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OFFICIALLY SPEAKING
WORDS & MUSIC: Earl P. Reinhalter
I. officially speaking,
this cannot be disclosed,
but we all have bodies
under our clothes.
officially speaking,
genitals don't exist.
their names and forms
can't be broadcast.
CHORUS A: censorship is the law,
officially speaking.
but like the Berlin Wall,
now it is leaking,
officially speaking.
II. from the honeymoon suite
to the maternity ward,
the source of life
must be obscured.
officially speaking,
there is no birth or death.
have you ever seen
a first or last breath?
CHORUS B: officially speaking,
everyone is pretending
that human life
has no beginning or ending.
censorship is the law,
officially speaking.
but like the Berlin Wall,
now it is leaking,
officially speaking.
III. now the canines in the kennel
are wearing clothes.
they're buying Playdog magazine
for the pictures, not the prose.
Lassie turns and says
to Rin-Tin-Tin:
"to be that civilized
should be a sin."
(repeat chorus B)
© Copyright 1994 Earl P. Reinhalter. All Rights Reserved.
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