The Crack in the Ceiling

from Something More by Mikayel Abazyan

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about

Question: Will you survive or not?
Time: Endless fraction of a second.

lyrics

A new detail has just appeared above your head within a flash.
A black tree has grown up on the soil of careless life at the command.
No blossom can be seen yet, but strong enough to split your life in parts.

The crack above your head responded to the tremors from below.
They came to rearrange some terms and definitions in your life.
If you survive they'll split your life and mark the parts "before" and "after";
if you don't they'll open up the skies.

You do not want to see clear blue sky appearing behind that crack.
The crack in the ceiling... You want it to remain where it is right now.

You cannot blame that crack for ruining the room design you chose so carefully.
You want it to remain where it is now, and to stay there endlessly.
You neither want to see blue sky by day, nor shining stars by night,
and bend your knees in front of icon-crack.

You summon up the spirits rejected so many moons before.
Would your new faith put your fears to shame and make shakes and tremors stop?

But all things are to end. Awakened by the ticking of the clock,
the king returns from sudden journey to his throne. The door is locked.
And when that endless movement ends, the memories remain,
they'll resonate each time you'll hear about the same thing happening elsewhere.

credits

from Something More, released August 12, 2018
Mikayel Abazyan - vocals, grand piano, guitar
Levon Hakhverdyan - SFX
Rafael Tatencyan - trumpet

Produced by Mikayel Abazyan.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Levon Hakhverdyan at Brevis Recording Studios in Yerevan, Armenia.

Artwork by Aram Hakhumyan.

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