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Mainsail To Skyking

by Todd Pipes

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1.
Do you ever want to look inside, just to say you know? Do you ever want to change the lines, or rewrite the code? I used to think that I did one time--yeah, I remember. I remember, Lots of things, I could tell you things, and yet, I decline. (CHORUS) So, what are we waiting for? So, what are we waiting for? Some days, it pays to come out fighting, Some days, we wait—unconscious and unfazed. On the days we say, “We should have come out fighting,” We leave the fools to take the nothing that remains. (Again.) I would never want to change your mind, or take control, But, maybe now you will decipher these signs, and rewind your show. I hear a signal on the air, out there—yeah, can you hear it? Can you hear it? “Mainsail to Skyking calling . . . Skyking beware . . .”
2.
I will stand beside you, sight unseen, If my motives match your means, But don’t expect a sense of loyalty, If I think your cause is weak. (CHORUS) Will you ever see the final phase of my mercenary ways? This is not about economy, So I think I’ll stay for now, But if you’ve somehow found my currency, Don’t let word of it get out . . . What excites the mind like spite? It’s the victory of the vulgar . . . I know. Have you now come to despise, (As the need becomes endeavor) That you weren’t as clever? May you live to see the final phase of my mercenary ways.
3.
I never wonder who’s going to let me, I only wonder who’ll try to stop me. I face the day like it’s a fight. And the day makes known its demands . . . I think that time would wait for the right man, So I think the least I could do is try. (CHORUS) Tomorrow, remember the stand, If this ends tonight, Tomorrow, tell how it began, If this ends tonight . . . As I set shoulder to stone, I claim this burden as my own. I’ll work these hands ‘til there are hands no more. And the stone will start its descent . . . Tomorrow turns to face us all again, And it’s same scene, same teams, same score. (CHORUS) Tomorrow, remember the stand, If this ends tonight, Tomorrow, tell how it began, If this ends tonight . . . Tomorrow, we’ll stand in the light, If this ends tonight, Tomorrow’s the rest of our lives, If this ends tonight, This ends tonight. It’s in the darkest of hours we all find strength, But remember, In the mundane, we find the struggle.
4.
Local Honey 03:54
Remember when we met? That night, that show, When they had to beg you to go? And what happened next, We’ve lived the rest, But what I should have said was, “You walked across that room, Like the sea upon the sand . . .” I still see fate as doom, But there were plans . . . It’s why you never send to know Who’s creeping through your window. Somehow things begin, And never end, Just like we knew then, When you walked across that room, Like the sea upon the sand . . . I still see fate as doom, But there were plans . . . (CHORUS) Make no mistake, Girl, you’re my local honey. Yes you are, I’m your dark star, But you seem sweet to me. Hey, it’s getting late, Oh where’s my local honey? There you are. I’m your dark star, But you seem sweet to me. All the things we’ve seen and dreamed, No one would have ever believed, But let’s set this right, we’d have missed this life, If you stayed home that night . . . But, you walked across that room, Like the sea upon the sand . . . I still see fate as doom, But there were plans . . .
5.
Our Way West 04:30
The flowers faded fast out here this year, And all along this path, the left hand way becomes the line, That much is clear. Whatever seems to guide these steps tonight, That horizon calls from setting suns the last light on the day we won. (CHORUS) Another day gone, another mile on, We’re silently working our way west. Another year gone, a thousand miles on, We’re silently working our way west. Silently working our way west. I think the perfect maze is a straight line— When you think you’re doing fine, The shots come at you from the sides, and from behind . . .

about

Deep Blue Something singer, songwriter and bassist Todd Pipes rose to worldwide fame when they scored an international smash hit single in 1996 with “Breakfast at Tiffany‘s”, which reached #3 on the US Billboard charts, going all the way to #1 in the UK, and top five success in almost every country in the world.

Todd Pipes talks about the inspiration for Mainsail To Skyking: “The Mainsail to Skyking EP was recorded from the summer of 2017 to the summer of 2018. Josh Hoover (Calhoun) played the drums and I played everything else. (I also engineered and mixed it.) The title comes from two specific Strategic Air Command numbers stations. I find numbers stations fascinating—most countries have them, and they rely on simple WWII technology to send various sequences of numbers and letters back and forth via short wave radio. When decoded, these sequences carry specific instructions or relevant information, which are then utilized as needed. Between the two US stations in question, transmissions usually begin with, “Skyking, Skyking do not answer . . .” (If Skyking were to respond, their location, which one can assume therefore to be mobile, could be triangulated.) So they just listen.”

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released August 3, 2018

Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Songwriter, Producer, Engineer – Todd Pipes

Drums – Josh Hoover

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