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So the idea of searching
for your idea of identity

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leads me to music, and a
lot of the poems in the book

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are about musicians,
and music, and songs.

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And one of the songs
that I put in the book

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is one of my favorite songs.

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It's-- I think, one of those
songs that are really life

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lessons in the skies.

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It's "Ain't Nobody's Business"
is what I'm referring to.

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It's the song that
I know-- the version

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that I'm aware of is the one
that Billie Holiday does.

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And if you-- the love
songs that are like they,

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kind of, sneak in the
back door and tell you

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what they're really about,
even though on the surface they

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sound kind of poppy, because
the melody for "Ain't Nobody's

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Business" is really
a happy melody.

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[SINGING MELODY]

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(SINGING) Ain't nobody's
business if I do.

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It's really saucy, until you
start listening to the lyrics.

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I mean, the lyrics really go--

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one part of the lyrics go,
"If my papa beats me on Sunday

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and I give him all
my money on Monday,

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ain't nobody's
business if I do,"

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and it's just one of those--

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I mean, that's my sister.

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That's my mother.

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That's a lot of
women that I know.

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And the frustration of the
truth of that line is--

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so it's a life lesson.

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So, "Nobody's Business".

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"You have cheated me,
and I still love you.

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You have lied, and
I still love you.

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And the neighbors tell me
you're nothing but, nothing but,

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nothing but, and
I still love you.

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Love is dope, love is
dope, love is dope,

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and my degrees wither to
paper and my smart wardrobe

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slips out of context.

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You walk over me,
and I still love you.

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You mock me to your friends,
and I still love you.

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I have tasted your hand, and
my brother can't tell me,

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and my mother can't tell me,
and my father can't tell me,

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and my sister can't tell me,
and my college can't tell me,

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and the talk show
host can't tell me,

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and Jesus, Jesus coming to warn
me in my sleep can't tell me.

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What the hell, what the
hell, I guess there's

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a police blotter in my future.

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What the hell, what
the hell, I suppose

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I'll be a mystery corpse.

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What the hell, what the hell,
the easy smile has its way.

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Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,
baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,

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baby, baby.

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Candy, candy,
candy, candy, candy.

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What the hell, what the
hell, I guess I'm grown now.

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What the hell, I guess
I'll nurse this bruise.

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Don't like it?'

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