Inner Emigration-the Painted Bird/Daniel Kahn

[00:03.360]Prepare yourself [00:05.011]To swallow all your diamonds & your rings [00:08.387]& all your ticky shiny windy things [00:11.780]Don't scare yourself [00:13.625]The photos in the newspapers are blurred [00:16.842]The radio is broadcasting a word [00:20.324]Beware, yourself [00:22.042]Your neighbors aren't neighbors anymore [00:25.363]They're leaning with a glass against your door [00:28.500]Take care of yourself [00:30.529]& hoist into The air your disbelief [00:33.822]Just go ahead & give yourself relief [00:38.916]Get ready for your Inner Emigration [00:42.399]Get ready to be alien inside [00:45.928]Consider all your social obligations [00:49.228]The Borders are your foreign order bride [00:52.641]You won't ever have to leave your nation [00:56.175]You won't ever have to even try [00:59.362]Just make a secret Inner Emigration [01:02.988]& you won't ever have to say goodbye [01:11.409]Well Hannah was at home [01:12.962]In the Berlin cabarets of '32 [01:16.365]But in '33 the weather turned [01:18.000]& the Brownshirts all turned loose [01:19.710]& the rumors there were bad [01:21.434]Her Sozi lover Alex was getting scared [01:24.238]He heard that his name was on a list [01:25.934]For having red friends & brown hair [01:28.702]He wanted be get out [01:29.901]& Hannah could've gone [01:31.042]With him to his family in Ukraine [01:33.299]But instead she took a walk out in the rain [01:36.681]Through her Berlin [01:38.372]& thought about how this weather it would pass [01:41.671]& how things had always worked out in the past [01:45.179]She made a kind of Inner Emigration [01:48.533]She started to feel alien inside [01:52.066]From all the social marginalization [01:55.266]Her sense of place was starting to be tried [01:58.625]But She couldn't bear abandoning her nation [02:02.179]She didn't want it all to pass her by [02:05.610]So people make their Inner Emigrations [02:08.963]Till one by one they have to say goodbye [02:20.734]Well Sasha had heard about the эмиграцие [02:23.083]& the talk wasn't just in the family Anymore [02:25.369]But in the Kharkov streets there was a kind of thaw [02:29.597]"We're going home" [02:30.725]Said old Saminsky [02:31.592]When he filed his application to leave [02:34.029]& Anya already had family in Tel Aviv [02:37.765]But Sasha didn't know [02:39.375]200 years [02:40.253]Among Slavs being called Hebrews [02:42.430]He knew they'd only be called [02:43.715]Russians among Jews [02:45.981]& then on the Proskpekt Lenina Avtobus [02:48.081]She heard the Saminskys lost their apartment [02:50.181]& were denied their pass [02:51.607]The weather seemed like it was never gonna pass [02:54.681]He chose to make an Inner Emigration [02:58.161]He chose to keep his alien inside [03:01.583]All the bureaucratic frustrations [03:04.543]He chose to keep his status bona fide [03:08.579]& what's the bother finding a new nation [03:12.014]A border isn't art it's just a frame [03:15.421]Just make a secret Inner Emigration [03:18.966]The holy land & exile are the same [03:30.172]Anat was a Sabra [03:31.657]The daughter of a Sephardic Kibbutznik nurse [03:34.467]& a Yekke lawyer from Bonn [03:36.364]She fell in love with Kais [03:38.047]Born in a PLO refugee camp [03:39.714]In southern Lebanon [03:40.810]& they married in Cyprus [03:42.669]He almost got arrested [03:43.919]Living with her family in Ramat Gan [03:46.300]So she tried wrapping her hair [03:47.726]& serving coffee with his family in Hebron [03:51.313]But that didn't work either [03:53.305]They thought about leaving [03:54.240]To live with her cousin David in Brooklyn [03:56.524]But he & his boyfriend Patrick [03:58.235]Wanted to get married [03:59.047]& were maybe moving to Berlin [04:01.589]So she went to the Jaffa beach & stared at the sea [04:04.202]& thought about how someday all of this would pass [04:08.266]If she could only find someone to help Kais pass [04:12.650]So should she make an Inner Emigration [04:16.968]Tell me what you think she should decide [04:21.330]Considering the couple's situation [04:25.548]She'd be better off as someone else's bride [04:29.863]But she & he comprise a kind of nation [04:34.343]The kind we build inside when we're alone [04:38.610]But if they just make inner emigrations [04:42.992]Then they'll only have a home when they're at home [04:49.274]Compare yourself [04:50.849]What does this all they have to do with you [04:54.362]How dose your experience ring true [04:57.701]You're where, yourself [04:59.624]You aren't suffering anyone's regime [05:02.880]You're free to follow every little dream [05:06.213]Be fair to yourself [05:08.035]You needn't be oppressed to feel alone [05:11.408]You don't have to be driven from your home [05:14.785]To spare yourself from felling like a part of the control [05:19.769]With an internal diplomatic role [05:25.131]So make a kind of Inner Emigration [05:30.816]It's a kind of shift accomplished easily [05:35.892]We all have made our disassociations [05:40.963]Whether on the job or in the family [05:45.711]And what could be more irrelevant than nations [05:51.087]When everywhere you go it's buy or sell [05:55.302]But if we all make only Inner Emigrations [06:00.902]Then everything will only go to hell