To commemorate the 96th anniversary of the latest Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in 1915, I offer this song, which I penned this song last year, using the Armenian translation of my name (Stephen Watkins became “Stepan Takvoryan”). It has a cadence very similar to Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy,” albeit slightly slower and with a more mournful chord progression in the verses, although the choruses are strong, determined, hopeful, and upward-looking.

by Stepan Takvoryan

(With a kind of marching cadence, half-whispered/half-spoken with a raspy voice)

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