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Monochrome

by July For Kings

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Austin Cross I love this album because it is very easy to listen to while you are doing something (such as driving long distances or even homework). I love all of the tracks on this album! Favorite track: Sam.
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1.
here when the sun comes out it comes out blue you’re that lucky hard to read looks good on you how will we talk out here with all these spies walking through the parking lot with all these stars in our eyes we live in houses made of stained glass it’s no place to hide from all that dark past it’s hard to know the truth in black and white your world is all rainbows everywhere the pain goes the floor dances too scratching on the paper sounds like x-ray ribs anything you want from me you know i’ll give can you see the skyline now how far is close hard to keep the wrong words down but i won’t choke we live in houses made of stained glass no place to hide from all that dark past it’s hard to know the truth in black and white your world is all rainbows everywhere the pain goes the floor dances too it’s hard to know your waking from your dreams your phantom from someone you’re changing where you see from 615 blue the sun shines on you shining on a green sea our bodies laid across but i i don’t want to fall in love with every single thing i see waves are crushing down down down it’s hard to know the truth in black and white your world is all rainbows everywhere the pain goes the floor dances too it’s hard to know your waking from your dreams your phantom from someone you’re changing where you see from 615 blue the sun shines on you
2.
Say It Now 03:05
Sooner or later it’s coming all out Pieces of paper fall from my mouth How many sleepless hours I lie? Sooner or later it’s gonna be fine Am I here tonight? If you're gonna say it, say it now If you're gonna say it, say it now Hover around the light Tell me something right I'm in the water, you're on the land Silence is fodder for sharks in the sand change in the weather, holes in my sides I'm feeling tethered, you're in the sky Am I here tonight? If you're gonna say it, say it now If you're gonna say it, say it now Hover around the light Tell me something good tonight If you're gonna say it, say it now If you're gonna say it, say it now Hover around the light Tell me something right Oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh Sooner or later you're out on your own You're a creator, I'm in the stone Am I here tonight? If you're gonna say it, say it now If you're gonna say it, say it now Hover around the light Tell me something good tonight If you're gonna say it, say it now If you're gonna say it, say it now Hover around the light Tell me something good tonight If you're gonna say it, say it now If you're gonna say it, say it now If you're gonna say it, say it now If you're gonna say it, say it now
3.
gin and tonic sweet and sour smoke-jumping through these stars lost some silver found a flower today is good so far could it be warm? how would i know if you’re lying? come on in the water’s fine through metal tunnels legs get sore dislocated hearts and doors our love is freer than your reins we’ve river water in our veins we’re fighting fire in our dreams just like that the rain did stop i think our life is charmed like god reached down and turned it off with a sunbeam of an arm could it be warm? what if i trust you this time come on in the water’s fine through metal tunnels legs get sore dislocated hearts and doors our love is freer than your reins we’ve river water in our veins we’re fighting fire in our dreams a twist of lime a couple hours someone else can drive this car through metal tunnels legs get sore dislocated hearts and doors our love is freer than your reins we’ve river water in our veins we’re fighting fire in our dreams
4.
i said I've been thinkin' about Memphis i know you don't like Catfish we could learn about Elvis sit back and see the nines roll over 200,000 miles to show for this old car this guitar and this new summer come on, come on we'll make a six hour drive through Tennessee i don't believe the car survived did it understand my master plan? to have you next to me if only temporarily no work, or place to be just one last six hour drive we left about three o'clock Friday it started getting cooler when night came along the Appalation highway it start raining with the windows stuck down sit back and laugh until the next town your eyes look nice against the greener ground yeah come on, come on we'll make a six hour drive through Tennessee i don't believe the car survived did it understand my master plan? to have you next to me if only temporarily no work, or place to be just one last six hour drive yeah, oh we'll make one last one last one last we'll make a six hour drive through Tennessee i don't believe the car survived did it understand my master plan? we'll make a six hour drive through Tennessee i don't believe the car survived did it understand my master plan? to have you next to me if only temporarily no work, or place to be just one last six hour drive we'll make one last six hour drive one last six hour drive
5.
Emma 02:42
you’re just a baby i think i’m crazy what if i need you what if i’m sky blue take off your make up i wanna wake up your hair all around me i’m in a blonde sea let me hold you emma i feel so strong with you i feel so strong with you let me hold you emma there’s nothing wrong with you i feel so strong with you you say you’re a princess maybe i’m impressed you got some blue yarn i gotta new song through colorado incommunicado for just a short while you’re making me smile let me hold you emma i feel so strong with you i feel so strong with you let me hold you emma there’s nothing wrong with you i feel so strong with you oh your scarf wrapped round my neck so that i won’t forget you but you’re just a baby… let me hold you emma i feel so strong with you i feel so strong with you let me hold you emma there’s nothing wrong with you i feel so strong with you
6.
Roses 04:28
people are saying you murdered your ex-wife did you use a shotgun a rope or a kitchen knife? i know you better than that i don't believe it's true. it was easier for you just to let it go you're always digging around in the dirt i know but it was all just talk they couldn't prove it true i know you better than that i swear to god i do your backyard's full of roses is there something you're keeping to yourself your backyard's full of roses were you digging a hole for something else? you're singing hallelujah, hallelujah at Sunday morning mass will my heart refuse to charge a man of God with the Devil's craft she's been missing for almost eleven years it's hard to believe she just up and disappeared but if it could happen i guess it could happen to you people are saying "what did you do it for? is it because she wasn't 22 anymore?" everybody knew but they couldn't prove it true i know you better than that at least i hope i do your backyard's full of roses is there something you're keeping to yourself your backyard's full of roses were you digging a hole for something else? now how would you sleep how would you sleep with that voice in your head? how would you sleep how would you sleep with that ghost in your bed? shut it out shut it out to live with what you'd done when the weight of it really sank in you'd have to tell someone you're singing hallelujah hallelujah at Sunday mass could it be a man of God has his heart in the Devil's grasp? your backyard's full of roses is there something you're keeping to yourself your backyard's full of roses were you digging a hole for something else? your backyard's full of roses is it full of roses is it full of roses is it full of roses is it full of roses is it full of roses is there something you're keeping to yourself?
