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Patti Smith
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Memento Mori
Lyricist:Jay Dee Daugherty, Leonard Kaye, Oliver Ray, Tony Shanahan, Patricia Smith
The fans were whirlin' Like the blades of a 'copter Liftin' into the skies above some foreign land Soaked with the bodies of so many friends
Johnny waved, he was on his way home He waved goodbye to his comrades in arms And all the twisted things he'd seen He waved goodbye
And the blades hit somethin' Maybe just Fate but the blades hit The 'copter went up in flames And Johnny never went marchin' home Johnny never went marchin' home
They took his name And they carved it on a slab of marble With several thousand other names All the fallen idols The apples of their mother's eye just another name
Meanwhile back on that burning shore Johnny's comrades stood speechless They looked with uh-uh-uh-uh-uh disbelievin' eyes As those bits of metal and the embers The embers of his eyes fanned out into the air, black dust flames
Oh Johnny, some day they'll make a movie about you And in the makin' of that movie some mad apocalypse It will become even stranger than the simple act Just a boy goin' up, up, up, just a boy goin' up In flames in the smoke, just another life, just another breath
And who'll remember, oh eternity now As eternal as a sheet of marble Eternal as a slab on a green hill And your name And all your fallen brothers
And all the ones not cut All the ones remembered only in the hearts A mother, a father, a brother, a sister A lover, a son, a daughter Shall not, shall not fade, shall not fade
Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com Your ancestors salute you And the Gods of your ancestors salute you Havin', havin' been formed by the minds of your ancestors The Gods of your ancestors salute you
Havin' been formed by your ancestors The Gods of your ancestors salute you They draw you in, they draw you through They draw, they draw you through that golden door
Come on in boy, come in We remember you, we conceived of you We conceived of your breath We conceived of the whole human race And we conceived it to be a beautiful thing Like a tulip bending in the wind
Sometimes it comes back to us In the form of a handful of dust Comes back in the form of a smitten child Our raped daughters, ah the broken bones Souls cleaved from hearts, they come back to us
And our hands are filled with their rotting tissues But we turn not our backs, we press our lips Into their cancer, into the dust, into the remains of each one And that love is there and will greet you, will greet you Come on in boy, it's eternal love
Well here, go ahead, run through that flame Auh man, runnin' through your mind You took a cat, you took a life, you took it by the tail And you swirled it around your head And you thrashed it, you smashed the life out of it
And you knew that it would be your own But you wanted to feel, you wanted to feel it die Because you know, you would feel your own You would feel your own but you're remembered
You're remembered, you're remembered dead You're remembered dead You're remembered dead We remember, we remember We remember, everything, everything
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