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Once and Future Kings

by Once and Future Kings

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1.
Hungry Just Because 04:00
lyrics
cursed, listless in the ocean bird around your neck a god that doesn’t work looking for the earth wingman where you going? that boat was for us all we’re hell bent we’re hell bent chart our course by the stars the ones that are not shooting lit their final spark hungry for the dark mark it on our map steering clear of sirens the wind stalls and tosses us albatross is bitter ghost ship in the winter hungry just because feel the ghost heart beating faster than our sails
2.
Hologram 03:30
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girl, you find a flash mob is curled at your feet you know that fashion with a fur isn't free? but could you try to turn your cheek? anyway it is your better side man, will you keep at it until you're dead? trying to keep your cool as you stand there now you're counting all the hairs on your head neither you nor i are feeling it nobody is really here, the company are manikins i walk past, i see them in the glass but i don't see me in them friend, we should talk about this habit of yours the rules, you say, are made to ignore but you can't explain the bolted doors your strategy is failing you see, i've got a different way of viewing the world the system, it needs mending for sure isolate yourself, the problem's ignored like bodies stuck in an ice age you tried to be unique but you became the same nobody who ever really cared has been a passive activist your argument's thin
3.
Candelabras 03:24
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we bend the streets in spite of fevers prospects, like sand, are caught in hourglass tiptoeing under candalabras the night is young a camera captures creep on the case with walnut finish swift shadows weave across the rails, they dance imparting tiger stripes on people wide eyes in trance, the floor’s a jungle star power on your crystal beaches reflection pools are floating images we know you had the best intentions divine your past when something’s missing entrusted to you countless hours toes deep in mud we laughed and learned to trust good tiding when the waves came rushing it’s sinking in, the water glistens you can’t really sob because it's been a long time coming you try to retrieve what you lost, but your heart’s still beating and sure the memories have their place just not in my face, not on my home base the feelings can fly, after all they’re weightless i could just die, wouldn’t that be something? i’ve given my time, it’s time I’m moving the pictures I’ve got of you by now are vintage rehearsal has gotten old just stop.
4.
Constellation 04:40
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the universe is a tapestry my eyes are the brush and the stars are my ink we can discover a constellation we're undercover or so i think we learn to govern our own creation instead of serving a holy drink the energy can turn you on it's like a world on the inside the energy can make you smile and the gravity is undermined come on people feel the throb and let it operate inside your heart around the masses we revolve and there is no end in sight the blinking night is my tv screen the characters push, they love, they weep if you would suffer imagination you'd see they fill that empty space you see they're part of my constellation they never shoot in the human race the energy can turn you on
5.
Eager Ache of Dew 03:06
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i’m admired by the moon as the ocean tugs in two but i have learned not to wish on stares because it’s too hard to prove that your moves are really you if you asked my lips they would not care we’re a hot car in the summer we’ve got the cards and a straight face we’re together evaporating on each other eyes to eyes face to face now it’s just me and you at the eager ache of dew we could lie here all day long am i out of control does anybody know is this not really profound
6.
Write On a Willow 04:35
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wear your dress in a meadow the days go by, await the fall ask me not from your armchair don’t ask me why you paid the cost hearts are churning, quite an achiever the light burns, write on the willow taking jobs to nowhere the stars go out, a waste of pain pass on the cathedral even seeds will run away white lies you tell at your peril the pines shedding their needles you ask him to travel when trouble comes hither you ask me if love will keep you together follow the dream, you have to weather, don’t wish in your hands, you’re crossing your fingers i know blue violets are on your radar you’re better excited in spite of the dribble i’m watching the middle, watching the middle one can’t hold a candle to falling. you’ll see a thunder god won’t keep a secret, it throbs with every heartbeat, in the calm of spring when you touch it tingles your weighted doubts will test your feelings as long as you know it deep inside you’ll go anywhere you can coincide but you’d rather be someone going nowhere than a no one going somewhere else write on a willow . . . (“dot-dot dot”) write with a needle
7.
Fire Escape 03:37
lyrics
the temperature turns our hands into a plank my mind's made up, it is worse since i complained if we could just build a fire all the people gathered round to huddle every god eeking out in her domain can you explain the meaning of a contract? does it put your name on a high high cloud? in the wilderness, holler out a mantra we're the ones in charge, stay alive we’re rescued now, the future’s ours to make i found my friends on a winter river bank with them it is not a day job, so to speak the rapids light a candle, it surely is a bright spot and you protest and tell me that it was fate oh but baby yesterday was a plague you made i have a plan, feel your little heart beat don’t think, just breathe, stay alive
8.
Water in the Mud 03:14
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we're coming to a clearing, see the canopy bowing out every step will rustle, all the roots will be underground we're walking for a feeling, there's a mystery in the wind someone isn't breathing, you can tell by the lack of clouds you want another round? every lost love is good for nothing you wanna work it out? everyone leaves the record running we're skipping in the needles, it's hard to keep from spinning out the others want to meet us in the gully when the sun comes down we'll break into the clearing, see their faces are beaming high we can dance on fire and we can wear our native crowns all the ones we love listing in a circle, rhythms thumping it's water in the mud the river is deep but our feet are touching
9.
Everyone Romance 05:40
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i try to please you know you're about and then it was your mouth the revolution won't care it will fester without us hell why'd we need electric guards they won't let me in the mystery will always live on on on i remember what it was to forget her the rain came in our room, had a good loving we're floating down in a riesling vial our heads give in, we've got a constant star everybody that wants this sobs every garden is a god everyone romance, everyone romance hold your lover in a wrap hold her, hold her i was never sure why i could never ask why, i fell beneath my headrest and then its over help me through the song the rain drips on, on the the wind so i can rise instead, the days you doubt are a conduit find your dance or sit down help me get more life from all of it sigh a bit, just try we can both get off in a little bit i had a last try with my friend where did we go? we might have been something all the tears are gone bye but let us assure the pattern is still in the sky i'll begin to get by, a better dream, a so-it-seems horizon the day will come, a July umbilical strings, the feelings coming untied

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To be released August 3 at King's Barcade in Raleigh, NC

Self-titled debut full length album for Once and Future Kings.

The OFK album puts on display an emotional range not attempted in previous records: love and depression, isolation and community, nostalgia and longing for future. For the most part OFK sets aside the political tones common in the two previous EPs and dives into the personal. The lyrics represent an evolution as well - they are less terse, and they unite the songs through shared metaphor. The record eschews the contemporary trend of micro-genres and instead leans on variety. In this vein, songs range in complexity. Whether it's a two chord song or a ten chord song, OFK works on the interplay of eerily familiar melodies that morph into moments of unexpected awe. Pleasant drama is the aim. The addition of cello (Kaitlin Grady) on this record moves OFK toward that aspiration. Jess Edison takes on keys in the absence of the former keys player. Rush Enterline adds nuance and character to each song with his guitar work. The rhythm section (Matt and "Bearded" Matt) add more energy and faster tempos than previous records.

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released August 3, 2013

Cello: Kaitlin Grady
Drums/Percussion: Matt Austin
Guitar: Rush Enterline, Jess Edison
Bass: Matthew Robinson
Keys: Jess Edison
Vocals: Jess Edison
Backing Vocals: Kaitlin Grady, Rush Enterline, Matt Austin, Matthew Robinson, Jess Edison

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