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.​.​.​As Long As The Money Lasted

by The Band Royale

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it’s too late the train’s already gone there’s a wise guy on the left and he can’t see what’s in your head if he could it wouldn’t make much difference he’d never live to tell stuck in someone else’s hell there’s no need to worry this thing it must be done this battle must be won by any means necessary you’re just scared growing old and so am I we play close to the vest never mind what the rest do we’ve always done it better we’ll always do it best we can’t come from the heart we can’t stop once we start to so forget all the rest we always do it best right here drop that burden that you carry i know it weighs a ton i know this all seems scary but soon enough it will all be done and the right side will have won yeah the right side so play it close to the vest never mind what the rest do we’ve always done it better we’ll always do it best don’t you come from the heart you can’t stop once you start to so forget all the rest we always do it best play it close to the vest i almost forgot to say what we came here for there’s no use in lying loose ends need tying so take these pills and go to sleep when you wake up you’ll be free you won’t even know me it will be wonderful i play close to the vest i don’t care what the rest do i always do it better i always do it best i won’t come from the heart i can’t stop once i start to never mind all the rest baby it’s for the best
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they had their guns and they had their principles we were in love yeah we were invincible or so we thought even the best of us shares the delusion that we were born to win there’s no time for losing they’ll hunt us down run us out of town they’ll rough us up and burn up our luck try to steal our souls ‘cause we’re walking through walls though we’re destined to fall we’ll continue to run from the robots with guns now i’m shot full of holes i’m lead bellied for sure i’ll be shot down, but never locked up time and money belong to the shallow for the real man there is only death you say what’s the use then if we’re willing victims i’ll shoot as many as i can and see how it fits them they’ll hunt us down run us out of town they’ll rough us up and burn up our luck try to steal our souls ‘cause we’re walking through walls though we’re destined to fall we continue to run from the robots with guns now i’m shot full of holes i’m lead bellied for sure i’ll be shot down but never locked up never locked up i’m not a modern man nor am i old fashioned just a man escaped of time itself my only folly was my illumination they’ll make me pay for trying to let out their secret they’ll hunt us down run us out of town they’ll rough us up and burn up our luck try to steal our souls yeah we’re walking through walls though we’re destined to fall i’ll be shot down, but never locked up
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Inland Sea 05:20
i sat beside the inland sea i watched you drift away from me i never learned to swim, you see so i sat beside the inland sea while you drifted away i watched you silhouette the sun while all my dreams had come undone i never had a prayer, not one so watched you silhouette the sun you can tell lies because you can you drift away while i’m stuck on dry land swallowed up i raced along the inland sea i stared at where you used to be we were always thick as thieves, weren’t we? so i raced along the inland sea
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a year of night followed by an endless summer our past lies at the bottom of the sea the sun slows down down the evenings glow forever the dust of stars blankets you and me we came of age in a time after history when we touched down we couldn’t know it was forever the dust of years will smother you and me we fell in love in a time after history we make it work in a time after history i’ll wait for you a thousand lifetimes my rusted gears will give in to decay we came of age we fell in love we make it work in a time after history
5.
once on the right and once on the very left the shots ring out the lines will crumble but the beautiful ones will be fine the beautiful ones will be safe, yeah the beautiful ones, they always find a way so settle your scores all your petty grievances but you’ll always want more the need is insatiable once on the right again on the very left the bombs rain down cities will crumble the beautiful ones are fine the beautiful ones are safe, yeah the beautiful ones, they always find a way it’s illogical but i want you to know it’s all cyclical we get what we give i expected this it’s no surprise, love you say, can we go again? well i’d love to but you play too rough i’d love to but you play too rough
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i want nothing more than this some unexpected bliss and then i’ll be fine truth hurts when you’re old and we’re all getting older is there something that i missed? i saw nothing that was risked and still i walk the line and my boots have no soul suddenly we’re all out of season i want nothing more than this one year without a twist or surprise ‘round the bend this old heart it needs to mend where did the long days go? and we were living a sleek, modern kind of life yeah we were living and it was a magic life i did not tire of it ‘cause we were living as long as the money lasted you lasted and in the morning it was morning and i was still alive
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1981 05:10
our sunset secret’s everywhere in her eyes and every strand of her hair seductive as sin but we can’t begin again no no she hides her fears in her lover’s head lives out her fears in her lover’s bed all the while, in her own style she’s in love with a shadow she just wants to feel god’s breath moving through her years moving her to tears sometimes being used is better than being nothing at all like it was 1981 and i was driving you home we could be in love at least we could pretend yeah i’m awake but just barely you’re laying next to me and you look me squarely in the eyes but to my surprise you see nothing what’s there to see? a walking shade, mostly a ghost if there ever were a time when i needed you the most this would be it sometimes being used is better than being nothing at all i will wait for you to find yourself and then i’ll wait some more like it was 1981 and i was driving you home yeah we could be in love
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Robots II 02:58
watching the earth below it’s indescribable i feel my anxiety grow by leaps and bounds it is what it does you only live once, they’ll shout 'til they’re blue in the face i’ve got nothing left so i’ll try my luck out in space we all know who we are by now it is what it does
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The November 07:21
you better find a way you’re slipping through those cracks again it’s alright but you better find a way just find a way back find your way back to me on that november day we were tripping on some other wave time went by but we still found a way we found a way back find a way back i only wait because i can but you better find a way you’re slipping through those cracks again i don’t mind but you better find your way just find a way back find a way back to me she’s a whirlwind a picture drawn by a kid who never seems stay between the lines and i don’t mind no, i don’t mind but she better find her way she was slipping through those cracks again in due time i’m sure she’ll find a way she’ll find a way back

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released January 1, 2015

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The Band Royale Chicago, Illinois

Royale was born out of love for big guitar riffs, an appreciation for the finer things, and a mutual obsession with science fiction. And they are able to sneak these things into their sound without scaring off the opposite sex.

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