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Abandon

by Saint and Kings

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Abandon 05:41
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There's a palm tree standing in the next block. The wind doesn't blow it. It just gently rocks against the skyline tall and fine It reminds me of you and how I wish you were mine I didn't mean to throw everything in a bag but the clock struck time and all I meant to do was get out fast there's cars with dents and murdered out trucks moving around outside too fast in the dusk wiggling and waving in and out of lanes causing dollars costing damage trying to make change with abandon I hate to turn too fast. I gunned it for the ramp I wiggled my neck trying to loosen out a cramp I'm vulnerable without your protection when you give a signal I'll make some noise in your direction We'll play with the changes we've given up toys I see the signs of what you painted up front. I'll tell you right now that's what I don't want there's a man by the side of the road holding up a sign that says anything helps. He's holding out his hand but I hope he understands. Not everything does, not anything people hand to you with abandon
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Back And Forth 04:14
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You take my love and you give it back and I never know how to handle that but I give it back as best I can watch you take it in, try to understand Love is something that we give back and forth We don’t deserve it at all, what we’re worth Love is what we give each other back and forth We don’t know what we deserve, what we’re worth Take it in your hand and your heart I don’t know if we will ever part If we do, I hope to understand The mystery of the supply and demand You give me love, honest not fake, as if there’s nothing more at stake Sometimes it’s more than I can take It’s like a thirst I can never slake Love is something that we give back and forth We don’t deserve it at all, what we’re worth Love is what we give each other back and forth We don’t know what we deserve, what we’re worth I can’t take without giving I don’t want to love without living
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Bridge And Tunnel 05:16
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I only notice the city limit sign when I'm in the slow lane. I never noticed how I feel so fine until after you've stopped the pain The skyline's black and blue just enough red in it for bruise. Not enough sweetness for some juice just enough to remind me of you I take the bridge and tunnel One buzzes like a fridge One aims like a funnel And we're just passing through There's light reflecting off the radio towers shining in the water, standing in its power cars in front of me swerving in and out of lane asphalt groaning under tires shiny and stained I slow at yellow lights out of a sense of caution. One more thing I ain't been able to sell at auction I round the corner past the stop sign loud enough to make the car alarms whine I take the bridge and tunnel One buzzes like a fridge One aims like a funnel This time of night's for wishing and hoping There's too many cars with their doors wide open drivers with their hands on the wheel looking around for company The pedestrians playing wait-and-see I'm a bridge and tunnel type You can tell in this light How far I travel from outside How it doesn't affect my pride Everybody's got to be from somewhere these days And nobody gets to stay
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Foil And Flame 03:47
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Candle lights don't make it a celebration From overhead it looks like a constellation If the view from above is smoke thin as lace If there's nothing to love but a feeling to chase Foil and flame Forget your name You won't need it Soil and shame Boil and blame Appetite undefeated Line the oven shine up whatever's cooking If you're inhaling, who cares who's looking Who can see from below as litter lands at your feet Never old as bodies fold and sway in a haze so sweet
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Here With Me 03:54
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The moment I wake up I look at you out of the corner of my eye and you’re pissing me off What are you doing here? Then I remember how lucky I am you’re still in the room when I look out at the backdrop weigh my desire and sense of doom you could be anywhere else happy and free so I suppose one of us is lucky that you’re here with me I get through my day manage all my work try not to make others feel like a jerk and then I know I’ve got to come home to you What do I do with all the stress, the lack of poise? Do I go out with the boys? Maybe try to give the girls a whirl, let them know: sorry, but I’m taken! I’ve got a pearl She’s like a diamond, watch her shine. She hits me hard, she breaks my spine Then she stiffens me back up, pours some water in my cup Luck ain’t got nothing to do with it, it’s purely elective until you get your hands on me: then it becomes electric
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Offering 05:00
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All it took was a little fog and a string of lights Sweep the street, keep the beat, wait for the night You can't put it on a schedule, you can't pencil it in on a calendar All you can do is make offerings and hope whoever's on the way will sing to you in a register you can hear, wrap its arms around you, call you dear, whisper in your ear, be of good cheer An offering, remember that's the thing The minute you attach conditions is the minute there's no more suspicion The room you leave for error is the room that rules out terror The breath that you can catch is the difference between you and any wretch Remember your entreaty Remember your offering Remember what you give It may yet outlive you
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Outstretched 03:53
