Black Sea Golden Ladder — Troy Kingi • 1O 1O 1O Series
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Black Sea Golden Ladder
By Troy Kingi & The Senses

“It is the most personal of all my albums – the first one I feel that is truly about me.” Troy Kingi

The album was a collaborative effort between Delaney Davidson and Troy. Delaney says “Troy wanted these songs to be about the human experience. What is life? What are the things people unite over? The common threads that weave a life together. I started asking him what his thoughts on these times were; fatherhood, love, work, childhood etc. I was trying to get to the essence of what he thought, we always started by talking and stripping it back to get to the core of the message.”

The initial concept of the album was to have poetry written by Troy, with all poems speaking about different facets and stages of life that the majority of humans could identify with. Each poem would be the foundation for each song in the album. Songs that would range from birth to sleep ultimately culminating in death.

Troy says "As it turned out – my poetry wasn’t quite up to scratch and not where I wanted it to be, but we still had to create. So Delaney took it on himself to be somewhat of a shrink, digging deep into my memories, deep into my subconscious to find my own experiences of these different facets which in the end led us to this album Black Sea Golden Ladder" 

+ LYRICS - SLEEP


Davidson/Kingi


Feel the darkness start descending
How long can we stay apart
Feel her push me slowly under
Why do I fight you my sweetheart

Sleep
I want to avoid you more than anything
Taking my time

Breathe
Watching me fall watching me rise again

Fool me till I get wise again
Ride through empty skies again
Chasing hollow highs again

Sleep
I want to avoid you more than anything
Taking my time

Breathe
Watching me fall watching me rise again

Blinded in the sunlight
You stand so still
See the sea stretched out behind you
No one can run now

+ LYRICS - Call My Name (School)


Davidson/Kingi/Kingi


Call my name
And we’ll, run away
Always late

First day
New school
Barefoot
Jack frost
Bottom of the food chain, I’m in trouble you know
There’s no road patrol

Start Fresh
New Brain
Sick Bay
Grass Stain
Here to eat you lunch boy and wait for the 3 o’clock bell
Afterglow, to the shops we go

Never gonna let you down, I don’t wanna fail you
Pop quiz valentine, any time of the year
Don’t wanna be the sad guy, Floating in the air
Pop quiz valentine

You’re late Mr. Kingi
Pull up your socks
Take a seat at the front class
How long will it last

Black socks
Short nails
Look down
Nomads
Who’s this girl goddamn, I’m in trouble ya know
Break all of the rules, on the first day of the school

Call my name
We’ll run away
Always late

+ LYRICS - you in my arms


Davidson/Kingi


Come to me
Travel now between two different atmospheres
Falling into tragedy
Share the song
Of blood that sings together now
In love we’re free
I am you and you are me

You in my arms
Tranquil and calm
I breathe you in
Feel you beating under my skin
You in my arms
Every gift comes at once
I fall away
Your brand new eyes that very first day

Guided by the voice inside our hearts, inside our minds
We are all one, and you are a part of us, completing us

Something Stirs
Combination of two distant ancestors
Converging at the perfect point,
Can we talk
About how things won’t be the same once you get here.
Everything before just disappears.

You in my arms
No need for alarm
The peace you bring
In my heart I hear you sing
You in my arms
Sleep in my palm
You look at me
The stillness of eternity

Come down to us
You know we’re gonna love you
Climb down that golden ladder

+ LYRICS - Fork in the Road


Davidson/Kingi


Torn from the Shelter, you call the unknown
Back in the day, I knew where I was going
If you look in my heart, can you look in my heart?
Because you’re a Young Man, you will leave it behind
So many avenues, always overflowing

Here to collect what you are owed
You know you have come to a fork in the road

Back in the tunnels, there’s a new law emerging
Rotten city streets, the stench of the hustle
No time to think, you just go where it takes you
Something you know, Or the promise of home

Lookin’ for somewhere to put down the load
You know you have come to a fork in the road

When I look in my heart, I don’t feel changes
The promises of youth, is dead on the ground
Pumping the classics, my wildest dreams
The promise of you, is still sweet on the wind
Isn’t love for the living, only meant for the living

Back the day, when I knew we were winning
We gave you protection, now you’re out here killing
We gave you our trust, and you forced us to hide
Busted and broken, never given a chance
The flags are at half mast, at the back of the procession

Torn between nature and binary code
You know you have come to a fork in the road
Hear all the hooves beat from back down the road
Know you have come to a fork in the road

