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    'Where The Purple Flowers Grow' was written and recorded during the 2020 quarantine, and is the last batch of songs featuring the original 3 man Royal Horses lineup. At the time of making the record, the band had just come off of three years playing shows nonstop, and were as tight as ever. “Purple Flowers” features a heavier use of studio overdubs than any of the bands other work. Songwriter, Shelby Kemp, said about the album “Purple Flowers represents a pivot point in my approach to writing songs”. This album was a close collaboration between Royal Horses and New Orleans based producer John Michael Early.

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lyrics

Wont you lend your lungs to me,
Mine are collapsing.
I’ll plant my feet and bitterly
Breathe up the time that’s passing.
Breath I’ll take, and breath I’ll give,
And pray the day’s not poison.
Stand among the ones who live
In lonely indecision

Fingers walked the darkness down
Her mind is on the midnight.
Gather up the gold you’ve found,
You fool its only moonlight.
And if you stop to take it home,
Your hands will turn to butter.
Better leave this dream alone,
And try to find another.

Salvation sat and crossed herself
She called the devil partner.
Wisdom burned upon a shelf
Who’ll kill the raging cancer.
Seal the river at it’s mouth,
Take the water prisoner.
Fill the Skys with screams and cries
And bathe in fiery answer.

Jesus was an only sun,
And love his only concept.
Strangers cry in foreign tongues
And dirty up your doorstep.
And I for one, and you for two,
Ain’t got the time for outside.
Keep your injured looks to you
And we’ll tell the world that we tried.

Wont you lend your lungs to me,
Mine are collapsing.
I’ll plant my feet and bitterly
Breathe up the time that’s passing.
Breath I’ll take, and breath I’ll give,
And pray the day’s not poison.
Stand among the ones who live
In lonely

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from Where The Purple Flowers Grow, released November 4, 2022

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