my name (dialogue)

Singer:davies, ray

my name is of no importance. you see

i'm a product of a century which started at the height of class-conscious imperialism and ended with a society so reduced to totalitarian commonness that in my final years at college the saying 'mediocrity rises' became very popular. and being mediocre

i rose. but you're not supposed to laugh at that. my generation has been taught to be so in touch with the latest fashion that we have become faceless; we're victims of design. but

oddly enough

although i was taught to think of myself as a man with no face

somewhere inside my soul i believe that one day i'll become an individual