Gabriel Rojo - The Lone and Level Sands

Song by Gabriel Rojo based on the poem "Ozymandias". Download this song and the whole "Alternative Songbook" album FOR FREE at www.on-mix.com . Words an dmusic by Gabriel Rojo

My name is Ozymandias
I'm king of kings of old
Just gaze upon my mighty works
and despair, you sorry clod!

But nothing else remains now
but the lone and level sands
that stretch across the boundless ruin
of this bare, colossal mass

So tell me one last time
if you want to stay for a little while, take a ride?
Tell me one last time
if you want to stay for a little while,
help me spin my yarns?

The stars my sole companion,
this song my sole desire
For once I was a king of kings,
but now I'm only tired

And now I roam forever
these streets I call my home
whose glamour and magnificience
I can never call my own

And if these wings were values
and if this prayer was dream,
I'd sail upon those shores of old
where they still remember me

No more shall trumpets hawk for me
No more shall drummers roll
No more shall pipers pipe so keen
No more I'll feel alone

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• gabriel
• rojo
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• cash
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• waits
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• alternative
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• Tom Waits
• Leonard Cohen
• Johnny Cash