David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
Ashes To Ashes
Song lyrics, Scary Monsters (1980)
“The American ash from which bats are made has an unusually high strength-to-weight ratio. Ash was celebrated in medieval times as the only proper wood from which to construct the lances of knights errant; an ash lance was light enough to carry and wield and strong enough to impale the opposition.”
Source: The Physics Of Baseball (Second Edition - Revised), Chapter 6, Properties Of Bats, p. 134
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Variant: In order to rise
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A phoenix
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