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"Indian Sunset", a lyric poem by Bernie Taupin, involves a rich and poignant portrait of an American Indian who has found himself face to face with his own extinction, and so, left with no choices, engages in a battle which he knows will bring certain death, and yet spare his dignity. Taupin begins his remarkably vivid account by placing the reader in the shoes of the warrior, who awakens ready to continue fighting a long and tedious war in order to preserve the only way of life he has ever known, only to find out that his warlord is dying, and the war is lost.
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