New Quarantine

from Latecomers by Michael Zapruder

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lyrics

Our citizens are calling you
we all have something in our hands
Come in from your nameless lands
to Super Avenue
The candy that we chose to bring
was made down in the catacombs
beneath our old historic homes
It’s normal for your lips to sting
just eat a piece and then you’ll know
exactly what to sing

Our city streets are wide and bright
our city fathers make us proud
We see them and we clap so loud
we can’t tell wrong from right
We smash whatever’s close at hand
and smell the bitter almond scent
Chemical accelerant
we’re choking in the stands
parties to the Covenant
of the Swollen Glands

Our engineers have worked it out
we make our food from mud
We fill our yards up til they flood
and we can eat whatever sprouts
Our darling babies never wail
they just have too much self esteem
We always have blood in the cream
and droppings in the pail
But then again, New Quarantine is
known to be upscale

We people of New Quarantine
we want to say hello to you
We want this message to get through
delivered like a magazine
Thank you for your selflessness
the work you didn’t ask for
Thank you for being poor
and living life with less
Believe us when we say
the more you have the more you stress

credits

from Latecomers, released October 16, 2020
Drums: Alex de Carville
Bass, Guitars, Vocals, Celeste - Michael Zapruder
Percussion: James MacAlister
Vibraphone/Marimba: Jason Slota
Wurlitzer, Rhodes, Muted Piano, Hammond B3: Kevin Seal
Violins: Alan Lin

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

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