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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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I wondered on the edge of a life set in motion
For a year once just to say I tried.
I helped a friend pull out of an unpleasant situation
But then I lost ‘em, in a battle with my pride.
It was a battle that I’d lost many times.

But then a friend gave me some good advice,
He said you’re reading in too deeply.
If you look, there’s always something there to find.
Don’t think it, just feel it, and if you can’t feel it just play,
There’s only one to blame for all your wasted time,
And he’s living there inside of your own mind.

Through Sardis Pass we wondered, I drove while you got high.
We put our heads together and we put ourselves inside
each others shoes, I saw your world
And I hope that you saw mine.
There the water’s cool, and the sun forever shines.

It’s true, of course that all good things take tender time and patience,
And cause you to evaluate your life.
And people mostly see themselves through the lens of god’s creation,
And miss the golden points he’s left to find.
We wallow in the muck of modern life.

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

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