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We Were Once Kings

from Holy Colony Burning Acres by Troy Kingi

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This double TUI Award winning album is now available on double vinyl!

    The 1st 100 Copies will be a limited edition smoked vinyl signed by the man himself (SOLD OUT).

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    As a special NZ Music Month release we have a limited number of SIGNED Holy Colony Burning Acres CD's!
    ALSO, with this purchase $5 goes towards MusicHelps - an awesome organisation dedicated to helping the NZ Music industry (musicians and crew) through hard times like Covid.

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Order the wonderful new album by 'Troy Kingi and the Upperclass' on CD.

    The 1st 10 Copies will be signed by the man himself!

    Includes unlimited streaming of Holy Colony Burning Acres via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 8 Troy Kingi releases available on Bandcamp and save 15%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Time Wasters: Soundtrack to Current Day Meanderings, Year of The Ratbags and Their Musty Theme Songs, Pū Whenua Hautapu, Eka Mumura, Black Sea Golden Ladder, The Ghost of Freddie Cesar, Holy Colony Burning Acres, Maumaharatia, and Shake That Skinny Ass All the Way to Zygertron. , and , .

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lyrics

This is getting hard now
cos we once were kings
inch by inch this archipelago
it turns to flames
As this ancient landscape
becomes commercialised
all will be forgotten unless our children rise

light in the sky with feathers like a bird
for the lonely one and the stone he overturned
unified before it was destroyed
A Paradise
This Holy place forged from the depths of the earth
Goddesses rage turns the fire into dirt

uuuuuuuuu

Militarised zone
Covers sacred bones
My Elders weep
cos now our dance is just a cheap parlour trick
been oppressed since your disease made me sick
Is this reality a thing we can unfix
It seems we’re just a game in politics

yes this will be hard now
for us to be kings
inch by inch this archipelago
it turns to flames
As this ancient landscape
becomes commercialised
all will be forgotten unless our children rise

uuuuuuuuuu

credits

from Holy Colony Burning Acres, released July 12, 2019

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Troy Kingi Auckland, New Zealand

Troy Kingi (Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui)

Described by the New Zealand Music Commission as “Our Northland Treasure”, Kingi rose to fame after the release of his first two multi-award-winning albums ‘Guitar Party at Uncles Bach’ and ‘Shake That Skinny Ass All the Way to Zygertron'. ... more

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