Name: The Alchemist
Duration: P00H02M03S
Description: The chorus is taken from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

The Alchemist

by Bolnav

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The chorus is taken from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

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The starving alchemist
run out like Paracelsus
You'd sell the sun
to anyone

Rags from riches turn
philosopher's stone will burn
to ash the finest home
Best left alone

All I ever had I've lost thereby
and so god knows have many more than I...
Slippery science stripped me down so bare
that I'm worth nothing here nor anywhere

Not worth a fly
My advice would be to let it go

Tycho Brahe's nose
the emperor's new clothes
Rabbi Lev and Prinz Rákóczi
elixir of life from the deadly laboratory

Of Flamel and flimflam
gold vanishes again
A secret recipe
cure or cause of poverty

All I ever had I've lost thereby
and so have many better men than I...
Slippery science stripped me down so bare
that I'm worth nothing here nor anywhere

Not worth a fly
My advice would be to let it go

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released September 9, 2016
a Chaucer/Gusset joint

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