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Lyrics for Memento Mori by PATTI SMITH:
| | | Artist: | PATTI SMITH |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Memento Mori | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 56 | | | | Lyrics: | 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
he waved goodbye to his comrades in arms,
and all the twisted things he'd
seen.
he waved goodbye
and the blades hit
something
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 disbelieving 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 making of that movie
some mad
apocalypse
it will become even stranger than the simple act
just a boy going up up
up
just a boy going 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 a daughter
shall not shall not fade shall not fade
your ancestors salute
you
and the gods of your ancestors salute you
having having been formed by the minds of your
ancestors
the gods of your ancestors salute you-a | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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