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Monument Man

by Ortega Fuerte

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Monument Man

It took him months to achieve the design.
And all of the papers were filed on time.
Work began,
Blasting the stone into hymns and candlelight.
Near the end, everyone told him he'd lost his mind.

Nobody knew what to do with the hole.
Like all other absence that can't be controlled.
Mother said maybe they'd like it in Paris or someplace like that.
Father said, it's just a ditch you can fill it right in where it's at.

Bring your machines around
And fill in his negative space.
We've got to smooth this out,
Lest absence be taken for grace.

How can a person be proud of a taking-away--
An achievement for thieves and decay?
Society stands on a monument, not on a loss (save for the kind on a cross).

Now he's a man in a diner like you.
Who gives no impression of trying-to-do.
Even so, he's concocted a story as false as it is real.
Knowing him is knowing a fiction that hides all the while it reveals.

Maybe he'll die and they'll give him a stone...

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released March 18, 2015
Hugo Grayling: programming, bass, piano, guitar, vocal, percussion

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Ortega Fuerte Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ortega Fuerte are a group of songwriters and multi-instrumentalists founded in 2003 by core member Hugo Grayling and often including the contributions of Air Anchor's Chris Rohlf.

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