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Preist: Dearly beloved we are gathered here today…
John: I barely knew him
John: Barely saw him
John: We hardly even spoke
John: Once I watched him
John: Let himself fade
John: Slipped through existence’s grasp like smoke
John: He was a cool dude
John : He was a weird dude
John: God, this is going to sound tacky
John: But maybe we should take this
John: As a sign to
John: Try to be happy?
Roxy: We’ll try to be happy
Roxy: We will make it through
Roxy: We’ll cling to each other
Roxy: Like he’d want us to do
Roxy: We’ll let ourselves be happy
Roxy: John, let me be happy with you
Dave: Happy?
Dave: Are we fucking happy?
Dave: Feeling fucking hardy
Dave: From this hard day
Dave: Set aside this longing
Dave: From this long day
Dave: And I could turn back time
Dave: Rewind the rhymes
Dave: But that’d be a mistake
Dave: Maybe this is what it takes
All: To be happy
Dave: He taught me combat, philosophy
Dave: Fights I will never win
Dave: He taught me about life and maybe
Dave: This is where my life begins
Dave: But he failed his own lesson
Dave: He let his death be Just
Dave: Maybe it was me who should have
*next two lines are simultaneous*
Dave:
Taught him about love
All:
Taught him to be happy
Jake: I--
Gamzee: Brothers and sisters
Gamzee: We are gathered here to witness
Gamzee: The matrimony of corpse and head
Gamzee: In this womb for the dead
Gamzee: Mothers and fuckers
Gamzee: We cannot give up hope
Gamzee: Because in the end
Gamzee: We all
*next two lines are simultaneous*
Gamzee:
Choose our own rope
All:
Must choose to be happy
Roxy: John, we’ve got to try to be happy
Jade/Karkat: Dave, we’ve got to try to be happy
All: Oh, we’ve got to try to be happy
All: Have our ever-after story book end
All: We’ll move on and try to be happy
Alt!Calliope: Death comes for you all in the end