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In ancient times the word "album" meant a tablet painted white On which was chiseled an edict or decree At least that's what Google told me When I looked the word up for this song In later times "album" was a book of blank papers of white On which you'd write a poem or make a picture of a flame Ooh, now the content was lit but the concept was the same As it had been all along An artist put his idea Upon a stone or a page He'd use a chisel or quill Whatever tool made sensе for the age He would pa** pagеs out in the square Or lay his stone in a tomb And his idea would be there Even when he himself was not in the room But sometimes critics would murder all the artists Throw their bodies and their albums in a trough And the tablets were destroyed But their ideas had been deployed so new artists picked up where the dead ones had left off And I find this moving All the while proving An album's not forever An album's not forever It's a dangerous endeavor And art is a fickle biz So an album's not forever But the writing on it is In 1981, I was born and I looked like a hairy gnome I've seen the photo neatly pasted in a tome Picture albums in the basement back at home I flipped through each with utmost care I stop in my tracks Picture of a party in the suburbs in 02 I'm obese and meek Had many dreams but not a clue When parties scared me I went mute or I withdrew Unless a piano was there The picture captures the scene I play Les Mis and I smile As some goldschläger teen stares mouth agape The room just listens for a while I imagine a future version of me It's the man who I would become if I could Then I think of my current reality And I Dreamed a Dreamed resonates more than it should Now it's 20 years later I look nothing like the anxious boy in photographs whose dreams felt so completely far away Remove the weight I had to shed Not from my body but from my head Now life's worth living but the self-doubt's still at play And it's confusing But it validates the musing That an album's not forever An album's not forever Sometimes you've gotta sever If you wanna get far No, an album's not forever But the feelings in it are In 2079 I find an album that I made some years before Cracked vinyl record, they don't make these anymore I scan the t**les, I feel like a dinosaur Who survived the kaboom I sing to myself I remember songs they take me to an ancient time People and memories are conjured up by rhyme I cry and smile and reflect upon my climb Great-granddaughter walks into my room She looks at the record up close Determines it is quite old Kids are completely bewildered by the idea of music that you can hold Computer plays us my song Kid listens close to each word Her blue-haired head bobs along The slang's outdated but the point is still well heard I never knew if the word "album" referred to the vinyl or the music within Now as I'm getting to the end I get that art will just transcend Whatever package it is currently packaged in And it's not some mystery It's just what we call history An album's not forever An album's not forever An album's not forever An album's not forever An album's not forever (Family is forever) An album's not forever (Pa**ion is forever) An album's not forever (Dreaming is forever) An album's not forever (Memories are forever) An album's not forever (Theater is forever) An album's not forever (New York is forever) An album's not forever (Les Mis is forever) An album's not forever (Critics are forever) Breakup's not forever (Feelings are forever) Failure's not forever (Existence is forever) Anger's not forever (Forgiveness is forever) Your struggle's not forever (Artists are forever) But maybe if you're clever And you keep climbing up that hill Your album won't quite last forever but the music on it will
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