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        althoughtheuseof — 18 years ago(June 01, 2007 09:08 PM)

        I have this song off the Natural Born Killers Soundtrack and I want to know what's said in the spoken into. It ends with "spare the child and spoil the rod. I have not sold myself to God". I'd sincerely appreciate help with the rest.

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            althoughtheuseof — 18 years ago(June 30, 2007 09:42 PM)

            Thanks for the name and lyrics. I appretiate your help.

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              sugahbythebayou — 18 years ago(February 25, 2008 03:15 PM)

              SO WHY EXACTLY DID SHE CHOOSE THAT WORD TO DESCRIBE HERSELF AS OUTCAST?

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                orchidclub — 17 years ago(June 12, 2008 12:40 PM)

                I can't answer for Patti, but I think it's because black people used to be outcasts from society. This song is her way of taking the word and using it to describe any kind of outcast, regardless of race.

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                  ebyrne288 — 16 years ago(April 23, 2009 11:50 AM)

                  I haven't beep much with the past, but I've beep plenty with the future. Over the skin of silk are scars from the splinters of stations and walls I've caressed. A stage is like each bolt of wood, like a log of Helen, is my pleasure. I would measure the success of a night by the way by the way by the amount of piss and seed I could exude over the columns that nestled the P.A. Some nights I'd surprise everybody by skipping off with a skirt of green net sewed over with flat metallic circles which dazzled and flashed. The lights were violet and white. I had an ornamental veil, but I couldn't bear to use it. When my hair was cropped, I craved covering, but now my hair itself is a veil, and the scalp inside is a scalp of a crazy and sleepy Comanche lies beneath this netting of the skin. I wake up. I am lying peacefully I am lying peacefully and my knees are open to the sun. I desire him, and he is absolutely ready to seize me. In heart I am a Moslem; in heart I am an American; in heart I am Moslem, in heart I'm
                  an American artist, and I have no guilt. I seek pleasure. I seek the nerves under your skin. The narrow archway; the layers; the scroll of ancient lettuce. We worship the flaw, the belly, the belly, the mole on the belly of an exquisite whore. He spared the child and spoiled the rod. I have not sold myself to God.

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                    Indie_Mod — 15 years ago(July 21, 2010 09:06 AM)

                    Whe Patti Smith used the word beep she did used it in the same aggression that the racists would use it, but in this case she's using it to replace the word outcast, as one of the posters said before me. She's a poet and she's a punk so it seems fitting that she would use an offensive word like that.

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                      Bree_33 — 15 years ago(November 24, 2010 08:45 AM)

                      The song is about stereotypes, individuality and being crazy. Someone who is, as she says, 'outside of society,' and * a rebel ('In my heart I am an American artist') and she does what she wants - 'I was lost in a valley of pleasure and the cost didn't matter to me, the cost was to be outside of society.' Then she references Jimi Hendrix, Jesus Christ, Grandma and Jackson Pollock (an artist) and how they were all 'n i g g e rs,' or outcasts.
                      Dont Wanna be
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