The Song

The notes are changed

And the tune's not the same

But the song goes on

After the band's gone

All the speakers torn down

The song goes on

And the crowd still cheers

And the hypocrite jeers

But this song has played

For the last million years

Now this one single note

Screams out over space

But the thousands of ears

Refuse to hear

Nobody cares

The staff is fading

All the treble clefs bleed

The whole scene most degrading

The time signature

No more regarded

The tempo

Grossly retarded

Fortissimo dead and gone

Pianissimo lives on

Soft and long ... the song

No more can it measure

To the once sterling bars

Of the antiquated fanfare

The song goes on

And the song goes on

In hope of an ear

Somewhere down the line

But like fairy-tales

The child is grown

The dream is gone

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(c) 1983 Norman Dziedzic Jr.