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Danijela's Sacrifice

from Janissary, A Balkan Rock Opera by Paul Shapera

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Danijela:
in a land far away
the girl's mother she prays
and each night in the dark
she can hear as she lays
her child calling out her mother's name

all those in her life
think she's losing her mind
but this voice she can hear
she swears that it's real
she cannot rest until she finds her child

finally a priest
that she meets he believes
says her daughter perceives
things that no one else sees
from the White God it's a gift that she's received

this gift he then says
she sees saints who are dead
since you're neither well then
she wont see you again
you'll only hear her voice inside your head

Danijela she fasts
til three months have then passed
she has prayed and is clean
as pure as she can be
and she walks into the hospital at last

there's a room tucked away
where the sick children lay
to each one she goes round
with a kiss on the mouth
and the sickness deep inside she sucks away

in the room there are ten
children dying in beds
she cannot save them all
for by seven she falls
and she dies there
in the lonely, empty hall

little girl leads a lonely life
except for one strange autumn night
she sees her mother standing by her side
and though her mother's not alive
neither of them seems to mind
and they sit beside
each other every night

Cry mama cry
Cy mama cry
all i want is you here with me tonight

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from Janissary, A Balkan Rock Opera, released October 1, 2018
Vocals by Liel Bar-Z

Ivan Vukadinovic on guitar

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Cama’s attempt to commune with higher beings failed; she only found Decadent Dottie. Together they roamed, indulging in dangerous forms of psycho-neural self-exploration which Cama hoped would present the key to her people’s further evolution. It only led to her destroying her people so that one of their pets could evolve. She sat in her former civilization's rubble and listened to Paul Shapera. ... more

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