A quick Set/Amos parallel song before the big battle in the end of the book. Every time I hear this song I just imagine Amos sorting through Iskandar's stuff and crying. So…
Amos:
In this album there's a picture
Of my mom's class on a fair.
You can tell it's from the eighties
By the volume of their hair.
There's Julius, just a baby
'Seventy-seven, Halloween
If it happened in First Nome, Iskandar was there
Every afternoon I came
Always leaving with a new homework.
The job would tire him down by the end of the day,
But even so…
He'd reference a paper and say
"Let's review
Why don't you tell me
Everything you know."
Set:
I keep on imagining the picture
Of Ra on the barque
Being used like a rag doll
While Isis's smiling all polite.
I wonder what he was thinking
Did he know he'll be leaving
Us alone on a cold, dark night?
And when the time came
Did he dream of endless summer?
Did he have a plan for the snake?
Or did he just go?
Did he think to sit me down and say
"Set, get ready, to leave
Behind everything you know"?
Everything I know
What do I know?
Amos:
In this folder, there's a picture
Of my high school graduation
With the program, mint condition
And a star beside my name
Here's a picture of my parents
As Julius left for California
He held on to everything we gave up
Every little scrap of paper
And our lives are in these boxes
While the man who held them is gone
Set:
But we go on, we grow, so…
Hold tight, Ra,
Amos:
if you're up there
Both:
I'll make you proud of everything I know!
Thank you, for everything I know
