King Baldwin

by King Baldwin

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released 15 December 2009
Music & Lyrics by Alexander Eccles
Recorded and mixed by Jay Pellicci at Tiny Telephone
Mastered by Rainer Gembalczyk at Sienna Digital

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tags: indie oldies chamber pop folk rock rock San Francisco

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King Baldwin (as a band) is now back under the Dubious Ranger band umbrella. You can find King Baldwin releases and related ... more music and links at Dubious Ranger's bandcamp page, at www.dubiousranger.com, and at www.alexandereccles.net. Please visit www.kingbaldwin.com for updates on King Baldwin's ongoing youtube music projects, which will remain under the 'King Baldwin' moniker. less

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Track Name: Old Soul
Once when the hanged man set in the sun
Once we were dead and buried alive
All the way

You, you just stood like a Hopper and stared
Like El Topo he came in the glare

Arms lean on metal signs
Unleaded, 3.49

Old Soul, where are you going?
Stuck on the dance floor with nothing to say
Old Soul, what are you doing?
If you're gonna do it, go all the way

Flash! You were holding a gun at your side
Crash! It's a long long way from home
So they say

He, he just sighs and feels the breeze
It's the cruelest month to believe

There's hope in hanging around
We've earned this pound for pound

Old Soul, where are you going?
Stuck on the dance floor with nothing to say
Old Soul, what are you doing?
If you're gonna do it, go all the way

We wanna know what's what
We wanna confiscate
Mountains are moving on
Leaves you hanging
Track Name: Numbers
See them go
See them fall
One and all
In the air

That was now
This is then
No means yes, not when

In the air
We will lose our way
Glowing like the bees, fleeing casualties
In the air
We will understand the past
Though it's there it doesn't speak anymore

See it in
A spiral shell
See it in the pop queen, undermine the feeling

Wear the robe
Spin the wheel
Your final fantasy is real

In the air
We will lose our shhhh
Lungs forget to breathe, feet forget to leave
In the air
The sun will swallow up the Earth and learn to speak
In the air
We will find our way
But everyone will feel ancient and unreal
In the air
We will understand it all
And there will be lies forever more

Red skies, blue skies, numbers
Track Name: My Brain Is...
I'm on a table
I feel gloves
I'm by the collar
So this is love. So this is love?

There's something happening
Now beeps and lights
Now hands are moving
But now I'm quiet, but now I'm quiet

My brain is immersed in love

They're talking quickly
And mom and dad
They're probably crying
Because it's sad, because it's sad

I knew that someday
This time would come
I'd feel the moment
But I'd feel dumb, but I'd feel dumb

My brain is immersed in love.
Track Name: When The Morning Comes
I need an alibi
I follow passersby
Who glare with urban eyes and love the night

Directly indirectly
I trace the buildings to their roots
Like Cherubini saying this and that, I love the night
I love the night

These people cannot swim
They need more discipline
I'm gonna say it slowly

We're gonna wait until the morning comes
(Oh no! I would if I could but I can't stop!)
We're gonna wait until the morning comes
We're gonna wait until the models run
Through the traffic lights again

I found a sex machine
I don't know what it means
It turns the kings to queens
The rust it rumbles

These people cannot swim
They need more discipline
Don't make me say it slowly

We're gonna wait until the morning comes
We're gonna wait until the morning comes
We're gonna wait until the models run
Through the traffic lights again

We're gonna wait until the morning comes
(Oh no! I would if I could but I can't stop!)
Track Name: Campfire Song
Turn away
From the dark, from confusion
From the things that make you sad and quiet like a candle

Turn away
From the thing in the closet, on the stairs
In your bedroom where your lover licks the moonlight

Come to me, come to me
That's all you have to feel
Because if Edgar Allan Poe was right
We're a brick away from love
You're fucked unless you take a chance

Let me in to your place, to your pleasure
To your time when you're wide-eyed and falling like the bomb
Let me in and we'll watch as the sun becomes the moon
And you'll wonder if promises are poison

Come to me, come to me
That's all you have to fear
Because if Edgar Allan Poe was right
The heart without the head will rob your sight
You're a brick away from love, you're fucked unless you take a chance