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This one's called Big Truck and
I dedicate it to all of Tucson.

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[LAUGHTER] "Once you've been
with a guy who has a big truck,

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there's no going back.

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It's depressing but true,
it's like falling off a cliff.

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May as well just slit
your wrists, dig a hole,

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write the obituary.

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Once you felt that strong
rumble underneath--

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I mean, a really strong rumble.

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I mean the engine
turning over and doing

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those other things engines do.

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Idling, feeling power.

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You're sitting at a red
light, and there it is.

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All that power underneath
you all around you.

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Jiggling your bangles.

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Making it hard to
light a cigarette.

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Making you have to
go to the bathroom.

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Making the poetic stare hard
to maintain as you listen

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for the illustrative comment.

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Once you've been
there, I'd say it's

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like being present
when a star is created.

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Up way up where these things
happen, these mysteries.

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These strong beautiful mysteries
of destruction and creation.

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There you are, sitting on
top of the fucking star.

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Everything is there.

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Everyone is there.

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You see it all.

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Everything is pure blackness.

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Everything is pure,
blissful, obliterating light.

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And it's all right where it
should be-- sound, sight.

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And you're shouting your
motherfucking ears off.

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You're shouting uncontrollably
words you never knew.

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And then it's all gone again.

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A pinpoint of silence, and a
dawn, gray sheet kind of thing.

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A light green kind of thing.

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And you have no thoughts, and
you're not shouting anymore.

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You are so refined.

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Your essence is so stunned
and thin that the physical you

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sitting on the hot plastic seat,
sweating and human, no longer

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shakes with power.

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You're beyond the shaking.

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You're pure with it now.

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And then there's
the turn signal.

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The green arrow.

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Some of the sad
little pathetic cars

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gun their sagittal
mosquito engines.

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Little secretaries, and little
attorneys, and little clerks,

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and little tiny business owners,
and little unemployed people.

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[LAUGHTER]

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They all try to gun it in
their pathetic little cars 20,

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30 feet down from you.

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It's like killing flies
or flicking crumbs,

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but for them it's everything.

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You can hear them pushing
their pathetic little feet down

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to the floor of their
automatic used hatchbacks.

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And they putt putt out
and try to beat the light.

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Not your man though
in his fine truck.

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A truck as big as a building,
but more outrageous than that.

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Capable and outrageous
as the ocean.

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Imagine the ocean.

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And then imagine
the transmutation

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of glass and steel.

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And imagine the energy
underneath, like a life force

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beyond all human comprehension.

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A force that underscores
all we do is who we are.

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Is who we are if
we are anything.

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If we understand where
it all comes from.

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Damn, divine, damn.

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And so this truck
doesn't fucking

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have to try to beat
any goddamn light.

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This truck just moves.

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It just moves like a continent.

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[LAUGHTER] And then you're on
the other side of the road,

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and you see east like a vision.

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And you've got the runway ahead
of you, and you fucking go.

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I mean, you fucking go.

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Oh Delta, American, United.

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Those pathetic little sops
need to share the power.

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You don't need to
share anything.

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Have I mentioned stopping
at the convenience store?

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[LAUGHTER] Because this is
where things get really crazy.

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[LAUGHTER] I mean,
this is another place

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where things heat up for you.

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So you're there, right?

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And you can see the
roof of the 7-Eleven.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And somewhere down
there are the supplies.

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Some cherry 7up,
and some cigarettes,

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and some Pringles, perhaps.

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And you're in a truck like
the Space Needle in Seattle.

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Or like the Empire
State Building,

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or like the Great Wall of China.

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Or maybe just like goddamn
planet Earth, compared

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to the rest of the
half-assed jerry-rigged,

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"keep us in orbit" planets.

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And you've got to open the door,
and he's maybe giving you a 20.

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A whole 20.

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And so you try to open the
door, but it doesn't open.

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Man, it's a heavy door.

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This handle, it's
hard to get open.

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And he leans over and he kind
of flips it and shoves it.

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And there it is, freedom.

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The sky.

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A short flight to the 7-Eleven.

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[LAUGHTER] And you're
thinking, parachute?

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And he lets you in on something.

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A little secret.

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I like women who do
it their own way.

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I like women with their
own style, their own power.

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And so he's sitting
there his arms half

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leaning on the steering wheel.

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A massive chrome wheel,
like a windmill with a rim.

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And he's waiting for you
to do your own thing.

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Trot into the convenience
store with style, with power.

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And so you take off.

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You fucking take off.

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And you're flying down,
and you can do it.

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And before you know
it, you're back.

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And you've got the soda.

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You've got the snack food.

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And you're now
blessedly back at home.

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Back in the truck.

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And it's so damn exhilarating.

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It's like nothing else.

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And now you can go home
and make love like equals.

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Briefly like equals.

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But all the while you're
not thinking of him.

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You aren't, you can't.

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You can't or it all stops.

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The gears get jammed up.

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The light is lost again.

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The road is a challenge.

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No, you need to
return to the truck.

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The lavish, gleaming truck.

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The lavish, gleaming
truck with the fat wheels

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the size of unique countries.

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And the life force involved
somewhere internally in height,

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in sound.

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In the placement of
the constellations

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in the brute night sky.

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Give me the truck
or give me nothing.

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Stay away from the little cars.

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Go gently towards
steel and glass,

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and enjoy with me the
dream of a free world.

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A nation undivided by
squirrels and weakness."

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[APPLAUSE]

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