Mad Kate/the Tide - Only One Person Lyrics

You --
You're only one person
But I can make a robot
To look like me
You --
You're only one person
But I can make a robot
To look like me
And be me
Then I can be two--
Or three

Overcome by possibility
I sit in the middle of this continuum
(Choosing porn over a rape crisis center),
One small window into a million lives
Multiple life partnerships
A trailer in a dyke commune
An academic's life in London
Singledom in Mexico City
On the land in the desert
Gas station hustler's life on the road to Budapest.
Rape crisis center in Detroit,
Punk squatter freegan in San Francisco with you.

It's a slap in the face
The impossible restriction of time
Not all these lives can be truly lived by me.
Time is the limiting factor in the end,
And we must choose
I'm grasping for the reason of being here,
And nowhere else
Even as I realize that this "radical circle"
Is not at every front line.
The lives of farmers and shepherds,
Some of them children,
Taken by NATO drones.
Those lives go unaccounted for.
They are not "alive enough" for many of us to register.
We are not there,
Standing next to them,
In place of them.

This life, that one;
A peep show in Germany
Juxtapose soldiers sent to Iraq
Sucking the cunt of a young queer liberated dyke;
We have made a space in this place,
Temporarily unbothered by the wider web
Because
If every life were really alive to us,
The depth of our mourning would be unending