J. Dale Walker - Ashwatthama

from Round 26, Week 4 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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Whoo. This got a little bigger than I meant it to. Ashwatthama is a character cursed with a physically torturous immortality without love by Krishna for the cold blooded murder of several characters in the Mahabharata. It's a wild story. The tune itself is very reminiscent of the 90's grunge rock era (for me, at least). The two chords that are used are E major and G major, with a riffy bit to break up that harmonic monotony that may or may not cheat just a little bit.

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Ashwatthama

Seen it all from India, Japan, and Frisco bay
I've rambled on, 'crossed oceans dried, never found my way

Rode the wind’s red blooded rage, the vict’ries of the day
My pride did ride before my fall, so goes my disgrace

Ashwatthama

My sentence was to walk the Earth, man of endless age
Spend my life without my love with loneliness my cage

Krishna’s curse, a prize for sins too terrible to name
A prison life, millennia spent wishing for the same

Ashwatthama

Surrendering the gem that my power did contain
I’ve seen the light, release me Lord from this endless pain

Brahmashirsha Astra, your flames I would embrace
Set alight the memories of this old man’s disgrace

Ashwatthama

Empty words to pass the time in gloaming of the day
I welcome sleep, she never comes, help me drift away.

Ashwatthama

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from Round 26, Week 4, released January 6, 2020

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