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Three Chimes, At Silent Palace!

by Star Moles

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1.
Glow 03:47
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No one's ever as lost as the eldest child I'm never gonna make it in the wild I'm looking for a life raft in your smile So keep on smiling at me Still drifting out to sea Maybe you're the only one with the time to Maybe you're the early morning sun And maybe I'm the only one you could lie to So after midnight Should I run Always giving up on other things that glow Why haven't I given up on the one thing I can't work for What am I moving towards No one's ever as lonely as the moon in the sky Oh but I feel close to it tonight You see through everyone's disguise Well I guess you probably see through mine Maybe you're the only one with the time to Maybe you're the early morning sun And maybe I'm the only one you could lie So after midnight I'm gonna run Always giving up on other things that glow Why haven't I given up on the one thing I can't work for What am I moving towards Always giving up Why haven't I given up
2.
Simple Creatures 05:05
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Shall I wear your shoes for you It’s not a job for two But after what you put me through It’s the least that you can do Let me slip into your shoes See how they fit me too I’ve seen what two people can do You just suffer all the time Nothing’s good enough, good enough for you You don’t want to run with the rusty metal crew What could have been Never could have been What you thought you wanted I couldn’t live I couldn’t live like this Hiding all day In a silent palace I couldn’t play Spite and Malice Weaving a web Weaving a web of sorrow You simple creature Caught in your own web of sorrow Can’t find the sapphire entrusted to me by the burglar and his bride cuz I know a good place to hide Really hope I don’t confide in one of his many disguises I really can’t tell a lie But you can really make each other cry Spitting fire all the time Nothing’s good enough, good enough for you You don’t wanna run but what else can you do What could have been never could have been what you really wanted I couldn’t live I couldn’t live like this Hiding all day In a silent palace I couldn’t play Spite and Malice Weaving a web Weaving a web of sorrow You simple creature Caught in your own web of sorrow I couldn’t live like this I couldn’t play spite and malice Weaving a web
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Coat of Arms 04:52
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Hey, where did good sir Galahad go far away in his magic boat, nobody knows Here, the wind is always blowing so cold Too cold to make an angel in the snow, cold and alone Here, and Queen Guinevere feels it most She knows everyone’s unspoken fear He left upon a midnight clear Now all the joy has disappeared Will we ever see his coat of arms again? Now, without a helmet without a jest I fear the catapult aiming at my chest I can’t make the best of this change And he couldn’t wait to be estranged The wild man is a gentleman deranged by a change Holy grail got swallowed by a whale Isn’t it strange We strain our eyes, we strain our ears Hopes appear and disappear The friendly fighter that we hold dear Will we ever see his broken smile again Oh please ride over the horizon once again New blood times are changing Endless love keeps on weighing on your soul And I know it’ll happen in the morning Without a fanfare or a warning So I’ll be waiting way up here Waiting for my hero to reappear And it’s so hard to make myself believe I’m gonna see that coat of arms again Oh I wanna see that coat of arms again
4.
No Reason 03:53
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I kick the ball across the court for no reason at all Folks dying in video games I feel their virtual pain I got kicked in the teeth I feel like a fly drowning in your cup of tea No reason, no reason got no secrets I'm keeping from anybody And it doesn't concern me that the Internet never sleeps Hey aren't you getting tired of me? I'm crying into my cards I see the red hearts bleeding away It's not too late to try a little bit of faith Well imagine your surprise We were all just saving face I found it all wedged between the radiator and the wall I guess that everybody's hiding something deep inside But I kick the ball Over and over for no reason at all I'm losing it baby but you don't have to call me You won't get me talking I don't care what you say I've already locked it away Somewhere in my silly little brain It's not too late to try a little bit of faith Imagine and I'll be your saving grace Baby hold on to me You don't need no reason
5.
Queen Underground 05:25
