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Uncanny

by Saint and Kings

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1.
Razors And Bombs 04:43
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You used to keep a razor under your tongue Cut opponents so quickly they’d never feel it done Until the red rushed over hands clenched in pain Until light left their eyes and thoughts left their brain But that was when your razor loved fools It chased to slice them open and undo rules It raced to teach lessons outside of schools it ranked pain among its most effective tools Razors and bombs, my baby Razors and bombs for everyone Cut you down and blow you up Put more poison in my loving cup Razors and bombs, my baby Razors and bombs for everyone You used to keep a bomb inside your chest Surprise everyone with what’s beneath your vest Until its pressure blast no longer asked permission Until its smoke and ash demanded our submission But that was when your bomb loved fools It chased to slice them open and undo rules It raced to teach lessons outside of schools it ranked pain among its most effective tools Razors and bombs, my baby Razors and bombs for everyone Cut you down and blow you up Put more poison in my loving cup Razors and bombs, my baby Razors and bombs for everyone But now you say you know a better way to live And now you’d like to think of an alternative To taking lives away and somehow maybe give A little something for the pain if not a sedative
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Karaoke Nights 05:46
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Never made it out as much as we’d've liked And it never was everybody's cup of tea But often as we’d go, one thing was for sure It was everybody's songs that set us free Like the woman at the bar with the tattoos and the scar and country repertoire and amazing rack Like the man perched on the stool full of alcohol and cool thinking it’s the old school he can bring back They film the moments like they don’t give a damn, They do it for the vine for snapchat or Instagram One time for harmony vocals until they might go round the bend Remember all karaoke nights must come to an end Never have to come here long to say goodbye Scenes like this seem almost too good to be true We pass through without stopping to wonder why Goes double for memorials and mortgage holders too Like karaoke jockeys watching couples tonsil hockey trying to flirt with disasters or hotties they hope to capture Like blessed bartenders who may not prevent a bender but call cabs to keep drunks from driving into the hereafter So come on, belt out beautiful ballads from the songbook Grab a microphone and give a melody a long loving look Don’t bore us with the choruses and don’t forget the hooks We came to listen when we could’ve curled up with a book And live in the moment like it ain’t some throwback jam Let presence in the present be a gift for friends and fam Cheer them all until last call with every little bit of love you can lend Remember all karaoke nights must come to an end
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One Day 04:11
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These are the new bots They come when we yell One day they will offer us some instant of help We live the choices The everlasting year Pardon myself but you never asked, my dear These are hallucinations They dazzle and amaze One day they’ll make us Reconsider our days We were raised up into the beautiful kickin' Swing over, rip or sing Honey, it’s us I’m pickin' These are moments locked up Material like us, and then not Nobody’s going to remember All the love that we’ve forgot We seek sensations underneath the none One day don’t rain on us Without a little bit of sun We decline caskets Our ashes are for burning One day they’ll dance again if the earth just keeps turning
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Monochrome 03:29
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Time used to be a thing I lived in stints A prison sentence, a workday spent in shifts And then I met you, our tongues as fresh as mints And then I said why bother, let's enjoy these gifts Two weeks, I still see in monochrome And now I hope I never find my way home Space used to be this empty vacuum Plotted points connected by random walks Now you constantly explode, joyfully take up room Now your connection's the only thing that talks Three weeks, you still see in monochrome And now you hope you never find your way home Our world's anew in white and black We see everything that we used to lack Now that it's all open just a crack Fill it all with feeling so we can't go back Color can't be kept outside forever In time it's going to creep in at the corners There's gonna be a bond we refuse to sever A little heat we will keep to make us warmer Seven weeks, we still see in monochrome And now we hope we never find our way home
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Hurry Down Lightning 04:33
