Black Mountain, Pt. 3

[Verse 1]

Lippold wanted to create a memorial

Large enough to walk through

Like architecture, linear

Otherwise nonfunctional

[Chorus 1]

Like a novel

Like the story of your life

Like Dahlberg's garden full of bucolic delights

[Verse 2]

So what did it mean

When Dahlberg changed his mind?

Sweet creeks and leaves

Serpentine trees and vines

[Chorus 2]

Like a novel

A writer should dig out

The things that they would not admit to themselves

[Verse 3]

That's what Olsen said

A disillusioned student put it more simply

"There's not enough character here

And too much personality"