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作曲 : Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) |
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I spent one week every summer at Camp Tapico for every year I was a Boy Scout |
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The camp flet like an entire separate country, |
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or as if the rest of the world had disappeared and we were the only ones left alive |
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We traveled in packs |
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We rode our bikes everywhere |
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About ten or fifteen feet before we reached any destination, |
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I would yell,"dismout!" |
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and we would swing our bodies over the frame in unison onto the left pedal and coast to a halt |
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I felt like a grown-up(for how I imaged one must feel) |
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and I could mostly come and go as I pleased |
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One summer,sirens blared out over the camp PA in a shrill and ugly tone |
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with an infinite refrain that carried for miles and miles |
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I had never heard that sound before |
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Our counselors were panicked and told us to return to our campsites immediately |
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My friend Nate and I mounted our bikes and sprinted home as branches fell all around us |
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It felt like we were the leads in a video game， |
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and we were too caught up in it to understand we were in any real danger |
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When we got back,everyone was huddled under the mess tent, |
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except for Nate's brother and his friend, |
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who were stuck in a rowboat in the middle of Grass Lake during the full burnt of the storm |
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The adults had to hold Nate back from going out after him |
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as the pair raced across the water like a glacier of a hawk |
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We watched from the shore and didn't feel the pouring rain until long after they safely pulled in |
