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Memento Mori

The fans were whirlin'

Like the blades of a 'copter

Liftin' into the skies above some foreign land

Soaked with the bodies of so many friends

Johnny waved, he was on his way home

Waved goodbye to his comrades in arms

And all the twisted things he'd seen

Waved goodbye

And the blades hit somethin'

Maybe just fate, but the blades hit

The 'copter went up in flames

And Johnny never went marchin' home

Johnny never went marchin' home

They took his name

And they carved it on a slab of marble

With several thousand other names

All the fallen idols

The apples of their mother's eye

Just another name

Meanwhile

Back on that burning shore

Johnny's comrades stood speechless

They looked with uh uh uh uh disbelievin' eyes

As those bits of metal and the embers

The embers of his eyes, fanned out into the air

Black dust, flames

Oh! Johnny

Some day they'll make a movie about you

And in the makin' of movie

Some mad apocalypse

It will become even stranger

Than the simple act

Just a boy goin' up, up, up

Just a boy goin' up, in flames, in the smoke

Just another life, just another breath

And who'll remember

Oh! Eternity now

As eternal as a sheet of marble

Eternal as a slab on a green hill

And your name and all your fallen brothers

And all the ones not cut

All the ones remembered only in the hearts

A mother, a father, a brother

A sister, a lover, a son, daughter

Shall not, shall not fade, shall not fade

Your ancestors salute you

And the Gods of your ancestors, salute you

Havin', havin' been formed by the minds of your ancestors

The Gods of your ancestors, salute you

Havin' been formed by your ancestors

The Gods of your ancestors, salute you

They draw you in, they draw you through

They draw, they draw you through that golden door

Mornin' boy, come in, we remember you

We conceived of you, we conceived of your breath

We conceived of the whole human race

And we conceived it to be a beautiful thing

Like a tulip bending in the wind

Sometimes, it comes back to us

In the form of a handful of dust

Comes back in the form of smitten child

Our raped daughters, our

The broken bones, souls cleaved from hearts

They come back to us and our hands are filled

With their rotting tissues

But we turn not our backs we press our lips

Into their cancer, into the dust

Into the remains of each one

And that love is there and will greet you, will greet you

Mornin' boy, it's eternal love

Well here, go ahead

Run through that flame

Aww man, runnin' through your mind

You took a cat, you took a life, you took it by the tail

And you swirled it around your head

And you thrashed it, you smashed the life out of it

And you knew that would be your own

But you wanted to feel, you wanted to feel it die

Because you know, you would feel your own

You would feel your own, but you're remembered

You're remembered, you're remembered dead

You're remembered dead, you're remembered dead

We remember, we remember

We remember, everything hah

Everything hah

Wau wau wau

Wau wau wau

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