Born Outside
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Put the finishing touches on
A watershed year
In transformation pain
Mark where you stand
Outside the picture now
By enclosing it in this frame
O little child
You will never know a world
That lets you forget
What you've been
When I was a boy
I honestly thought
I would be relieved to find out
How the story ends
O little child
You will never know the world
That let you forget
What you'd been
I really thought I would be
relieved to find out
Where I fit in
For most of my life
I've done nothing but burn through
The inheritance every day
Never imagining never imaging
I would live to see a demagogue
Finally get the keys to the United States
Even though we had this coming
My old man's own notion of living free
Wore down his resistance
If you were born here, son
Before long you were strung out
All strung out on the frontier distance