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Memento Mori [Live]
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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
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He was on his way home
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He waved goodbye to his comrades in arms,
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And all the twisted things he'd seen.
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He waved goodbye
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And the blades hit
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Something
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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 disbelieving eyes
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As those bits of metal and the embers
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The embers of his eyes
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Fanned out into the air
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Black dust
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Flames
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Oh johnny! some day they'll make a movie about you
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And in the making of that movie
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Some mad apocalypse
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It will become even stranger than the simple act
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Just a boy going up up up
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Just a boy going up
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In flames in the smoke
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Just another life
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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
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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 a sister a lover a son a 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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Having having been formed by the minds of your ancestors
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The gods of your ancestors salute you
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Having 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 on in boy]
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We remember you
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We conceived of you
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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 a smitten child
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Our raped daughters, ah the broken bones
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Souls cleaved from hearts
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They come back to us
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And our hands are filled with their rotting tissues
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But we turn not our backs
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We press our lips
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Into their cancer into the dust 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 [come on in boy]
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It's eternal love
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Well here, go ahead, run through that flame
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Awww man, running 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 it 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
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But you're remembered!
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You're remembered!
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You're remembered dead!
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You're remembered dead!
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You're remembered dead!
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We remember
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We remember
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We remember
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Everything
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Everything
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