7.
100 Pianos 04:21
michigan lakes remember we moved a 100 pianos in one day for some kind of show my brother was m.i.a. we met in july i think we were swimming at the lake when pope paul died i thought to myslef “you’d make the perfect bride” if i could make you laugh if i could make you laugh if i could make you laugh if i could make you laugh would you have stayed when i left? i can still recall your taste it’s all i kept that town was such a waste but you i won’t forget work was steady enough when everyone wanted uprights in their basement dens unfinished houses they were just built right in my mom and dad i still think my leaving was the thing that did them in i came back for the wakes i never came home again if i could make you laugh if i could make you laugh if i could make you laugh if i could make you laugh would you have stayed when i left? i can still recall your taste it’s all i kept that town was such a waste but you i won’t forget i never could forgot was it love or just a play it seems a million years away sometimes i see you in my sleep muddy water on your feet the sun was shining on your hair i reach your hand but you’re not there i hope you’re laughing all the time i hope you still can read my mind i hope you’re laughing all the time i hope you’re laughing all the time all the time all the time i think in the spring i’ll go back and buy one of those pianos learn to play i’m setting aside a couple of hours a day
8.
how do i walk beside you in the winter rain? without feeling something in me change oil colors fading out how do i remember how to get to sleep again how do i act like we're only friends how will i forget you now suddenly i'm falling up i'm somewhere in a summer sky i struggle just to hold my ground i'm waving but you walk on by i just wanna watch you move slowly i won't say anything if you only knew the power you have over me how do i not take your memory with me everywhere waterfalls make up your darker hair how do i forget to smile how do i keep practicing this nonchalance i can't tell you what i really want maybe i could make you mine suddenly i'm falling up i'm somewhere in a summer sky i struggle just to hold my ground i'm waving but you walk on by i just wanna watch you move slowly i won't say anything if you only knew the power you have over me how do i oh it's like you've got my hands tied to stay without you just don't feel right falling in down i'm somewhere in a summer sky i struggle just to hold my ground i'm waving but you walk on by and i wanna watch you move slowly i won't say anything if i only knew how to get you close to me how do i
9.
Like A City 04:38
silhouette your shape like a skyline makes all the people stare at your red red hair she does the best she can the best she can murder and mystery she likes to disagree i see her angel wings i see a million things i’ll never understand understand you got the right thing to say but you’re a minute too late you need a light and a map just to try and navigate you see her every single day but you’re talking to a stranger she’s like a city she’s full of real dark places spend all your life and never see all her faces crazy as cincinnati suddenly cruel and caddy she’s got your soul delivered you swim that river running round she likes to burn her bridges down secrets and fantasies you only wish you’d see sometimes she thinks she wants to own a restaurant the trees are green and brown they’re green and brown summer day ice cream we feed a homeless dream we see the sun still shines on a blacktop mind you wore a long white gown a long white gown you got the right thing to say but you’re a minute too late you need a light and a map just to try and navigate you see her every single day but you’re talking to a stranger she’s like a city she’s full of real dark places spend all your life and never see all her faces crazy as cincinnati suddenly cruel and caddy she’s got your soul delivered you swim that river running round she likes to burn her bridges down she’s like a city i i search these sidewalks will a trace of you lead me home of you lead me home will it lead me home? she’s like a city she’s full of real dark places spend all your life and never see all her faces crazy as cincinnati suddenly cruel and caddy she’s got your soul delivered you swim that river running round she’s full of real dark she’s full of real dark she’s full of real dark places she’s full of real dark she’s full of real dark she’s full of real dark places
10.
Sam 04:00
i found america in the pennsylvania hills i found a girl she changed my life i wonder will she be beside me when i'm mayor of this town open spaces and an open case of beer let's keep it simple i'm for getting out of here and trying to find truth in every shape and sound one more dollar on the table the sunday church crowd tips the least somedays i feel like i'm able then this shit kills me there's no realness here it's all just fake suburban cheer i'm as hazy blue as Monet i'll bite and swallow bullets down til i can leave this town but i'll be alright i've got a future on the way i thought t i'd be into my eighties when i left they'd take my coffin down through main street the press would clear the front page they'd name a high school after me one more dollar on the table pennsylvania on my mind somedays i feel like i'm able like i've no time there's no realness here it's all just fake suburban cheer i'm as hazy blue as Monet i'll bite and swallow bullets down til i can leave this town but i'll be alright i've got a future on the way there's no silence between these walls i'm spending every night just counting the days the slow violence of shopping malls i'm dying 'til i get up out this place is a revival on the way? i found america in the pennsylvania hills i found a girl she changed my life i wonder will she be beside me when they forget our names there's no realness here it's all just fake suburban cheer i'm as hazy blue as Monet i'll bite and swallow bullets down til i can leave this town but i'll be alright i've got a future on the way there's no realness here it's all just fake suburban cheer i'm as hazy blue as Monet i'll bite and swallow bullets down til i can leave this town but i'll be alright i've got a future on the way
11.
Blue 04:14
Forgive me when I fall I'm not as strong as you are sometimes the ending seems a little too far remind me when I'm tired forgive me when I fall I fear when I arrive there won't be anything left at all but I'll keep fighting for you I'll keep trying for you there's a peak here somewhere and I believe that too so take me feet, hands, soul, sweat, red, blue, song, sex I'm not through believing yet. It's all blue spinning as wishes come true in circles as I come to you open and free cuz you're so careful with me. Silhouettes float against a silver lake begging for wishes begging to make the truth of Lincoln's secrets echoed in the warmest cold echoed in my blood and the power of what we hold so hold my hand, face, soul, song one belief that we belong my skin, taste, this place, beauty, light, truth, grace anything and everything we ever were we ever dreamed love, truth, light, grace is right now. So dance to the silence of a faraway song dance to the light as the fear passes on dance for the wishes dance to the wishes we hold Everything's blue spinning as wishes come true in circles as I come to you open and free cuz you're so careful with me. And you're careful with me so take my feet hand, soul, sweat red, blue, song sex and I'm not through believing yet i'm not through believing So dance to the silence of a faraway song dance to the night as the fear passes on dance for the wishes dance to the wishes we hold And everything was blue spinning as wishes come true in circles as I come to you open and free cause you're so careful with me