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I'm not laughing I just panicked I hope I don't come off as satanic I'm sinking like the Titanic In your eye Cold as ice Is it worth it What's the purpose of plants that don't get to the surface And will I be a subterranean slacker Till I die All my life It's only a rat race Look at the fat cats breaking the rules Proud of you baby for swallowing your pride I couldn't swallow mine so I'm still caught inside of the fortress I made from the tears that I cried One day I'll forgive you for changing my mind But I can't speak to your right now I don't wanna see you up there Wearing your golden crown While I'm queen underground Some strange cross between a beetle and a moth is crawling up the wall with the ivy From the second story window I glimpsed prehistoric life Oh what a time to be alive And crossing blades with the jack of all trades is a risk that I'm willing to take If it helps me to get rid of that bittersweet taste I'll risk my life Sharpening my knife And he says all is fair so long as you follow the rules Proud of you baby You never told a lie I'm still weaving mine and I'm still caught inside It's a game that I play It's a pain to keep trying One day I'll forgive you for now I'll keep dying Cuz I can't speak to you right now I don't wanna see you up there Wearing your golden crown While I'm queen underground Oh I don't believe it's true My whole life is a song to you My love So paint my cheeks red with rouge So that I may act the fool again
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On My Own 04:17
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There goes my only luck I threw it over the wrong shoulder Deal me another hand A little bit older a little bit bolder Stuck in the shifting sands of the barren waste of wonderland And don’t I know it Don’t I know it Don’t I know when I’m on my own I try not to show when you’ve landed a blow But don't I know it when I’m on my own And I’m on my own again And the air hums louder and louder Hour by hour But I stay up later than the people stay out Wondering what all the commotion's about Scratching along the wall But this witching hour I hold the power Cuz I stay up later than the people stay out I stay up listening to this old house Is it haunted Is it home yet Is it home when I’m on my own I speak out loud when I’m alone Just to hear a sound I know And I’m on my own again And don’t I know it Don’t I know it Don’t I know when I’m on my own I try not to show when you’ve landed a blow But don't I know it when I’m on my own And I’m on my own again Stuck in the shifting sands On my own again I'm stuck in the barren waste of Wonderland On my own again
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Wholeheartedly 06:25
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Old science Alchemy They couldn’t make gold Couldn’t find eternity But they believed in everything wholeheartedly Laws govern the universe But miracles break them And Lazarus rises And nothing surprises Those who believe in everything wholeheartedly Wholeheartedly I give my body up to the unknowable Wholeheartedly I go from one state of matter to another Wholeheartedly I leave it all And one can touch me No one can hurt me But I sense everything While I move through this universe unknown Elixir All prepared Attaching the nodes Strap me down to the chair All you folks out there This is for you I thank you for believing in me Must look like madness to some My million lightyear stare Too long without love Too long without anyone To help me see the light Why should it matter if I leave it behind To become dark matter I’m already there in my mind Wholeheartedly I give my body up to the unknowable Wholeheartedly I go from one state of matter to another Wholeheartedly I leave it all And one can touch me No one can hurt me But I sense everything While I move through this universe unknown No you can’t touch me But I might there in the air that you breathe Undetectable Unelectrical Unmagnetically No you can’t hurt me And I already know what it feels like to be Undetectable Invisible Unable to scream Loud enough Or convincingly Couldn’t tell what it would take To make you listen Hard enough or Enough to see I really mean it I really feel it Wholeheartedly I give my body up Wholeheartedly I go Wholeheartedly Wholeheartedly
8.
Day's Work 04:29
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There he goes out into the night and I used to be like a moth to a light Never again drawn in by the sight Though you'll always be there to see Peripherally I could convince myself of any last words But I put in a good day's work and I've laid down in the dirt and I've only gotten hurt If the greatest show is a pantomime I suppose that the last time might as well be the first time And without a song to make my cry It's strangely silent in my room tonight My mother told me not to settle for less But I put in a good day's work and I've done my very best and I've only made a mess Missing the feeling every day Though you've kissed all the confusion away and I'm looking at your brand new face Maybe I'll fall in love another day There's finally a hand to hold but I don't need a hand to hold and I pretend it doesn't hurt but I put in a good day's work and you could be my hand to hold but I don't need a hand to hold
