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When We Dead Awaken

from Attic & Cellar by aeroplane, 1929

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When We Dead Awaken

Returning to that house,
a crisp reborn morning.
Heaps of ash around,
a nail to snag your clothing on,
broken glass, battered frame,
cracked links in the Great Chain—
that glorious Decentering:
attic and cellar made one again.

Collapsing on itself,
the superstructure razed,
topdown and bottomup,
restored to some original state.

And it broke through to the cipher,
to the zero, to the end,
to the first day, to the last one,
to the answer, to the question.
And the ground was finally levelled,
and the halves were reconciled;
and the straightlaced ladders buckled,
and they met there in the middle.
And I’m so glad we could do this,
could come back here to this place,
could pay penance and remembrance
to our forebears, to our history.
It was holy to bear witness
to the uprise and downfall—
restitution, revolution,
ascension, demolition...

And we walked that scene together,
resurrected in our love,
and the Epilogue was calling,
but Time’s hands were, briefly, bound.

And as the whirlpool walls rose and fell,
and as the foundations grew new all around,
and as that house sunk in on itself,
a raven and a dove spiraled out.

Turn the page. It’s okay.

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Credit

Frederick Chu – cello
Jacob Eli Goldman – piano, bass drum, bass guitar
Alex Mazzaferro – voice, acoustic guitar, piano, electric guitar

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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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