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Salad, Fish and Corn

from Latecomers by Michael Zapruder

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This isn’t my song but it’s very familiar
I think it began on the day I was born
But it could’ve been when we sat by an ocean somewhere
Eating salad, fish and corn

Do you remember me on a typical evening
I’d have been dreaming of rowboats, of manning my oar
Watching some rain drip down onto some sand
While you stood behind me in the doorway

A house by a shore where the waves sang and sang
“come on, come out here” but you stood between
the warmth of life and that cold calling sea
as we all sang Goodnight Irene

And when you’d sit down and play your guitar
You’d play songs in a meter that is measured in days
and in months and years so it takes a whole life
to hear the whole song someone plays

Oh my darling oh my darling oh my darling you sang
and you meant it when you looked each one of us in the eye
There is a difference between living and drowning
that I’ve learned to recognize as time goes by

And sometimes I’ve thought in the moment I die
I’m gonna see that my body was just our old Sharp turntable
it’s been spinning that same one song all along
and when I look down at the label
it won’t say a thing I’ll just hear that familiar
movement of air through the tweeter and the horn
just a song about some people by an ocean somewhere
eating salad fish and corn

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from Latecomers, released October 16, 2020
Drums - James MacAlister
Bass - Elijah Thompson
Mallets and Percussion - Jason Slota
Farfisa and Piano - Kevin Seal
Sitar - Peter van Gelder
Horn - Monika Warchol
Guitars, 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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