The Gargoyle Way
by Don "Coyote the Bando" Martinez


based on
"La Vie Boheme"
(J. Larson)
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Dearly beloved
We gather here to say our goodbyes
(Dies irae, dies irae)
Here she lies,
Not one human cares
The great ideal of those who glide the air
On this night when we celebrate the birth
In that little town of Bethlehem
We raise our glass,
YOU BET YOUR ASS
to
The Gargoyle way ...
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To days of Vikings, Vandals, fighting Hakon
Fighting soldiers of all enemies
The need to attack, to eviscerate
To going against the Pack,
Getting a name, getting slammed
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To magic spelling, no telling where Latin's gonna lead you
To mad immortal Scotsmen,
Hating attention, the building tension,
Not to mention of course,
Clocktowers and traffic jams
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To gliding high at midnight through the clouds and stars
To scars
To studying cars
To ancient jars!
To disks, to taking risks
To homemade motorbikes!
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To fae mirrors and tricksters
Without any chains.
The Gargoyle way ...
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To castles above all the clouds that you can see
To ray guns, to raids done on fortresses three
To loincloths, to wing spars
To tails with dirty tricks
To leaping off ledges and clawmarks left in bricks
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Corruption, destruction, to ducking past construction
Genetics, fanatics, semi-automatics
Stone humans, no humans, to Puck's undying pranks
To hammers, to handguns, to shrinking Hunter ranks
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Hudson, Brooklyn, Goliath and Lex!
Broadway!  Bronx!
Angela!
To arrests!
To Clan Ishimura!
New Olympia
Too!
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Why Goliath and Elisa took the skiff to
The shores of Avalon's way ...
The Gargoyle way!
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BROTHERS!
Praying gargoyles, DI-7, carrier viruses,
The Grimorum, the Phoenix Gate and
The Eye of Odin,
Xanatos, the Renards, Jackal and
Hyena, Fox and Wolf and Dingo teamed with
A bunch of
Coyotes
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To villainy, to victory, to vicious irony
Queen Titania, Oberon and the Sisters three
To our pain, never dying, it's all the same
To all the mutates!
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To masonry, it's between Jon and me
They're stone by day!
The Gargoyle way!
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The Gargoyle Way B
by Don "Coyote the Bando" Martinez

based on
"La Vie Boheme B"
(J. Larson)
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YEAH!!
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To flight!
Genetic engineering, wings of bats and fur and zapping losers with
my electricity, making friends, finding a lover!
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Stone!
he cure for all that ails, no worries, cuts and bruises gone, the wounds of fights
by morning gone and I'll soon glide again!
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Fighting!
Criminals, the fairies, superhumans, anything that threatens New York City
it's our area protectorate.
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Family!
Clan together, waking up from longest slumber,
one thousand years, castle rises
spell is broke, we live again!
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To gargoyles, mutates, faes, Olympians too!
To me!  To me!  To me!
To you and you and you, you and you!
To guardians living with, living with, living with, living with
Not killing off their Clans
Let he among us with no soul
Be first to turn away
from The Gargoyle way!
The Gargoyle way!
Everyone gliding the night sky! (The Gargoyle way!)
Does anyone know what it's like to fly? (The Gargoyle way!)
Everyone who stands with a wingspan (The Gargoyle way!)
Take to the sky
You think I lie?
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The opposite of crime isn't law
It's protection!
The Gargoyle way!
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VIVA THE GARGOYLE WAY!!
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