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When clouds swallow the sky and lights dim down to gray and everyone’s about to cry because nothing's left to say Then I’m gonna breathe deeply and shrug off the people’s panic since just 'cause it’s going cheaply ain’t reason enough to get manic When lightning finally lands I'll rumble thunder like a song I won't refuse its fiery demands I'll just ask what took you so long Hurry down lightning After the earth’s done splitting and swallowing up stray features and everyone’s not underground has reverted to lesser creatures Then I’ll laugh long and heartily Tap into reserves of calm and bliss since the world’s ending everyday don’t make it my local apocalypse When lightning finally lands I'll rumble thunder like a song I won't refuse its fiery demands I'll just ask what took you so long Hurry down lightning Honey, tie your blindfold real tight on that last dark and stormy night I’ll hand you a long shiny metal rod if you'll hold it high above your bod When lightning finally lands I'll rumble thunder like a song I won't refuse its fiery demands I'll just ask what took you so long Hurry down lightning
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Never Saw It Coming 03:35
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It was just a feeling I had Something unshakeable and true It said to keep an eye on you Who would've known it'd be right But I never saw it coming Before whatever kill dem stunning I'd die for a memento mori But I'd rather see the end of the story The local news of the day It used to be these words we wrote Now a melody of lowered notes Quickly sinking out of sight But I never saw it coming Before whatever kill dem stunning I'd die for a memento mori But I'd rather see the end of the story Once a nothing like me was drawn To a cartoon dream of an industry Some day soon it will all be gone I should learn to let it motivate me But I never saw it coming Before whatever kill dem stunning I'd die for a memento mori But I'd rather see the end of the story
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Don't Do That To Me 04:30
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I got a memory and it works just fine I got a heart and it knows how to pine You saw me write this by the exit sign You got feelings that don't make 'em mine I know how bad they treat you I know just how bad it can be So while I'm trying to love you Maybe don’t be bad to me Maybe don't do that to me I got clothes to hide my nakedness Sweetness to offset bitter in my mess I may not be to your liking or your taste It don’t make my loving yours to waste I know how bad they treat you I know just how bad it can be So while I'm trying to love you Maybe don’t be bad to me Maybe don't do that to me Differences draw you unto me Fill my crimson with your clover Differences help us plainly see Not just what’s done but also over I know how bad they treat you I know just how bad it can be So while I'm trying to love you Maybe don’t be bad to me Maybe don't do that to me
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The Discipline 04:25
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Gimme a rented thunderstorm High above Overdrive Avenue Gimme fisticuffs with my gentleman nemesis too Gimme a spotlight shot Of my loneliness on tape Gimme medicine whispers And footprints without brakes I come for the words If the words don't come to me I wait at the light all night After the light turns green Even if they never show up Until who don’t know when Waiting on words to come, Honey, that’s the discipline Gimme grey, it knows my avenue Hides behind every closed eyelid Gimme half for the hound downtown Contract the other half out for bid Gimme some instant of help To linger the everlasting year Gimme hopeless seas and free Cinema wives from all their fear Gimme any artificial rockin' I'll pour it clean over the side Gimme these unfinished bells And shameless Oklahoma pride Gimme ways to reconsider our days As I cannot become my church Gimme heaven with the dudes For every pretty pony on a perch
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Conqueror Like The Dusk 04:23
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Someone who pauses out on the horizon Someone whose majesty is not surprising Someone powered by oncoming glloom Who really knows how to enter a room She wants a conqueror like the dusk That slips the skin leaving only husk Evaporates into air leaving only musk Common as a troubadour on the busk Someone with unparalleled health Someone with hitpoints for recovery and stealth Someone who will take the wheel and steer Someone who you’d never want to have a beer He wants a conqueror like the dusk That slips the skin leaving only husk Evaporates into air leaving only musk Common as a troubadour on the busk By now he and she cannot have missed Someone like who they seek don’t exist By now he and she must be reconciled All candidates fall short by a country mile We want a conqueror like the dusk That slips the skin leaving only husk Evaporates into air leaving only musk Common as a troubadour on the busk
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Lower Than Everlasting 04:20
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Here we live in the lower than everlasting Until we rise through grace of other love Until we die in the flesh or others’ memory We can make something more of ourselves Super graves and fancy rockets We crawl from one into the ether Auto-saves and power sockets Upon the heath we see the heather Here we live in the lower than everlasting Until we rise through grace of other love Until we die in the flesh or others’ memory We can make something more of ourselves Volumes from an infinite library We can check them out or check them in Turn them up so it’s not scary Hide our fear with a shiny grin Here we live in the lower than everlasting Until we rise through grace of other love Until we die in the flesh or others’ memory We can make something more of ourselves Pretty ponies abide in a brood Here in heaven with the dudes Nights hold steady for our pity Bleed into each other in the city
