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Prepare yourself
To swallow all your diamonds & your rings
& all your ticky shiny windy things
Don't scare yourself
The photos in the newspapers are blurred
The radio is broadcasting a word
Beware, yourself
Your neighbors aren't neighbors anymore
They're leaning with a glass against your door
Take care of yourself
& hoist into The air your disbelief
Just go ahead & give yourself relief
Get ready for your Inner Emigration
Get ready to be alien inside
Consider all your social obligations
The Borders are your foreign order bride
You won't ever have to leave your nation
You won't ever have to even try
Just make a secret Inner Emigration
& you won't ever have to say goodbye
Well Hannah was at home
In the Berlin cabarets of '32
But in '33 the weather turned
& the Brownshirts all turned loose
& the rumors there were bad
Her Sozi lover Alex was getting scared
He heard that his name was on a list
For having red friends & brown hair
He wanted be get out
& Hannah could've gone
With him to his family in Ukraine
But instead she took a walk out in the rain
Through her Berlin
& thought about how this weather it would pass
& how things had always worked out in the past
She made a kind of Inner Emigration
She started to feel alien inside
From all the social marginalization
Her sense of place was starting to be tried
But She couldn't bear abandoning her nation
She didn't want it all to pass her by
So people make their Inner Emigrations
Till one by one they have to say goodbye
Well Sasha had heard about the эмиграцие
& the talk wasn't just in the family Anymore
But in the Kharkov streets there was a kind of thaw
"We're going home"
Said old Saminsky
When he filed his application to leave
& Anya already had family in Tel Aviv
But Sasha didn't know
200 years
Among Slavs being called Hebrews
He knew they'd only be called
Russians among Jews
& then on the Proskpekt Lenina Avtobus
She heard the Saminskys lost their apartment
& were denied their pass
The weather seemed like it was never gonna pass
He chose to make an Inner Emigration
He chose to keep his alien inside
All the bureaucratic frustrations
He chose to keep his status bona fide
& what's the bother finding a new nation
A border isn't art it's just a frame
Just make a secret Inner Emigration
The holy land & exile are the same
Anat was a Sabra
The daughter of a Sephardic Kibbutznik nurse
& a Yekke lawyer from Bonn
She fell in love with Kais
Born in a PLO refugee camp
In southern Lebanon
& they married in Cyprus
He almost got arrested
Living with her family in Ramat Gan
So she tried wrapping her hair
& serving coffee with his family in Hebron
But that didn't work either
They thought about leaving
To live with her cousin David in Brooklyn
But he & his boyfriend Patrick
Wanted to get married
& were maybe moving to Berlin
So she went to the Jaffa beach & stared at the sea
& thought about how someday all of this would pass
If she could only find someone to help Kais pass
So should she make an Inner Emigration
Tell me what you think she should decide
Considering the couple's situation
She'd be better off as someone else's bride
But she & he comprise a kind of nation
The kind we build inside when we're alone
But if they just make inner emigrations
Then they'll only have a home when they're at home
Compare yourself
What does this all they have to do with you
How dose your experience ring true
You're where, yourself
You aren't suffering anyone's regime
You're free to follow every little dream
Be fair to yourself
You needn't be oppressed to feel alone
You don't have to be driven from your home
To spare yourself from felling like a part of the control
With an internal diplomatic role
So make a kind of Inner Emigration
It's a kind of shift accomplished easily
We all have made our disassociations
Whether on the job or in the family
And what could be more irrelevant than nations
When everywhere you go it's buy or sell
But if we all make only Inner Emigrations
Then everything will only go to hell
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