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Thanatopsis

from Too Little, Too Late by Tony Garone

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This is the first complete song I ever wrote - really. I was 16, so the lyrics are a bit - well - um - youthful - yeah, that's a kind word. I used Garage Band for the orchestral parts as I couldn't afford an orchestra. Thanatopsis is a Greek word having to do with a study on death. Yeah, I was pretty cosmic back then. Hope you like it.

lyrics

Did you ever hear something and thought it made sense
But you thought again?
That you've heard enough garbage and you've been taught
To live by society's rules.

Have you ever thought of living a billion years?
Well my friend, follow me
I won't steer you wrong and I think you'll see
You're better off dead than alive.

Have you loved or you lost
You don't know - is love measured in social gains
Or is it measured only by your dead remains?
Or should you care if you don't love at all?

Call for my god to assist me to take me away from this life
Call for the dead will rise and you will see that everyone is soon to be free
Taste the blood of men who were noble
Is the taste any different from men of the poor?
Aren't we all the same once we turn to dust?
Is it love or is it lust that calls men home?

Now you're gone from our world drink the blood of the here and hereafter
Can you laugh at time and disguise your world with society?

Is the ignorance hidden from those who can't see Thanatopsis?
Challenge you soul to a duel of the here and hereafter!

Now that you have entered death with me can you return to society?
Where happiness is measured monitarily
Or can you stay wise here in the dark?
In the dark.

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from Too Little, Too Late, released June 1, 2016
TG - vocals, keys

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