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I Don't Think You Understand

from Latecomers by Michael Zapruder

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Eden was a bad place to unwind
Adam used to lie on peacock feathers
peel another perfect orange rind
and curse another day of perfect weather
He would look around at God’s idea of wilds
and say to Eve there are some things we should demand
her voice was small she was just a child and she’d say
Adam, I don’t think you understand
All through the night you can’t sleep
your body is a lost mountain climber
your mind goes beep beep beep
all the way up to the uncountable numbers
So you crawl down to the base of your awareness
you are searching for a cable or a strand
and you shout living this way is careless and it echoes
I don’t think you understand

We were all standing at the crotch of the bay
where some steps made out of stone were sinking in the grass
we were all up at Death’s vacation house to play
we were thinking he’d give most of us a pass
and so I grabbed him by his musty-smelling cloak
and I asked him why he bought that piece of land
I said how can you live this way when some are broke
and he said Michael I don’t think you understand

then he said to me

the trees are in the forest side by side
the rocks are on that mountain with the snow
the sun is in the heavens far and wide
and something always has to go below
there’s salt in the water of the sea
there’s sugar in the fruit of the land
but if you think there’s an answer in me
I don’t think you understand

There’s malice in the eyeballs of every day
in the apple vitamin and grocery cart
Courageous is your sunny breakfast tray
and that crossword you are never gonna start
the puzzle you are never gonna solve
and everything that’s in somebody else’s hand
if the world did sing a song while it revolved it might be
I don’t think you understand

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from Latecomers, released October 16, 2020
Drums - James MacAlister
Bass - Kurt Kotheimer
Mallets - Jason Slota
Synth - Steve Hogan
Siren - Bart Hopkin
Piano, Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals - Michael Zapruder

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Michael Zapruder Austin, Texas

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

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