Listen To The Song: Zipperhead Demo Track By Steven Pacia
Some words placed together evoke a myriad of ideas. This is for you that want to know what the lyrics mean:
Zipperhead
gather all the sacred songs
for out of body release
(old and cherished music is played at funerals for the souls of the dead)
wrap them all in cotton gauze
in twenty seven degrees
(the songs are aching and fragile and appropriate for the dead of winter)
oh my darling
(what a friend will say to the grieving spouse, when there is nothing left to say)
brave the wind with Capricorn
(imagining the huddled mourners at a January interment)
follow orders for free
what we do when we have nothing left and surrender to religion, the truth etc.)
bow your head and raise your eyes
(literally what you see in the crowd during a funeral prayer, also referring to the defiance we attempt to mount against our own similar fates)
see the man on the tree
(look at the crucifix , ie be a witness to suffering; and a reference to the scene in Amarcord which mocks our pathos)
oh my darling
dry the tears hemp mourning cloth
(a Japanese garment for mourning and a reference to using substances to lighten the weight of the moment)
pastry cart on the scene
(the necessity of bringing back the corporal at the end of a funeral, reminding us that we are still among the living. also referring to the attempts to lighten what feels so heavy at the moment, or not so heavy to others)
seven angels coming now
could it all be a dream
(refers to the mourner’s fantasy of the apocalypse and desire for an after life)
oh my darling
Lyrics and annotation by Steven Pacia
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