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LUMPENPROLETARIAT—From Pedro Infante and Vicente Fernandez to Prince and Michael Jackson and Mike Tyson, and Andy Bell, Robert Smith, and Morrissey. Oh, and we mustn’t forget Bowie. Who knows what it means to be a man anymore? But, perhaps, we’re starting to figure out what it sure as hell doesn’t.
—Messina
“I’m Not a Man” (2014) by Morrissey
Don Juan
Picaresque
Wife beater vest
Cold hand
Ice man
Warring cave man
Well, if this is what it takes to describe…
I’m not a man
Wheeler, dealer
Mover, shaker
Casanova
Beefaroni
A-ho, but lonely
Well, if this is what it takes to describe…
I’m not a man
I’m not a man
I’m something much bigger and better than
A man
Wise-ass
Smart-ass
Workaholic
Thick-skinned
Two-fisted hombre, olé
Well, if these are terms you’d use to describe…
Oh, I’m shaking
Look at me; I’m quaking
True grit
True blue
Kill crazy
So very manly of you
You are the soldier
Who won’t get much older
You are the slow Joe
Who signed up to go
Wolf down
Wolf down
T-bone steak
Wolf down
Cancer of the prostate
Ways to sit
And, of course
Ways to stand
I’m not a man
I’m not a man
No big fat locker room
Hockey jock
Laughing
I’m not a man
I’d never kill or eat an animal
And I never would destroy this planet I’m on
Well, what do you think I am?
A man?
Songwriter: MORRISSEY, STEVEN
I’m Not a Man lyrics © Artemis Muziekuitgeverij
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