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The Fire Monologue

from The Painter and the Actor by Alexander Gallows

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Have you ever heard a sound?
A quick crack in the night?
You tune in your ears to phase out the silence, expecting to hear it again
But you only grow in doubt
A doubt that you even heard a noise to begin with
But something else comes into play
A sense of presence
Like suddenly you're not alone
Well I'm hear to tell you that you did hear that sound
And you are not alone

There's a cause for those sounds, for those feelings
It's a story that goes back many years
Starting with a man, now a legend
No one ever knew his name
No one ever cared about knowing his name, at the time
But he has since come to be known by many titles
Some call him the "Painter and the Actor"
Others "The Wanderer"
Today you're more likely to hear folks refer to him as
"The Soul of the Night" or "Night Soul" for short

But no matter the name it all boils down to pretty tragic and somewhat common tale
An artist battling with an internal struggle
Always fighting who he was and what he wanted to be
Never quite being able to connect with the world
And the world often reciprocated those filed attempts

Now you're probably wondering how he got all those names or how he became a legend in the first place
Well the story starts with a fire

An old decrepit house, nearly forgotten by time itself, burned down on the outskirts of a town
Now its this town that our legend is supposedly from
At the time of the fire locals had said they thought the home was owned by a musician or an artist of some sort, but they weren't quite sure
Late at night they thought they heard music drifting from his property
But no one ever cared enough to go and ask, or see who lived there

The strange thing is, the only article that survived the fire was an old leather bound journal
It was filled with pages of scribblings, sketches and gibberish
Every now and then you could make out a word or a phrase
"Locked away"
"I want to be free"
"Sometimes I feel there are two different people inside me"
And one phrase was written over and over again, page after page
"The painter and the actor"
"The painter and the actor"
"The painter and the actor"...

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from The Painter and the Actor, released May 1, 2021

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Alexander Gallows Washington, D.C.

Alexander Gallows is a singer songwriter from Washington D.C. Wielding both acoustic and electric guitars while weaving thought-provoking lyrics, Gallows blends the many genres he finds inspiration in, creating his unique sound.

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