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July For Kings third studio release Monochrome.

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released June 28, 2009

July For Kings is:
Joe Hedges - vocals, guitar
John McGuire - guitar
Brian Ives - bass
Dan McQuinn - drums

Produced by July For Kings except:
"Say It Now" produced by Andy Ellis and Joe Hedges

All songs written by Joe Hedges (c) 2009 Machines & Dreams (BMI)

Recorded by Joe Hedges, Frank Charlton, and John McGuire except:
"Say It Now" recorded by Andy Ellis and Joe Hedges
"Emma" recorded by Eric Stewart, Joe Hedges, and John McGuire

Recorded in Joe's basement in Erlanger, KY and J-Mac Sound Studios in Cincinnati, OH except:
"Say It Now" recorded at Clear Lake Audio in Los Angeles, CA, The Red Room Studios in Los Angeles, CA and in Joe's basement.
"Emma" recorded at Refraze Studios in Dayton, OH, J-Mac Sound Studios in Cincinnati, OH and in Joe's basement.

Mixed by John McGuire at J-Mac Sound Studios except:
"Blue" mixed by Joe Hedges in his basement
"Say it Now" mixed by Andy Ellis at Andy's on the 7th Floor in Los Angeles, CA

T Miller played guitar on "Six Hour Drive", "Like A City", "Roses", "Sam", and "Blue"; sang background vocals on "Houses Made of Stained Glass" and "Six Hour Drive"; and played cello on "Falling (How Do I?)"
Drew Phillips played bass on "Like A City", "Roses", and "Six Hour Drive"
Frank Charlton played guitar on "Houses Made of Stained Glass"
Adam Sabin played bass on "Emma"
Michael Miley played Drums on "Say It Now"
Amy Hedges sang background vocals on "Sam"

Mastered by Blumpy

Photos, Art Direction and Design by Joe Hedges
Band Photos by Melissa Marentay Walters
Left to right: John McGuire, Joe Hedges, Brian Ives, and Dan McQuinn

Thanks to Frank Charlton, Blumpy, Eric Stewart, Craig Baron, and Melissa Marentay Walters for supporting us and helping to make this album happen. Thanks to T Miller and Drew Phillips for your friendship and musical contributions. Special thanks to our families, friends, and fans for enabling and encouraging us to keep making music.

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