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Song Sapokanikan
Artist Joanna Newsom
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[00:01.40] The cause is Ozymandian
[00:06.52] The map of Sapokanikan
[00:11.92] Is sanded and bevelled
[00:14.57] The land lone and levelled
[00:18.15] By some unrecorded and powerful hand
[00:23.19] Which plays along the monument
[00:28.33] And drums upon a plastic bag
[00:34.81] The brave-men-and-women-so-dear-to-God-
[00:39.58] And-famous-to-all-of-the-ages rag
[00:45.95] Saying: Do you love me?
[00:51.57] Will you remember?
[00:56.85] The snow falls above me
[01:02.55] The renderer renders:
[01:07.11] The event is in the hand of God
[01:12.79] Beneath a patch of grass, her
[01:17.68] Bones the old Dutch master hid
[01:22.90] While elsewhere Tobias
[01:25.71] And the angel disguise
[01:28.30] What the scholars surmise was a mother and kid
[01:35.40] Interred with other daughters
[01:40.30] In dirt in other potters' fields
[01:45.10] Above them, parades
[01:48.31] Mark the passing of days
[01:49.64] Through parks where pale colonnades arch in marble and steel
[01:56.54] Where all of the twenty-thousand attending your footfall
[02:02.43] And the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls
[02:07.54] And the records they left are cryptic at best
[02:11.14] Lost in obsolescence
[02:13.47] The text will not yield, nor x-ray reveal
[02:15.60] With any fluorescence
[02:18.42] Where the hand of the master begins and ends
[02:22.94] I fell, I tried to do well but I won't be
[02:29.12] Will you tell the one that I love to remember and hold me
[02:34.93] I call and call for the doctor
[02:40.20] But the snow swallows me whole with ol' Florry Walker
[02:45.59] And the event lives only in print
[02:50.77] He said:
[02:53.42] "It's alright"
[02:54.57] And "It's all over now"
[02:56.00] And boarded the plane
[02:58.44] His belt unfastened
[03:00.70] The boy was known to show unusual daring
[03:05.17] And, called a "boy"
[03:07.38] This alderman, confounding Tammany Hall
[03:11.61] In whose employ King Tamanend himself preceeded John’s fall
[03:17.53] So we all raise a standard
[03:20.38] To which the wise and honest soul may repair
[03:25.80] To which a hunter
[03:27.38] A hundred years from now,?may look and despair
[03:32.31] And see with wonder
[03:33.96] The tributes we have left to rust in the parks
[03:37.69] Swearing that our hair stood on end
[03:40.87] To see John Purroy Mitchel depart
[03:44.81] For the Western Front
[03:52.55] Where work might count
[03:53.49] All exeunt! All go out!
[03:59.30] Await the hunter, to decipher the stone
[04:05.79] (and what lies under, now)
[04:08.82] The city is gone
[04:24.35] Look and despair
[04:30.39] Look and despair
[00:01.40] The cause is Ozymandian
[00:06.52] The map of Sapokanikan
[00:11.92] Is sanded and bevelled
[00:14.57] The land lone and levelled
[00:18.15] By some unrecorded and powerful hand
[00:23.19] Which plays along the monument
[00:28.33] And drums upon a plastic bag
[00:34.81] The bravemenandwomensodeartoGod
[00:39.58] Andfamoustoalloftheages rag
[00:45.95] Saying: Do you love me?
[00:51.57] Will you remember?