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Enough of Love 03:52
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Brother John with the black hat on Thinks he knows my destiny Marry a missionary He’s not the man for me He’s not the voice on the wind Calling me in Back to his hearth Back to his arms Let these burdens burn you know they were meant to I would stand by you if the whole world was against you Love Enough isn’t ever enough Just a piece of That fey and fickle bramble Love Caught on my hem You’ll find me again Traces of snow at the fork in the road When the last of the light is gone With all the fairy folk of Avalon Be serious with me If you’re sure of the cord Tied to your core Tied to that part of me Let these burdens burn you know they were meant to I would stand by you if the whole world was against you Love Enough isn’t ever enough Just a piece of That fey and fickle bramble Love Caught on my hem You’ll find me again Just enough is never enough Enough is never enough Enough is never enough Of love
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King of Diamonds 04:44
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Take it easy Keep it cool Dip your paintbrush in the black lagoon and paint me a picture baby in electric blue It's so crystal Crystal clear When you whisper secrets into my ear Don't worry I'll be a secret agent with a cyanide pill I wanna tell you that I love you baby I'll leave a letter on the window sill and slip away before the words can kill Once again you're all alone with the thoughts in your head What do they turn to? Always a demon of truth and destruction and it's waiting for instructions from you King of diamonds king of hearts You know I never try too hard A sad game of solitaire And a work of art Queen of clubs and queen of spades Waiting to dig her own grave Gone and left the TV on The hour's getting late I'm always waiting baby for you to have something to say but you're always saying it too late Once again you're all alone with the thoughts in your head What do they turn to? Always a diamond the suit of destruction and it's waiting for instructions from you What do you do now baby Answer the siren baby It's up to you It's nobody's fault Nobody hurt you What do you do now baby Answer the siren baby It's up to you Ahh No pressure no thing Ahh You could just let it ring If you want to It's up to you
11.
3 Steps 05:13
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When I was younger I used to wait for a unicorn In the backyard with some berries and cream Just like the book instructed me Like a good scientist I drew conclusions and then tried again I never saw anything but an empty bowl lying under a tree It’s all over already for me I keep on having the same kinds of dreams I'm always 3 steps behind every scene and you're 3 steps in front of me Under my window I heard the call of an animal I wanted to tell you but once again I’m not in your orbit I’m not in your head And you and your lady across the room both so serious She doesn’t care about fortune or fame While I don’t know my lines or my character’s name It’s all over already for me I keep on having the same kinds of dreams I'm always 3 steps behind every scene and you're 3 steps in front of me Was it all real? Everything feels like a fantasy Nobody’s willing and everyone steals some sympathy now and then From somebody they call friend When I was younger I used to wait for a thunderstorm It came a little too late But when it rained down in the valley It poured like never before How can it be? Old man of the mountain finally fell free While the man in the moon’s still in agony It’s all over already for me I keep on having the same kinds of dreams I'm always 3 steps behind and unraveling in the passenger seat Where I commit all my dreaming baby
12.
Laying Down the Law 05:30
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You made your point so loud and clear It echoes in the atmosphere and I can hear you everywhere I go You have to steal the show Tell me how come You're so set on Laying down the law There was a time when we were friends but it's long since come to an end and everybody's wondering how you're doing in your castle ruins Hope you're healthy Hope you're happy Laying down the law Just listening Only to the voices in your mind screaming Never ever ever let your heart take wing It'll die before it flies So go on, go on Raise the drawbridge on me I can't reach you now I keep shouting at the walls of Jericho Banging my fists on a heart of solid gold It's no good, no good What's keeping us from shaking the hallowed ground together Nothing whatsoever So tell me how come You're so set on Laying down the