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And singing the theme--

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talking about songs, here's--
this poem is also based on this

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song.

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The name of the song is
"Exordium and Terminus".

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And since I can't see,
it's 28 it's 24, here it is.

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And "Exordium and
Terminus" is a song

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that you probably
know, but you know

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that's the title and
the guys who wrote--

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how many know that song?

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[SINGING] In the
year 2525, if man

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is still alive, if women
can survive da duh da duh.

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Right?

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That's called "Exordium
and Terminus."

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So it's a poem about doomsday,
about Nixon, about Watergate,

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and all kinds of stuff.

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"In your rendition
of the year 2525,

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the airplane rattles, the engine
roars, the sardines around me

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smile like sardines, and
you kiss me twice once

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on the cheek, once on the ear.

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It is a song from 1965, 1970.

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Some keeper of music will know
the title, the singer where

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it was on the charts,
what it reflects

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of what was doomsday
then and how long it

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stayed in the top 2020.

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And who was president,
whether he had a girlfriend,

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whether J Edgar
was still around,

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and whether or not his boyfriend
a cottage cheese like him.

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And what I was doing and
what car I was driving

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and how much money
I owed to banks

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universities and relatives.

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And whether I had a girlfriend
and what her breasts

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were like and her mind.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Then, I like being subversive
and who would sleep with Nixon?

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And what was the name
of the motel on Route 22

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that cost $20 in 1973?

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And was it wrong to prefer
the Watergate hearings

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to making love?

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And how the pigs have
taken over doomsday.

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[LAUGHTER]

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