Kings

July For Kings

Seven strong we came
And Seven we were named
In an empire of irrepressibility
Dancing in the street
With heaven at our feet
In a circle of sustenance
And no one stopped to say
That we'd be gone someday
The reign was now

When no one cared about
Finding a way out
The reign was now
Was now
Was now
Was now
Was now

Throwing stones across
A river as we walked
A line of bliss
A clockless never-neverland

No one stopped the dance
Nothing stopped the dance
The kingdom was ours

And no one dared to say
Maybe we'd fall away, away
The reign was now
Was now
Was now
Was now

And we were kings
And we were kings
And we were kings
And we were kings
And we were kings
And we were kings

We danced and we danced
In open fields of our escape
We spun and we won
The day
We danced into the sun
We danced and we danced and we danced
Into the sun
Into the sun
Into the sun

And we were kings
And we were kings
And we were kings
And we were kings
And we were kings
And we were kings

And we were kings
And we were kings
And we were kings
And we were kings
And we were kings
And we were kings


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    This is track 11 from the CD "Safe Unless" released in 1999 when JFK was known as "Swim."

    judaskissidismisson June 07, 2004   Link

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