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This is on a second album--

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I'm really selling stuff here--

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"The Author Reflects
on His 35th Birthday."

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And this is sung
by Bobby Womack.

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It'll be released in
the United States soon.

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"Author Reflects on
His 35th Birthday."

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"35?

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I have been looking forward
to you for many years now,

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so much so that I feel
you and I are old friends.

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And so on this day, 35, I
propose a toast to me and you.

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35?

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From this day on, I swear before
the bountiful Osiris that if I

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ever--

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if I EVER try to bring out
the best in folks again,

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I want somebody to take me
outside and kick me up and down

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the sidewalk or
set me in a corner

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with a funnel on my head.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Make me as hard as a
rock, 35, like the fella

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in a story about the
big one that got away.

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Let me laugh my head
off with Moby Dick

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as we reminisce
about them suckers

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who went down with the Pequod.

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35?

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I ain't been mean enough.

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Make me real, real mean, mean
as old Marie rolling her eyes,

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mean as the town
Bessie sings about,

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'where all the birds sing bass.'

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35?

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Make me Tennessee mean, cobra
mean, cuckoo mean, engine mean,

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Dracula mean, Beethovenian-brows
mean, Miles Davis mean,

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'don't offer assistance when
quicksand is tugging some poor

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dope under mean,' pawnbroker
mean, Pharaoh mean.

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That's it, 35, make me
Pharaoh mean, mean as can be,

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mean as the dickens,
meaner than mean.

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When I walk down the street,
I want them to whisper,

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there goes Mr. Mean.

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'He's double mean.

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He even turned the skeletons in
his closet out into the cold.'

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[LAUGHTER]

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And 35?

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Don't let me trust
anybody over Reed.

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But just in case, put a
tail on that Negro too."

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