Tow-Headed Boy (Achluophobia)

from Original Sin by aeroplane, 1929

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Tow-Headed Boy (Achluophobia)

My mind, all violence like electric rain outside the window's view.
When a revelation rattles you, parallels paralyze.
Oh, things are equally wrought of acid & alkali.

& I'm back,
a tow-headed boy,
crippled by fear in his bed,
dizzied by the spin of the world again.

I was struggling to untie my knotted guts.
It shook me to my very roots in my pitch-black room overnight.
But [I know,] "there's nothing there in the dark
that isn't there in the light."

[Still I] sleep with the television on,
wading through the snowstorm fuzz.

I was being chased through the streets by my nightmare nerves,
in the throes of fever tossed & turned
to the beat of old Death's whispered words;
a writhing black cloud descends & envelopes the earth.

& I'm back,
a tow-headed boy,
crippled by fear in his bed,
dizzied by the spin of the world again.
Except now,
it's my bourgeois blues,
my pawn shop soul, & the nightly news
that keep me screaming.

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Jacob Eli Goldman - drums, shaker, bass guitar, synthesizer
Noah Goldman - electric piano, Rhodes, pedal steel, piano
Alex Mazzaferro - voice, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, synth strings, tambourine, television

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from Original Sin, released July 10, 2008

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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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