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Kamikaze Cupcake asks for advice from her grandmother.

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Coming back from her walk
she sat down to have a talk
with her Granma rocking in her chair.
She said Granma take off your ear phones.
Turn down that rock and roll and talk to me.

I must decide what to be now that I’ve got my PhD.
But I really like to rock out
so can you help me talk out.
What should I do? What should I be?

Hey, Kid, don’t mumble,
Stand strong, don’t be too humble.
Know I’ll be there if you tumble,
but you’ll have to let yourself stumble.
I can’t tell you what to do or what to be.

You’re from a line of Women’s Libbers,
Twenties flappers and sinners,
Suffragettes chained to fences,
and they have a consensus
that no one can tell you who to be.
Granma just one thing, will you come and hear me sing
in the subway late at night,
if by day I wear a white lab coat.
Granma will you come hear me sing?

Hey Kid if you go to the Paris Metro,
or when you’re in Oslo
to receive your first Nobel Prize,
I’ll be there to hear you sing.

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from Kamikaze Cupcake: A Life, released November 1, 2010

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