The Final Confrontation

from Janissary, A Balkan Rock Opera by Paul Shapera

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Vizier:
i extend to you my greeting it's a long time since i've seen
someone wear that uniform round these parts
so you're the last of the hajduk sixteen years ago i wiped out
your whole group, but now just look, here you are

as a token of respect i will give you land to tend
maybe settle down and pick out a wife
you should think about a child they make all of life worthwhile
like this sweet girl i have here by my side

take the money now and go it's the only deal you'll know
you can still walk out of here with a life
if you don't then take my word i will have this little girl
gut you head to toe and left side to right

Bogdan:
this tale not all will attend
for some here the story ends
in this palace grand and sweet
the finest place that i have seen
some will not leave this room again

a baby girl from long ago
you took away from me and so
i chose a path both dark and doomed
and by the black god was consumed
yet i am here to see this through

i never chose the path of love
the kinder things i should have done
i failed all i should have saved
the only legacy i made
the one i bring now made in blood

Brija:
thus the room lies bathed in blood and butchery
only three remain the vizier, bogdan and me
I there poised between them sword drawn, in silence, thus
the moment the gods have wagered on is here and they watch us

and this is how i met my dad
the one i never knew i had
i didn't even know it then
i only saw a crazy man
a weapon in his hand

and this is how he met me too
the daughter that he never knew
he only saw a girl and blade
between him and what he craved
one he'd cut his way right through

you can ask me why
why he dropped his sword and looked into my eyes
you could say he knew
there's many now who do
but i don't know if that's true

you can ask me why
i did what i did that night
i put my sword through bogdan's chest
i turned around and then
i put it through the vizier's neck

it was a bloodbath on that day
i was all that walked away
i don't know from right and wrong
the wagers of the gods
but i will not be a pawn

and this was how i killed my dad
the one i never knew i had
the one i wish i'd known
but that love died long ago
the day they took me from my home

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from Janissary, A Balkan Rock Opera, released October 1, 2018
Vocals by Lauren Osborn

Guitar by Ivan Vukadinovic

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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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