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Lyric Machine

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

Put your bets down
You’re invited to be part of the let-down
You wanna be let down
Let’s get down and get done
Everything, everyone

Are you crazy?
Or are you just predictably lazy?
Would you pay me
To stay alive on a prayer?
Anyone, anywhere?

Lyric machine, lyric machine
Can’t see any color other than green
What do you mean
When you mean nothing of what you say?

In a broad stroke
You paint yourself into a column of grey smoke
Smoking, back-broken and drifting away
Cliche after cliche

You’re a drowned shout
The type that needs a rope to be wrung out
You oughta be wrung out
As strung out as you are
You can't get very far

Lyric machine…

It’s a fine line
Between achievement and a waste of a good time
Where in your mind
Do you find what you need
To be what you conceived,
To be happy to be,
To belong, to believe?

Lyric machine...

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from The Royal They, released September 24, 2016

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