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Notes To The Future
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Patti Smith
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Listen my children and you shall hear
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The sound of your own steps
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The sound of your hereafter
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Memory awaits and turns to greet you
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Draping its banner across your wrists
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Wake up arms
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Delicate feet
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For as one to march the streets
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Each alone, each part of another
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Your steps shall ring
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Shall raise the cloud
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And they that will hear will hear
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Will hear voice of the one
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And the one and the one
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As it has never been uttered before
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For something greater yet to come
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Then the hour of the prophets
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And their great cities
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For the people of Ninevah
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Fell to their knees
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Heeding the cry of Jonah
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United
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Covering themselves in sackcloth and ashes
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And called to their god
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And all their hearts were as one heart.
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And all their voices were as one voice.
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God heard them and his mind was moved.
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Yet something greater will come to pass.
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And who will call?
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And what will they call?
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Will they call to God?
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The air?
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The fowl?
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It will not matter, if the call is true.
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They shall call and this is known.
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One voice and each another
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Shall enter the dead, the living flower,
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Enter forms that we know not.
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To be felt by sea,
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By air,
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By earth
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And shall be an elemental pledge.
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This is our birthright.
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This is our charge.
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And we have given over to others.
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And they have
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Not
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Done
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Well
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And the forests mourn.
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The leaves fall.
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Swaddling babes watch and wonder
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As the fathers of our spirit nations
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Dance in the street in celebration
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As the mountains turn pale from
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Their nuclear hand
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And they have
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Not
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Done
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Well
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Now my children
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You must overturn the tables
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Deliver the future from material rule
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For only one rule should be considered
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The eleventh commandment
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To love one another
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And this is our covenant across your wrist
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This offering is yours
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To adorn, adore
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To bury
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To burn
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Upon a mound
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To hail
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To set away
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It is merely a cloth,
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Merely our colors,
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Invested with the blood of the people
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All their hopes and dreams.
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Our flag
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It has its excellence
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Yet it is nothing
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It shall not be a tyranny above us
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Nor should god
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Nor love
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Nor nature
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Yet we hold as our pleasure this tender honor
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That we acknowledge the individual
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And the common ground formed
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And if our cloth be raised and lowered
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Half mast
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What does it tell us?
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That an individual has passed
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Is saluted
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And mourned by his countrymen.
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This ritual extends to us all.
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For we are all the individual.
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No unknown.
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No insignificant one
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Nor insignificant labor
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Nor insignificant act of charity
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Each has a story to be told and retold
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Which shall be a glowing thread
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In the fabric of Man
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And the children shall march
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And bring the colors forward
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Investing within them
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The redeeming blood
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Of their revolutionary hearts.
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