I Am Not Afraid

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Michael James Owen Pallett (born September 7, 1979) is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist, who performs solo as Owen Pallett or, before 2010, under the name Final Fantasy. As Final Fantasy, he won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds.From the age of 3, Pallett studied classical violin, and composed his first piece at age 13. A notable early composition includes some of the music for the game Traffic Department 2192; he moved on to scoring films, to composing two operas while in university. Apart from the indie music scene, he has had commissions from the Barbican, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Ballet of Canada, Bang on a Can, Ecstatic Music Festival, the Vancouver CBC Orchestra, and Fine Young Classicals. On … more »

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2014

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I am not afraid, Ze said
Of the non-believer within me
No delight at the pain of my enemies
No tears for any friends I have lost

You are not alone, I said
It is a trial to keep my belief suspended
I leave my violin unattended
In a cab or a restaurant

And then when Ze started to sing
Nobody could've called them crazy
Open chord forever unchanging
Holy eternal drone

I'll never have any children
I'd bear them and eat them, my children
I'm gonna change my body
In the light and the shadow of suspicion
I am no longer afraid
The truth doesn't terrify us, terrify us
My salvation is found in discipline, in discipline

I haven't had a smoke in years
But I will catch a drag if you are smoking
They told me to chew on a toothpick
They told me to take a deep breath

What is better is to punch a wall
To bin the boxes of your old love letters
To be impassive to the words that could save you
To need to see the world as ash

And I'll never have any children
I would bear them and confuse them, my children
And I'm not at all afraid of changing
But I don't know what good it would do me
I am no longer afraid
The truth doesn't terrify us, terrify us
My salvation is found in discipline, in discipline

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