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Nothing's Eternal

by Saint and Kings

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1.
About Time 03:50
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The thing about time is that we think it takes place in order we think it’s got borders that it behaves, follows a line, something we can think of as fine The thing about time we treat it like it’s rational, passionate, like it knows what we want when it doesn’t. How can it be expected to acknowledge beings in its midst fighting amongst each other for little scraps of bliss, something we can think of as fine?
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Clocking 02:49
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Clocking you soon as you walk in but not saying anything out loud noticing your second hand spin a movement too subtle for a crowd Everything I know isn’t obvious least of all what I feel in real time secrets linger longer than trusts a penny drops more often than a dime You wouldn’t say what I was thinking Discretion lets you arrive and depart So who will say if that was you winking Not you walking out ahold of my heart
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Finite 04:28
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It’s fine it’s fine it’s fine it’s finite It will expire it won’t last the whole night the drink in your hand the tune by the band the gas in your tank the kindness unthanked Yes, you get points for showing up Even more for knowing when to keep your mouth shut That’s a skill acquired on the job using your best intentions against a filthy ragged mob Yes, it’s a gig but it might not be a living Too little pay for too much effort at a pace unforgiving so bend your back, pursue this work sanity won’t set you free, but it’ll keep you from going berserk It’s fine it’s fine it’s fine it’s finite the error unfixed betwixt wrong and right Only things made by humans make mistakes it’s not only their funerals, it’s also their wakes
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Listen Before Burning 03:32
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You could call the flames by their names if you knew them but you don’t and so they burn You could call the flames by their names some of us could summon them, bid them perform our will Some of us can do it still but it’s no cheap thrill. You only know how to set things on fire and eventually extinguish them All of this effort, it makes you perspire and when you expire, it’s the flames to which you are sent If you knew how to call the flames by their names, but you don’t, do you? And so they see through you and call out your names as they come for you all you’ve got to do is listen and burn
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Louche Lips 03:50
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Deep heavy foggy morning greets us anew Smoky wisps blanketing another aimless day Palms on the horizon fade in and out of view whether or not we might want them to The wind won’t pick up until noon We’ve nowhere to be anytime soon Close these drapes against escapes Lower these blinds assume these shapes You have the rest of your life left for regret against a chance to let pleasure help you forget Curl up like cats and keep our own counsel seek out the sparks against darkness not so dull like sunken ships giving in to gravity’s pull as louche lips offer more than a mouthful We’ve at least an hour or two before gray gives way to blue to swim against the tide between or simply surrender as currents careen
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Never Letting Go 02:47
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There’s a notebook page sitting empty There’s words in my heart even emptier There’s everything that ever happened between us sometimes solid too often a blur and it’s still happening somewhere at least some of the scientists insist it’s so I’m clinging to the concept of never letting go There’s feelings in my heart I couldn’t say They steal my peace until I wish I could pray There’s everything that ever happened between us never too believable for wonder
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Nothing's Eternal 03:27
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Nothing’s eternal for that we can thank every evening’s sponsor entropy national bank its slogan’s no reversal of transactions allowed with holdings this eternal even death be not proud Nothing’s eternal even the past must fade No future is promised except one still unmade there’ll be no rehearsal with limelight shining down on a play unfolding so eternal anyone may wear the crown Nothing’s eternal so beat you bloody hearts conjoin whatever joy aligns The stops permit the starts The symbols yield to signs The data populates the charts empty coldness reigns eternal its blackness reveals the stars
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One More Day 04:42
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When bullets fly from narrow nests just like birds and millk and honey crystallize and crumble into curds and the world’s worries won’t be weighed down in words here’s all I know how to do, here’s what’s gotten me through: find the joy in the complaint find the mercy in restraint find a way out of no way find the marrow in the bone find a path to take you home find peace that’ll keep you one more day
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Only A Moment 03:29
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We were in the flow together last forecast said good weather we were in the flow together and suddenly we were separated It was only a moment until it trapped me became a predicament leaving me unhappy It was only a moment feeling the way I felt as if I were somehow clever I could undeal cards dealt I went over everything I own Threaded memory needle sewn I went over everything I own and suddenly I got so frustrated It was only a moment until it trapped me became a predicament leaving me unhappy I wouldn’t mind never feeling the way I felt as if I were somehow clever I could undeal cards dealt Did I do something wrong or unfun a needful thing needing to be undone Did I send in clouds to douse the warmth of the sun or send in crowds until you doubted I was the one
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Photograph 03:42
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You wanna be my foes but I say you’re not worthy You try to swing them blows but I say you can’t hurt me I demand a better class of ruffians I demand a better class of villains I demand a better class of enemies in front of me right now I got the tools and the allies with a side of fries Let me get the lens right! I was promised opponents I was promised worthy foes to get in my face, try to show me my place All you do is make me laugh hold still, I’m gonna take a photograph document what people saw right now, you’re making me raise my brow Wake me up when the bell rings wake me up when the lady sings at the end of the opera Wake me up when the bell rings I can’t feel a thing tonight
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This Is It 03:57
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They tell you to be mindful they suggest you stay present then offer you nothing but a life you’re bound to resent till you think of resigning or just flipping over the board or if asking for a hard reboot is a thing you can even afford I could tell you about the good old days but in a lot of ways I’m afraid to say this is it The months and years will fade like cheers from the first time you hear me say this is it They say your life’s your own but offer no worthwhile contract only lies up to their eyes unless you insist on one pure true fact You think of a quiet life somewhere in the remotest of boondocks beyond and behind a nice high wall with provisions and strong locks Look for love in your mirror after spraying glass cleaner or out your own window if you’ve got one that gets any sun it’ll be worth all the trouble be it blood or sweaty puddles help somebody, because if there’s any point it’s the only one
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Tough Breaks 03:17
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They wave me out of the spotlight They say it’s not about my age or any unexpected expectation only that it’s time to turn a page I was hoping for some kind of extra life beyond my closing day a little credit or compensation for tough breaks along the way They say participants can be disinvited and I’m not supposed to feel slighted but to leave a room without remuneration I wish the process left me more excited Maybe it’s relationships left behind maybe it’s relief from an endless grind I’ll ponder it until my final exhalation if it was ever anything for me to find
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Watch The Clock 04:10
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You can watch the clock tick You can swipe you can flick at its second hand swinging from a central axis winging round and round it’s flinging almost as if it were singing in an arc thus circumscribed preordained and inscribed Make a meal out of each second in fact You can watch the clock or you can act We believe in obligations we believe in borders and nations distract ourselvs with fictions You can watch the clock run or turn instead toward the sun It keeps time so differently as it shines down for all to see At sunset, you can choose a star to glow like cinders, to burn and scar fiery circles tracking round you high above You can watch the clock or you can love We’ve all got time until we don’t we all use time but all of us won’t We believe in obligations we believe in borders and nations every fiction until we face the truth we believe in obligations distract ourselvs with fictions till we face the truth there’s only time nothing but time
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Yearbook 03:56
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If the year was a book I would batter it in a totebag Toss it on the ground let it drag if it was mine to read at anytime If the year was a book I would search for recipes to cook footnotes for ingredients in need Leaves and flesh spice and seed If the year was a book I’d hope it would come illustrated maybe overrated by critics from the future If the year was a book I would write a dedication inside I would fill it up with a little pride as if it was mine If the year was a book like the ones they hand out at the end of school, I’d look inside for rules, cut out pictures of fools If the year was a book I wonder if I could trust myself find a way to put it on a shelf for someone to discover anew maybe you, maybe you

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released February 28, 2023

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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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