Troy Kingi - All Your Ships Have Sailed
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🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Troy Kingi - "All Your Ships Have Sailed" from the 2020 album The Ghost of Freddie Cesar on All Good Absolute Alternative Records
When he began his career, New Zealand-based actor/musician Troy Kingi set a goal to release 10 albums in 10 genres across 10 years, which he calls the "10/10/10 project."
Today's Song of the Day comes from his funk-inspired album, which is also his most personal album: it was inspired by a cassette tape owned by his father, who tragically disappeared around Christmas 2005, while driving between Rotorua and Auckland.
As he explained to Music 101, “It looked pretty old and had this hand-scribbled name, ‘Freddie Cesar’ on it, and on the back was just handwritten names of songs. I recognized some of the songs from my early childhood back when my parents were still together and started writing down the lyrics as a form of therapy." A search for Freddie Cesar turned up fruitless, so Kingi began to recreate the songs himself. "It’s kind of a dedication to my dad and Freddie Cesar, this album. Even though the lyrics aren't fully mine and the music’s not fully mine, I feel him when I’m singing these songs."
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, I know that Windows Clore |
| 0:45.0 | why you got a job and memories |
| 0:49.0 | and baby what you're, might as well start eternity. |
| 0:57.0 | Sitting in the dark, sitting in the dark, baby, it's a nah bringing up the two-step on the boundary line. |
| 1:08.0 | Gains up on the corner, but you order, I think a bit more because you got three daughters who we do you |
| 1:14.6 | Two sons who have a brother's let me call you all I want to see is I'm |
| 1:19.6 | inadequate Mama told me I'm in the win I so great yeah. |
| 1:24.0 | It's fake to learn from our mistakes. |
| 1:33.0 | Exeter. |
| 1:35.0 | Exee. |
| 1:39.0 | because all your ships have seen. Thorne had a heart loud and I'm going to fight with denial. |
| 1:49.0 | I had to fight for every little thing, was lucky I could sing and do it with a broken wing. |
| 1:55.6 | My luck, even though there's a church on every street. |
| 1:59.9 | These kids got nothing to eat and success feels bittersweet. |
| 2:04.4 | Oh look. |
| 2:05.4 | No one I could be right at all. |
| 2:10.4 | This time for the strong. |
| 2:15.0 | In this place is going in the time |
| 2:20.0 | in the time, |
| 2:22.0 | going to cry. And it's true, it's true. |
| 2:23.0 | It's paid to cry. |
| 2:25.0 | Yeah. |
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