Skating Polly - Hickey King
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🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Skating Polly - "Hickey King" from the 2023 album Chaos County Line on El Camino Media
Tacoma-based punk-pop trio Skating Polly describes today's Song of the Day as "the most Skating Polly song" on their latest LP, a double-album titled Chaos County Line, out now via El Camino Media. Songwriters (and step-sisters!) Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse trade off vocals on the stripped-down single, inspired by a bad date Kelli went on.
“In Peyton’s verse she’s talking about never knowing how far to go or how much of yourself to give to someone, and when my part comes crashing in it’s about guys being possessive and always trying to leave their mark on you,” Kelli says in a press release. “To me, it’s the most Skating Polly song on the record because it’s all these different energies happening at once.”
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| 0:00.0 | I drove an hour and a half two hours back I even got a sunburn for that boy |
| 0:09.1 | No one told me not to ever drive bad |
| 0:13.0 | No one even made a noise. |
| 0:16.0 | I want to commend you this really news ain't going away. |
| 0:27.0 | This really moves ain't going away, |
| 0:30.0 | my hicke king, a little leak. It's my head the king I will make time and change to me with your sadness I'm going to be. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm trying to be with me. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm trying to be with me. Yeah. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm okay, I'm okay. |
| 0:53.0 | I'll be fine if I shoot straight. |
| 0:56.0 | It's all cool. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm alright. |
| 1:00.0 | I'll move on if I sit tight. |
| 1:03.0 | Don't tell the soul just throw it away. |
| 1:14.4 | I thought it would be hard to feel this way. |
| 1:18.0 | Thought it would be pleasing to treat you like that. |
| 1:22.0 | Thought I take the easy way out. |
| 1:25.0 | Don it would be pleasing. |
| 1:27.0 | I treat you like that. |
| 1:29.0 | God I take the easy way now. I'm gonna. I want to convince you this real news |
| 1:45.0 | saying going away |
| 1:47.0 | my heke king of a little. |
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