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No​-​Life King

from Beautiful Liar by The Enigmatic Foe

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This is a very old song of mine from 2004. I had been watching the anime Hellsing about vampires and the undead. One of the epithets for a vampire in that series is "no-life king". I liked the sound of the phrase and came up with a song about materialism, popularity, and losing control.

lyrics

And so you bow again until you're down again
You want to fill it up until you throw it up

Every day now seems so serene
Please be upstanding for the no-life king

And so you hang about inside the darkest place
You want to own it all until you have it all
You look the very best until you get undressed
Put on your satin shoes and dance the night away
Your life's an opera (it's more like cabaret)

Every day now seems so serene
Please be upstanding for the no-life king

credits

from Beautiful Liar, released September 4, 2008
Jared Colinger - vox, guitar
Ronnie Martin - programming

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The Enigmatic Foe Knoxville, Tennessee

With sharp lyrics, the playful pop bite of the best of the 70s and 80s, and the kind of self-deprecation usually reserved for a Woody Allen movie, Jared Colinger's lyrics run the gamut from the joy of new love to disillusionment with the old, from wanting to like yourself to being afraid of what we have in our minds.

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