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The Potato Kingdom

by Ralph Of London

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1.
Albedo 03:13
The softness The silence Pierced by the violence The secrets The slyness The absence of guidance The constant reminders Of all that's behind us The split lips and shiners Resorting to blindness Welcome down The heartache will find us Despite all the kindness The clues that are priceless No respite from tiredness Advancing though sightless The mystery is harnessed We move on regardless Right back to the whiteness Welcome down To this gutter Feel this euphoria Earth will embrace you Enjoy this ablution Welcome down Tears flow like hydrants On streets like asylums The footfalls of tyrants But love won’t abide them The things that divide them Will one day unite them The things that divide them Will one day unite them
2.
Heavens Guts 03:04
Getting dirty to get clean Little more than a machine Yeah you’d like to shake my hand But man you don't know where its been This is no vocation It's a purgative routine Made for men with complications And unstable personalities Down in the Guts of Heaven I’m worlds away Now that my soul is weathered I can't complain All in a day We go places you’ll never Mending all our broken ways This is not a breeze Grown men down upon their knees It's the lure of self-destruction For a mind that’s ill at ease They call it construction But it’s more like a disease For which there is no cure Except perhaps correctional facilities Down in the Guts of Heaven I’m worlds away Now that my soul is weathered I can't complain All in a day We go places you’ll never Mending all our broken ways Tradesmen! Pick up your tools You don’t need welfare and you don’t need school It’s no place for the work shy The world around is cruel So forget about your good looks ‘cause posing is for fools Well this will earn your living It might not bring you jewels But one day you can have a kingdom In a home beneath your rule Down in the Guts of Heaven I’m worlds away Now that my soul is severed I can't be saved All in a day We go places you’ll never Mending all our broken ways
3.
Burning bright Still watching the river rise With a casual misery Biding time Destroy yourself leisurely To the hopeless melody Knocking about with Le Cas Social in my town Kicking around with the ones who know they’ll never get out Staring at the photographs of the homes for sale While the dogs fight down where the homeless crowd Telling yourself there’s an easy way out Hanging around with Le Cas Social feeling beat down Sticking it out ‘cause it’s too late now to be anywhere else Checking if the cash machine might heed your prayers But the likelihood is that no one cares How it feels to be Burning bright Still watching the river rise With a casual misery Biding time Destroy yourself leisurely To the hopeless melody Bopping around with Le Cas Social cracking up now Haunting the town ‘cause they feel so proud to be out of this realm Well open your windows See how the wind blows Through your time Burning bright Still watching the river rise With a casual misery Biding time Destroy yourself leisurely To the hopeless melody
4.
In the town where you're living On the streets where you're born You can find a form of life Thriving in the storm A refined kind of species Never right and never wrong And they’ve made a special place to play Where all can tag along Sullied! On the streets of Plebeola When there’s nothing happening for ya Hit the streets of Plebeola If your heart's a bag of bruises If your hopes have turned to dust Been betrayed by so many now there’s no one left to trust There’s a place for this condition You can get there on the bus You don't have to look a certain way But baseness is a must Sullied! On the streets of Plebeola When there’s nothing happening for ya Hit the streets of Plebeola Sullied! On the streets of Plebeola And it never will outgrow ya On the streets of Plebeola PLE-BE-O-LA PLE-BE-O-LA Street lights so bright replace the darkness in my heart Oh where did it all start? When will it all stop? If it wasn’t for the wasters If it wasn't for the nuts Or the after hours pavements painted with their guts If it wasn’t for the posers Or the hopelessly in love If it wasn’t flowing though my veins I guess I’d give it up Sullied! On the streets of Plebeola When there’s nothing happening for ya Hit the streets of Plebeola PLE-BE-O-LA PLE-BE-O-LA PLE-BE-O-LA
5.
Warm tears Cool wine Open bottle number five What’s the use in good advice If it obviates your pride? A few more years down the line Cynical and justified It’s either that or loose your mind In a field of splinters Karma pollution Is all you have acquired The tainted air you’ve been breathing Karma pollution Is all you leave behind The poison streams that you’ve been drifting Crowded conscience Unrefined Open wounds and trivial crimes Casting all your friends aside Didn’t make for paradise I was laughing in my mind For all the good turns you’ve declined Apologies a waste of time When you don’t need forgiveness Karma pollution is all you have acquired The tainted air you’ve been breathing Karma pollution is all you leave behind Another landscape turned to cinders Be careful what you leave behind ‘Cause time is cruel and fate is blind The world reflects what lies inside Regardless of your good intentions Karma pollution Karma pollution Karma pollution
6.
Big Void 04:09
A big void Is growing within A big void Is growing within A love imprinted A mood that sticks The kind of fracture you can never fix You knew for certain She would have been The Medusa in your labyrinth A big void Is growing within A big void Is growing within Something numinous Someone that fits Indissoluble without the tricks ‘Cause when the lonely bug Makes it’s digs The weightlessness is impossible to shift A big void Is growing within Heading for that weightless realm A big void Is growing within Doctor do you have some kind of probe You could stick into my heart and read the colour of my soul? ‘Cause if you only knew My secret inner hue You might diagnose a case of chronic black and blue A big void Is growing within A big void Is growing within
7.
Fix my eyes on a satellite Nothing down here seems to be aligned There’s a song playing in my mind And she’s the chord I can never seem to find Your heart It seems Dumb and deafened Guided along between stars and phantoms Everyone sheds a certain light Some distort their beauty with a lie You’d be crazy not to Take a chance when it’s pointing to the truth Your heart It seems Dumb and deafened Guided along between stars and phantoms Don’t be surprised If the river runs dry Falling through space We are all immortal Your heart It seems Dumb and deafened Guided along between stars and phantoms Your heart It seems Dumb and deafened Guided along between stars and phantoms Your heart It seems Dumb and deafened Guided along between stars and phantoms
