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Super Zero

from Prime Mover by Rocco of the Snow

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This song is about man as a confused demigod. His power has been his ability to pull ideas from his mind and make them manifest in the physical world. It talks to man’s obsession with being able to predict the future in great detail by controlling nature. Doubts begin to creep in as there is a delay between the vision cast and seeing it realized. No matter how many times the hero does the impossible, he always doubts he’ll be able to do it again. After all, half the fun is forgetting. When at last he remembers who he is, the power in trusting the pattern ushers in a new cycle of heaven that’s well worth the wait.

It wrestles with a more unique interpretation of what heaven means. The idea put forth is that heaven is a state of mind, not a place. Heaven is felt when you’re able to completely appreciate the moment for what it is. There isn’t another person or thing you could add to it or take away from it to make it more perfect.

For example, I can remember standing outside my uncle’s barn right after my grandfather died. My uncle showed me a plant that my grandfather kept after his wife died. Grandpa could never get the flowers to bloom. Immediately after he died, my uncle re-potted it and each flower blossomed fully and magically in pairs. As both of us were looking down, he said, “I like to think that’s because their spirits are together again.” We both just stood there looking down at this flower, neither of us able to lift our heads because I knew we were both crying. The brain says that logically more is better. It tries to fool you into thinking the moment would’ve been even better if my other uncle and my dad and whoever else were also there to share it with us, but that was the moment that was given to us-and it was perfect. Also worth noting is the fact that there was great pain in that moment, but out of it we still felt heaven.

In the pre-chorus, the pale blue dot of course is a nod to the great Carl Sagan. Once the hero realizes that heaven is on earth, but he needs to choose to live in it, he regains his gifts.

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What has happened to us?
I could’ve sworn we were made for a higher love.
Now I fear the fire’s gone out
And I don’t know if we’re better with or without…

What has happened to me?
Could’ve sworn I was made for prophesy.
Now I fear the vision’s all gone.
Can’t even tell the weather...the weather.

Got the faintest view of what might happen.
What you thought it was all a certainty?
It just might be, but I’m just guessing.
Anyway, as I was saying... Heaven..
No, it ain’t what you think.
We’re on the brink-
The pale blue dot, though we ain’t on it.

So am I supposed to be your hero
or superzero?
God, let me know.
We can build a better today for tomorrow,
but it all depends on whether you gon’ let the reins go

credits

from Prime Mover, released December 21, 2018
Rocco DellaNeve-Vocals, Piano, Wurlitzer, Prophet, Moog Voyager, Beat production
Wesley Harris- Beat Production. Joseph Secchiaroli -Guitar

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Rocco of the Snow New York, New York

Rocco of the Snow is a New York City-based multi-instrumentalist & producer/engineer hailing from Buffalo, NY. In his music, you'll hear his Romantic era/Jazz sensibilities mixed with four-on-the floor dance grooves, funky key-basslines, analog synth-heavy production, and introspective bordering on self-indulgent lyrics, always coming together with the intention of holding melody to be paramount. ... more

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