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Zombie Bride

from Berliners by Surprise Flapjacks

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I’ve known that you weren’t above me since the morning you lifted your limbs up and loved me without warning. Some may despise the whims of a shy country boy and call it crime, but to my surmise, one glimpse of your eyes read, “Let’s make up for lost time.”

All of the angels are vying to be first to meet you – all in a tumbling, flying verse from Nietzsche. And if I might, your features requite more than any German song. When you arrived, the preacher turned white as you proved his sermons wrong.

Oh my Queen, oh my sprite, this earth couldn’t keep you quite its own. Now that in between you reside, unbirthed out of deep divides unknown, will you be my bride? And now that you’ve come alive, come alive. Come alive and come into me, won’t you?

In the heat of the night, come close and don’t leave my side for no one. Take no heed of the light, the ghosts in the trees glowing white – we’re snowed in. Is it obscene to survive this cursed and this evil life for love? Because I have seen it done right, an absurd joie de vivre I’m not quite above. Now don’t leave my side. I want you to be my bride. This world is a feast laid wide, so girl keep your teeth on tight! And now that you’ve come alive, come alive and [...?...] me, won’t you?

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from Berliners, released September 29, 2011

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Surprise Flapjacks Durham, North Carolina

Surprise Flapjacks makes music about communists, existential crises, zombies, and lovesickness (and, of course, zombie lovesickness). The Carrboro and Durham-based five-piece creates melodic, energetic pop awash in sugary hooks and group harmonies, shot through with nervous surrealism, and tempered with submerged melancholy. ... more

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