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Simeon's Absolution

Sabrina Pena Young

Act IV Scene 2
Slow and Foreboding q = 65
0:00 (Explosions and battle continue in the Underground, but for a moment all centers on a fallen Simeon.
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Libertaria and Lucinde look down on Simeon as time seems to stand still and flash to a forgotten past.)
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(Singing as if from a different peaceful place, faraway from the battle, faraway from reality.)

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Once

when I lived as a dif - fer - rent

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I had a most per - fect daugh - ter.

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Copyright 2012 Sabrina Pena Young

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gift from God,

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ban - don her.

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final throttle.)

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