The Stranger (After Baudelaire)

From the Album Sunocide by Stone Age Time Machine

Tell me stranger, of whom do you love? Your father, mother, sister, brother, or someone high above? I have no father or mother, he said unwillingly They threw me out of the house because I was built differently But I still love the clouds Up there so high in the sky Passing by Tell me, stranger, of the country that you love Your patriotic spirit as the flags flap high above I have no country of my own, he said sadly to me I am a cosmopolitan, the universe is within me But I still love the clouds Up there so high in the sky Passing by Tell me stranger, don't you love to travel far and wide The ladies of the vally, the transexual countryside? Yes he said with a tear, I do love the foreign lands But they tried to kill me when they found I was American But I still love the clouds Up there so high in the sky Passing by But what of the God above, who fills us all with joy Do you kiss the kabba stone, or the darling Christmas boy? I don't long for them my friend, here is my condition My heart has been stolen, it was an extraordinary rendition But I still love the clouds Up there so high in the sky Passing by
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