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♫What About Me?♫
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♫What About Me?♫

This is one of those riffs that just shows up now and again. I've got a drawer full of them somewhere. It's one more extemporaneous portrait of The World in these deevolutionary moments of regression.

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I don’t know who I am

I don’t know what I am

I don’t know where I am

but I am here in this time...

this troubled time

filled with lies and confusion

the slow grazing sheep

are in deep delusion

They are grazing in a pasture

of multiplying cell-phones

pimping out the ringtones

for a diet cola nation

It’s a culture shock

too wide to fit...

into an airline seat.

I’m looking for something

It might be Heaven

I’m looking for something

I can’t find on Earth

I’m looking for truth

Some kind of good shepherd

It might be a God

Or my innocent youth

I’m walking in darkness

I’m jumping at shadows

If I can see shadows

there must be a light

the face of the devil

is hiding an angel

the promise of dawn

Is concealed in the night

Fascism’s rising and neo-con murders

bloody religions and strange appetites

Crazy-eyed madmen run wild on the highway

screaming for someone to open their eyes

Shake and bake factories pump out the product

Burn down the mountains and boil the sea

millions of tongues in a chaos of voices

all of them crying...

What about me?

What about me?

all of them crying,

what about me?

What about me?

I’m hot, and I’m bothered

I’m game match and set

I’m ready to ride

and get put away wet

I’m the face on the label

Of the cosmic milk carton

when you put it down

I’ll be forgotten.

I got the ringtones

I got the nose rings

I got the tattoos

I got the hair

I got the body

I’m new on the market

I’m straight, and I’m queer

and not what I appear

I’m black and fantastic

I’m white, and I’m spastic

I’m a Native American-

Asian soufflé

get out of my way

I’m coming through

I’m gonna do what I gotta do

What about me!

What about me!

I shit-canned myself

to get paid and go free

and be someone else

and be someone else

I don’t know who I am

but I sure hate myself

I’m looking for something

It might be Heaven

I’m looking for something

I can’t find on Earth

I’m looking for truth

Some kind of good shepherd

It might be a God

Or my innocent youth

I’m walking in darkness

I’m jumping at shadows

If I can see shadows

there must be a light

The face of the devil

is hiding an angel

The promise of dawn

Is concealed in the night

the promise of dawn

Is concealed in the night

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