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Monster Within

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Composed for Paved with Good Intentions, produced by Smiling Lune for the 2012 Minnesota Fringe Festival.

Kalila Indivar requested a piece about the idea of the monster within us. I asked Hanakia Zedek to write a poem on the subject, and he delivered these extraordinary lyrics and a wonderful performance.

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I reek of Crimson Blood
For I have killed myself time and time again
And I can not get enough
I can not get deep enough
To the core...where I am no more
To explore what I truly am
So I destroy the man
Time and time again
To find the monster within
I can feel it rising
Out of The Darkness
Like a Black Lotus

Where have I been?
So I keep stripping....away
Ripping....away
To find the way out
From inside out
Help me
Kill me if you see me
Because I want to create me
By brush, by stone, by sand and clay
And if I be in the way, it is me, that I’ll slay

This Monster this Demon within
Is winning a winning battle
I will stratal myself whole
And be done with me
Can’t you see my sheer creativity rising
I am the creator...no other god before me
I’ve stared into the abyss and have become
This abysmal brilliance and depth
So it is my death
That I had to bestow upon it
If you see me
Free me


This is my perfection
The erection of this
You may not like it
For it is Monstrous
Demonic
But it is the only tonic
That cures me
Aged to perfection
Now is the time
For me to rise
From within
To long the waiting
To long the staying still
And I will kill
Everything.....anything in my way

I am a Monster because of my Power
I am a Demon because i am prepared to devour
You whole....so you become whole
So come to me
Let me drain you
Of the illusion of you
Let me become your fear
So that I may tear it from you
This time...you will not kill....this Frankenstein
No tools to cause this vampire to expire
No doom to stop this Lycan from howling at the moon
So I come for you soon....enough
Of you BS and Stuff

The bell tolls for thee
And all that you believe to be true
I will tear it from you
And this hour
You will learn that on the other side of fear is Power
Eternal
I come for thee
Give you life freely to me
And I will cast you free from that cage
And in this rage
You will see in a shimmer
That I am You in the mirror
Shatter the glass
So that you may pass
Through the Looking Glass
Down The Rabbit Hole
To Become Whole

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from Al Amarja, released July 11, 2016
Dave Stagner: guitars, bass, synths, loops
Hanakia Zedek: poetry, vocal

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Dave Stagner Minneapolis, Minnesota

I am a guitarist, songwriter, recording engineer, and musical polymath based in Minneapolis.

I have played in countless bands over the years, most notably the Feng Shui Ninjas, Beth Kinderman & the Player Characters, and Al Amarja.

All recordings produced at Extraterrestrial Highway, my home studio. I love living in the future!
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