He has an audience, too,an audience that claps
The audience is us the reader and we applaud for him, not really knowing the truth of what he did
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a mouth, open like a chasm,
show that he struggled when he died
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What does it mean to die all this death in a place where the darkness plays all this silence?
What's the point of dying when its meaning less
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until the bones begin to rattle --the bones in bags,
This mean when the truth of the victims story comes out
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.the full bag finally in her hand,unlike her disappointed neighborwho has not yet found her own.
The neighbor seems upset because she didn't find what she was looking for.
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The dictator has a heart, too,a balloon that never pops
This show it doesn't matter how much people he kills he never has guilt
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The dictator is the director of a great tragedy
Hussein killed and burned thousands of people in1991
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because the dictator does not give receiptswhen he takes your life?
The dictator was Hussein
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To give back to your mother on the occasion of death a handful of bones
When parents were looking for there kids and family members most of them were handed back bones because they were missing
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dug up with questions:
when the U.S. soldiers came they found a mass grave with died body's of the Iraq people
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not in this place noisy with skulls and bones and dust
This shows that its noisy due to the us soldiers coming to save the rest of the people
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a nose that never knew clean air,
since war was going the air must be filled with dust of dirt
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Two eyes or holes
since war was going on it could be gun shot's
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What good luck!
She starts it like she has found something good
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like thousands of bones in the mass graveyard,
When she says this it makes me think that since there is so many bones, is she at a place were war is going on
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in all other trembling hands. His bones,
She was scared because had a dead's person bones in her hand
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To depart without death or birth certificates
He came to the world without anything and he died without leaving a trace
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with which he listened to music that told his own story,
Is she saying that the music predicted his death
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She has found his bones.
Did she know this person?
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Itʹs full as Opera
There's lots of people there
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Nor any Placard boast me ‑
No one acknowledges her when she performs
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Nor any know I know the ArtI mention ‑ easy ‑ Here ‑
She's referring ballet to are and that its easy
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Nor tossed my shape in Eider Balls,
Eider is a type of bird with really soft feather, so she referring to the lightness and swiftness of a ballerina
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In Pirouette to blanch a Troupe ‑Or lay a Prima, mad,
The different moves in ballet
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That had I Ballet Knowledge ‑Would put itself abroad
She's saying that if she know ballet she would dance world wide
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And though I had no Gown of Gauze ‑No Ringlet, to my Hair,
It seemed that she didn't really care about her appearance much.
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Nor hopped for Audiences ‑ like Birds ‑One Claw opon the air ‑
The birds would represent her wanting to be free, but the claw would represent that something is holding her back from freedom.
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Nor rolled on wheels of snowTill I was out of sight, in sound,The House encore me so
She wanted to be free and go to her comfort place which would be her home
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No Man instructed me ‑
She felt like she didn't need a man to tell her what to do
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I cannot dance opon my Toes ‑
I feel like something is holding her back or that she is injured.
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I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
She opening the door to freedom to those seeking freedom and better life
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Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
She wants all the people who are homeless to come to her if they are willing
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Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
She's telling a large crowd who are in need to be free
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With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
She telling them to get back on their feet because, there's freedom there
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The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
This refers to New York Harbor between New York City and Brooklyn
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From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The beacon shows that light for welcoming immigrants everywhere
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Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
that statue is in the sea
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Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
saying the statue is not going to be like the Greek ones
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From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome;
This show that she is welcoming people who are in need of help
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Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.
The statue of liberty called mother of exile because it welcomes all immigrants and refugees who are in need of help
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A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Statue of liberty
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A third before he dropped her put her arms Around his neck and kissed him.
She was thankful that she survived
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Away from the masonry wall and let her drop. And then another. As if he were helping them up
Someone came and help them get out of the building
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The witness in a building across the street
Saw what was going on in the building
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Who watched how a young man helped a girl to step Up to the windowsill, then held her out
Helped to save her from the burning fire
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One hundred and forty-six died in the flames
Those are the people who weren't able to get out of the building
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On the ninth floor, no hydrants, no fire escapes—
They were stuck in the building while it was on fire
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he presser, the cutter, The wringer, the mangle. The needle, the union, The treadle, the bobbin.
Shows the steps how the shirts were made by a machine
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Turned in a sweatshop by Koreans or Malaysians
That's were the shirt was made from
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The nearly invisible stitches along the collar
She works at a place that makes clothes
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She burns like oil on water.
Water and oil doesn't mix so was the fire an accident
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We stand with our handshanging at our sides,while she burns
This show that they cant do anything
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A skirt of flamesdances around herat dusk.
This shows that the fire surrounded her
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in a thigh-shaped valley.
Maybe that's were he saw her burning
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She burns like foxfire
He see her burning like if she was like light
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she burns like a piece of paper.
