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Patti Smith
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His father died and left him a little farm in New England
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All the long black funeral cars left the scene
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And the boy was just standin' there alone
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Lookin' at the shiny red tractor
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Him and his daddy used to sit inside
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And circle the blue fields and grease the night
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It was as if someone had spread butter
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On all the fine points of the stars
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'Cause when he looked up, they started to slip
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Then he put his head in the crux of his arms
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And he started to drift, drift to the belly of a ship
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Let the ship slide open and he went inside of it
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And saw his daddy 'hind the control boards
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Streamin' beads of light
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He saw his daddy 'hind the control board
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And he was very different tonight
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'Cause he was not human, he was not human
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The little boy's face lit up with such a naked joy
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That the sun burned around his lids
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And his eyes were like two suns
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White lids, white opals, seein' everything
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Just a little bit too clearly
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And he looked around and
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There was no black ship in sight
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No black funeral cars, nothin'
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Except for him, the raven
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And fell on his knees and
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Looked up and cried out
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"No, Daddy, don't leave me here alone
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Take me up, Daddy, to the belly of your ship
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Let the ship slide open and I'll go inside of it
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Where you are not human, you are not human"
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But nobody heard the boy's cry of alarm
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Nobody there 'cept for the birds
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Around the New England farm
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And they gathered in all directions
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Like roses they scattered
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And they were like compass grass
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Coming together into the head of a shaman bouquet
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Slit in his nose and all the others went shootin'
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And he saw the lights of traffic beckonin' him
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Like the hands of blake
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Grabbin' at his cheeks, takin' out his neck
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All his limbs, everything was twisted and he said
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‽I won't give up, won't give up, don't let me give up
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I won't give up, come here, let me go up fast
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Take me up quick, take me up, up to the belly of a ship"
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And the ship slides open and I go inside of it
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Where I am not human
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I am helium raven and this movie is mine
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So he cried out as he stretched the sky
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Pushin' it all out like latex cartoon
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Am I all alone in this generation?
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We'll just be dreamin' of animation night and day
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And won't let up, won't let up and I see them comin' in
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Oh, I couldn't hear them before, but I hear 'em now
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It's a radar scope in all silver and all platinum lights
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Movin' in like black ships, they were movin' in, streams of them
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And he put up his hands and he said, ‽It's me, it's me
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I'll give you my eyes, take me up, oh Lord, please take me up
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I'm helium, raven waitin' for you, please take me up
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Don't leave me here"
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The son, the sign, the cross
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Like the shape of a tortured woman
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The true shape of a tortured woman
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The mother standing in the doorway, lettin' her sons
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No longer presidents but prophets
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They're all dreamin', they're gonna bear the prophet
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He's gonna run through the fields dreamin' in animation
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It's all gonna split his skull
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It's gonna come out like a black bouquet shinin'
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Like a fist that's gonna shoot them up
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Like light, like Mohammed boxer
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Take them up up up up up up
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Oh, let's go up, up, don't hold me back
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Take me up, I'll go up, I'm goin' up, I'm goin' up
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Take me up, I'm goin' up, I'll go up, tell
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Go up go up go up go up up up up up up up
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Up, up, to the belly of a ship
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Let the ship slide open and we'll go inside of it
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Well, we are not human, we're not human
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Well, there was sand, there were tiles
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The sun had melted the sand
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And it coagulated like a river of glass
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When it hardened, he looked at the surface
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He saw his face and where there were eyes
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Were just two white opals, two white opals
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Where there were eyes, there were just two white opals
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He looked up and the rays shot
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And he saw raven comin' in
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And he crawled on his back and he went up
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Up up up up up up
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Sha da do wop, da sha da do way
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Sha da do wop, da sha da do way
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Sha da do wop, da sha da do way
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Sha da do wop, da sha da do way
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Shaman do wop, da shaman do way
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