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I kept seeing the headline creep in like fog at the edges of all my screens. It came so unexpected. I still don't know quite what it means. Everyone who used to hit you now says that you'll be missed departures unexpected always turn on this twist. Now you're outstretched like a hand No way to block out sunlight or the rains Nothing left for your legacy brand Until they send in the dozers and cranes I wish you had lived long enough to learn about the hurt you caused. I wish you had been strong enough to fight off danger's hungry jaws But now you stand somewhere you'll never have to pay a day's rent with all the time in the world, perhaps to repent
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Perhaps Even Feeling 04:36
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I don’t want to ride around at the amusement park. Nobody looks like they’re having fun until dark. Pretty lights on the fairway, cotton candy and fried foods: you understand that the environment is set up to keep you in the mood. It’s a game I don’t want to play. It’s not like I don’t want to know you in that way: I suppose that’s a strange admission, but they come with a price and it ain’t always nice. What’s an amusement these days? Is it candy or a game we play? Is it a doll on a shelf at the store, or a six-gun toy you give to a boy who’s keeping score of what he can kill, wound or maim, what he can conquer, make tame, or leave crawling away from him lame? The tools help them feel the same. I don’t trust the configuration of the terrain. Isn’t it set to keep us focused on anything but each other’s pain, when we could be healing, perhaps even feeling?
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Potential 04:46
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You pierce me with a glance Pierce me with your eyes And I wonder why I shiver when you look at me Because of everything you think I could be You see potential beyond the present moment You look at me out of time While I'm passing through You puzzle me so much I wonder if time is happening to you You're trying to give me a gift You're trying to give me a lift I don't know if I can give it back to you in a way that's good I'm waiting for tomorrow When everything will occur It'll no longer be a blur It'll fall into my mind And I won't mind I hope that's what I'll find
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Some Assembly Required 04:52
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The day you said I was doing the most A tiny little box came in the post in the shape of a card in the shape of a heart I opened and read it I hope that you're ready to do your part In time before you're retired You can put this all together One day in the future Some assembly required I woke up to wet streets and the weight of history surprised i never heard a single raindrop The small wonder is that The rain stayed outside The bigger question I suppose Is when did it stop? Perhaps I was distracted by the job I guess I found the work absorbing Too busy with the points I was scoring Anyway it's neither here nor there Much like you might be now We'll see. Maybe you'll call Maybe the phone will stay unringing That's how I'll know it's you I don't want to wait until I'm retired To put it all together some assembly required I don't want to hear about how my enemies conspired Someday I'll put it all together
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The Hard Part 03:53
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Don’t touch that dial Just watch it spinning Use it to tell which side is winning Could be a while what with all the sinning We bear it well under all our grinning The best lack all conviction The worst flex them like criminal contradictions Behind bars facing complaint Figures look like someone’s hero if nobody’s saint The hard part is finding truth The easy part is evidence, all you need’s an infinite sleuth Starting line for justice recedes growing from dirty soil, getting lost in ever taller weeds
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Two Feet Left 03:45
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When two people band together, live their lives in abandon then events can conspire to make one call the other a liar leaving one of them bereft standing on their own two feet with two feet left No way to handle it, no way to be dextrous or deft standing on your own two feet, we all wind up with two feet left After involuntary divorce comes remorse, possibly the seeking of recourse There’s no time machine, no way back, no way to put a shine or sheen on past events, cover it up with pretense No way to handle it, no way to be dextrous or deft standing on your own two feet, we all wind up with two feet left You can’t rebuild a fractured timeline It’s not going to be fine! So you pick at the signs, try to read into the record but there is no way back, no secondary effort.
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Where Nothing Happens 04:12
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Ever since they let me out of the room where nothing happens, I’ve been trying to get back in. They think it’s some kind of conspiracy, but I won’t let them win. They say there’s no news in a newsroom. It’s just where you go for some peace and quiet, the kind you keep between your ears when trying to make sense of your external fears or the eternal dears, the things you keep close to you forever, the luggage you slip into your pockets, the tiny gears that power everything, the little toys and sprockets you can assemble by hand when you want to start up the band.

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released April 8, 2024

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Saint and Kings San Pablo, California

I’m a singer-songwriter using guitars and keyboards to craft distinctive dispatches from intimate interiors, vast exteriors and all points in between. Drawing on years of pop, soul, indie, folk and dance-music fandom, I try to turn observations and narratives into succinct sonic snapshots. ... more

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