Sapokanikan

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The cause is Ozymandian
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The map of Sapokanikan
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Is sanded and bevelled
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The land lorn and levelled
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By some unrecorded and powerful hand


[Verse 2]

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Which plays along the monument
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And drums upon a plastic bag
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The brave-men-and-women-so-dear-to-God-
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And-famous-to-all-of-the-ages rag


[Chorus]

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Sang: Do you love me?
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Will you remember?
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The snow falls above me
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The renderer renders:
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The event is in the hand of God


[Verse 3]

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Beneath a patch of grass, her
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Bones the old Dutch master hid
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While elsewhere Tobias
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And the angel disguise
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What the scholars surmise was a mother and kid


[Verse 4]

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Interred with other daughters
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In dirt in other potters' fields
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Above them, parades
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Mark the passing of days
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Through parks where pale colonnades arch in marble and steel


[Chorus]

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Where all of the twenty-thousand attending your footfall
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And the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls
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And the records they left are cryptic at best
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Lost in obsolescence
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The text will not yield, nor x-ray reveal
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With any fluorescence
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Where the hand of the master begins and ends


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I fell, I tried to do well but I won't be
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Will you tell the one that I love to remember and hold me
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I call and call for the doctor
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But the snow swallows me whole with ol' Florry Walker
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And the event lives only in print


[Outro]

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He said:
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"It's alright"
    C
And "It's all over now"
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And boarded the plane
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His belt unfastened
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The boy was known to show unusual daring
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And, called a "boy"
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This alderman, confounding Tammany Hall
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In whose employ King Tamanend himself preceeded John’s fall
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So we all raise a standard
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To which the wise and honest soul may repair
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To which a hunter
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A hundred years from now, may look and despair
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And see with wonder
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The tributes we have left to rust in the parks
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Swearing that our hair stood on end
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To see John Purroy Mitchel depart
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For the Western front where our work might count
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O mercy! O God!
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Go out, await the hunter to decipher the stone
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And what lies under the city is gone


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Look and despair
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Look and despair