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Navigating by the Stars

by Sheldon King

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Same Sun 06:06
When you hold so tight that you can't let go freeze like a hare in the light and the love just won't flow I would run a mile not to run into myself I am like a book you'll never read been too long on your shelf I am like a book you'll never read i haven't read it myself this moment is a fairy on a flower impossible and subtle as a dream too busy wondering when we're going to get there trying to figure out where we've been. I would run a mile not to run into myself I am like a book you'll never read been too long on your shelf i am like a book you'll never read i haven't read it myself So breathe in the love breathe out the pain So breathe in the love breathe out the pain try to walk a mile in another man's shoes try to read a book you've never seen lose what you've got to lose. try and read a book you've never seen what have you got to lose? When your skin's too tight and you don't know where to go breathe in the light and let the love flow I have run a mile and you have run the other way we're all spinning round the same sun at the end of the day we're all spinning round the same sun at the end of the day
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What's Given 03:28
One life, In trouble In the bombed out city and I'm up to my neck in trouble and I don't understand how it got to be such a mess the feather falls from my hand where it lands is anyones guess What a phase what a maze what a crazy, crazy time that we live in While we try to survive no one gets out alive that's the only given In the dark I wake up starving like a knife that can slice through my heart and it just keeps carving I had always thought I could stay in the game I rode my wings to the sun just to come down in flames What a line what a crime what a lie to define the way we're living. What a strange state of mind to decline what's freely given. What a strange state of mind to decline what's freely given oh it's freely given and it's your's and it's mine and it doesn't belong It's just one Eden What a line what a crime what a lie to define the way we're living. While we try to survive no one gets out alive that's the only given.
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We don't know wrong from right nobody's shedding any light the whole damn thing's so shady All around the lines are down there's a throne and an empty crown oh my lady Where do you hang your belief? The oracles are lying through their teeth it amazes me The old ones slipping away packing up, calling it a day abandoned, they forsake me Navigating by the stars exploding in the endless dark. That's no way to find my way if I'd known at the start you were only born to break my heart I would still give it away I would still give it away We don't know right from wrong wrap it up put it in a song words cannot contain thee I've been wrong before a coracle, pushing off the shore nothing to restrain the.. tides, and the undertow give it up, give in to the flow i pray to find my way. Navigating by the stars exploding in the endless dark. That's no way to find my way if I'd known at the start you were only born to break my heart I would still give it away I would still give it away
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Dried petunias in her hall no use to wait for him to call faded pictures on the wall was he ever really there at all? Woman and man in an ancient rite spinning out to endless night Wears his age like an apology the man you know, I am no t he. No one sees what used to be. The moving finger points past me. Oh my child, don't treat me this way you burn through my heart like a spark in the hay Like a spark in the hay Night come down at the end of the day it burns through my heart like a spark in the hay Dried petunias in her hall no use to wait for him to call faded pictures on the wall was he ever really there at all?
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I don't know my name can you explain what I'm doing? How do i play this game I have seen your face in another place in another time I can't tell you how it shines Even though I can't understand a word I take your hand, child just to show you that I've heard. I wanna take you in my loving arms again In my darkest hour you are like a flower in the city like a smile on the morning train I've seen through your eyes tasted your surprise shared in your fortune. How did you get so beautiful and wise? And even though you don't understand a word. just take my hand, show me that you've heard Oh now my children it's true I wanna take you in my loving arms again. I don't know my name can you explain what I'm doing? How do i play this game I have seen your face in another place in another time I can't tell you how it shines Even though I can't understand a word I take your hand, child just to show you that I've heard. I wanna take you in my loving arms again
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Raw vocal album recorded in the midst of a pandemic. Delving into the darker side of psyche folk, it weaves chilling reflections on death, relationships and truth.
Originally conceived as a band album it became a mostly solitary journey. First takes chosen for immediacy give this release an intimate authenticity.

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released November 6, 2020

Vocals, guitar, banjo, bass, percussion.
Drums and backing vox: Johnny Gibson
Double bass: Andy Papadopoulos

Mastered by Ben Heppel at Fishpond studios.

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Sheldon King Melbourne, Australia

Sheldon King

Fusing his classical training with years spent as a rock, jazz and funk musician in Bristol and London, Sheldon King’s unique acoustic guitar style became a fixture of Glastonbury, Womad and the English festival scene, through the nineties.

Sheldon went on to study various world music genres, travelling extensively and collaborating with a plethora of diverse musicians.
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