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Title:   I Will Revive
Author:  Jemima
Series:  TOS
Summary: A filk of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" for Rocky.

Oh, once I was a god
I was idolized
For bringing order to a world
I should have sterilized;
But then my flock put up a fight,
Foolish quislings led astray -
I slipped away,
I fled in the Bot'ny Bay.

And now you've come
To outer space -
I just woke up to find you here
With that dumb look upon your face;
I would have set another course,
I would have hewn your family tree,
If I had thought for one mad moment
You would dare to follow me.

So this is man
You look the same -
Still no improvement
I see the race I overcame.
Just like the sheep who sent their shepherds to the sky
You thought I'd perished,
You thought you'd kissed Khan goodbye...

Oh no, not I!
I will revive -
Genetically superior,
I know I'll come alive.
I've got one more life to live
I've got sins not to forgive
So I'll revive
I will revive

And by my superhuman strength
Saved from death's embrace,
In Sickbay on the mend
I'm glad to see a friendly face.
I have dreamed two hundred years
Of angry rabble in my way,
But she will stay,
Yes, I've found a mind to sway.

I grow fatigued
I will retire;
Back in my quarters, oh, lieutenant,
You and I'll conspire.
Because she felt like dropping in,
Because she knelt and made her plea -
Yes, she came despite my warning,
She has bound her fate to me.

So this is man
You look the same -
Still no improvement
I see the race I overcame.
Just like the sheep who drove their shepherds to the sky
You thought I'd perished,
You thought you'd kissed Khan goodbye...

Oh no, not I!
I will revive -
Genetically superior,
I know I'll come alive.
I've got one more life to live
I've got sins not to forgive
So I'll revive
I will revive

So this is man
You look the same -
Still no improvement
I see the race I overcame.
Just like the sheep who chased their shepherds to the sky
You thought I'd perished,
You thought you'd kissed Khan goodbye...

Oh no, not I!
I will revive -
Genetically superior,
I know I'll come alive.
I've got one more life to live
I've got sins not to forgive
So I'll revive
I will revive
I will revive

Oh, once I was a god
I was idolized
For bringing order to a world
I should have sterilized;
But then my flock put up a fight,
Foolish quislings led astray -
I slipped away,
I fled in the Bot'ny Bay...

[fade out]

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