This shows that she is delicate because when fire touches a paper it turns to ash quickly
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belongs to a girl still burninginside my head
Maybe he saw a girl crying when he was in the war and its been repeating in his mind.
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The cry I bring down from the hills
Been through some painful memories
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And then run?
Why would he be running from a dream he wants? Or maybe he's running way because its to painful.
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Or does it explode?
Maybe the dream has come true,or it disintegrate since its been postpone for so long.
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Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
The dream sits there because it was postponed
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Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet?
The dream was sweet when thinking about it but now its all dries up
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Does it stink like rotten meat?
At one point you want the meat when it was fresh,but now that it's rotten you don't want it anymore
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Or fester like a sore—
The dream becomes painful
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What happens to a dream deferred?
A dream deferred means to postpone,but why is his dream being postpone?
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Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
Does it disappear or is it forgotten about
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I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times
He reminiscing about how times were easier and none of this stuff was happening
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Arrest me, blaming us, we're held like hostages
talking about how the cops blaming them that there the reason crimes are going on
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I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
He saying never let your guard down,and stay alert because if you do let your guard down you are the most vulnerable
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There was a snitch on the block getting negroes knocked
Some people would snitch
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There was a snitch on the block getting negroes knocked
People would snitch and get others killed
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Got younger negroes pulling the triggers, bringing fame to their name
In order to be know in the streets you have to do some type of killing.
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So what you saying?) It's like the game ain't the same
seem that he's taking life for granted because it happens almost everyday but in reality its life or death once you step in the streets.
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Finally pulled it back and saw 3 bullets caught up in the chamberSo now I'm jetting to the building lobby
Since he had three bullets left he ran to the lobby for safety
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Try to cock it, it wouldn't shoot, now I'm in danger
He cant shoot anymore because of his gun so his life is on the line
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Once they caught us off-guard, the Mac-10 was in the grass and
Saying that they always have to be armed and paying attention cause you never know whats going to happen
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Time to start the revolution, catch a body, head for Houston
Basically saying that hes about to start a war in the streets by killing somebody
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Negroes be running through the block shootin'
Talking about gang violence
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Laughing at baseheads trying to sell some broken amps
Making fun of people who are selling things to make money
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Or either on the corner betting Grants with the cee-lo champs
Hes basically is playing dice for money
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I keep some E&J, sitting bent up in the stairway
He saying that in hard time he always has a drink to take his mind off of things
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Hand me a nine and I'll defeat foes
A nine is gun so he's basically saying he'll shoot the opp's (enemy).
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Bullet holes left in my peepholes, I'm suited up in street clothes
That he is use to violence happening so he basically ready
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Holding an M-16, see with the pen I'm extreme, now
It seem that he thinks that he has a gun makes him more intimidating
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Of pain, I'm like Scarface smelling amphetamines
Scarface is another rapper that used drug
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Rappers, I monkey flip 'em with the funky rhythm
He saying his bars are so good that it makes other rappers think twice
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I don't know how to start this stuff, yo
So much stuff is going through his mind that he doesn't know were to start
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Straight out the friggin dungeons of rap
it seem that his life has been surround around rap his hole life
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Yeah yeah, aiyyo black it's time (word?)(Word, it's time negro?)
He's hyping them up to start
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Where fake negroes don't make it back
Maybe when he said fake negroes means people who ratted other people out and got killed because of that
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Gave another squeeze, heard it click, "yo, my stuff is stuck"
it seem that he was trying to shoot someone but his gun got jammed
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in the chalk and choke.
I think she has maybe died and the chalk that she talks about is the light she see to be free
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in the many many mornings-after;
Even though its a new day she still needs help from the darkness
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cultivation of strength to heal and enhancein the non-cheering dark,
She needs help to gain strength and heal but she can't do that while she's in the dark.
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I call for you
She keeps calling for help again
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Overwhat wants to crumble you down, to sickenyou.
Something is trying to bring her down
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cultivation of victory Overlong blows that you want to give and blows you are going to get.
it seems that she wants victory then trying to overcome whats going on
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I call for you
She is still calling for help from someone
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Where it is dry.Where it is dry.
I don't understand why she is in a dry place,when she is calling for strength
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Under the wolves and coyotes of particular silences.
She feels trapped and surrounded like someone is after her,and its weird that the wolves and coyotes are quite usually the are loud
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Dark gardening
This show that she is scared,but she is in the garden meaning that there is great potential in the garden
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in the hot paralysis.
She cant move due to the lack of strength that she has
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in the vertigo cold.
She feels dizzy and cold,which shows that she alone in a cell
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I call for you cultivation of strength in the dark.
She is waiting for strength especially when she is in the dark
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