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Rush Of Kings

from Where It All Began by daviesteelman

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Rush of Kings

In the rush of kings to claim an empty throne the kingdom was destroyed.
Potential queens roamed empty palaces, rich but unemployed.
No-one saw the subjects slip away, melting back into the hills and forests.
The crown became irrelevant, a symbol without meaning.

In the battle for a land of milk and honey the harvest failed.
Rack-boned cattle fell on cracking river-beds, dying in their droves.
Hunger sat content at every table. Marching armies stalled for lack of food.
Still the battle raged over a landscape featureless and void.

On a windswept beach with spade and bucket we build our wondrous ship.
Its keel we make of driftwood, its bulwarks all of sand.
We choose a captain, post a watch, call our water “grog”;
We weigh anchor, haul on ropes, set imaginary sails.
Then we stand vacant as the tide comes in, and our endeavour fails.

We called him a red setter, because as the sun went down, he used to bark.
Yes, we called him a red setter, ‘cos as the sun went down, he used to bark
With a sound like a whale breaching, crashing down onto the water;
With a sound like a tree falling, and then a shower of splinters;
With a sound like wild horses galloping down a long hill.
And his bark was wordless and full of a kind of meaning;
And his bark was wordless and full of a kind of meaning,
But it made no sense to us.

We sense the tired slow-handclap of time impatient for beginning;
The deep swell of a tidal wave approaching, readying to break;
A whisper in the few remaining trees; an other-worldly light above the clouds;
The seventh trumpeter licking his lips and drawing breath…

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from Where It All Began, released May 21, 2018
Trumpet - James Mudie
All other instruments, voices, programming, production, mixing and mastering - David Mudie

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daviesteelman London, UK

David lives in south London, UK. He has been writing and recording (but rarely finishing!) music for a number of years. He plays keyboards, guitar and bass, and enjoys the process of recording, producing and mixing.
He has played keyboards in The Arrivists and The Othersides, both London-based bands, and regularly played in blues-rock jam nights in south London (before Covid! Those were the days). ... more

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