The Refused

"The Refused" is the fifth and final movement of Mark Fax's song cycle Five Black Songs with text by Jo Ann Harris.

Composer: Mark FaxSong Collection: Five Black Songs

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    The childish,

    The rejected,

    forlorn, lost, hideous, ignorant, poor

    The neurotic,

    The psychotic,

    addicted, uncouth, crude, strange, perverted

    All of them.

    Are these the outcasts?

    But why?

    Who are the in-casts?

    Who are the judges?

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