Victim in a Vacuum

From Tp Fake Book

From Gravity's Rainbow, pages 414-415

Victim in a Vacuum!

Nur...ein...Op-fer!
Sehr ins Vakuum

{“Won’t somebody take advantage of me?”)
Wird nieman ausnut-zen mich, auch?
(“Just a slave with nobody to slave for,”
Nur ein Sklave, ohne Her-rin, (ya – ta, ya –ta)
(“A-and who th’heck wants ta be, free?”)
Wer zum Teufel die Freiheit, braucht?

(All together now, all you masochists out there, specially those of you don’t have a partner tonight, alone with those fantasies that don’t look they’ll ever come true – want you just to join in here with your brothers and sisters, let each other know you’re alive and sincere, try to break through the silences, try to reach through and connect ....)

Aw, the sodium lights-aren’t, so bright in Berlin
I go to the bards dear, but nobody’s in!
Oh, I’d much rather bee
In a Greek trage-dee,
Than be a VICTIM IN A VACUUM to-nite!