Name: Love and War
Duration: P00H03M22S
Description: We realized this was more of a raucous number early on and sort of went for it during the recording too. Kind of early 80s alternative punky vibes but also not. Lyrically, this one explores the ways in which we tried to mean to each other when we were younger and, perhaps, all that we didn't know and didn't quite get. Turn up the volume and welcome to the new EP.

Love and War

from Re:union (EP) by Surreal

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We realized this was more of a raucous number early on and sort of went for it during the recording too. Kind of early 80s alternative punky vibes but also not. Lyrically, this one explores the ways in which we tried to mean to each other when we were younger and, perhaps, all that we didn't know and didn't quite get. Turn up the volume and welcome to the new EP.

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Love and War

Don't detonate me
Don't serenade me
Don't complicate me, no
It takes investigating
And some penetrating
It takes a lot to makes things whole

To all the boys who've loved before
To all the girls who've wanted more
To all of us who knew the score
No war, no more, no war

You can't consecrate me
Stop me from obfuscating
Don't sneak up on me, no

Oh lord, what a terrible liar
The world was when so young
You got to say ah, you got to spit it out, you got to make no sense

To all the boys who've loved before
To all the girls who've wanted more
To all of us who knew the score
No war, no more, no war

To all the boys who've loved before
To all the girls who've wanted more
To all of us who knew the score
No war, no more, no war

To all the boys who've loved before
To all the girls who've wanted more
To all of us who knew the score
Love and war, love and war, love and war

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from Re:union (EP), released March 27, 2020
Written and performed by Surreal.

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Alan Semerdjian New York, New York

Songwriter, poet, and educator Alan Semerdjian has been making and performing music in the NYC/Long Island area and beyond since 1990. His entire annotated musical catalog will be available exclusively here on bandcamp by 2023.

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