"I am Mike. It's just... it's like I was Mike for a while, and then I went and lived Estavan's life.
And now I'm back, and I have to be Mike again. Except it's not that simple.
It isn't one and then the other, it's just... both of them, sort of--jammed together."
--Mike, Passing for Normal

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"It's a War in There"

~lyrics performed by Dar Williams~

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"Well, you have been kind, and I know it seems hopeless"




"You smooth the ground, tear the knots all apart"




"You're helping me move from the inside to the outside"




"You're trying so hard and I can't even start"




"It's a war in there... it's a war in there"




"Well, you peacemakers go to the same place as soldiers"




"If you want to make peace, well, you gotta find the pain"




"And you bring your words, but you're just like them"




"You're unprepared, 'cause you don't know the terrain"




"It's a war in there... it's a war in there"




"And don't you know, I'll never give you a medal"




"Made back on stateside in the central time zone"




"The one that they pin to the outside, to the outside"




"And it leads you all the way home"




"It's a war in there... it's a war in there"




"But you can hold me now"




"You can hold me now"


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