I Thought This Was The Same Song
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but I was much wrong -
“Keep your hands above your head.”
- The cat regarded him distantly
- he would never have wings
- “Look, the scab’s gone.”
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I thought this was the same song I’d heard as a child, but I was much wrong. Some lyrics were the same, like “Keep your hands above your head.” But that only added to my befuddlement when it swerved into unfamiliar lines.
The acoustic properties of the sewer opening made the words even harder to follow because reverberations inside the soupy tunnel lagged several seconds behind what was happening out around the bonfire. Tesla’s snoring didn’t help, either.
Near as I could tell, the song was about someone named Simon Nomis, who tried to befriend a cat. The cat regarded him distantly. Simon seemed to be quite a whiner, and possibly a failed caterpillar, based on the recurring line saying “he would never have wings.”
What made me realize it was not just a folk song, but a coded message, was the closing line: “Look, the scab’s gone.” Operatives from the Academy have used that countersign for decades.
Without hearing the lyrics more clearly, though, I couldn’t hope to decode the meaning in the song.
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