Name: Ozymandias
Duration: P00H03M11S
Description: The wonderful, the awful, the good, the bad and the unrelenting cycle of power. Thanks to Percy Bysshe Shelley and his poem of 1818, "Ozymandias"

Ozymandias

from Psychosomatique by The Sorcerers

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The wonderful, the awful, the good, the bad and the unrelenting cycle of power. Thanks to Percy Bysshe Shelley and his poem of 1818, "Ozymandias"

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OZYMANDIAS

I’m Ozymandias the mighty king
My life and times don’t mean a thing
I’m William Shakespeare, DaVinci too
I dream of wonders that might be

I’m every tyrant and petty thief
My own destruction’s in my seed
I’m Albert Schweitzer I’m Mozart too
Each word and chord make me more free

Be in this world, not of this world
Part of the living spinning pearl
(Look on my works and then despair)

I’m Josef Stalin, Dzerzhinsky too
Our reign of terror now is through
I’m Dalai Lama, Flo Nightingale
If you were me I’d be like you

Be in this world, not of this world
Part of the living spinning pearl
(Look on my works and then despair)

I’m the four horsemen, the Janjaweed
I kill the innocent and weak
Mahatma Gandhi and Lincoln’s fate
Left shining, dying at their peak

Be in this world, not of this world
Part of the living spinning pearl
(Look on my works and then despair)

(M. Knight) © Copyright 2011 Hipster Media Music Publishing, BMI

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from Psychosomatique, released April 11, 2011
Michael Knight, vocals, guitars, bass, flummery
Seung Park, congas

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