My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist Lyrics

Lyric discussion by jxnarcoticz 

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yeah thats what I was wondering. Because you know, World War II, and then rock and roll... Don't make sense.

@jxnarcoticz actually, it does make sense. it's just very bizarre, but how fun because how interesting, you know? anyhow, at the time communist yugoslavia actually had a growing rock scene---punk rock, metal, you name it were all subgenres during the fifties. if his parents met in pre-war paris (1938-1939?) then his sister could have been born in 1940. "later found by a communist" is pretty vague, but by the fifties, she'd be into her teens and by the sixties, she'd be into her twenties. it does work.

it's possible meloy was referencing that. he likes to be historical, so...