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Monster

by Sandhya

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R U
INNOCENT
OR
MONSTER
OR BOTH

lyrics

I build a monster in my basement, and tried to teach him how to talk.
But he could never manage more than an unintelligible squawk.
I sent him up to the state college to earn his history degree.
But what he learned there was so gruesome, back to the basement did he flee.
He say “Words, they fail me, they fail me, they fail me,” he say
“Words, they fail me, they fail me, they fail me…ev’ry time.”

I put a parrot in my parlor, and waited long for her to speak.
But she preferred to perch in silence, quietly burnish her mystique.
I wondered if she were a goddess, reincarnated here and now.
Does Polly really want a cracker, or does she want me to kowtow?
She say, “Words, they fail me, they fail me, they fail me,” she say
“Words, they fail me, they fail me, they fail me…ev’ry time.”

I hid a painting in my closet, a kind of emblem of my soul.
And while I lived a life unblemished, the hidden portrait did get old.
And when the time came to be honest about the sins that I’d disowned,
I took a glance at that dark portrait, and my poor tongue did turn to stone,
I say, “Words, they fail me, they fail me, they fail me,” I say
“Words, they fail me, they fail me, they fail me…ev’ry time.”

credits

released December 4, 2020
Vocals and Piano— Sandhya
Drums— Jean-Paul Gaster
Bass— Pete Strobl
Guitar— Scott Smith
Organ— Andre Mayeux
Background Vocals—Sandhya, Piper Greenbaum, Mike
Westcott, and Pete Strobl
Recorded By— Evan Kornblum at Stages Music Arts,
Hunt Valley, MD
Additional recording By—Pete Strobl at The Attic
Underground
Mixed By—J. Robbins at The Magpie Cage
Mastered By—Robert Hadley at Hadley Mastering
Words and Music By—Sandhya Elizabeth Asirvatham/
JazzGrrl Music (BMI)
Produced By—Pete Strobl
Co-Produced By—Sandhya

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Sandhya Baltimore, Maryland

"Caustic rock diva" says SPLICE TODAY. Um, thanks? Sandhya/Sandy Asirvatham is a thinker and award-winning creative nomad. Always finding wit and joy in the darkness. Throwback to the all-around rock/pop artist. INNOCENT MONSTER hailed by Rolling Stone as a "soaring rock album" that "balances darkness and mirth."


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