8.
Oimo Sa 00:58
Jinsei wa Oimo sa Atenai Mono sa
9.
Saturns Sign 03:36
Say love hurts But this way It’s more than just a heartache See purple In her face The colour makes it plain Saturn’s sign is at it again Commitments A new strain Now there’s one more on your plate You find out The hard way What drives a man to break Saturn’s sign is at it again Come on over It’s long overdue For some of that sweet sweet black and blue yeah Sweet sweet black and blue yeah Come on over It’s long overdue For some of that sweet sweet black and blue yeah Sweet sweet black and blue Itchy fists Bulging veins The whiskey has its own way Then night falls For some days The darkness makes it plain Saturn’s sign is at it again The comedown The trip fades The home becomes a cage The new town center’s grey Will turn a peaceful mind to rage Saturn’s sign is at it again Come on over It’s long overdue For some of that Sweet sweet black and blue yeah Come on over It’s long overdue For some of that sweet sweet black and blue yeah Sweet sweet black and blue It means the world to him to be the guy that you depend on And when the stars align your bound to see Saturn rise Over your home Come on over It’s long overdue For some of that Sweet sweet black and blue yeah Sweet sweet black and blue Come on over It’s long overdue For some of that Sweet sweet black and blue yeah Sweet sweet black and blue
10.
Daddy was an anachrone Spent his whole life axe to the grindstone Heavy with a bitter load And that's where I get my ill manner from Primitive flaws in my nurture Primitive flaws in my nurture Daddy was a time bomb Set to trip when shit got difficult Steady as a domino When it all came crashing down what a show Primitive flaws in my nurture Primitive flaws in my nurture All our heroes are made of flesh and bone Normal people A fraction less Neanderthal Daddy wasn't one to probe Spent his whole life locked into fight mode Many of the same mould Engineered for a life of heavy blows All our heroes are made of flesh and bone What a sight to see them rise above this common form Primitive flaws in my nurture Primitive flaws in my nurture
11.
Dotty 04:21
Can’t you find something you like in me? I’m hard to break As soft as a cloud beneath I’m Dotty for you Going dotty for you See ya See ya See ya from afar Coarse beyond the fruits of your company A past that all my winning trophies can’t redeem I can’t fight my way up To the place you look down Running rings Count the bruises that you’ll never see I’m Dotty for you Going dotty for you Dotty for you Going dotty for you Lost and menacing Pretty boy you know you broke so many rules All alone and your face is black and blue But if only she could know you The way you’d like her to Your broken features wouldn’t feel so crude See ya See ya See ya from afar See ya See ya See ya from afar And it already feels like something Already feels like something See ya See ya See ya from afar See ya See ya See ya from afar And it already feels like something Well tell me aint that something? Yeah that's something Yeah that's something Dotty for you Going dotty for you Occupy myself in a waking dream I can’t escape Embroiled in the tapestry I’m Dotty for you Going dotty for you Dotty for you Going dotty for you See ya See ya See ya from afar See ya See ya See ya from afar
12.
Miss Mayhem 03:06
Pretty Miss Mayhem captivates the pavement With a slant upon reality where fantasy seems credible Never on your wavelength Wonders where the day went She’d like to see me often but her timings incompatible Disordered field of flower Confusing everything To see the world through her perspective would be frightening Another whiskey sour A karaoke binge Oh what a girl to be desired Miss Mayhem Pretty Miss Mayhem poses at the station No smudge of mediocrity Her image is formidable Tells me I’m amazing But I think she is mistaken ‘Cause I have to take authority to make the real world livable Disordered field of flowers Confusing everything To see the world through her perspective would be frightening Beneath the Tokyo Tower Over the Vauxhall Bridge Oh what a girl to be desired Miss Mayhem Miss Mayhem Miss Mayhem Pretty Miss Mayhem everything is breaking You say it’s only money But we’ve only gone and spent it all Tells you its ok when the world is looking caved in Her face maintains composure But a riot runs beneath it all Miss mayhem Miss Mayhem
13.
Worlds End 03:03
Each river meets another Bodies growing old together Pick a time, show your face Loyal to a place, that only suits you when you're losing Burn, burn, until you learn A hazard with a reputation Play the part to mark your days Crawl into a space, that only suits you when you're losing Born to escape, the clutches of your fate She’s still waiting for someone to lead the way, out of her world, (dancing on the …) the dead end world (burning wheel) Trouble you make The walls you break Can never reshape you're constellation Some new face The same old flaws Games you play have all been played before Inviting the storm Inviting the storm, to oblivion Inviting the storm Go-go till your gone Born to escape, the clutches of your fate She’s still waiting for someone to lead the way, out of her world, (dancing on the …) the dead end world (burning wheel) out of her world, (dancing on the …) the dead end world (burning wheel)
14.
Big smudge baby The careless hands you put your life in charge Some discovery The value of autonomy Big doubts lately That's the gift you get for looking past Foolish vanity The mirror sits uncomfortably The warps of life Challenging your mind Urging you to let it go Big jokes baby Can’t take you serious if you don't laugh It’s a comedy Playing out subconsciously Pipe dreams maybe That's the term they’ll use to pick apart Your persistency But nothing makes much sense to me The warps of life Blurring all the lines Urging you to let it go Jinsei wa Oimo sa Atenai mono sa The warps of life The warps of life The warps of life

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released March 13, 2020

Written, Produced and Engineered by Ralph Phillips
Mixed by Josh Green
Mastered by Mazen Murad
Photography by Mattias Launois
Image Painting by Ralph Phillips
Artwork Coordinated by Diane Verspeeten
Kakemono and Shields by François Berkmans

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