WHY? - This Ole King Lyrics






Untethered layers
So thin as paper
Let them all, like vapor
Dissipate, integrate
When they hit air

(One thing)

We laid in the parking lot
Watched the stars
And the shooting stars
We know who we are
From beyond to the veiled
Intention between our cells

One thing, there is no other
Only this, there is no other
This one thing
There is no other

All my desire
To what I aspire
When I expire
Down dirtward all my hunger
In fire burn my anger
And collapse my stature

Always now
No before after
Only this, there is no other
Up skyward goes my water
Hang my want cloud
In the atmosphere

One thing, there is no other
Only this, there is no other
This one thing
There is no other

Just layers of this one thing

Living in slo-mo
Daily follow natural law

Cordon off sorrow
Tourniquet until it falls off

Beyond fences
Facing westward
Into diminishing light-
But at the start of spring
Like the robins sing
"This ole king will be rising
A new love blooms on the
Long notes of old horns."





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  1. b.... t....

    FINALLY i found you!

  2. e.... m....

    wtf is there more here? an album?

  3. H.... ....

    Come to galway in ireland uf you havent been alreay. Pleaaase :)

  4. T.... B....

    Holy crap a new album!

  5. J.... Q....

    This sound reminds me of animal collective

  6. E.... H....

    Thank you Jonah Raydio for showing me this band! Love this song

  7. A.... S....

    Too long ole man. Good stuff as always.

  8. e.... ....

    ...nice.

  9. i.... h....

    seeing them at Revolution hall in Portland tonight! So excited

  10. A.... V....

    Waiting for you to come in FRANCE now..!

  11. J.... S....

    Fantastic track! Please check out my review of the whole album.  I loved this album very much. Cheers! :)

  12. n.... ....

    nyc show anyone?

  13. s.... ....

    can't stop listening

  14. S.... B....

    im so so so hype!!!! i googled to see when this was coming out and saw theyre playing baton rouge april 6!!!! so fucking hype

  15. Q.... H....

    up skyward goes my water / hang my want cloud in the atmosphere

  16. S.... ....

    theres nothing i love more than why

    i cant wait to see u in dallas!!

  17. H.... ....

    Bagel Radio brought me here

  18. B.... S....

    See you in Tucson.

  19. b.... w....

    March 18th..Minneapolis..I will be there :0)

  20. m.... ....

    gah, this is fantastic

  21. j.... ....

    I'm seriously tearing up right now...for some reason I cannot describe it, but they always seem to help me with depression. Rubber Traits was a big factor in that but other songs too. Just the general melancholy and the subtext of regret...it's fucked up but it gets me focused on the right choices in life and allows me to unabashedly share all my pitfalls.

  22. r.... g....

    So, i just listened to the leak..

  23. M.... C....

    I wanna give double, triple, quadruple likes!... actually let me give a like for every second of this song. I'M HOME

  24. S.... H....

    :-) can't wait

  25. r.... g....

    If yoni raps over some of the album with this sound it's gonna be 🔥

  26. t.... B....

    I'm excited to see what Yoni could accomplish with the new album.

    _Why?_ is one of the best bands I've ever heard, personally.

    t.... B....

    EVEN BETTER LIVE!

  27. J.... t....

    I covered This Ole King using keyboards, ukuleles, synths, Chinese violins and a pop beat. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PCTICj_qMY

  28. W.... ....

    Loveeeeeeee this track! The production ideas and some of the lyrics remind me of Elephant Eyelash, the mood dips between a Alopecia verse w/ Mumps style chorus, but with an amazing structure + wonderful mixing ideas throughout it. I love the time change and eventual big building rise w/ the guitars, piano, keys, etc. at the end. WHY IS BACK!!!! Yeeeeewwwweeeeee.

  29. A.... T....

    WHY?, never die!

  30. c.... ....

    My heart.

  31. D.... W....

    Greatest thing since sliced bread

    D.... W....

    Daniel Willsey people should say “greatest thing since WHY?”

  32. �.... �....

    reposted www.facebook.com/wetchina

  33. m.... m....

    I'm really feeling this! Can't wait to see you guys live in Boston, I've been waiting years for this shit!!!

  34. K.... H....

    sounds good but ive got my fingers crossed for some classic why? rap tracks.

  35. d.... ....

    Have anyone the lyrics? My hillbilly english skills aren't good enough to understand everything. Thx collective intelligence

    d.... ....

    Did my best - http://genius.com/Why-this-ole-king-lyrics

    d.... ....

    Thank you for your effort =)

  36. C.... ....

    I'm so stoked. This sounds amazing, I'm so excited for this! I really feel like it's a throwback and, to quote by best friend, "feels like I'm injecting peace into my ears".

  37. s.... ....

    I love LOVE why? and I listened to old wu tonight like I'm sure you did before you made your best records. That's where I'm coming from. The geti and yoni album was mediocre bc the production was great, his lyrics are ok, and you were singing and not rapping. That album was better than eskimo snow. Alopecia and the one before are classic albums because you put strange ideas in our head in juxtaposition with great production. This whole idea you've got now about singing soulfully is running on fumes from mumps. It's time to stop. You are a creative genius with lyrics, Simone on the last one was great. But please, be a mediocre rapper in the eyes of the mainstream before you abandon us for these fucking indie... I don't know. I don't use slurs like that, but this shit is a horrible pop song and you know what word I want to call it and I'm not going to.

    s.... ....

    doodoobrn I think Eskimo snow was better than testarossa in my opinion, ever since mumps a lot of why stuff has sounded stale I can't pinpoint it. Although if yoni raps on stuff like this for moh lhean I think it could be great

    s.... ....

    eat my ass

  38. s.... ....

    I like the mixing and effects on the vocals. Reminds me a bit of The Microphones, which is always a good thing.

    s.... ....

    shmackatrotsky Phil for the wiiin

  39. F.... P....

    Team WHY? - You've done it again. I love you.

  40. N.... F....

    good work! pumped to hear the rest of the album!

  41. R.... ....

    You guys are awesome! Sounds like an evolution!

  42. J.... P....

    Oh man, this has me so excited. This sounds absolutely amazing, it reminds me of all the best parts of your various sounds throughout the years, all combined into one. Reminds me of something from the Elephant Eyelash era with the production of an Eskimo Snow song. Love the glitchy electronic sounds in the middle, and when the piano comes in at the end... A+

    J.... P....

    Jason Porter-well put!

  43. T.... ....

    Joyful Noise is the best!

  44. E.... N....

    19 views

  45. M.... ....

    Yesss, I love this.