Recorded live to tape in Berlin on a Spring afternoon in 2013...
no overdubs and no thinking, just with great company, a six pack of beer, a good room and equipment. Million thanks to Federico Albanese for making it possible.
lyrics
sew up the pockets
dig a graveyard for the watches
stay young
stay warm with the quilt yer grandmother knit
with the hair you lost on the way
and say
i hear when yer here
and say
i feel what you feel
that you won't need anything you ever known
won't know anything ya ever needed.........
come back come back if ya run away
run away run away if ya come back
trying to grow up and slow down at the same time
turn my heart inside out with yer mind
as I spin both ways at once as the hologram shines
you can see the grains in the straight light lines
I read the birthdays on the gravestones
just wanna laugh wanna laugh
before it's outgrown
and the soul stream is a circle rainbow
that flows and flows back to yerself and you wanna be known...
I'm in a coma in coma I'm a clown I'm a clone...
a movement a movement to amuse the stars
they turn off and on and off and on my conscious parts
baby throw me baby throw me from the crashing car
I forget I forgot who you are...
every path leads back to itself after all
and every past is the future's fall
in the trophy room
in the trophy room
the heads on the wall...
credits
from ROYAL DE LUXE,
released April 13, 2019
Brandon Miller - vocals, guitar, lyrics
Federico Albanese - production, engineering, tape love and magic
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