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AS ICONS OF MY YOUTH FALL SILENT / BLIND MIME ENSEMBLE

I sit here in this chair
Bathed in the TV's glare
While the icons of my youth fall silent

The vinyl's scratched and warped
The posters, ripped and worn
As the icons of my youth fall silent

I watch the tables turn
And I wonder when we'll ever learn
And after I voice my silent cry
Will the icons of my youth stay silent?

When terror kills our hope
And errors guide our course
Why do the icons of my youth remain silent?

I watch the tables turn
And I wonder when we'll ever learn
And after I voice my silent cry
Will the icons of my youth stay silent?

AS ICONS OF MY YOUTH FALL SILENT / TONETRIPPER

Porcelain Mary said, "It's gettin' kinda scary,"
"Especially without all those love songs"
Mother Theresa had hopes of treating
All the people sick the world wide
Martin Luther King got Elvis to sing
All of his delta blues songs
As Nelson Mandela held the umbrella
For a nation held in apartheid
What a ride

As icons of my youth fall silent X 3

Ghandi grooved on a peace-filled mood
Whilst living in the limelight
And Timothy Leary had a dream of bringing
L.S.D. to that fundamental right
Just as John Lennon held the canon
Of the Beatles insight
They all had the fight

Dreamy Section

As icons of my youth fall silent X 4

AS ICONS OF MY YOUTH FALL SILENT / FORTY SECOND SONGS

mom took away
the nintendo today
cause micah and i had been fighting
lay with henry on the floor
and he broke the screen door
cause it's raining and thunder and lightning
but i'm mario in my dreams oh, tonight

luigi jumps high
and toad he is quick
and princess is light as a feather
they say she's the best
but i was more impressed
by the way they all seem to work together

there's a mark on the cellar door
and so now i'm lion-o
cause it looks just like the sword of omens
break a branch off of a tree
and no one'll mess with me
cause now i'm a baddass ninja turtle

leonardo's goody goody
raphael is always mad
michalangelo's a party dude
okay i'll admit it
donatellos my favorite
and pizza's my favorite food

all these icons from my childhood
slowly fade to nothing
and what have i got to show
but i just can't let them go!
mario

transformer on my birthday
better than he-man
my dad he can't transform it
but i can
he's got a PHD
but he's got nothing on me
when it comes to decepticons
and dino-bots

AS ICONS OF MY YOUTH FALL SILENT / THE SOBER IRISHMAN

So remember, boys - to tread ye very softly
For beneath you lie the heroes of our past

As fathers they fought for their sons
As husbands they died for their wives
As warriors they bled for their land
For all this they gave up their lives
Outnumbered, outmatched, these men stood up and faced
The heavy ranks of foreign foes
Like warrior poets they fought to their death
Their struggle the mightiest of prose

So remember, boys - to tread ye very softly
For beneath you lie the heroes of our past

Our fathers are lost, our brothers are gone
Our mothers, they stand in their wake
As icons of my youth fall silent
I kneel at the wall and weep

Now the mothers must raise up their sons
To be brave and strong just like their dear old dads
Strength tempered by hardship and hate
Will forged by pride in their name
Now, everyone knows that a fatherless son
Is a soldier just waiting to be trained
The ranks will be filled with those boys from the hills
To honor those whose loins from which they sprang