Don McLean - Aftermath lyrics
[Don McLean - Aftermath lyrics]
Windows in a silent room
Sunlight burns the walls to black
Angles and dimensions melt while colors
Drip and pillows crack
Reflections of my memories like pictures
Pasted on a sheet
The ribbon film of separate frames lying
Curled up at my feet
The film is just a snake design
And the photographs are fading fast
These are not memories of mine
I have no future, no past
I've seen a thousand afternoons
Dissolve into the night
Like sugar crystals on a spoon
They disappear from sight
Gray days from the crispest morning to
The warmest afternoon in this room
And I like to draw the face I saw so long ago
My image in the mirror tells the
Jagged lines which way to go
The black and white description of the
Sole survivor of the Holocaust
All the rest were lost
Do you see this paper face? It
Has no color or no mood
My eyes are ageless, as am I i need no sleep
I need no food i am a king
But like a child the other
Children laugh at me tongues of fire
Wagging wild they dance around me merrily
I'll kill them all and if I fail
I'll kill whoever I can find
Then they'll beg me to be kind
My eyes have seen far more
Than eyes can ever tell
This planet plunged through mushroom
Fires of earthly hell
I know that my sweet Jesus
Said that he'd return
But Babylon has fallen and the cities burn
Sunlight burns the walls to black
Angles and dimensions melt while colors
Drip and pillows crack
Reflections of my memories like pictures
Pasted on a sheet
The ribbon film of separate frames lying
Curled up at my feet
The film is just a snake design
And the photographs are fading fast
These are not memories of mine
I have no future, no past
I've seen a thousand afternoons
Dissolve into the night
Like sugar crystals on a spoon
They disappear from sight
Gray days from the crispest morning to
The warmest afternoon in this room
And I like to draw the face I saw so long ago
My image in the mirror tells the
Jagged lines which way to go
The black and white description of the
Sole survivor of the Holocaust
All the rest were lost
Do you see this paper face? It
Has no color or no mood
My eyes are ageless, as am I i need no sleep
I need no food i am a king
But like a child the other
Children laugh at me tongues of fire
Wagging wild they dance around me merrily
I'll kill them all and if I fail
I'll kill whoever I can find
Then they'll beg me to be kind
My eyes have seen far more
Than eyes can ever tell
This planet plunged through mushroom
Fires of earthly hell
I know that my sweet Jesus
Said that he'd return
But Babylon has fallen and the cities burn