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