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The Frontier

from Attic & Cellar by aeroplane, 1929

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The Frontier

We couldn’t stop our jawing about the Frontier.
Up all night, dreaming up an “out there.”
Romanticized a space and time
and told ourselves it would get better;
our raw youth overspilling the sides,
we drove that boundary westward.

We never even noticed the current pulling—
dragging us through shallows thick with reeds—
until we reached the estuary
of that wild, pacific sea.
Then we scratched our heads and gazed back at
the smoldering paths we’d fought to exceed.

What have we done?

Sometimes I wonder how we could have expected
anything different to come.
I dug your grave with my bare hands
and then I climbed down in there with you.
The soft earth warm and moist around...
we’ve finally reached an ending;
we’ve finally hit the horizon;
we’ve finally breached the Frontier.

Fullcircle globe: the New World was old
before it ever was born. And my favorite tales
are the ones that we wrote and then forgot that we wrote.

Tarot and ouija told it all before—
twin con: nostalgia and hope. And my favorite tales
are the ones that we wrote and then forgot that we wrote.

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Credit

Tim Donahue – trumpet
Jacob Eli Goldman – piano, double bass
Noah Goldman – pedal steel, electric guitar
Alex Mazzaferro – voice, acoustic guitar, cymbal swells, harmochord
Wil Mulhern – marching bass drum
Julian Veronesi – voice

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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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