Two is Twelve (2022​.​02​.​22)

from Music, Words and Drawings (My Noble Weapons) by Mikayel Abazyan

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Words
Did you also follow all that hysteria of the Twosday that was the 22nd of February 2022? I did not, but what I heard, saw and read was enough for me to write a song about that.
Did you know that the same day was also 21-Rajab-1443 (the 7th month on the Islamic calendar), or 21 Adar I 5782 (sixth month of the civil year and 12th month of religious year on Jewish calendar), or even “Super Cat Day” in Japan? “Hear, hear!” Everything is relative.
For instance, I prefer the Japanese date format YYYY/MM/DD (the most correct one when working with digital data). Written in this format, those 2s and 0s gave me the riff of this song: 2-0-22-0-222, 2-0-22-0-222, etc.

Drawing
I wanted to be quite short with this shortest song on the album, hence the identity (in its mathematical sense).

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The twenty second day,
The month concludes the year,
The year two thousand and two decades and two...

A third past two at night -
they finally went to bed.
They set a goal: they dream to wake
by two past eight PM.

What will you do if you miss all these milestones?
Will you go up, or down we’ll see you falling?
What will you feel if I tell you everything is relative
and two sometimes is twelve?
And zero can be, too!

D’you know, by any chance,
you could – well, more than once –
have celebrated the zeroes and the twos
if you could rent a jet
to ride it out west
and take a round trip around the globe?

What will you do if you miss all these milestones?
Will you go up, or down we’ll see you falling?
What will you feel if I tell you everything is relative
and two sometimes is twelve?
And zero can be, too!
And zero can be two!

credits

from Music, Words and Drawings (My Noble Weapons), released July 24, 2023
Mikayel Abazyan - MIDI controller, bass guitar, electric guitars, slide guitar, vocal
Levon Hakhverdyan - drums

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Mikayel Abazyan Yerevan, Armenia

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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