I Am The One Who Will Remember Everything

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Oh what have we here, he must be 
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three or four,
               Em          G      
Shaken out of a boot on its way 
     C
back to war
                    G     Bm      
And he’s not looking for a father 
    Em
or a mother,
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Just a seven year old brother,
       Am                  D
On this smudged line border camp of 
refugees,

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     I am the one who will remember 
everything
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     I am the one who will remember 
everything

               Em           G     
So where are we now, he must be 
     C
five or six,
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Just running around, hungry kids, 
         C
sharpened sticks.
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And he will grow with pain and 
     Em
fear and jealousy,
           C          G
Taken in by schools of zealotry,
         Am              D
Who train orphans to make orphans 
evermore.

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     I am the one who will remember 
everything
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     I am the one who will remember 
everything
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     I am the one who will remember 
everything
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     I am the one who will remember 
everything

Bridge:
             Em                  G
You drink the smoke, you ride the 
noise
             C
You drink the smoke, you ride the 
noise,
       Em             G
And you say it’s necessary,
           C
And you forget the ordinary

          Em     G             C
But I say, on the wheel of time,

Scour the Earth and find the
Em        G                   C
Orphans of forgetting, all the 
orphans of forgetting,
         Em                 G
Give them stars for math and praise 
for good play,
C                Am
Here’s a Band-Aid, happy birthday,
D
Yes of course I did remember,
                     Em
I remember everything

            Em              G     
Oh come over here, kid we’ve got 
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all these books to read,
                    Em             
With the turtles and frogs, cats 
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and dogs who civilize the centuries,
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And in a world that’s angry, cruel
    Em
 and furious,
            C                 G
There’s this monkey who’s just 
curious,
        Am           D
Floating high above a park with 
bright balloons.

I am the one who will remember 
everything.

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     I am the one who will remember 
everything
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     I am the one who will remember 
everything
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     I am the one who will remember 
everything
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     I am the one who will remember 
everything
Em
Everything…