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