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Finishing the World

from zeusbunch - glancing backwards (1998) by ZeCoop

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This song was written in Connecticut, based on a poem that Jeff sent me, about a funeral he had been to. Although the song is instrumental, it should be listened to after reading the poem, as the feel of the song is meant to fit the text. :)

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Finishing The World
(instrumental, inspired by...)

She told me once
That a world with accidental hammer holes
Like craters and volcanoes
Was definately...
Unfinished
Left undone by some lazy union of construction gods.
I saw them I think.
They were waiting around after the funeral,
Smoking,
With boots too large
And overalls.
They had tractors and big chains.
The chants repeated,
Paradeisos
Thanatos
wandering in my mind
Paradeisos and thanatos
Paradeisos and
They and she
Were put into immense cement
Gold and black
Confinement.
With loud voices of chains and engines
The box was maneuvered into place
Like a conduit
For a new hotel
Everybody was thinking and frowning
About the old house to sell
And how to get home
As the gods filled in the hammer holes
With bulldozers and steamrollers
As smooth as her face
The coroner made "so nice"
Every experience tucked under the skin
With a quick make-up job.

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(Thanatos-Death, Paradeisos-Paradise)

(c) 2011 John Cooperider/Jeff Petersen

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from zeusbunch - glancing backwards (1998), released September 1, 1998
Music: John Cooperider
Based on a poem by Jeff Petersen
(c) 2011 Cooperider/Petersen

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ZeCoop Kalamazoo, Michigan

I love playing music and keep learning new instruments. My songs are in a wide range of styles, from indie-rock to surf, to folk to rock to electronic... I never know. I record at home in a studio I put together in a spare room. I work (via the web) with a lot of vocal/lyric collaborators from all over the world.

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