It's been no
  
  • Bed of roses
    
  • Pleasure cruise
    
  
  
• We
  
  • Are the champions
    
  • 'll keep on fighting til the end
    

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• Annie
• waits
• for a call
• from a friend
• for the last time
• but not for me
• growing old
• sees her dreams
• friday bingo
• pigeons in the park
• says


• You see, this is why I'd rather be alone


• Clock
• never stops
• never waits


• He
• Forgot
• Maybe not
• maybe seriously hurt -> worse?


• Headlights
• crest the hill
• pass her by -> out of sight


• One for evermore?
• • I could be (if)
  • old
  • still lonely
  
  

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• Things I am:
  
• 
  
  
  
  • The king of rock
    
  • One def rapper
    
  • From around the way
    
  
  

• Sucker MCs:
  
• 
  
  
  
  • Should call me sire
    
  • Gotta say "please"
    
  • Don't make no songs like these
    
  
  

• Things we are not:
  
• 
  
  
  
  • Michael Jackson
    
  • The Beatles
    
  
  

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• Things which, buddy, you are:
  • a boy
    • make a big noise
    
    
  • a young man
    
  • hard man
    
  • an old man
    
  • poor man
    • pleading with your eyes
  
  
• Activities you are performing:
  • in the street:
    • playing
      
    • shouting
    
    
  • all over the place:
    • kicking your can
      
    • waving your banner
  
  
• Things which you, being a big disgrace, have got on your face:
  • mud
    
  • blood
  
  
• Things which you will some day do:
  • be a big man
    
  • take on the world
    
  • make you some peace
  
  
• Places back into which somebody better put you:
  • yours
  
  
• Things which we will rock:
  • you

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• things i've looked at from both sides:
  
  • clouds
    
    • row and floes of angel hair
      
    • ice cream castles in the air
      
    • feather canyons everywhere
      
      vs.
      
      
    • blocks the sun
      
    • rains and snows on everyone
      
    • gets in my way
      
    
    
  • love
    
    • moons
      
    • Junes
      
    • ferris wheels
      
    • the way you feel
      
      • dizzy
        
      • dancing
      
      
    • fairy tales coming real
      
      vs.
      
      
    • just another show
      
    • leave them laughing when you go
      
    • if you care, don't let them know
      
    
    
  • life
    
    • tears
      
    • fears
      
    • feeling proud
      
    • saying "i love you" right out loud
      
    • dreams
      
    • schemes
      
    • circus crowds
      
      vs.
      
      
    • old friends acting strange
      
    • people saying i've changed
      
    • something lost, something gained
      
  
  
• things i recall:
  
  • cloud illusions
    
  • love illusions
    
  • life's illusions
    
  
  
• things i really don't know at all:
  
  • clouds
    
  • love
    
  • life
    
  
  

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• Things I am incapable of doing
• Remembering anything
• Determining if this is true or dream
• Screaming (stopped by terrible silence)
• Seeing that there is not much left of me
• Looking forward to reveal
• Living
• Dying
• Things I am capable of doing
• Mandatory
• Feeling the life that is pumped in
• Being, due to the machines to which I am tied
• Voluntary
• Wishing for death
• Seeing absolute horror
• Requesting to be taken by God
• Things that are real
• Pain (now)
• Being back in the womb
• Places I am incarcerated
• Darkness
• In myself
• My body
• Things a landmine has taken from me
• My sight
• My speech
• My hearing
• My arms
• My legs
• My soul
• Things a landmine has left me with
• Life in hell
• What I am
• One

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• Moves
  • Some
• Oh
  • Yeah

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• to do:
  
  • crack that whip
    
  • give the past a slip
    
  • try to detect it
    
    • not too late
  
  
  
• conditions under which you will break your momma's back:
  
  • stepping on a crack
  
  
  
• conditions under which you must whip it:
  
  • when a problem comes along
    
  • before the cream sits out too long
    
  • when something's going wrong
    
  • when a good time turns around
  
  
  
• directions in which to go:
  
  • straight
    
  • forward
    
  • ahead
  
  
  
• if one does not whip it:
  
  • won't ever live it down
    
  • won't get their way
  
  
  
• ways in which to whip it:
  
  • (up) into shape
    
  • good

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• Where I have:
  
  • A turntable
    
  • A second turntable
    
  • A microphone
  
  

• The distance
  
• For speed

• To party

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• Jane
• Says
• ”I’m done with Sergio. He treats me like a ragdoll.”
• ”I don’t owe him nothing. But if he comes back again tell him to wait right here for me or try again tomorrow.”
• ”I’m gonna kick tomorrow.”
• ”Have you seen my wig around? I feel naked without it.”
• ”I’m going away to Spain when I get some money saved. I’m gonna start tomorrow.”
• ”I’ve never been in love, no.”
• ”I only want them if they want me.”
• ”I only know they want me.”
• Hides
• The television
• Knows
• They all want her to go
• If someone wants her
• Don’t know
• What else to do about it
• What love is
• Don’t like
• Them
• Gets
• Mad
• Her dinner there
• Starts
• To cry
• Takes
• A swing
• Can’t
• Hit
• Goes
• To the store at eight
• Walks
• Up on St. Andrews

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