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Tennessee Begins Here 04:20
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Exposure all over the neighborhoods Word came crawling out of our pasts No point bringing a saviour to our wake Light fuses, lie back and watch the blasts You: Oklahoma shameless on a Mississippi highway I: fun California preparing my 1-2-3 Ohio fade and steer Bastard the harbor half out of Bethlehem Louisiana Put the pedal to the floor until Tennessee begins here Detroit, my apocalypse neighborhood Preach it down, you would pick how to collapse You’re a Compton eyes makin’ champion Soft and shattered, you tattoo it off with a gasp You: Oklahoma shameless on a Mississippi highway I: fun California preparing my 1-2-3 Ohio fade and steer Bastard the harbor half out of Bethlehem Louisiana Put the pedal to the floor until Tennessee begins here Like an Osaka that eats your Russia I cannot become my church you say Can’t swear sober on a familiar gangsta Can’t save what won’t stay steady to pray You: Oklahoma shameless on a Mississippi highway I: fun California preparing my 1-2-3 Ohio fade and steer Bastard the harbor half out of Bethlehem Louisiana Put the pedal to the floor until Tennessee begins here
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Each Other 04:58
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Behind every man or woman Stands a target Behind every family member Lies a fuse We aim arrows at each other In some bargain Try to win arguments we were Born to lose You wouldn't think we had time To push buttons Given how often we install them Every day Throw these hands at each other Or catch them Try to make something out of all We cannot say We're born in dust and headed back All the time But stars that don't wait to die before They shine They never see what travels farther Light or heat Glo up for a while, then out the door Rinse and repeat Shine really bright upon each other That's kinda neat
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Happy On Top Of Happy 03:57
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I remember how you used to be sad It was like you were covered in ice Beauty was a thing you held and had But we could tell you didn't feel nice You shone in the light shivered in the chill You wondered if someday you'd ever feel Time came to the rescue and so did pills Feelings flowed until you thought you'd reel Here comes happy on top of happy Here comes joy upon joy So much sentiment it's sappy You play with it like it's a toy Here comes memory on memory You've bid goodbye with a smile Here comes happy on top of happy Hope it will stay for a while I remember how we touched a lot Out of innocence and needing a hand One came and one went, but we got That we weren't alone, if not quite a band I taught how you should follow passion That more mattered than looks and money You taught me to love those who got me And fuck all others, now look at us honey! Here comes happy on top of happy Here comes joy upon joy So much sentiment it's sappy We play with it like it's a toy Here comes memory on memory We've bid goodbye with a smile Here comes happy on top of happy Hope it will stay for a while
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Uncanny 03:56
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Anyone who says you can’t step in the same river twice never tried to be nice to you never tried to love you better than anyone else who fell short than anyone you saw through to encompass this longing ocean and set waves in perpetual motiion It’s just uncanny how you undo me how you step to me see right through me It’s just uncanny Undress me madly as if there’s no plan B in this zero gravity Anyone who says you can't rewind a sun you just saw set never knew you could stop time never was yours as you were mine should’ve allowed for all your talents should’ve prepared to be off-balance unless you knew of the hidden camera understand how to unplan the glamour It’s just uncanny how you undo me how you step to me see right through me It’s just uncanny Undress me madly as if there’s no plan B in this zero gravity
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Denver 04:39
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Mile high with a half moon overhead Breathless in this yawning empty chill If eerie silence doesn’t mean I’m dead Maybe headaches riding sidesaddle will Some cities are fictions Some memories are too So how I remember Denver doesn’t make it any less true Time drains sunlight out of the sky Weather shades colors black and white If turbulence made it hard to fly Gravity's guarantee freed me from fright Some street grids are riddles Solvable if you salvage their clues So how I recover from Denver depends on the depth of the bruise Some cities are nice dreams Some dreams have city limits So if I never return to Denver It doesn't mean I'll never get to visit

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In music, as in words, there's no inspiration like a deadline, so thanks and appreciation are due to the February Album Writing Month crew over at fawm.org

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released February 29, 2016

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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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