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Blood Brothers

from Attic & Cellar by aeroplane, 1929

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Blood Brothers

Word spread like prairiefire:
a sit-in, a draft riot. I
reclaimed the thunderous voice in my gut
and called for a slowdown, a strike.

And I don’t need the fear of God to keep me good.

We roused the sleepers
playing possum in the basement,
checked and balanced. “Brokers
have broke us for the last time.”
Stockstill and blearyeyed,
the upright caused a downtick.
Bayonets clashed,
striking sparks—a synthesis.

And I don’t need the rule of law (to keep me good)

’cause we’re huddled close like blood brothers
burning paper, cutting fingers.

A conscious crowd
gathered in the townsquare:
men and women who’d readily
trade places with the dead.
“The ‘Commonwealth’ rings
hollow as the Liberty Bell,”
I shouted from a soapbox.
“So take a coarse hand in your own.
This only works if we’re all in...

if we’re huddled close like blood brothers
burning paper, cutting fingers.”

Press and pulpit
were worked into a frenzy,
sputtering swill and moonshine,
cant and partyline.
And the bigwheels, the magnates
held a blacklist filibuster—
loud yellowbelly bragging
followed fallout of our barnstorm.

We wiped the record, spoke in argot,

and we marched out proud like blood brothers
burning paper, cutting fingers.

And the Man said, “Remember, boy,
every dog has his day—and his dayafter.”
But we stood up tall like blood brothers,
burning paper, cutting fingers.

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Credit

Jacob Eli Goldman – synthesizer, drums, voice, hand claps, modular synthesizer patches
Chad Jewett – programming
Alex Mazzaferro – voice, rhodes, piano, mellotron, organ, keyboards, electric guitar, bass guitar, marimba, bass drum, hand claps, drones

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from Attic & Cellar, released July 1, 2010

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aeroplane, 1929 Springfield, Massachusetts

aeroplane, 1929 was a band from New England. Between 2005 & 2010, they released two albums & two EP's on Topshelf Records. The band consisted of Alex Mazzaferro (vocals/guitar/keys/lyrics), Jacob Goldman (bass/keys/recording/arrangements), Noah Goldman (guitar/pedal steel/keys), & Wil Mulhern (drums), plus friends like Julian Veronesi, Chad Jewett, Dave Van Witt, Alex Syner, & Peter Federman. ... more

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