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White Girl, market at Van Ness
Heels to drag, discombobulated
Air all soft around, hear the man singing
Inclines and wires, Telegraph Avenue
Look away and she's eastbound, out of sight
Dropped here by the hand of the Astronaut
Builder of the pyramids, the man from outer space
Innocent farmgirl raised by the aliens
Out in Northridge, out in the larger world
Look away and she's eastbound, out of sight
Up out of sight, white girl, white girl
Heels to drag, discombobulated
Air all soft around, hear the man singing
Inclines and wires, Telegraph Avenue
Look away and she's eastbound, out of sight
Dropped here by the hand of the Astronaut
Builder of the pyramids, the man from outer space
Innocent farmgirl raised by the aliens
Out in Northridge, out in the larger world
Look away and she's eastbound, out of sight
Up out of sight, white girl, white girl
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" Saw a girl in New York, she moved to San Francisco, went out to visit her, realized she was perhaps not the sanest person I had ever met in my life. I told her she was like those children raised by wolves, only she was raised by the aliens. She had this sort of sweet and wholesome thing to her, and this huge despairing darkness beneath the surface. I believe she is a schoolteacher now.
The White Girl part came from reading a newspaper and realizing that whenever a news item involved a black girl, she was described as a Black Girl, but when there was an item about a White Girl, she was described simply as a Girl. "