| There are really two kinds of public figures
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| Or two, as I really see in terms of abstract gatherings of them
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| I mean, there, there are idols and there are heroes
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| And they, they serve two different functions
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| And are present in two very different kind of societies
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| Which is, an idol is something that really exists beyond the people
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| It does their living for them
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| An idol is something that teaches people what they can’t be
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| You know, I mean it exists in a sense
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| As a negation of the people who worship it
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| You know, Marilyn Monroe
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| Marilyn Monroe is worshiped, you know
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| By countless numbers of people who know
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| They’ll never be Marilyn Monroe
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| And because they know that they’ll never be Marilyn Monroe
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| They worship Marilyn Monroe
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| I mean the other one is hero
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| And a hero is something that teaches people
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| What they can be
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| I mean a hero is an available model
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| You know, that doesn’t exist as something
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| That’s impossible to reach
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| But really exists as the embodiment
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| Of what everybody could be
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| If I’m going to be a hero
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| Then I’m going to insist on making everybody a hero
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| I mean, that’s the only way I can relate to it
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| You know, because, I was in a place in my former life
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| That I was afraid to go out to dinner, you know, and eat
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| In my favorite Mexican restaurant
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| Because everybody stared when I came in, you know
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| I honestly don’t intend to have my life shoved around like that
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| Because it’s really a very destructive process
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| How were you intending to finish?
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| You didn’t say
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| We’re waiting for word from David’s lawyer’s office
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| And they said nothing came in the mail, so we’re…
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| I found out this morning that my appeals are over
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| And so, I’m not going to surrender myself
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| Because I figure if somebody’s going to take
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| Three years of your life, the least they can do
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| Is give you a ride
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| You know, it, it shouldn’t be too much
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| For someone to come up here and arrest me
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| I mean, I don’t like the idea of me walking
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| Into their jail that way
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| I mean, let 'em come up and bust me for what I do
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| I’d like to give them a chance to see what they’re doing
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| I mean I am leaving my nice scene behind
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| I am leaving my wife pregnant
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| I am leaving all those things
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| And I think that the least any man who comes to arrest me
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| Ought to do is see that
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| You know, I mean, let him know the reality
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| Of what he does
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| Let him see, let him step out from behind his padded gloves
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| You know, let him take his dark glasses off
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| And take a look |