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Haunted by Jewels

from The Timebomb by Saint and Kings

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I was using the tools under "The Muse" section of the February Album Writing Month site at muse dot fawm dot-org.

When I called up a "plot spline," it suggested: “Write a song in third person ("he/she/it") in which the main character is narrating a story. the story takes place in the present, and the scene is a specific place.."

When I asked for a "struxxure," it gave me “verse-chorus-bridge-verse-chorus-verse-chorus"

When I asked for a "lyricloud," I got these words: “believe bonaparte boy brandy breath feeling garnished ing john katie mischief open performed prince randy rusted sandy sherry sipping spam stairs swills toast tosses yeah zanies”

Out of the words generated by its "titular" title generator, I liked the words “haunted by jewels” and “lie to me” and ‘if you won’t deny” and “like me not” best out of “12 in the pan,” "a difference thugz,” "fought you support,” "like me not,” "brat curse 88,” "crooked earned worship,” "tunnel (yn),” "things in your travel,” "it hells scene,” "curtain of bethlehem gotta,” "haunted by jewels,” "regret my relationships,” "the lines of rewind,” "if you wont deny,” "meat christmas borrowing,” "lookin' memphis drinking,” "prepare it on (situation),” "lie to me,” "aesthetic to my jungle” and "only 117 living"

lyrics

Sandy and Randy Katie and Sherry and John
Sipping on brandy now that Bonaparte’s finally gone
Big machine rusted while his friends were in power
Cleanup on aisle three and afterward take a shower

He thinks has it been too long, too long
Fortifying them horribly behaved fools
Leftover bling feels wrong, feels wrong
Will it always be haunted by jewels?

The zanies ran our reputation into godforsaken ground
Now the sane have to use what’s left out of what’s found

Sandy and Randy Katie and Sherry and John
wonder what’s the point of art in the wake of the con
Prince on a boombox echoing up and down stairs
He tosses off new wisdom to whoever still cares

She thinks has it been too long, too long
Mischief from margins ended in misrule
He thinks we need a new song, new song
Will it always be haunted by jewels?

Sandy and Randy Katie and Sherry and John
filling open bags of trash on the big house lawn
tossing cups to get rid of the backwash swills
Girls and boys paying the bills for thrills that kill

She believes it’s been too long, too long
Fortifying them horribly behaved fools
Leftover bling feels wrong, feels wrong
Will it always be haunted by jewels?

credits

from The Timebomb, released March 15, 2020

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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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