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The Yellow Kings

from Magic Money Tree by The Mighty Ur

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Welcome to the kingdom of our Yellow Kings
Here all cartwheels are forbidden
And The Mighty Ur venture close to trip hop somehow

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YELLOW KINGS
Welcome
Welcome to the kingdom of our Yellow Kings
Here all cartwheels are forbidden
Along with speed-dating and playground swings
In place of jester’s sticks, we have puritans who scratch and sweat
And simpletons who clutch their propaganda-sheets tight to their chests
Three men were arrested for curing meat
One was executed for laughing at the Leader of a Scout Group
Who had demanded his papers at a pop-up checkpoint
Shot point blank by snipers with goggles, his body disposed of by bob-a-job boys in toggles
Now kids place flowers at Checkpoint Charlie
So it would be churlish to challenge the legitimacy of the yellow kings
So on wards we lurch – lurching ever-onward
Some fella was imprisoned for refusing to accept her complimentary newspaper
The commuters just shrugged and turned away
As they escorted her away

So have we not then become, little more than chicken-shit-minstrels bowing elaborately to our yellow kings?
-And incidentally, what of things?
Brightly packaged void attempts to fill the void
And sometimes indeed it does successfully fill the void -
But only for a second, the merest breath between a heartbeat
Up until the packaging dissolves and the void returns and
On it goes
On and on it goes…

And in a sense this pitiful scenario puzzles me, for the evidence of this self-evident truth
Is all around us and all about us – it is in plain sight for all of us to see. should we choose to see
And yet, we choose not to see
See-
The truth should not require further articulation
Or an abstract art to act as a roadmap
And all I know is that
When we keep the truth alive within us
There is a great and a mighty beauty that never quite lets go
And that is what terrifies them so, I suppose
And so it goes –
On and on it goes….
So what happened to the Kingdom of the Yellow Kings?
What has become of our Kingdom of the Yellow Kings?
… And what of things?

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from Magic Money Tree, released August 16, 2018
Words : Steve
Drums : Sned
Bass : Runks
Guitar : Darren
Music arranged and looped and pianoed by Sned
Words'n'music glued together by Runks

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The Mighty Ur Leyburn, UK

The Mighty Ur are Steve McAuliffe (words) AC Monks, DP & Sned (music).This bandcamp site holds the music created with with a variety of musical co-conspirators in a variety of styles along with the works of The Mighty Ur

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