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Seafaring

from Latecomers by Michael Zapruder

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We wake up at dawn when the lookouts start
to sing about the sea and the Captain’s sailor’s heart
We swab decks in the morning and then we polish things
we work and whistle the song the caged bird sings
I’m always dreaming my dream that I’m incredibly free
I’ve finally opened up my place, my bistro called Chez Me
You are watering some plants we keep down in the hold
nursing them along to a new world from an old

Seafaring

Do you remember when we weren’t sure we were gonna go seafaring?
It wasn’t much to look at, our SS Awkward Caring
But we still went down to the docks every single dawn
to look out at the pier and watch the seaweed growing on
that little porch in Berkeley where you gave me your eyes
big and dark and circley, my lifetime in disguise
And then that house in Maryland got cancer in its walls
and we made all those long and sad phone calls

Yeah, and we were gone seafaring

And you know that part of me that loves to think it’s so wild
That lives behind the center for the 40-year-old child
By the M. Zapruder Archives of Screen Memories
where it drinks from the Fountains of Take Care of Me Please
And it yowls all day its favorite tune
the National Anthem of the Wasted Afternoon
By the Clearinghouse of Cosmic Light
where they truck in the moonbeams and cut em up at night?

Well he’s gone seafaring

And it’s true that things were different when I used to be alone
And that everything still kind of bores me unless it’s my own
But I still signed on to this trip to look after other stuff
and I gave my heart truly to Captain Enough’s Enough
And I really do care how we coil the line
but it really doesn’t matter if it’s your hand or it’s mine
that is shutting out the light when it’s time to go to bed
or charting a course through these oceans in my head

Yeah, cause it’s all seafaring

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from Latecomers, released October 16, 2020
Drums: Jason Slota
Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Pump Organ, Clavinets: Michael Zapruder

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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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