[00:56.85] The snow falls above me
[01:02.55] The renderer renders:
[01:07.11] The event is in the hand of God
[01:12.79] Beneath a patch of grass, her
[01:17.68] Bones the old Dutch master hid
[01:22.90] While elsewhere Tobias
[01:25.71] And the angel disguise
[01:28.30] What the scholars surmise was a mother and kid
[01:35.40] Interred with other daughters
[01:40.30] In dirt in other potters' fields
[01:45.10] Above them, parades
[01:48.31] Mark the passing of days
[01:49.64] Through parks where pale colonnades arch in marble and steel
[01:56.54] Where all of the twentythousand attending your footfall
[02:02.43] And the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls
[02:07.54] And the records they left are cryptic at best
[02:11.14] Lost in obsolescence
[02:13.47] The text will not yield, nor xray reveal
[02:15.60] With any fluorescence
[02:18.42] Where the hand of the master begins and ends
[02:22.94] I fell, I tried to do well but I won' t be
[02:29.12] Will you tell the one that I love to remember and hold me
[02:34.93] I call and call for the doctor
[02:40.20] But the snow swallows me whole with ol' Florry Walker
[02:45.59] And the event lives only in print
[02:50.77] He said:
[02:53.42] " It' s alright"
[02:54.57] And " It' s all over now"
[02:56.00] And boarded the plane
[02:58.44] His belt unfastened
[03:00.70] The boy was known to show unusual daring
[03:05.17] And, called a " boy"
[03:07.38] This alderman, confounding Tammany Hall
[03:11.61] In whose employ King Tamanend himself preceeded John' s fall
[03:17.53] So we all raise a standard
[03:20.38] To which the wise and honest soul may repair
[03:25.80] To which a hunter
[03:27.38] A hundred years from now,? may look and despair
[03:32.31] And see with wonder
[03:33.96] The tributes we have left to rust in the parks
[03:37.69] Swearing that our hair stood on end
[03:40.87] To see John Purroy Mitchel depart
[03:44.81] For the Western Front
[03:52.55] Where work might count
[03:53.49] All exeunt! All go out!
[03:59.30] Await the hunter, to decipher the stone
[04:05.79] and what lies under, now
[04:08.82] The city is gone
[04:24.35] Look and despair
[04:30.39] Look and despair
[00:01.40] The cause is Ozymandian
[00:06.52] The map of Sapokanikan
[00:11.92] Is sanded and bevelled
[00:14.57] The land lone and levelled
[00:18.15] By some unrecorded and powerful hand
[00:23.19] Which plays along the monument
[00:28.33] And drums upon a plastic bag
[00:34.81] The bravemenandwomensodeartoGod
[00:39.58] Andfamoustoalloftheages rag
[00:45.95] Saying: Do you love me?
[00:51.57] Will you remember?
[00:56.85] The snow falls above me
[01:02.55] The renderer renders:
[01:07.11] The event is in the hand of God
[01:12.79] Beneath a patch of grass, her
[01:17.68] Bones the old Dutch master hid
[01:22.90] While elsewhere Tobias
[01:25.71] And the angel disguise
[01:28.30] What the scholars surmise was a mother and kid
[01:35.40] Interred with other daughters
[01:40.30] In dirt in other potters' fields
[01:45.10] Above them, parades
[01:48.31] Mark the passing of days
[01:49.64] Through parks where pale colonnades arch in marble and steel
[01:56.54] Where all of the twentythousand attending your footfall
[02:02.43] And the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls
[02:07.54] And the records they left are cryptic at best
[02:11.14] Lost in obsolescence
[02:13.47] The text will not yield, nor xray reveal
[02:15.60] With any fluorescence
[02:18.42] Where the hand of the master begins and ends
[02:22.94] I fell, I tried to do well but I won' t be
[02:29.12] Will you tell the one that I love to remember and hold me
[02:34.93] I call and call for the doctor
[02:40.20] But the snow swallows me whole with ol' Florry Walker
[02:45.59] And the event lives only in print
[02:50.77] He said:
[02:53.42] " It' s alright"
[02:54.57] And " It' s all over now"
[02:56.00] And boarded the plane
[02:58.44] His belt unfastened
[03:00.70] The boy was known to show unusual daring
[03:05.17] And, called a " boy"
[03:07.38] This alderman, confounding Tammany Hall
[03:11.61] In whose employ King Tamanend himself preceeded John' s fall
[03:17.53] So we all raise a standard
[03:20.38] To which the wise and honest soul may repair
[03:25.80] To which a hunter
[03:27.38] A hundred years from now,? may look and despair
[03:32.31] And see with wonder
[03:33.96] The tributes we have left to rust in the parks
[03:37.69] Swearing that our hair stood on end
[03:40.87] To see John Purroy Mitchel depart
[03:44.81] For the Western Front
[03:52.55] Where work might count
[03:53.49] All exeunt! All go out!
[03:59.30] Await the hunter, to decipher the stone
[04:05.79] and what lies under, now
[04:08.82] The city is gone
[04:24.35] Look and despair
[04:30.39] Look and despair
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