The Armenian intervention. The album's only track to weave a non-European language directly into the German-Latin-English fabric: Անմեռ ջնջված — immortal, erased. The song is about the names history tries to delete and the way ash and prayer end up making the same sound. Ashes and prayers still sound the same.

The lyrics' bilingual binding is the form of the argument. Armenian and English alternate so each line in the imperial language is shadowed by the same line in the language imperial violence tried to silence. Count the bodies, blur the names. The counting and the blurring are the same gesture from different sides of the page. Sing it upside down. Reversal is the only justice still available. Tell us who to hate this time. The voice of every regime that ever made a list.

Where the Kant cluster argued that dignity is unbuyable, Prayer and Ashes argues that some bills come due across centuries. The song does not perform Armenian for atmosphere; it puts Armenian beside English and refuses to translate one as a footnote of the other. Wake up. Shut up. Both commands in the same throat. This is the album's most political track and its most prayerful. They are not different things.