+ LYRICS - Never Take Me Away


Davidson/Kingi


Here we go another circle round the sun
Darling One

Love to see you when you’re comfortable
Fill your cup when it’s half full
Darling Hun’

So spread your love around
Like a blanket of leaves asleep on the ground

Always pickin’ up after the kids
Tide rolls out tide comes in
Pretty soon you’re doing it again

Watching all the trees around you flourish
Waiting for the time to blossom kowhai tree
Your arms make a home for the tui

So spread your love around
Like a blanket of leaves asleep on the ground
Hold me down
Never take me away

In our starry days
You and I we have our place
Under starry nights
You and I belong tonight

So spread your love around
Like a blanket of leaves asleep on the ground
So spread your love around
Like a blanket of leaves asleep on the ground
I’ll be your hound
Never take me away
Never take me away

+ LYRICS - Hunt Down Happiness


Davidson/Kingi


Deep in the wood they see you from the look-out
Little baby fall into the soft eyes
Reach for the knife and reach for the spear gun
And see today you aren’t the one

Down in the water the tongue is reaching out to taste
Blind and scaly waiting
Feelers under ledge blood starts racing
They come at night to feed

I never could pull the trigger
There was always something bigger around the corner
I look to the left I look to the right
Hunt down happiness through the senses

Hairy shadow on the mountain
Listen to who hides down in the valley
Golden ears will hear your hearts desiring
Turning around inside the magic circle

Out on the plain stand fresh and unguarded
You smell so naked
Fall into those cavernous nostrils
Swallowed/Inhaled into vapor

I never could pull the trigger
There was always something bigger around the corner
I look to the left I look to the right
Hunt down happiness through the senses

Feeling out from the cave
Long loving arms and hands
Embrace and pull you close
Radiant warm energy that nothing can compete with

+ LYRICS - Come Around


Davidson/Kingi


Is it me,
You come back to or leave?
Top of the canopy
Down on the ground

Waiting for you to come around
Come around
Leaves from the tree
Tumbling down

Reach for the water
As you light me on fire
Father’s hands
Lift me up high

Sing in your skeleton
I’m your blood and your bones
I wait at the window
I frown at the phone
I frown at the phone

Reach for the water
As you light me on fire
Father’s hands
Lift me up high

Weep from above
Shine in your merciful love
Hard to grow in the shade
But you’re the sunshine
x2

Come around
Or come down

+ LYRICS - Twilight


Davidson/Kingi


Twilight, that’s where I want to live
In the Twilight, with all you have to give
There’s nothing I’d rather do
Than sit right here beside you
In these twilight days
In these golden days

Trouble is far behind us now
From the rockiest mountain to the highest cloud
See the place that we’ve come to
Hold my hand the way that only you know how to do

Honey, Oh honey flows through my veins
You are the beauty and you were always the brains
How lucky am I, to have you by my side
In these twilight days, in these golden days

+ LYRICS - Forgotten Like A Dream


Troy Kingi


V1
Hush over the harbor
I wake to familiar regretful sins
Most days I’m a charmer but today a sad comedian

Pre
Can’t two time the truth
It only worked in our youth

Chorus
No matter how high we seem
I don’t know why our diamonds never gleam
We could try running faster, thinking smarter,
Playing harder
But in the end, we’re forgotten like a dream

V2
No River on another continent
Could ever chill my bones like those of home
Been in many ā translucent crowd
Can easily pick the leaders from the clones

Chorus
No matter how high we seem
I don’t know why our diamonds never gleam
We could try running faster, thinking smarter,
Playing harder
But in the end, we’ve forgotten like a Dream

Bridge
This isn’t forever - So let’s make the most of time
All things we accumulate
We can’t take through the pearly gates
We aren’t in this together
We are born and die alone

Chorus
Aaaaaaa x2
We could try running faster, thinking smarter,
Playing harder
But in the end, we’ve forgotten like a Dream

+ LYRICS - Sea of Death


Davidson/Kingi


Take this burden from my shoulders
It don’t belong to just me anymore
I am not an individual
I live in my ancestor’s world

Don’t you be afraid
We glide across the waves
We’re on our way

There will come a day
Our fortunes are the same
We’re on our way

Death it is a big dark sea
Crawl up upon the shore
Oh my world you belong to me
And I am part of you
Forever more

Down into the ocean
Wash away the footprints in the sand
Crawl out of the water
Live until it swallows you back again