My skin used to be a disaster When to a musical chair I clung Waiting for the needle to drop
I was rich by virtue of being born Laughing at abuses of power "˜Till I felt, at age thirteen, a power
And when I sat down in your chair The ghost of a song held me down As instruments you did prepare
The last thing I remember that day Your needle, doctor, descending Descending, like it was spelunking
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