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Back to the Dust

from TELEFUNKIN by Mark Alan Dooley

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Back when E-
gypt in her glory
Building sphinx
and pyramids
Did they think
when they began
To make kings
Their dieties?
History
Is full of lies
So many crimes
And so much shame
History
is full of shadows
The gods themselves
have gone insane

[Chorus:]
Turn a page
It’s all the same
The book of fate
Can’t be explained
And when you
Die upon the wheel
You go back to
the dust again

When the Ro-
mans burned the towns
And raped the women
And made them slaves
Salted fields
killed all the men
Returned and won
the Caesar's praise
Did they know
what they had won,
And the mea-
sure of their fame?
Did they know
That they were pawns
In an old
Eternal game?

Turn a page
It’s all the same
The book of fate
Can’t be explained
And when you
Die upon the wheel
You go back to
the dust again

When the French
were trapped in splendor
And the pea-
sants starved for bread
When they built
the Queen a palace
Of the hun-
gry and the dead
Did they think
that they were better
Than the sor-
row and the pain?
Did they know
The guillotine
Waited at the end-
ing of their Reign?

Turn a page
It’s all the same
The book of fate
Can’t be explained
And when you
Die upon the wheel
You go back to
the dust again

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from TELEFUNKIN, released March 2, 2011
kompoz.com/p/19690

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Mark Alan Dooley Monroe, Louisiana

Artist, musician, audio engineer and producer, social media tinkerer, Graphic design and photography nut, Web dev dude, Raconteur. Weird but cool, freaky but fluffy, not naughty, not nice. The Lo-Fi Technicolor Dream Edition of sweet streaming consciousness musing from guitar guru soupafreek...MAD! ... more

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