Intro
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[Verse]
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Mother of Muses sing for me
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Sing of the mountains and the deep dark sea
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Sing of the lakes and the nymphs of the forest
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Sing your hearts out, all your women of the chorus
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Sing of honor and fate and glory be
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Mother of Muses sing for me
[Verse]
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Mother of Muses sing for my heart
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Sing of a love too soon to depart
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Sing of the heroes who stood alone
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Whose names are engraved on tablets of stone
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Who struggled with pain so the world could go free
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Mother of Muses sing for me
[Bridge]
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Sing of Sherman, Montgomery and Scott
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And of Zhukov, and Patton, and the battles they fought
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Who cleared the path for Presley to sing
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Who carved the path for Martin Luther King
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Who did what they did and they went on their way
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Man, I could tell their stories all day
[Bridge]
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I'm falling in love with Calliope
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She don't belong to anyone, why not give her to me?
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She's speaking to me, speaking with her eyes
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I've grown so tired of chasing lies
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Mother of Muses, wherever you are
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I've already outlived my life by far
[Verse]
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Mother of Muses, unleash your wrath
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Things I can't see, they're blocking my path
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Show me your wisdom, tell me my fate
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Put me upright, make me walk straight
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Forge my identity from the in side out
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You know what I'm talking about
[Verse]
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Take me to the river, release your charms
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Let me lay down a while in your sweet, loving arms
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Wake me, shake me, free me from sin
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Make me invisible, like the wind
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Got a mind that ramble, got a mind that roam
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I'm travelin' light and I'm a-slow coming home