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Intro and Chorus:

 And the band played on

 As the helicopters whirred

 Drunk on the lawn in a nuclear dawn

 My senses finally blurred

Verse

 He was a rock, to the end a solid reminder

 Couldn't deny a friend

 We lived in the noise and the sweet amber posion

 Peekin' up the skirt of the end

 And we'd drink, two gnarly dudes and some records

 Much like plates of black food

 We filled up our faces, saw some far places

 Stood on the roof in the nude

Chorus

Verse

Between poles, he said "we're like cows in the grass"

Brushing off flies

Chaise lounging around standing up, falling down

'Till we no longer opened our eyes

And we'd drink, ever notice how drinking's like war

Cup 'o' troops o'er the gums

To the end of our health a campaign 'gaisnt myself

Armed with bourons and scotches and rums

Chorus

Verse

Think of bombs, we're poised on the edge of disaster

Whether it's right or it's wrong

We opened the window, played some Nintendo

Sang a few bars of some pretty old song:

  Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight

  Goodnight Irene goodnight Irene

  I'll see you in my dreams

Oh to dream, those impotent bones of extinction

Flying graceful and free

None but the best cause the man cannot rest

'Till he's finally beaten his me

Chorus

Verse

'Till the end, he passed out on the sun deck that morning

Quietly saying goodbye

But I was so hammered I sputtered and stammered

Told him he couldn't just die

He was a rock, went straight for his own armageddon

Face froze in a grin

Ambulance flyin' in I never drank again

Can't really call that a loss or a win