Julius' Final Song - Ceschi

Do you remember how he walked

Onto the stage like the world was ending

And this was his final song?

The way the sweat dripped off his nose

Forming a swirly pool of colors

On the cracked wooden club floor?

Now I recall the way he moved

Back then before the bullet

Shattered pieces of his skull

Spreading him all over the carpet

In that hotel room

They couldn’t piece him back together

To sing his last tune

We only wanted one last song

A tune so we could sing along

We only wanted one last song

A tune so we could sing along

No time machine exists quite yet

And all those voices we once worshiped

Solely belong to the dead

Sleeping so comfortably for now

Between some gatefold sleeves and shrink wrap

Piled on record store grounds

We all imagined his last song

A melody

To help us forget that our God was gone

To help us remember his face

Before the maggots crawled

Inside and out of his eye sockets

Such a perfect song

Ahhh ahhh ahhh men

Yadi yadi yadi yay

Gummy gummy gum drops

But he’s gone

Into the abyss

Falling fast

Sucked through a giant black hole

Deep into the center of the earth

Far from anybody’s ears

Just flung

Into oblivion

Forgotten by the world

And the puppeteers

That once put him on a pedestal

Are repackaging

Hoping advances reappear

Gone

Now there’s no way that we could ever

Dig him out beneath the

Mountains of records

That cover his dusty grave

He’s done

And there’s no übermensch

To soothe the senses

Truth is that we’ll lose in the end

Everything dies soon

It’s helpless

So you have you heard the one about the one man band?

The one man band

Yes, the one man band