"maybe I should say I'm thinking about what it concerns instead of what it's about. anyways, it has st to do w the difficulty in imagining a better future, on whatever scale, given the forces of manufactured privilege, prejudice, inequality, seemingly reasonable centrism, etc etc, that try to prevent people from meaningfully doing so; and the feeling that, even ground down, there's a sense that it's still important work to do, and yet there's also doubt, and a sense that you can't do it, so how can one bother? but you know that you should, and right now you don't know whether it's beyond you or within your reach. in that sense there's hope, even joy, in possibility, if you allow it to be there."
lyrics
Don't you wish it were a game? We'd all play and you'd win every time. I want to recognize my face in a mirror. I'm too afraid to try.
All I want is a prism of light that shines.
Don't you feel so undefined? Aren't you scared of what you know? Can't you show me the passage of time? The clouds are thick with the weight of dead light.
All I want is a prism of light that shines.
A tree won't grow without watering the seed. You can't be a victim if you've never had to bleed. Not one more day.
I need an image to lock in my mind. I want you to notice how hard I'm trying. We're grains of sand slipping into the tide. You have something I can't see.
All I want is a prism of light that shines.
credits
from Prism of Light [Demos],
released November 5, 2018
Recorded and mixed by Ara Hanissian.
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