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What It Is I'm Made Of​.​.​.

from To Persevere by aeroplane, 1929

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What It Is I'm Made Of...

Ampersands & exclamation points surround.
I'm lying, helpless, on the ground;
I'm finding out exactly what it is I'm made of:

a face of wood, those clumsy strings
& meager bones: a crooked frame.
I've certainly done things that I'm not proud of
& I'm just scared they'll find me out.

Michelle is searching for a notebook on a shelf.
She's crying softly to herself;
it's part & parcel to her stable mental health.
& every dotted 'i' reflects her libel eyes.
Her point of view distorts. Her present image lies.
& she's so scared they'll find her out.

Perhaps I'm not as brave as I thought.
I've crawled on belly with the worst myself.
We'll tie loose-ends to form a knot,
then point out plot holes 'till we've had our fill

'cause we're scared to death they'll find us out.

We've hit the bottom of the barrel.
This is the best that we can do.
We're old-fashioned & second rate.
We're out-of-date. We're saint-esques, misconstrued,

& we'll stay like this forever,
'till some siren song leads all of us
to some marvelous death on the rocks.

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Credit

Peter Federman - programming, harmonica, trash can
Trevor Johnson - voice
Alex Mazzaferro - voice, programming, acoustic guitar, organ, electric guitar, radio
Wil Mulhern - drums

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from To Persevere, released May 2, 2006

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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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