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Volume 1 - Side 1 - Joyeaux Halloween

from Royal & V​ä​r vs. the Sky Kingdom by Royal Holland

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Side 1 of "Royal & Vär vs. the Sky Kingdom" sets the scene.

It begins with an Ouverture, a medley of themes and songs throughout the album.

This leads into the first of the four Introductions,one per side of the double LP. This intro is entitled "Joyeaux Halloween" or "Happy Halloween" which is what Royal & Vär incanted upon making a wish at the Sacré Cœur on a high hill in beautiful Paris. Little did they know that this was a trigger whisking them away on a new adventure through love and through time.

"Sacré Cœur"; The Sacred Heart inhabits one person in this world, and it is Vär.

"Nacho Cheese" is a bit of a mystery and a magical one at that. A song written 17 years ago at this point I believe, yet it contains many references to actual life events that happened throughout the time when Royal & Vär were apart, leading to when they were not anymore.

"Bird" is another song written 17 years or so ago, it has been performed by various incarnations of Royal Holland & the Rotation throughout the years, but this is the first ever recording of the thing. It was a difficult song to record and get right. It was the song that launched the entire concept of "Royal & Vär vs the Sky Kingdom" as well as a recurring musical theme. Royal is basically confronted by the ghost of Vär before he knows of her, in the form of a song bird in a cage.

"Caught Away" finds Royal feeling the great weight of losing Vär to the tyranny of time, but also finding a resolution that there is a great ordeal to be faced.

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Please do pardon my French.

"Joyeux Halloween"

Narrator:
Royal et Vär au Paris, á Sacré Cœur; Ils disent "Joyeux Halloween". Puis font un vœu et sont importé dans nouvelle aventure.

"Translation" - Royal and Vär in Paris at the Sacré Cœur; They say "Happy Halloween". They make a wish and are whisked on a new adventure.

Royal and the Valkyrie Choir:
When I sit down and think of things
My mind floats down in tighter rings
like falcons soar and bluebird sings
but all I see and hear is you

The magic spell behind your eyes
Your sacred heart a golden prize
Like Vishnu you've been glorified
But all of this holds true

"Sacré Cœur"

Royal:
When I sit down and think of things
My mind floats down in tighter rings
like falcons soar and bluebird sings
but all I see and hear is you

The magic spell behind your eyes
Your golden heart a sacred prize
Like Vishnu you've been glorified
But all of this holds true

When I wake up and look at you
Can't believe it's something that came true
The likes of me with the likes of you
And they are halcyon days

And golden nights by glassy seas
And magpies hiding in the trees
And sharing countless energies
A mythology that's true

All of this holds true
And all of this holds true

You are the red moon scattered on the sea
You are the queen of everything in me
You are the lucky star I will collide
And share with you the magic that's inside

Forever holding us my love
Intertwined throughout below above
You are the heart that holds the sacred key
To all the beauty in our synchronicity
And I will always be in love with you
And all of this does hold true

All of this holds true

"Nacho Cheese"

Royal:
I woke up today with a view of the sea and foretold catastrophe
It was raining below us and chanting above the song of your leaving me
My hands were tied into tiny little bows
And planted in the yard in perfect rows

When will my fingers grow into little trees that house the birds that fly you back to me

I woke up today with you on my mind and a dream of the cloudless sky
It was raining beside you but not overhead and your hair was meticulously tied
Into a bow of inordinate size
It covered up your face, all except your eyes

When will my fingers grow into little trees that house the birds that fly you back to me

"Bird"
Royal:
You gave me a caged bird, yellow and bright blue
She turned out to be the ghost of someone I once knew
Somewhere there's an echo of the song she used to sing
Every note is sacred and deeply promising

That she's flying back to me

And, I will wait for you dear until your songs are through
Then I'll jump out my window and wing my way to you

While you're flying back to me

"Caught Away"

Royal:
Sleep comes and goes
but I can get no rest
Phantoms of your breath
linger on my sunken chest

When you get caught away
You have to go
Stolen from yesterday
Now so long ago

When you get caught away
You have to leave
But now I spend eternities
Every day you're not with me

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from Royal & V​ä​r vs. the Sky Kingdom, released July 30, 2023

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