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In the darkness you light my way
When I'm speechless you say what I want to say
Lets just face it this is the only way
You're the one voice that helps me through the day
CHORUS
I know its a struggle to believe
I know from all the stories that I weave
I know that you've always been the one for me
If I was offered a plate of gold
Far more treasure than I could ever hold
Although I was baked in a greedy mould
For you I would swap all of the money in the world
CHORUS
I would walk through the gates of hell
I would fight through the fiercest battle
I'd still be standing as the mightiest fell
And there's no doubting that we just plain gel
CHORUS
In the darkness you light my way
When I'm speechless you say what I want to say
CHORUS
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The Contortionist
03:45
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Small price a fiver to see this unique freak show
Contortionist of the body, he can suck his own dick you know
Yeah for his sexual pleasures he just opens up and blows
These tricks of his are sure to raise a few eyebrows
His twisting, writhing posture disturbs the pc mouths
Well their constipated arguments are best left in their bowels
I accept in these times they have a right to what they say
But they shout of the ignominy and freedom goes both ways
Do I detect a hint of jealousy because for a suck they have to pay?
I've heard the rumours of how one night whilst he sleeps
An execution party will turn up, oh so discrete
And they'll burn his resting body
Because that's the way to handle freaks
As a self confessed quick thinker I knew their plan had flaws
So I told him "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours"
He said "I can scratch my own back with my feet"
Well of course!!
If he'd taken up my offer he'd still be alive this day
They'd have been no midnight murder, no charcoal remains
Hell his body really contorted as it went up in flames
Why is it we destroy all of what we fear?
And if we don't destroy its body we crush its soul with our jeers
So think twice before you take up an alternative career
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Eden Tree
04:31
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Don't remember the reason but tears swell in my eyes
I'm easy with my emotions that manhood so belies
If you picked from the Eden Tree I'm the most bruised of fruit
You may wish to take a different life route
CHORUS
You are the seedling that grows through the everything
And grows to incredible height
You are the burning torch that keeps on flickering
And glows in the dwindling light
Through every season you are the reason
I wake from the perilous night
And you held me
You held me tight
All the rubbish discarded and left in open view
Turning over a clean sheet that's fresh and white and new
Think I planted the Eden Tree, the first one to stand
And before it we stood hand in hand
CHORUS
Climbing high up the Eden Tree and looking over our lives
The busy bees are all pollenating their hives
CHORUS
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Always Been a Let Down
05:36
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Trying hard to put some spice in my life
Whilst the fraudulent air is surprisingly rife
May as well have gutted myself with a knife
Pants down, stumble around, feel a little up and down
Maybe a chameleon hides from your glare
Look about and find that there's nobody there
I'm the emperor with no clothes left to wear
Pants down, stumble around, always been a let down
CHORUS
Who will be the last one left around?
I'm taking bets but lately I'm greatly poor odds
Who will be the last one to be found?
I'm taking bets but holy crap its in the lap of the gods
There's an argument I've been here for too long
Of course the answer is that you've got it all wrong
Take another breath from your fragrant bong
Pants down, stumble around, feel a little up and down
Taking pot-shots long after I've disappeared
I look so different when I am sporting a beard
Only half the population noted and cheered
Pants down, stumble around, always been a let down
CHORUS
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Forbidden Kind
03:12
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I just had a quick glance and saw golden romance
A trick of tarot cards
I paid up my coin for being so annoying
And demanding the truths hard
And time isn't slowing
My feelings are growing
CHORUS
Generally I reach for forbidden kind
Read my fortune and mind - I've got hearts to find
Before I'm bone and dust
I'm looking out far - I'm going to follow the star
There's a faith in which I trust
And time isn't slowing
The star keeps on glowing
CHORUS
And time isn't slowing
Through the water I'm rowing
CHORUS
I think I'm out of my mind
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From the incubator until the day that he drops
Analysing this existence from rarely heard tunes and chart flops
Doomed, doomed to the deepest of the underground
Where only a small group of people bother to listen and understand the sound
This is my proudest moment and yet also the start of my fall
Another occasional night in a half empty hall
Pinpoint the starry eyed man with the face tattooed on his chest
The one that would fall upon his sword at the messiah's behest
"Oh messiah let us worship thee, let us kiss your feet,
Mimic all of your mannerisms and your aversion to meat"
Who is about to hear my new hit single after all?
