“When you come down
From your Ivory Tower
You will see how it really must be
To be like me, to see like me,
To feel like me.”

—  Van Morrison

Ivory Tower
Song lyrics, No Guru (1986)

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Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician 1945

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