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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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There’s nothing hidden in the Rocky Mountains that’ll take your pain away.
There’s nothing in a patch of frozen desert that will help you run from fate.
For we were bound together by the thunder of a cold and stormy January night.
I believe you may have tried, but all your crying won’t make what’s wrong turn right.

So hold on to your only true tradition, go ahead boy, run away.
Just remember that a lie by omission’s still a lie, just the same.

There’s nothing hidden in these old pecan trees that’s gonna help me understand.
I guess I’ve waited now too long to ever ask you if you’d like to change your plans.
So now you come to me in dreams like memories I wake and they all fall to sand.
And I’d eat crow with a smile on my face if you’d show me how to be a man.

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

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