11/12/2010 Guerilla Performance at Roble Hall Theater at Stanford University. Pawn is an all-original student-written and produced folk rock musical about a young Asian Canadian soldier’s last night in Kandahar, Afghanistan. These ten sold out performances were produced by the Asian American Theater Project (AATP) and Stanford Theater Activist Mobilization Project (STAMP). MALE SOLDIER: AK, AK, what do you see I see a mountain sharpening What of the desert and what of my feet I see the sole thinning in between So slow your heel Your turnstile heart The wheel goes both ways FEMALE SOLDIER: AK, AK, what do you see I see a hillside covered with sheep What of the shepherd and what of my sleep Both have left neither returning ALL SOLDIERS: So slow your heel Your turnstile heart The wheel goes both ways ABRAHAM: But not today ALL: Today we wait for morning ABRAHAM: Morning... morning... FEMALE SOLDIER: The sun will... the sun... MALE SOLDIERS: The sun... the sun... ABRAHAM: AK, I'm reeling AK, I'm falling fast AK, I'm sinking In the thicket of my mind Let me close my eyes (Abraham...) Just a moment (Come back) Just a minute (Abraham) Just a second Let me see it, home Where the Rockies end and the Prairies begin The Prairie begins, the Prairie begins... See the sparrow, and the robin, see the larkin, the raven Cold Lake is still Clouds graze low And the love I used to know Love I used to know But here the stars can shrivel And children smell of smoke And... (Abraham) Night is ...