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Some Memorial

This park used to be a reservoir before Charlie drowned,
saving a doctor and his girl.
They drained the water and moved the earth.
Now housewives have a place to walk.
Some memorial to be alive.

These stones were men I knew,
before they fell in love with a girl who is deception.
She kissed the skin, they named the holes,
then she laid them in the same ground.
Some memorial to be alive.

No wonder our eyes were shut through it all.

Don’t we have enough corner coffee shops, concrete and scripted lies?
Crowded when they come, cures lifeless gray wanting to turn away.
We’ll never be the same.

Don’t you have enough pills and cigarettes this time to dull the pain?
Angry when it comes, lonely when it’s gone, wanting to feel the same.
We’ll never be the same.

Reflection is never what it was,
with the years and what the body’s gravity does.
We build it up, then grind her down.
Replace the earth; we all return to her.
Some memorial, to be alive.
Leave nothing.

Even though I shake the hand, I shake the hand of denial.
I run to follow all my friends.
I see them stare in denial.
It’s a long time to go, it’s a long time.

Medicate the eyes so they see just what they need to.
Keep them blind to pacify the mind so it won’t bleed through.
Fill the ears with numbing waste to cancel out the hum.
Addled brain cannot complain about anything it’s done.
Leave nothing.

Drop the kids to chase a ghost to get right for today.
Drop the dead in garbage bags to better our tomorrow.
Leave the earth a leeching hole whose water stands polluted.
The answer to our everything is a medicated dozer.

Take a hand full of seeds and a mouth full of dirt.
Lie down, become a garden.
Leave nothing as it was.

Idled brain cannot complain about anything it’s done.
Leave nothing.

Drop the kids to chase a ghost to get right for today.
Drop the dead in garbage bags to better our tomorrow.
Leave the earth a leaching hole whose water stands polluted.
The answer to our everything is a medicated dozer.

Take a hand full of seeds and a mouth full of dirt.
Lie down and become a garden.
Leave nothing as it was.

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from echolyn - CD quality 44​.​1kHz​/​16 bit, released June 19, 2012
Words: Ray with some by Brett and a few from Tom
Lead vocals: Ray
Drums and percussion: Paul
Bass: Ray
Electric and acoustic guitars: Mostly Brett with Tom adding much
Piano, Wurly, organ and synths: Chris
Backing vocals: Brett, some Tom, Chris and Ray with one line from Mike O.
Intro voice sound bite from the past: Vaughn Neil

Strings, Brett’s electric guitars and percussion recorded at Catapult Sound. Drums and Tom’s electric guitar recorded at Area 602. Vocals, piano Brett and Tom’s acoustic guitars, bass, Wurly and synths recorded at Chateau du Fornance. Organ recorded at Abington Friends School.

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