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Nobody Knows : Live On WNYU, Aug. 1st 1997

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Nobody Knows : Live On WNYU, Aug. 1st 1997 --- 2015-11-07

Forgetting lyrics onstage is like forgetting your speech to the Pope, the one you practiced with your wife all the way from Australia to Philadelphia. The Pope stands before you like a microphone, shaped exactly like a microphone, his white cap waiting for your whispered feelings. Marky Mark also is waiting, listening nearby, symbolizing the world, satirizing its events. You begin, falter, wince. You look at your wife as if she were a stranger you don't even want to fuck. If the Holy Microphone asked you now what fucking was. you'd have no idea You have forgotten everything- the lie inside every word is gone, dissolving with it ail your loves and dreams. You have passed into the sweet silent guiltlessness of death. If you stay there, they will remove you to unpleasant places reserved for the free and dead. So you speak, sing, remember, re-entering the world, trying not to forget.