Like a Sad Monster
from The Serpent and The Crane by Aram Bajakian & Alan Semerdjian
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lyrics
LIKE A SAD MONSTER
Alan Semerdjian
Like a sad monster in search of grief,
like the weathered ruins of pagan temples,
like the body on fire without fire,
a million screaming numbers without their charts,
like a hole in the earth afraid of burial,
like magic without a professor,
like blame and its surrogate parents,
like the deputy of a faceless town of pyre
after pyre, like incomprehensible ignitions,
like a lover going against his love,
like another going towards his love,
like his love alone and needing to be alone,
like the neglectful farmer who pursues lust
instead of harvest, night instead sun,
like a pirate, a thief, a murderer, a ghost,
like all the mischief in the world put to sleep
in a box next to one irreconcilable act,
the reverberating tentacles of that act,
the play that never ends, the seat that is unbearable,
like the curtain, dark red curtain that will eventually fall
and, perhaps, not rise again, not open again,
we continue to believe what is unbelievable,
continue to do what is unthinkable.
Alan Semerdjian
Like a sad monster in search of grief,
like the weathered ruins of pagan temples,
like the body on fire without fire,
a million screaming numbers without their charts,
like a hole in the earth afraid of burial,
like magic without a professor,
like blame and its surrogate parents,
like the deputy of a faceless town of pyre
after pyre, like incomprehensible ignitions,
like a lover going against his love,
like another going towards his love,
like his love alone and needing to be alone,
like the neglectful farmer who pursues lust
instead of harvest, night instead sun,
like a pirate, a thief, a murderer, a ghost,
like all the mischief in the world put to sleep
in a box next to one irreconcilable act,
the reverberating tentacles of that act,
the play that never ends, the seat that is unbearable,
like the curtain, dark red curtain that will eventually fall
and, perhaps, not rise again, not open again,
we continue to believe what is unbelievable,
continue to do what is unthinkable.
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from The Serpent and The Crane,
released April 24, 2020
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Aram Bajakian New York
The music of guitarist, composer and educator Aram Bajakian has been called “a masterpiece” (fRoots, July 2017), “shape-
shifting” (FreeJazzCollective, January 2017), and “astonishing” (Georgia Straight, March 2017).
He has toured extensively with Lou Reed and Diana Krall, and is on three Tzadik albums with the band Abraxas performing the music of John Zorn.
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