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Hourglass Tonight

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 first person ("i/we") in which the main character is addressing the listener. the story takes place in the present, and the scene is a moving vehicle."

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

When I asked for a "lyricloud," I got these words: “banknotes chercher corps dancing elle est faire grand il ils injures les naked nous parfois parson pas plait qu rien sans si sonne sont swimming une” and since French is a great language but not my first, I asked again and got "bell benches called care caught crooked deaf due england fill found gotta health kick landlord mind pawned put shop test toweling villain waiting walking washer watch”

Out of the words generated by its "titular" title generator, I liked the words “bondage forever” best out of "don't pretend confusion,” "i'm not your davey,” "kill through barrel,” "share into the ohio,” "calm (super holland),” "for hazy,” "under progress,” "heaven grey (lead yellow),” "if i left your space,” "cancer of the drowned,” "feel : encore wash,” "indians & waits,” "a broadway of hoe,” "spanish satellite wired,” "waste on a rapper palm,” "the scarecrow seems carnage,” "asking plague,” "brooklyn of 2006,” "hunger feels yo" and "hourglass tonight”

lyrics

Sitting on benches, crooked and deaf as England
Waiting with care for the bell and a shop bill to come due
I care about them all but I must kick the demand
while the landlord takes her fill of what's found and true

Put me to the test where joy was pawned
Watch me rise to every occasion and fight
Stay out until you realize the sun just dawned
Remember where you left the hourglass tonight

Walking to a caught midday express train
Toweling off the grit to fake presentability
I mind how the washer and dryer must explain
the presence of a villain as marginal utility

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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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