I Am the One Who Will Remember Everything

Song I Am the One Who Will Remember Everything
Artist Dar Williams
Album In the Time of Gods

Lyrics

[00:01.06] Dar Williams - I Am The One Who Will Remember Everything
[00:11.68] what Oh have we here'he must be three or four'
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[00:17.41] Shaken out of a boot on its way back to war
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[00:23.15] And he's not looking for a father or a mother'
[00:28.09] Just a seven year old brother'
[00:31.08] On this smudged line border camp of refugees
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[00:51.49] So where are we now' he must be five or six'
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[00:57.41] Just running around' hungry kids' sharpened sticks.
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[01:03.40] And he will grow with pain and fear and jealousy'
[01:07.44] Taken in by schools of zealotry'
[01:11.19] Who train orphans to make orphans evermore.
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[01:43.71] You drink the smoke' you ride the noise
[01:46.34] You drink the smoke' you ride the noise'
[01:49.27] And you say it's necessary'
[01:52.25] And you forget the ordinary
[01:55.31] But I say'on the wheel of time'
[01:59.74] Scour the Earth and find the
[02:01.86] Orphans of forgetting' all the orphans of forgetting'
[02:07.47] Give them stars for math and praise for good play'
[02:11.22] Here's a Band-Aid' happy birthday'
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[02:15.31] Yes of course I did remember'
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[02:18.23] I remember everything.
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[02:24.98] Oh come over here' kid we've got all these books to read'
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[02:30.84] the With turtles and frogs' cats and dogs who civilize the centuries'
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[02:38.19] And in a world that's angry' cruel and furious'
[02:42.94] There's this monkey who's just curious'
[02:46.06] Floating high above a park with bright balloons.
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[03:18.57] Everything
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