law Swallow the rest of your free range doubt It thrives within as it thrives without And all the while right under your nose Another candle blows Out of patience With your need for Laying down the law Stop listening Only to the voices in your mind screaming All love is suffering and stormy skies So go on, go on Raise the drawbridge on me I can't reach you now I keep shouting at the walls of Jericho Banging my fists on a heart of solid gold It's no good, no good What's keeping us from shaking the hallowed ground together Nothing whatsoever So why Farther on you'll find there's not a cloud in your path of flight but just for a time How temperamental is this life The changing look in your eye Farther on you'll find ever more sides to the die and I can't take my own advice How temperamental is this life The changing look Go on Raise it up Now I keep shouting at the walls of Jericho Banging my fists on a heart of solid gold Now
13.
Shapes 03:40
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Visions don't come easily to people with good reasoning The captain of the water was talking to his daughter but she was never listening She spends all her days whispering To ghosts inside the wall She knows them best of all They give her gifts and gasoline The choices she is caught between to get herself away and burn the dead remains or split the burden evenly with me I can be whatever shape you want me to be Can you say the same for yourself I sensed your spaceship coming down and threw those papers on the ground I didn't make the grade Oh please help me escape My crime awaits a punishment A curse on all the noblemen But it is just as well cuz if you couldn't tell They already hate themselves and now we're drawing a crowd I can be whatever shape just say it aloud Can you take the shape of yourself For now let us speak of the clouds their pink and purple hue I like it best when the sun isn't center stage all the rage filling the page dawn till dusk with its blinding bloom The night isn't nearly as deadly as the day Visions don't come easily So we put the mushrooms in our tea The weeks go by I wish that I could fly I'm finding my way back to you
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Talking Is Torture 04:23
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Lines in your mind You told me nobody could ever know About the dreams and designs for that one fated road Just a sacred word in a sacred place Just say the word and you fall from grace You got a sense of the coming doom in the living room But when you swung around you were too late Is it over I don't want to take my hands away from my face All the talking is torture when there's nothing to say Just a shift in the vibe Suddenly nobody shares in the plunder And you can't solve the crime The only crime you can find is your own discomfort And I just look away, look the other way Baby I just look away, look away And you just look away, look the other way Anyway you just look look away, look away Is it over I don't want to take my hands away from my face All the talking is torture, yeah Talking is torture It's not too hard to understand It's not to hard to understand You're acting like There's something left something that I've yet to understand but I understand Something left to say Something to explain Let me put it plain for you It's just pain I'm sorry There's nothing you can say It's just pain Is it over I don't want to take my hands away from my face All the talking is torture, yeah Talking is torture

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You fall asleep at home and wake in a strange new land. There is a palace, where high drama unfolds in the court of the king and queen. You’re swept up in a real magic whirlwind…colors and lights…a broken locket whizzes narrowly past your head…a delicate kerchief blocks your vision for a moment…tarnished and discarded lovers’ tokens. The whirlwind passes and silence takes hold in the vast, lonely halls. How can you return love to this land if you’ve fallen out of it yourself? The Curse of Silent Palace can only be broken by coming to know love through its all-encompassing canon…music, the love story of the universe, music! Three chimes means the curse has been broken!

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released March 28, 2024

performed by Emily Moales and Kevin Basko

with the additions of...

cello by Riley Byrne on tracks 5, 7, 10, and 11; upright bass on track 10

synth string arrangement by Brian D'Addario on track 7

vocals by Michael D'Addario on track 7

drums on tracks 9 and 11 by Eric Slick



all songs written by Emily Moales

produced and recorded by Kevin Basko at Historic New Jersey 2020-2022

mixed by Kevin Basko, Emily Moales, and Pat Gaeta

assistant engineering throughout by Pat Gaeta

mastered at Historic New Jersey



courtesy of Historic New Jersey Recordings

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