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Bells From The Deep - Werner Herzog

“I used to be a Movie-Projectionist — 

Now I ring The Bells.

I grew up in an orphanage.

When I was 2, They put me 

in a children’s home 

because someone had 

found me on The Street.

Now I am glad I can 

make people happy with My Art.

The People •need• 

The Sound of The Bells.

My Name is 

Yuri Yuravich Yuraev —

The first people that looked after me 

at The Orphanage told me 

I had given MYSELF that name.

When they asked My Name,

My First Name, 

My Middle Name,

My Family Name,

I always answered “Yuri”.

and so they called me,

‘The Three Yous’.

From that day to this, 

I still wonder Who I am, and 

What Happened to My Parents.

I never knew them,

and would give anything 

in The World to meet them.

I was born in 1944 when 

The War was still on — 

The War, or more probably 

The Stalin Repressions 

were the reason why I lost My Parents.

Ever since I keep looking for them, 

but all in vain.

The only entries in My Passport 

are The Year and Place of My Birth, 

the town of Muron; but there is no record there 

of anyone that might be My Parents."