The Middle

from Mockery Sparklers by Saint and Kings

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You're always angry, I'm rarely enraged, we're looking at each other through the bars of this cage. You think I'm trying to be neutral on a moving train, but still I'm carried forward beside you just the same. You see I'm carried forward beside you just the same. You want to call what I'm doing by some other name. I don't like the picture, and that's why I try to widen the frame.

These people that you trust whisper into your ear "believe the worst." I can't believe what they say. It has the ring of the rehearsed. You think I'm trying to be neutral on a moving train, but still I'm carried forward beside you just the same. You see I'm carried forward beside you just the same. You are torn between heaven and hell as fates, but I'm not dying to visit either of those states.

You bring the world to me, injustice by injustice, like some magician. No wonder I cling to what's proven; the world I live in is sufficient. Your dream of what's better. It empowers your pursuit of the worst. I'll be here in the middle when you're done making the last the first. I'll be here in the middle when you're done.

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from Mockery Sparklers, released November 26, 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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