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Jolly Roger

by Josh Royse

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Bright with a heavy Indie Folk Rock feel, featuring bluesy electric guitar and soaring male lead vocals that create a proud and feel-good mood.

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Look at the bright lights.
Look at the bright lights, where we’ll be swimming when we die.
Look at the night sky.
Look at the night sky, where the stars have always shined.

I’m stalking all the tricksters down from outer space.
Talkin’ like a hipster just to save some face.
They're pouring down their wisdom like amazing grace,
And I swore I could’ve kissed them for the words they say.

I get way down. Oh I get way down the rabbit hole.

I came in 1987 like a cannon ball.
Everybody needs another wrecking ball – Hey!
I am a lion; sheep are crying gentle, like the silent sleep I lie in – Hey!

I don’t need your diamond rings.
I ain’t got no use for money, honey.
I don’t need your Cadillac or Porsche, put me on the old knight’s horse.
I’m flying like canaries out of La Rochelle,
To change the dictionary for the New World spell.
Tossin’ all my dollars down a wishing well,
Because dreaming is too daring if you’re scared of hell.

I get way down; oh, I get way down the rabbit hole.

I came in 1987 like a cannon ball.
Everybody needs another wrecking ball – Hey!
I am a lion; sheep are crying gentle, like the silent sleep I lie in – Hey!

Look at the bright lights.
Look at the bright lights where we’ll be swimming when we die.
Look at the night sky.
Look at the night sky where the stars have always shined.


℗© 2014 Nicki Jack Music ASCAP | www.NickiJackMusic.com
All rights reserved. Lyrics used by permission only.

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released July 8, 2014
Recording Artists:
Joshua Royse: Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Kohei Ando: Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals
Paul Inder: Bass
Kevin Bothwell: Drums, Backing Vocals
Additional Backing Vocals: Vanessa Tuttoilmondo, Jon Berg, Jonathon Royse, Taylor Hannah and Christea Colletti

Recorded at Rosewood Studios, Glendale, CA
Additional Recording/Mastering at Garden of Eden Studios, Malibu, CA
Producer: Nicki Jack
Co-Producer / Engineer: Paul Inder
Composed by:
Joshua Royse (BMI) Lyrics & Melody
Guitar Arrangement: Mike Jimenez
Album Artwork by Brandon Bolmer
℗© 2014 Nicki Jack Music ASCAP | www.NickiJackMusic.com

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Josh Royse Los Angeles, California

He is the salty voice of road worn grit fresh off the farm of the Oklahoma panhandle. Employing a coy lyricism as he crafts love songs with abstract tangents of astral inquiry combined with the human struggle of a young man who has loved, lost and learned so much on his journey. Josh’s catchy songs, contagious energy and tight band has you humming his tunes for days. ... more

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