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Before opium that soul-sick summer,
ageless and alone. Infinite June nineteen
ninety nine holds to my master. Sadness
arrived like an empty Chevrolet.
I have terrible symbols. Symbols that come
in sleep beginning to interrupt, come
desiring to speak with me downtown.
A heart as filled as Persia with twilight.
Death stops death, strangers who envy.
Lydia, ask the gods to exclude us.
Only gods grant gestures that destroy.
Ashen waves like autumn, abstract your
being into a silent ship, sail quietly full
of wind traveling to Lisbon. Listlessly
thoughts tumble through the street,
audible as fallen leaves. There is sicknesses
like a sky's blueness, a quiet boy inside
a church. Rain mysteriously sudden.

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from Pink Thunder, released December 1, 2012
Poem by Brett Fletcher Lauer. Used with permission. Music by Michael Zapruder except choral vocal arrangement by Michael Kaulkin. Cello - Beth Vandervennet; Choral vocals by members of the Pacific Mozart Ensemble: Lynne Morrow, Lark Coryell, Angie Doctor; English horn - Kyle Bruckmann; Flute - Evan Francis; Acoustic guitars, piano, synthesizers, shaker, tambourine, background and lead vocals - Michael Zapruder. Cello, English horn, flute, piano recorded by Sean Coleman at Closer Recording. Synthesizers recorded by Eli Crews at N,IR. Choral vocals recorded by Eli Crews at Tiny Telephone Studios. Acoustic guitars, shaker, tambourine and vocals recorded by Michael Zapruder at 1924 Franklin. Mixed by Eli Crews at N,IR. Mastered by Dave McNair at Sterling Sound.

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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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