Whiteworld/Oedipus-Patricia Barber

[ti:WhiteworldOedipus] [ar:Patricia Barber] [al:mythologies] [offset:0] [00:01.69]Whiteworld/Oedipus - Patricia Barber [00:08.11]I arrive in the jungle [00:09.34]In my new khaki clothes [00:11.83]Make a splash in a pontoon plane [00:13.64]Bought and paid for by those [00:15.21]Who demand a tally [00:16.65]Of the dark horse, the bad seed [00:18.52]Poking and prodding progenitors [00:19.48] [00:20.00]Of respiratory disease are we [00:22.99] [00:25.56]Whiteworld [00:26.87] [00:33.26]I have institutions in the West [00:35.03]To make institutions in the East [00:37.35]I historically revise [00:38.17]With Deconstructionist ease [00:41.24]To name is to own [00:42.49]To market is to steal [00:43.56]I’m a gangster in a Hummer [00:46.19]& this culture will yield to me [00:47.82] [00:51.46]Whiteworld [00:52.34] [00:59.81]My policy is straight [01:00.94]My publisher primed [01:03.51]The natives will not [01:04.71]Resist this time [01:06.15]Cause I’ve got celebrity [01:08.84]I translate, I teach [01:10.10]I give my heart, my soul, [01:11.97]My brains, my body, and my [01:13.61]Batteries [01:14.68] [01:16.75]Whiteworld [01:17.81] [02:39.10]I came on my journey [02:41.74]To a juncture of three roads [02:44.18]Two men in a chariot [02:46.50]Made it impossible to go [02:48.31]I struck the driver [02:49.89]For pushing me aside [02:51.71]The old man struck me back [02:53.68]So that I [02:56.30]Had to kill them all [03:00.49] [03:03.19]Whiteworld [03:04.83] [04:43.93]I can change water into wine [04:45.73]Solve the riddle for the Sphinx [04:47.60]I like the perfectly primitive [04:49.47]Cause they desperately need [04:51.46]My sovereignty [04:52.34]Over Third World Thebes [04:55.08]I’m a First World Oedipus [04:57.09]And Mother Earth is [04:58.47]Down on her knees [05:00.42] [05:02.00]Whiteworld