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24-page digital booklet in PDF format contains the original artwork, preface, the lyrics, a short essays on the collaborators, provides easy navigation (see the picture) and is supported with clickable URLs to the related external web-resources. Best viewed in Full Screen mode.
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Words
Thanks to YouTube, we can listen to the voices of all those dictators. Yes, they come and go, but their deeds... Their deeds is what the new generations are left with. After seeing that point of no return being passed, I thought I wouldn’t be that wrong in extending that progression. We are unaware of what waits for us. Nevertheless, it is never too late to get up equipped with our noble weapons and try to make this world a better place.
I came up with the basic riff when I awoke. I remember I couldn’t even properly open my eyes, but the guitar was next to me and a fresh idea buzzing, which was later handed to my friend Ashot Margaryan who once again made me forget my initial seeing of how this song should sound. One hell of a guitarist!
Drawing
At first, I wanted to draw an electrical symbol of resistance, but then I found this - the symbol of resistance and persistence, found in American native rock art. Bingo!
lyrics
Get up and take a morning shower. Charge yourself with power.
A flower needs no appraisal words to show its form and colours.
It lives and does its best to live and to enjoy the sunlight.
It gives, and through giving justifies its living.
Now go out! Go down the road towards the margin of the bay.
A day without a victory is lost and broken.
A token, a symbol of your happiness is your smile.
It’s your sword. And your word is your only noble weapon that you must use
in countless battles with authorities and kings
who spend their lives dehumanizing all your dreams and needs.
For all their honours, majesties, the powers that be
you are a tough case ‘cause they can’t contain the ones like you and me,
those who don’t blindly kill themselves in patriotic wars,
bloodthirsty who are not and who don’t hide behind the walls,
who can’t be easily hypnotized through TV and the Web,
who have no fear of when the Doomsday Clock stops ticking...
Keep kicking! Keep punching, beating, getting up and breathing!
Don’t stop believing, for there’s more than endless struggle for existence.
Persistence... They think it’s just a word, a useless power.
Resistance will one day shake and break their concrete Tower.
Born on July 9, 1971.
Self-trained playing piano, guitar and later - bass, which allowed me playing and making a few
recordings with various bands in Yerevan.
In 2014, joined a special project dedicated to the music of Peter Hammill and Van der Graaf Generator, which brought me back to studio work. Having released yet another successful solo tribute, started producing my own music.
And I like it!...more
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