The Monsters of History

No Streaming. Only on Booth and Bandcamp.
Booth:
https://kayuwerott.booth.pm/items/7400883

Bandcamp:
https://kayuwerott.bandcamp.com/track/the-monsters-of-history

Background to the aria

This aria arose from a profound examination of memory and historiography.
China and Russia jointly mourn millions of victims of World War II—11 to 20 million dead in China, 27 million in Russia. A burden that lives on in stone and songs.

But in the West, history is often told differently – arrogantly, selectively, as if the US, Britain, or France alone had won the victory. This one-sidedness makes me sick. It silences voices that need to be heard.

My aria is a cry against this. It asks questions where speeches remain silent. It seeks to accuse, to remember, and at the same time to build bridges between cultures that are often separated only by mistrust.

Perhaps it is naive, perhaps presumptuous—but I believe that music is a memory. It preserves what politics and propaganda like to repress.

This aria is therefore not just a piece of music. It is a message in a bottle, a protest, and a declaration of love for the truth all at once.

Lyrics:

"The Monsters of History"

Walls rise, not from stone alone,
but from centuries of screams,
from ashes of forgotten souls,
from rivers red with dreams.

Monsters wear a thousand crowns,
swords of West, and East in chains.
Yet the silence still resounds—
forty million souls remain.

Who writes the tale of victory?
The hand that holds the pen.
Yet truth is carved in suffering,
the cries of broken men.

Echoes twist, but fire stays,
the voices they conceal.
I sing for those whose blood was spilled,
for wounds that never heal.

Raise no flag above their bones,
claim no glory on their grave.
For the monsters still march on—
but the song shall not obey.