Ballad Of Marion Zioncheck

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Marion, born December 5th, a Sagittarius
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Mother & father, two little sisters, all were immigrants
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America was waiting for you
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America was waiting for you
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Marion’s family saw his humor as absurdity
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Nevertheless, he joined the local university
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And studied for a third of his life
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He studied for a third of his life

And passed the bar

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He was a lawyer, working for free
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And was fervid in speech
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All of the workers that he’d protect
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Say he practiced what he preached

[Verse 2: Left at London]

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Hated the mayor, so he petitionеd to recall the guy
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For he attеmpted selling off Seattle City Light
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Two hundred thousand names on the form
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Two hundred thousand names on the form
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He, with the people on his side, became a congressman
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Winning a district often taken by Republicans
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To Washington from Washington State
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To Washington from Washington State

At thirty-two

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When re-elected everyone loved him
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Except for his peers
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A coalition set on his downfall
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Would form in his last years


[Bridge: Left at London & Sophia Konat]

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         He married a woman he knew for a week 'cause he couldn’t wait
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         Took part in a riot while still on his honeymoon
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         They took him away in a jacket to the sanitarium
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         Declared as insane, jumped the fence of the place, & soon
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Returning home, announced his re-election
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Then called the campaign off again
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Almost as if becoming lesser like yourself had been an art
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Marion, less subdued & sober, saw the world observe him fall apart

[Verse 3: Left at London]

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He wrote a note & left his window several stories high
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Landed abruptly near the car his wife was waiting by
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They say she changed the day that he died
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They say she changed the day that he died
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And in the note, he said his only hope in life had been
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That he’d improve upon the way the world was living in
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But people only knew him as strange
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The people only knew him as strange

And nothing more

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Were you a genius, were you a fool
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Or in need of a cure?

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Was it in anger, was it in fear
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Or had it been in fervor?


[Outro: Left at London]

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All of the quirks we used to have are now a symptom of
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Acronyms we don’t get to know that we’re the victims of
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Then people say that we’ll never change
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And so, of course, we don’t ever change