| Saigon Shrunken Panorama | |
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Album |
Acuarela Songs |
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Released |
2001 |
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Artist |
the Mountain Goats |
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Length |
2:25 |
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Saigon Shrunken Panorama (originally titled Saigon: Song for Anonymity) is the twenty-eighth song on the compilation Acuarela Songs.
Lyrics[]
The last vestiges of the empire were crumbling Daisies were pushing through the ground And I saw a crane disappear beneath still water On the day when you came back around And though time remembers meaningless gestures Your goodness will not be forgotten while I am still alive It was the eighteenth day of May In 1975 And I asked if you could last a week or two And you said you thought you could You came inside then with the light trickling behind you It was fine and it was good And so gleams the single moment before we heard the officers arrive On the eighteenth day of May In 1975 Hey