Hapax Legomenon
By Cosmic Cairns on December 5, 2024 1:38 am
I was playing around with a free online text analyzer recently and learned something new. A hapax legomenon is a word or term that only appears one time in a text. I liked the ring of it, so decided to use it as a song title.
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Scrolling through the book of the world
Looking for an answer I think I found it
It only appears there one time
So easy for your eyes to pass all around it
And miss the point
Of this sad joint
Don't forget to bookmark the page
It would be a shame to so quickly lose it
Protect it from the scum of the Earth
And anybody out there who would abuse it
So many would
Claim to be good
Misguided fools of the highest sort
Armed with their most fervent wishes and caravans
Of believers in their righteousness and holiness
Run it all into the ground
In all the billions of pages I've searched
Nothing ever jumped out that was quite like it
But some foolish editor seems
To have come along once and tried to strike it
From the record
Seemed to absurd
I continue skimming along
Hoping somewhere else there's a different story
Lost in the deep pages of time
Maybe to be unearthed in an old quarry
Encased in stone
Keys to the throne
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The guitars sound awesome in this. Love the grungy fuzzy feel of it. "Encased in stone. Keys to the throne" \m/