It's just another night in a half empty hall
What is this bruising migraine that is threatening all my thought?
I can't be good at anything because I'm completely self taught
Self taught in creation, self taught in style
Self taught when I'm avoiding all of the bile
"Get off the stage, play something we know" the audience call
Its another occasional night in a half empty hall
So another person heard the noise and its no longer cool
"Listen Sir, I'm worthy of kudos and I demand a duel
The first with credibility is the first to the grave"
But you get to meet your idols if you don't misbehave
I hear angelic voices and an opening of the gate
But for the recognition there may be many many years left to wait
All the fame was just a fantasy and would never really have worked
So by night he is a rock star whilst by day he sat and clerked
But if just one ear listens and creates just half a smile
If that tattoo on the chest keeps the name noticed for a while
And its smeared in paint and excrement upon the toilet walls
I quite enjoy each night I'm sat within a half empty hall
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Sick Inside
04:20
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Where there's courage there are mutilated lions
Where there's courage there are broken giants
In this misshapen world where the bruiser gets the girl
And I wonder what's the point of it all?
CHORUS
So tell me why am I so sick inside?
Surfing my board across the puke filled tide
Why am I so sick inside?
I retch with envy
Who can mend these strong but broken hearts?
I've been acting far too many parts
Today my outlooks fine but I've had three jugs of wine
And I cannot even start to tell the time
CHORUS
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Stand on Giants
02:43
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They, they stand on giants
And in defiance ignore science to stand high
And despite a lack of stature
And in a rapture escape capture quick bye bye
So slight of dwarven nature
They're bound to hate your normal features on your face
A jealous streak an evil person
He leaves a curse on witch and her son, what a waste
CHORUS
So quiet as the angels sleep
They're naked so the elves can peep
And end up in a sweaty heap
For when the siblings come of age
They colour green then colour beige
The relevance is hard to gauge
So come on, come on we're never gonna break this
So come on, come on, we're never gonna make this
We, we stand on fairies
Eating berries, lose our cherries when we can
Their wings all bent and broken
And I'm chocking on these folk please pass one more
CHORUS
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Into the Fire
04:48
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Everyone talks of you and acknowledges what you do
A symbol of ugliness
Heart scarred and life a mess
CHORUS
You rode out of my life and into the fire
I prompted hilarity with my display of charity
The little bird has flown this place
There's more tan egg left on my face
CHORUS
You rode out of my life and into the fire
You rode out of my life and into the fire
I told you you were the one I truly desire
You rode out of my life and into the fire
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I'm having dreams about someone I don't know
So good I've had it three nights in a row
I'm having dreams about someone I don't know
I'm having dreams, so serene, but what can they mean?
In you I'm believing
I'm having dreams about someone I don't know
I feel a warmth in my heart and down below
I'm having dreams about someone I don't know
I'm having dreams, wonderful things good talking and drinks
In you I'm believing
Each one the same and I cherish each frame
Like a film in slow motion
To hold you so tight from the morning 'till night
And I've no intention waking up
I'm having dreams about someone I don't know
The kind of thing I'd have written on my headstone
I'm having dreams about someone I don't know
I'm having dreams, so serene and what can they mean?
In you I'm believing
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Marc Freak London, UK
Musician, author, photographer and life model. With influences ranging from the lofi pop of Guided by Voices, the gothic
melodrama of Nick Cave, the glam of Bowie and the nakedness of Iggy Pop. Former frontman of Freak Circus and Dead Joe.
Blending all of these styles together and spewing them out in his own way. That is, when he isn't playing glam rock with Weymouth based Glass Spiders!
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