Notes:
"It could be about a mental institution, going to vote,
a police station or waiting to get blood taken in a doctor's
office. The context isn't so important. It's whether I hit the
emptional bull's-eye that makes a difference to me. The actual
events here are a combination of a doctor's office and voting.
When I was a kid, I'd go to the clinics with my mother. If you
don't have any money, you go to free clinics, which means you
wait for hours. And it's all dependent on this one person in
charge, who, if she's dropped your card on the floor or she's
having a bad day - well, you'll wait forever. It's extremely
dehumanizing to feel that you're just one of a million people,
and that a lot of people have your last name and no one cares
enough to pick you out. That's where the rage comes in. You
want to say, "I want to go in now," because you've
waited for hours and hours."
"The Open Hand Book - Notes on her
New Album", Musician, 1991, also published in Language
and in the Limited Edition of 99.9F° (http://www.vega.net/handbook.htm)
transcribed by Eric Szczerbinski
