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Carved in the 16th century
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Still in stone they wait
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They ruled the world
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See the bulletholes ?
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Pol Pot reasoned that if he could control the Khmer
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He could achieve anything
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If they could build this
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These massive temples and carvings
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they they could do anything
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It seems he wanted to destroy everything
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Academics, government officials, anybody educated
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were the first to go,
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Nobody was spared, even his party officials
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King Jayarvaman from an earlier time
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Looking down and many metres high
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his face was everywhere
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He ruled much of Asia
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The Kings face cast in stone temples
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The monks still live near the temples
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and with the old gods they pray
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The king is everywhere
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look up,look down, a face looks back
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It seems like a whole city of them
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to build this
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on a scale such as this
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The temples of Angkor
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Humans could never do it again
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Lucky these remain
