Song Lyrics Patti Smith - Memento Mori    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> P>> Patti Smith Singer Lyrics [Patti Smith other resources]>> Memento Mori Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Patti Smith Music Title/Track: Memento Mori Theme ID: 4935 Album: N/A the fans were whirlin' like the blades of a 'copter liftin' into the skies above some foreign land soaked with the bodies of so many friends. Johnny waved he was on his way home he waved goodbye to his comrades in arms, and all the twisted things he'd seen. he waved goodbye and the blades hit something maybe just Fate, but the blades hit the 'copter went up in flames and Johnny never went marchin' home Johnny never went marchin' 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 Johnny's comrades stood speechless they looked with uh-uh-uh-uh disbelieving eyes as those bits of metal and the embers the embers of his eyes fanned out into the air black dust flames oh Johnny! some day they'll make a movie about you and in the making of that movie some mad apocalypse it will become even stranger than the simple act just a boy going up up up just a boy going up in flames in the smoke just another life just another breath and who'll remember oh eternity now as eternal as a sheet of marble eternal as a slab on a green hill and your name and all your fallen brothers and all the ones not cut all the ones remembered only in the hearts a mother a father a brother a sister a lover a son a daughter shall not shall not fade shall not fade your ancestors salute you and the gods of your ancestors salute you having having been formed by the minds of your ancestors the gods of your ancestors salute you-a Related Lyrics Random lyrics: People Have the Power, Persuasion, Piss Factory, Pissing In A River, Poppies, Privilege, Privilege (Set Me Free), Pumping, Pumping (My Heart), Radio Baghdad, Radio Ethiopia / Abyssinia, Radio Ethiopia/Abyssinia, Radio EthiopiaAbyssinia, Ravens, Redondo Beach, Revenge, Rock n Roll Nigger, Rock N Roll Nigger, RockNRoll Nigger, Seven Ways Of Going, So You Wanna Be, So You Want to Be, So You Want To Be (A RocknRoll Star), Somalia, Sometimes Love Just Aint Enough, Space Monkey, Spell, Strange Messengers, Stride Of The Mind, Summer Cannibals, The Jackson Song, The Wicked Messenger, Till Victory, Trampin, Trampin, Trespassers, Trespasses, Up There Down There, Upright Come, Waiting Underground, Wave, We Three, We Three Kings, When Doves Cry, Where Duty Calls, Whirl Away, wild leaves, Wing, Because The Night, Sometimes Love Just Aint Enough, Other Patti Smith song Lyrics 1959 Lyrics 25th Floor Lyrics 25th Floor ( High On Rebellion) Lyrics 25th Floor (& High On Rebellion) Lyrics 25th Floor / High On Rebellion Lyrics About A Boy Lyrics Aint It Strange Lyrics Aint It Strange Lyrics As the Night Goes By Lyrics Ask The Angels Lyrics Babelogue Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Patti Smith Group Lyrics Patti Smyth & Don Henley Lyrics Patti Symth Lyrics Patty Lyrics Patty Duke Lyrics Griffin Patty Lyrics Patty Griffin Lyrics Patty Loveless Lyrics Patty Loveless F/ Jon Randall Lyrics Patty Loveless F/ Rebecca Lynn Howard Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy