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I'll Weave a Lei of Stars for You

by King Of May

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1.
Pentagram 04:09
Scratch a pentagram on my chest, Honey you don't wanna see the rest, This demon skin is dying to be owned I just wanna (hug) to dopethrone Turn the lights off. I saw your pentagram Vibrating in the mist Heralding the coming of the pink dawn Dammed in eternal bliss. I'll come clean my love, I won't fight no more, Bash my head on the floor, I'll come clean my love, till all the sirens start to sing. The Godhand merges. Wrap me and embalm me like the others, I wanna see the beast in flesh, Wrap me and embalm me, you're my mother, I wanna see the beast in flesh. (flesh) The last dying light of sister Selene, Faded and all went black, But how we writhed that night in your room, The beast with two backs. I'll come clean my love, I won't fight no more, Bash my head on the floor, I'll come clean my love, till all the sirens start to sing. The Godhand merges. Scratch a pentagram on my chest, Honey you don't wanna see the rest, This demon skin is dying to be owned I just wanna (hug) to dopethrone Turn the lights off.
2.
Oxycontin 03:51
Oxycontin thrills me, revives my soul. I can see all that lacks in me turn from grey to gold. Gretting high, feeling fine, Drowning in the water. Taking pills, dressed to kill. A lamb to the slaughter. Le mepris of the sylvian trees, Hums in my ear, Percocet I can't forget, the spotlight so bright and clear. Gretting high, feeling fine, Drowning in the water. Taking pills, dressed to kill. A lamb to the slaughter. In my dreams you're smiling, I'm a picture of suprise, there's hope left in your eyes. Hope in vaccum is no shelter from the storm, We all wanna be warm.
3.
Eden, down in electric eden, We sit and watch the trees grow, they blossom for you and for me now. You're everything to me now, so come and sit yourself down. You know that you'll love the feeling, It's like spools of tape unreeling, there's no better reason to get loose by... The big blue screen, That tells me what I mean And all that I believe, The warm blue light, Tells me what I'm like and all that I believe and all the fruit rots on the tree. Way down inside... The Daesin, but everything's in half time, 'Cause darling now that you're mine, We won't fight cause it's all for free now. Everything's for free now. So come and sit yourself down. and get loose by... The big blue screen, tells me what I mean, and all that I believe, the warm blue light tells me what I'm like and all that I believe and all the fruits rots on the tree, way down deep inside. hold tight I heard you say that you were leaving, unplugged your headset from the hole in the ceiling, the stars that looked bright, all fall like lead. All dreamed up in someone else's head. There's no gods only man I got your message I understand, It sounds like the screaming of a billion dead trees.
4.
Stars 05:26
Where did you get those painted eyes? Stardust lover from the countryside. The deep dark-blue of your velvet boots, Shone right thru me in that pale moonlight And all those lights they were flashing In all the halls of the city on fire And all their teeth won't stop gnashing Hand in hand parading butterflies. Hold me close, you're the one I need the most I am just a speck of dust in a lei of stars. Lie with me, we'll pretend that we're free Free to live our fantasy, for a little while. You cover me now like a soft cloud Let it dissolve and rust, 'Cause I'm like you, I'm black and blue, there ain't no one to trust When all the stars fall down. And did I see you this morning? Bathing in the light which pools in the back of my eyes. In this brain that'll die without warning, underneath a tire and into the endless night. Hold me close, you're the one I need the most I'm just a speck of dust, In a lei of stars, Lie with me and we'll pretend that we're free Free to live our fantasy, For a little while. Solo I've got a soul got my rock 'n' roll but I, I turn blue at the thought of you at the thought...
5.
I took a train Down to Arkansas But satan had me staring at the floor I curse your name But lord how I want you more And satan is knocking at my door We sold our souls For our names to be hung up in gold To light the dirty streets that we called home You sing so sweet, In all the sad songs that you hum As the light floods your room in the dawn. The drinks flow free, in the town where the angels don't go (oh no) And sin, she takes me by the hand. With hands like yours: they're soft and cold as ice. That's why me and her been sharing these lonesome nights, But her skin is cracked and lord how my hair grows long. And Satan haunts this song. Yes Satan haunts this song.

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These songs came together about four years ago when I was down and out in London. Strumming on the old six-string-shooter in a grimy old maison in Lewisham that just wouldn't quit. A ouiji board whispered in the attic, the ceiling was in a constant state of collapse; bright city lights flickered through the window whilst deep down underground a drummer played. A heavily tranquilised stallion back-flipped into the heat pipes and I was dragged like Hippolytus into a long cold summer of heart-break.

I called upon my soul brother & Kentish rock legend Timothy J. Moffett and together we decamped to his parent's garage to cut the raw tracks . Then came two years of back and forth collaboration. Long studio days punctuated with winding walks along the Cliftonville coastline and round placid Hildenborough lakes. Thanks entirely to Tim's tireless labors and belief - his weaving together of the very stars themselves - the record is finished. We hope you like it.

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released August 5, 2020

Songs by the King of May

Additional Instrumentation and Production by Timothy J. Moffett

Guitar solo on track two by Jack 'the Wandering Albatross' Higham

Slide guitar on track three by Chris 'Hash' Brown

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The King of May is a power-pop group based in South London. Combining the pop hooks of Harry Nilsson and the Beach Boys with the hard-edged guitars of Television and The Replacements into a quick-silver mercury blend turning deceivers into believers and believers into saints ... more

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