← more from
Howells Transmitter
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Boobs Are Real

from Pink Thunder by Michael Zapruder

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    180 gram pink vinyl pressing of Pink Thunder. Limited Copies!

    Includes unlimited streaming of Pink Thunder via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $20 USD or more 

     

lyrics

They stole my tires

They knocked down my house

They killed my father

They cut off my fingers

And I thought, "And I did like those fingers."

They pierced my eyelids.
They scalped my brain.

They ran their sweaty fingers down my sweaty back.

They played me music but it wasn't music.

They loved me and then they didn't.

Somewhere in there I grew these enormous boobs.

At some point what they took away 
Was given back
In the form of boobs.

What they took from me

They gave back

Just like, as Lydia Davis says,

When a limit has been reached

What is real but does not help

Is lost forever and replaced by the unreal.

The difference is: these boobs are real.

credits

from Pink Thunder, released December 1, 2012
Poem by Dorothea Lasky, from Awe, Wave Books 2007. Used with permission. Music by Michael Zapruder. Piano, electric bass, synth bass (Hammond Piper Autochord), synthetic warbles (Juno 106), background and lead vocals - Michael Zapruder. Piano, basses, vocals recorded by Michael Zapruder at 1924 Franklin. Warbly synths recorded by Eli Crews at New, Improved Recording (N,IR). Mixed by Eli Crews at N,IR. Mastered by Dave McNair at Sterling Sound.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Michael Zapruder image

Michael Zapruder Austin, Texas

“Michael Zapruder makes beautiful folk-pop ballads resonant of the voice of Rufus Wainwright and wordplay of Andrew Bird" – Pitchfork

contact / help

Contact Michael Zapruder

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Michael Zapruder, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featured guests are the golden-voiced Baby Rose and psyche soulsters Brainstory.
listen now