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Foreign Being

by The Royal They

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statewidestill
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statewidestill The tape just came in today, and I'm loving it. the whole album is absolutely amazing. If you're looking for a quality band, I completely recommend this one. 2 albums, and hopefully more. Keep it up! Favorite track: Veritas.
Kit Francis
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Kit Francis One of the best bands making music right now. Wish they’d play Milwaukee.. Favorite track: C.N.T..
Barry Dolan
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Barry Dolan See you at a show post-COVID. Need to hear these songs live 🤘 Favorite track: Flying Naked.
JerPz
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JerPz Sludgefucker is already my song of the year for 2018! Yeah, I said it.

Just blown away by this new material! Second best album of 2018. Favorite track: Sludgefucker.
Russell Bailey
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Russell Bailey As a guy who grew up in the heyday of Discord and D.C. punk, this album makes me so fucking happy I could cry.
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1.
C.N.T. 03:17
How far is your fat-fingered reach? Low enough to catch a kitten’s teeth? What do you have between your checkered cheeks That doesn’t taste like pig’s feet? How do I pardon your perverted breach? Am I a person or a piece of meat? The only legacy you stand to leave Is what you have left when you take your goddamn hands off me How long is your sniveling beak? Long enough to bag a bully’s cheat? Nothing you say can save your sick deceit From what your freedom means now You chose to be The feral servant of an evil dream And may the future lay it at your feet Where there is nothing left of you to teach But that you fucked the world but you did not fuck me The great fall, the big fight The sting of a self-inflicted bite That festers, unsolved With the vitriol of the unevolved There’s no counter, no cure No way to make the world work You may scream, you may shout You’re still rotting from the inside out And I'm not waiting to see I know you'll try to fuck the world But you will not fuck me
2.
Sludgefucker 03:39
Shut my mind down, down Down and out with the waste Not an idea in my head That did not come in through my face I’ve got the time, time Just can’t seem to find any space I could have sworn that was original, though Oh fuck, am I addicted? Or just under control? I’m so happy to be happy I don’t even know what I’m happy for Had enough? Or should we ratchet it up? How far ya gonna push If you don't know when to stop? You’re a taker, not a giver But you’re glad to give it all that you’ve got You’ve got a t-t-t-t-twitch in your eye Yeah, you’re in a rage But you don’t even know why Just an actor A reactor All too busy getting ready to die Seeping in Searing out Shut me off Yeah...
3.
Flying Naked 05:12
I'll catch you sometime later I'll leave it for someone better They find you dressed in some scene Without a sense of who you have been Can you open the box? I see you on my screen A ferocious and foreign being Did they leech you out somewhere? What's it like without your skin? Can you open the box? They say it's slow It makes it easier To let you go...
4.
Pandemic 03:28
Come alone Said you'd come alone I'm so light I'm so high Run along See you run along Hear the tires I'm so tired Giving up Am I giving up? Speeding lights Is this right? What will these Children think of me? Will they celebrate? Or commemorate The one I once was...
5.
Veritas 04:21
One step at a time I try to take it in and suck it down Till my stomach’s a tangle It isn’t what I chose And when I think I’m in control Is when I’m actually not at all I know this is hard I know this is hard I never said it isn’t But wherever we are Wherever we are I’m in it I will die When I die I get by I get by It’s easy to be scared And even easier to share that And I know that makes it harder Nothing I can say Is gonna make it go away As much as I know you wish it could I do what I can I do what I can I know it’s hardly enough But as long as I am As long as I am I’m in it I will die When I die I get by I get by
6.
Needler 03:53
What you say is what you mean It's what you say is coming over you In times it's coming Say it again Say it again Say it again as you watch the conversation slow I want you to know... What you say is what you mean It's what you feel It's who you are And everyone should hear it Say it again Shout into the fan Scream it away as you watch the conversation slowly crumble I want you to know...
7.
Waiting Game 03:03
Say it again How I will be just fine And racing doesn’t save time As I meet you... What is enough? Pressed clothes and sure smiles? You already have it all You just have to try Maybe they’re right Maybe they’re right Yeah? Yeah… Yeah! NO!
8.
Say Less 02:48
Walking over Slowly, surely Hesitation in your hands Social circles aren't generous They'll all judge you where you stand You want to say less... Tumbling out so quick You lose your breath Stopping just to get some air Looking up to see that they all left Then again, who really cares? You want to say less... In your mind It's not surprising That they would respond in kind Since you know So surely What goes on in someone else's mind You want to say less...
9.
Leech 02:28
“So it goes” As you watch your lone catch swimming away Cause you like it You like it Rather end up drably Scraping grains of sand around your plate Cause you like it You like it You don’t want to talk You don’t want to play You don’t want to do anything We are not the same “It’s how it is” Cast yourself off towards The sickening eddy Cause you want it You want it Everyone will try to teach you Feed you Warm your sharpened ends Cause you want it You want it You don’t want to talk You don’t want to play You don’t want to do anything We are not the same You don’t want to talk You just want to complain You don’t want to talk You just want to blame You don’t want to talk You don’t want to play You can justify anything Doesn’t make it sane
10.
Gullethead 03:50
We're almost 30 years old And we have no more insights Than we had when we were 15 I worry we've both taken The path of least resistance It's a lot easier to dream Than to do something worthwhile Why are we always arguing About the stupid shit we Should have figured out by now? That we want the same fucking things Doesn't mean we deserve them Does that make me the villain? Does that make you a victim? Just cause you say it isn't so It doesn't make it go away You are what you're inclined to You're not a writer, not a saint You can't be right all of the time Just cause you feel a certain way It doesn't make it OK I'm still listening If you have anything to say I'm still listening... I'm angry all the fucking time But I'm far from the only one There's always something on your mind How is it every time you spill It's always someone else's fault? Are you living against your will Or are you missing the point? I'm still listening If you have anything to say I'm still listening If you have anything to say I'm still listening...
11.
Weekender 02:42
Hell yes, now I have what I came for And I don’t need to be told What it is and what it isn’t And sure as hell not by you, babe I know now what I want to believe in And you can lose your breath Over how it could be better But I wouldn’t pick a different scene Yeah, I’m where I wanna be right now Yeah, there’s nothing else to figure out Yeah, I’m where I wanna be right now Yeah, I’m getting what I wanted Here and now, in a lake, in a basement Everything we have We're making it together And we're making it the way we want to I don't care if we're sinking or swimming What we do right now We do because it matters And you're never taking that away Yeah, I’m where I wanna be right now Yeah, there’s nothing else to figure out Yeah, I’m where I wanna be right now Yeah, I’m getting what I wanted

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released January 13, 2018

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All songs written by the Royal They. Recorded, mixed and mastered by John Meredith at Mollusk Studios in Brooklyn, New York. Produced by John Meredith and the Royal They. Cover art by Darrell, Michelle and Rick.

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