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The Timebomb

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 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 thinking out loud. the story takes place in the present, and the scene is an abstract, undefined place."

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

When I asked for a "lyricloud," I got these words: “alta alto andare aria che ci eco fu gerald gift horse li love niente night ooh perche pomeriggio quando quota sapere sfida sono tight ufo zen” but I don’t speak Italian, so I got a new cloud: "absence age brain cerebral chance charm earthly freshness gallons ghost glue inhale injected letting materials negativity patience remedy scars slowly solar strength surely syndromes unknown vapors"

Out of the words generated by its "titular" title generator, I liked the words “pain timebomb thirty” best out of "tides (bowl bull),” "he folds a die,” "pretty gravy,” "yeah, collide,” "center at wilderness,” "over the bushes,” "don't step,” "opened you imagine,” "scar else,” "panic'89 nude,” "666 dollar in fallacy,” "pain timebomb thirty,” "i,” "oughta mess you ain't,” "open me (sequence 72),” "five,” "rough yo 486,” "no ohio,” "tell our glasses,” "gorgeous meant hades” and "'ll quit down"

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The scars slowly fade but the syndromes remain
we inhale the vapors rather than inject the pain

Our time of explosion is yet to be known
We are uncertain of the size of the blast zone
Our elements combined running out of time
We’ll be nothing left they can charge with a crime

They sell us age but can’t promise strength or charm
Cerebral visions of earthly power no need for legs or arms

Stick together I promise they can’t turn us all into glue
If we wake up dead let's promise to never stop haunting them too

Surely every second to the timebomb seems like a second chance
Slowly we reckon with the timebomb if it don’t end it ain’t no romance

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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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