About My Falling

from Kings For Sale by Afton Wolfe

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This song is another autobiographical tune from Afton’s time as a bartender and semi-professional drunk. The song is a meditative and reflective account of youthful excess transitioning into acknowledgement and regret. The song features Ben Babylon on piano, Seth Fox on flute, Kristen Englenz on French horn, Blaise Hearn on trumpet, Joey Dykes on trombone, and Daniel Seymour (bass) and Tommy Stangroom (drums) on the heartbeat. Helen Vaskevitch also arranged the horn/woodwind parts on this tune, and Afton finally ends his 37-year-long avoidance of playing xylophone for this production.

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the right thing to say
just a few days too late
and again your grace is shown
water displacement
a print for The Basement
and the cover of a standard is blown
and I prefer to have my dinner for lunch
and dessert when I start
and I prefer to use the metric system
when it comes to matters of the heart
but you broke all my beakers apart
and I’ve misplaced my conversion chart
liquid antibiotics
cough suppressing narcotics
holding court at the mission on my birthday
pedialite and cigarettes
bags full of cash and regrets
with a good faith mistake what is there to say
and I’d like to think that my problems
come down to ambition more than facility
and I’d like to think that my falling
is just a natural decline in my mobility
but that would excuse me from my own scrutiny
so that this might go on into perpetuity

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from Kings For Sale, track released June 11, 2021

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Afton Wolfe Nashville, Tennessee

Afton is a product of his home, Mississippi. It is the birthplace of at least 2 American art forms: country music
and blues music. Meridian is the birthplace of Jimmy Rodgers, while the Mississippi Delta is the
birthplace of the blues, and the first rock n’ roll notes ever played, according to some music historians,
came from Hattiesburg. Afton also draws much of his style from nearby New Orleans.
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