Lyrics and Translations
Tom Lyrics – Ishroyale
Singer: Ishroyale
Title: Tom
Water guns and foam darts, flimsy from the start, birthdays and super bowls, slow to depart- in the hallowed arch of the doorway, halo sculpted on your bald head
From light fixtures that changed with my mom’s style and aesthetics she divulged to me Tom- that you’ve battled several cancers and lost your mother-in-law
Ken Lyrics – Ishroyale
Singer: Ishroyale
Title: Ken
Drilled a hole in the wall, cables in bunches, bitemarks in my plastic straw, almost called Grandma, but like a glass horse buckled in the clutches of the raven’s claw, picked the slugs up in her yard, afterschool, Walmart and Dion’s, in the one where we were almost shot, complained about her sister Susan
Ken, where have you been? When was the last time that I saw you? Was it Mardi Gras or Lafayette? Or am I forgetting something more recent? I was only a kid back then, if you must bury me now make sure it’s at the Phoenix Open or at a festival of crosses
Manhattan Babies Don’t Sleep ’til Dawn Lyrics – Ishroyale
Singer: Ishroyale
Title: Manhattan Babies Don’t Sleep ’til Dawn
Charlatan box-man, unspoken wheelchair, traveling salesman, infants in refrigerators, bagpipes abide like a javelin in stride or a razor-blade through cellophane
Pipe-dreams of holograms sharing the load, makeup on styrofoam houses and so, I’m immune to the surgeries, hollowed and teething, flustered when breathing too slow. Sink the boat. Earthly possessions to barnacles lest they can float
