Lyrics - My Past Lives by Too Much Joy

"
My
Past
Lives" by
Too
Much
Joyfrom the album "
Son of
Sam
I
Am"
I was
Genghis
Kahn
I was
Aristophenes
I was a guy named
Urgh in 50,000
B.
C.
I was
Rasputin and all the chicks he had
I was
Catherine the
Great
I was my mom and dad
I've been a butcher
I've been a baker
I have been a bookmaker
I have skippered
Clipper ships and dug for undertakers
I've lived to be 98 and
I have died when
I was four
I've lived through war and peace and war and war and war and war
I could write a book about my past lives
I should write a book about my past lives
I died three times at
Waterloo
This life's not the best but at least
I'm not you
I was
Abe
Lincoln
I was all the slaves he freed
This life's not the best but at least you're not me
I've been
French noblemen and
I've been
Russian peasants
I've been somebodies, nobodies, once
I was a pheasant
Iwas there when
Ceasar bled and
I followed where
Moses led
I wrote the words
Mohammed said,
I kissed the ground where
St.
Paul tread
I was best man when
Henry wed,
I put the crown on
George's head
I slept in
Washington's bed,
I shot
John
F.
Kennedy dead
I watched
Atlantis sink below, hung out with
Bowie at the a
Alamo
I didn't like being
Edgar
Allen
Poe,
I was sick a lot whe
I was
Rimbaud
I helped the druids build
Stonehenge, me and
Buddha invented
Zen
Once
I borrowed
Shakespeare's pen,
Joan of
Arc was my best friend

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