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General Slocum

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GENERAL SLOCUM

Cracked your window years ago
A sudden stop
I hit my head
That's when I cracked your window

Your fake cousin's my best friend
On Halloween
A blizzard stray
(no way)
The next day was a snow day

Spent the day with General Slocum
On a mighty ship
Don't lose your grip
Of the mighty steering wheel
Without you, don't know what to feel
It can't be real

Dreamed it's not your funeral
But someone close
You showed up too
Another chance to see you

Hear me shouting out your name
It makes no sense
I can't believe it
Things will never ever be the same

Something tells me
General Slocum's burning
Burning bright in the dead of night
Through the skylight shining through
Without you don't know what to do
It can't be true
Not you

General Slocum
Polish Wedding Mascot
A.P. Gym Alum

Heard you freed the frayed balloons
You severed strings to float away
They're still floating to this day

Space technicians bow your heads
On spaceship Earth
Your General speaks
But your General is dead

Thinking of the reign of General Slocum
It will still go on
'Til your friends are gone
Like you went
We will join as one
But you won't-
You won't join us now that
Your days are done
You've wandered from
The world we live in
Now your time has come Slocum

General Slocum
Polish Wedding Mascot
A.P. Gym Alum

(things will never ever be the same)
(hear me shouting out your name)
(General Slocum)

[words & music by Sean Schuyler]

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from Christmas, released December 16, 2014

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