I was born in 1979.
I was just a look in my daddy's eye.
I put it into my mama's mind
to push me through her thighs.

I was enraged
with the black ops sent by the CIA.
I was packing things for Angola;
she said "No, you're just an embryo!"

When I came into this world,
I wanted to be premature.
I said "Mama, I gotta come out soon!"
I kicked against the womb.

I was born in 1961.
I was born to be a son of a gun.
a hot day in Dallas, my mother's water broke.
contractions started, but I was late to the show.

I was born in 1917
when the guns of October sowed my seed.
I was born in 1908
when my battleship was sittin' at the dock of the bay.

lyrics by The Make-Up