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LAUREL
DOGVIOLET
Sun King

TRACK

Sun King

Release date: 23rd August 2018

From DOGVIOLET

Track 7

4:11

Alternative Music Rock Pop

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About This Track

‘Sun King’ by LAUREL is an alternative track from the album ‘DOGVIOLET’ (2018). The lyrics cast a relationship in intimate, slightly conspiratorial terms, with a narrator comparing their shared gaze to something mythic, and insisting on being “true or troubled”. There is a domestic calm to the imagery, from watching the TV on a Sunday to the season’s warmth, while the heartbeat metaphor frames affection as something physical and constant. The repeated references to thickness and endurance give the song an earnest, determined rhythm.

"Sun King" is a track by LAUREL, from the album DOGVIOLET, released 23rd August 2018. The track is 4:11 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about LAUREL.

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LAUREL

LAUREL

Lyrics

Sun King

He has bedroom eyes, they're just like mine
And when we walk the streets
I see people wondering
If we're true or troubled then

I say, "He's my sun king"
Through thick, or thick, or thin
And on a Sunday we like to watch the TV
I'm the hole in his heartbeat

And in this summer full of lovin'
How could I ever be without?
Sailing the seas had doubt that I'd never find you babe

All I have been dreaming of is you
All I have been dreaming of is you
Now what is life, but a dream?

He has bedroom eyes and how the girls, they try
But I have more to say than, "Oh, how the weather's great"

And you come to see me in the evening
Lay up on the ceiling and say, "I stay forever babe"
So I guess we feel the same

All I have been dreaming of is you
All I have been dreaming of is you
All I have been dreaming of is you
All I have been dreaming of is you
Now what is life, but a dream?

All I have been dreaming of is you
All I have been dreaming of is you
All I have been dreaming of is you
All I have been dreaming of is you
Now what is life, but a dream?
Now what is life, but a dream?

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Track details

From DOGVIOLET

4:112018

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Album

24th August 2018

Track number

7

Release year

2018

1Life Worth Living
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2All Star
3:24
3Same Mistakes
4:26
4South Coast
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