The fan whirling like the blades of a copter
Lifting into the skies above a foreign land
Fire and iron soaked with the bodies of so many friends
He was on his way home
He waved good-bye to his comrades in arms
And all the twisted things he had seen
He waved good-bye
And the blades hit something
Maybe just fate but the blades hit
The copter went up in flames
He never went marching 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
His comrades stood speechless
They looked up with misbelieving eyes
There were bits of metal - and the embers
The embers of his eyes fanned out in the air
Black dust flames
Someday they will make a movie about him
And in the making - some mad apocalypse
It will become even stranger than the simple act
Of a boy - just going up
credits
from The Arcadia Tapes,
released March 5, 2021
Featuring the lyrics "Memento Mori" originally
written and recorded by Patti Smith for "Peace & Noise" (1997)
Piano, Guitar, Synthesizer, Drum Programming, Vocals: Paul Snyder
Mixed & Recorded by Paul Snyder
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