The Giant

from The Telephone Tapes by Hana Zara

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"Mind precedes everything, mind matters most." This is a song about the unconscious entities that live among us and pull the invisible strings that operate our world at large. If we don't know how to communicate with them they will rule us, and we will end up in a world that we didn't mean to build. So in this song I climb up to the shoulder of the giant who walks among us, saying "if there is a beast in our midst, then shouldn't we learn how to talk to it?" I befriend the giant, and no longer do its bidding.

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the mice are building nests up in my room
and the grass has grown its way up through my bed
there's a beast making its path across the land
and it leaves strange structures in its stead
i have walked along its silica veins
and i have talked down its aluminum wires
i have slept to the song that it plays
and i have burned on its funeral pyres

but i awoke, to find myself grown so much older
i awoke to find the garden alive
and i called that this dark age be over
and we steady ourselves for the climb

saying if there is a beast in our midst
then shouldn't we learn how to talk to it?

so i'm going up to ride on its iron shoulder
just me and the giant, just going where we're going
I'm gonna sing to it softly, i'm gonna ask lots of questions
i will not do its bidding but i will be its friend

now the earth makes its way around the sun
and the sun makes its crawl across the room
where i'd gone into a place inside myself
and I'd slept in my darkened cocoon

but i awoke when the light began to enter
i awoke, to find the membrane was torn
and i pushed through these walls made of paper
and i stood with my mission assured

saying if there is a beast in our midst,
then shouldn't we learn how to talk to it?

so i'm going up to ride on its iron shoulder
just me and the giant, just going where we're going
I'm gonna sing to it softly, i'm gonna ask lots of questions
i will not do its bidding but i will be its friend

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from The Telephone Tapes, track released October 17, 2021

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Hana Zara is an an evolving collection of musical thought-bytes, worlds turned inside-out, and the scattered debris of our psychic oneness

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