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Full Metal Black

from The Royal They by The Royal They

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    Pucker up and kiss your ass goodbye - The Royal They's debut is a slingshot of loud, quiet, weird, wild, snotty, nasty rock n roll from Brooklyn's darling post-punk masters. This is one you'll take home to mama but The Royal They can show you a raging good time. Essential in this era.

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lyrics

Am I the one with a plan?
You’ve got a mouthful of sand
Better that than to have nothing
To suffer through

The money’s made of a man
You’re overplaying your hand
I only wanted you for something to do

You’re made of malice and meat
Whiskey and shitty TV
Stare at the grain through your glass
Until you can’t even see

It’s what you’re doin’
For wreck or ruin
It’s only true until you give me something else to believe
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Well,
I wouldn't lie
To make you sorry, would I?
So what's your hurry to die?
You sorry son of a bitch
You never know till you try

It’s not a counterattack
It’s just a matter of fact
I’m made of metal and the metal’s made to
shatter you back
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, full metal black
How should I react?
Yeah, full metal black
You can't have it back

You needed something to stoke
To wrap your neck with and choke
You couldn't gild yourself a lily to keep your head

Cause you’re too pretty to smoke
Too fucking bad to be broke
You’re so alive, you think you’d rather be dead

These are the spoils of war
I know I'll never be bored
Am I your enemy now?
You'll never know it for sure

The best of you raw
Spun back into straw
The empty center of a universe that’s spinning away
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What do you want me to say?
You made a fucking mistake
You gave me bullets for bones
Who’d you expect them to break?

Go on and shatter your teeth
It doesn’t matter to me
Your body couldn’t think of anybody better to be
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, full metal black
How should I react?
Yeah, full metal black
You can't have it back
Yeah…

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from The Royal They, released September 24, 2016

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