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	Current version of Patti Smith Lyrics Babelogue (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/p/patti-smith/babelogue/) Current version of the lyrics						Version 1 of Patti Smith Lyrics Babelogue (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/p/patti-smith/babelogue/v1.html) Version 1 of the lyrics
1	I haven't fucked much with the past						I haven't fucked much with the past, but I've	1
2	But I've fucked plenty with the future						fucked plenty with the future. Over the skin of	2
3	Over the skin of silk are scars from the splinters						silk are scars from the splinters of stations and	3
4	Of stations and walls I've caressed						walls I've caressed. A stage is like each bolt of	4
5							wood, like a log of Helen, is my pleasure. I would	5
6	A stage is like each bolt of wood like a						measure the success                   of a night by the way by the	6
7	Like a log         of Helen, is my pleasure						way by the amount of piss and seed I could exude	7
8	I would measure the success of a night						over                 the columns that nestled the P.A. Some nights	8
9	By the way by the way by the amount of piss						I'd surprise everybody by skipping off with a	9
10							skirt of green net sewed over with flat metallic	10
11	And seed I could exude over the columns that nestled the P.A.						circles which dazzled and flashed. The lights were	11
12	Some nights I'd surprise everybody by skipping off						violet and white. I had an ornamental veil, but I	12
13	With a skirt of green net sewed over						couldn't bear to use it. When my hair was cropped,	13
14	With flat metallic circles which dazzled and flashed						I craved covering, but now my hair itself is a	14
15							veil, and the scalp inside is a scalp of a crazy	15
16	The lights were violet and white, I had an ornamental veil						and sleepy Comanche lies beneath this netting of	16
17	But        I couldn't bear to use it, when my hair was cropped						the skin. I wake up. I am lying peacefully I am	17
18	I craved covering but now that my hair itself is a veil						lying peacefully and                 my knees are open to the sun.	18
19	And the scalp inside is a scalp of a crazy and sleepy						I desire him,                                     and he is absolutely ready to seize	19
20							me. In heart I am a Moslem; in heart I am an	20
21	Comanche lies beneath this netting of the skin						American; in heart I am Moslem, in heart I'm an	21
22	I wake up,         I am lying peacefully, I am lying peacefully						American artist, and I have no guilt. I seek	22
23	And my knees are open to the sun						pleasure. I seek                the nerves under your skin. The	23
24	I desire him, and he is absolutely ready to seize me						narrow archway; the layers; the scroll of ancient	24
25							lettuce. We worship the flaw, the belly, the	25
26	In, in heart I am a Moslem, in heart I am an American						belly, the mole on the belly of                   an exquisite	26
27	In heart I am Moslem, in heart I'm an American artist						whore. He spared the child and spoiled the rod. I	27
28	And I have no guilt						have not sold myself to God.	28
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2	I seek pleasure, I seek the nerves under your skin							2
3	The narrow archway, the layers, the scroll of ancient lettuce							3
4	We worship the flaw, the belly, the belly							4
5	The mole on the belly of an exquisite whore							5
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7	He spared the child and spoiled the rod							7
8	I have not sold myself to God							8

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