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daniel kahn & the painted bird - inner emigration lyrics

prepare yourself to swallow all your diamonds & your rings
& all your ticky shiny windy things. don’t scare yourself
photos in the newspapers are blurred. the radio is broadcasting a whirr
beware, yourself: your neighbors aren’t neighbors anymore
they’re leaning with a gl-ss against your door. take care of yourself, & hoist into
the air your disbelief. just go ahead & give yourself relief
get ready for your inner emigration: get ready to be alien inside
consider all your social obligations. borders are your foreign order bride
you won’t ever have to leave your nation. you won’t ever have to even try
just make a secret inner emigration & you won’t ever have to say goodbye

hannah was at home in the berlin cabarets of ’32
but in ’33 weather turned & the brownshirts all turned loose
& rumors were bad. her sozi lover alex was getting scared
he heard his name was on a list for having red friends & brown hair
he wanted to get out. hannah could’ve gone with him to ukraine
but instead she took a walk out in the rain
through her berlin & thought about how this weather would p-ss
& how things had always worked out in the past
she made a kind of inner emigration: she started to feel alien inside
from all the social marginalization her sense of place was starting to be tried
she couldn’t bear abandoning her nation she didn’t want it all to p-ss her by
so people make their inner emigrations,til 1 by 1 they have to say goodbye

sasha had heard about the emigratsye & the talk wasn’t just in the family
anymore but in the kharkov streets there was a kind of thaw
“we’re going home“ said old saminsky when he filed his application to leave
& anya already had family in tel aviv
but sasha didn’t know. 200 years among slavs being called hebrews [evreii]
he knew they’d only be called russians among jews
& on the proskpekt lenina avtobus he heard the saminskys lost their apt. & were
denied their p-ss. the weather seemed it was never gonna p-ss

- daniel kahn the painted bird lyrics

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