Inspired by the theme of Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, this was a departuer for AI Collective's music evoking the sub-continent style. 

Heart Lamp

AI Collective - Heart Lamp

Shadow of us (2025 extended version )

Covers
Music and Lyrics: Mike Krath

Lyrics

What I write, 
I hope you like,
If not, I die, tonight,
Goodbye dreams,
Goodbye shticks,
Just die,
Go to bed, 
Die,
Goodbye career,
Goodbye wife,
Goodbye children,
It's time,
Go to bed,
Pull up the covers,
and die.

Leaving earth,
with my  pride,
Won't let its allures,
Stop my rise,
Goodbye looks,
Goodbye cars,
Goodbye friends,
Need to fly,
Story must end,
Goodbye,
Turn off life,
It's time,
Go to bed,
Pull up the covers,
and die.

Covers

A manly love song about a manly-man, looking for that perfect woman, only to discover that the perfect partner is another manly-man!

A Man Like Me

Am / C / E 
Capo 1st fret

you're so cool, you flash like steel
light in your eyes, just like a moon
and you're so fake, you just can't be real
magnetic attraction, I can't keep away from you

like to tell me lies
don't tell me anything at all
you're everything that I despise 
guess I like the pain, I like the silence, and I want it all

your words are empty 
and all your actions cut too deep
I swear you don't even see me
and that makes me want to keep on

looking in your direction 
yeah I just want to catch your eye 
want to make you feel something 
but you feel nothing, you don't even try

and I'm nothing to you
was never something to you
I'm nothing to you now
X3

and I'm nothing to you 
was never something you 
I'm nothing to you 
but you're still something to me

it hurts the most when no one's there
it feels just like no one cares

Why Don’t You Have Feelings?

Champaign And Tears


Never thought that I would get this far
Still I hold you tight with open arms
You say you'll change but you won't
You said you'd stay but you don't
Everytime I say that this is the last time
Then I end up in the past again
The times I cry out loud
And they just all pretend

They say that one day it'll disappear
But no one else could ever understand
They won't know
It hurts
It stays
I wear my scars
(My scars)
I wear my scars

Tell me how you always get so far
Never thought that I would fall so hard
It's time to change and I will
It's time to love and I will
All the times you said this is the last time
Then I found out you were lyin' again
The times you scream out loud
And I just don't pretend

They say that one day it disappears
But no one else could ever understand
They won't know
It hurts
It stays
I wear my scars
(I wear my scars)
I wear my scars

I got it bad
'Cause your love is like a warzone
I keep losing my mind
Yeah
Nobody ever told me love would be so cold
I felt the rush
Now the tears won't stop fallin'
I've given up
They say the pain'll fade away
But how would they know?

They don't know how it feels when it hurts
They don't know how it feels when it stays
And the worst part about all this pain is it burns
It just keeps burnin'
Oh
No
No
No
It just keeps burnin'
Oh
No
No
No
It just keeps burnin'
Oh
No
No
No
It just keeps burnin'
Oh
No
No
No

They say that one day it disappears
But no one else could ever understand
They won't know
It hurts
It stays
Oh it stays
(My scars)
I wear my scars
(I wear my scars)

Ayy
I don't think they meant to let it
But the way you lettin me go is unforgiving
All this hurt that I was given
It won't heal
And the scars won't disappear
I ain't met nobody perfect yet
So what makes them think I'ma be perfect?
I'm not perfect
I'm just hurt
And you said you wouldn't hurt me
But you lied to me
'Cause it hurts and I still feel it
It's in my skin
In my bones
In my spirit
All this hurt that I was given
It won't heal
And the scars won't disappear

They said it'll disappear one day
But I wouldn't know
Wouldn't know
I been waitin' on this pain to go
I been feelin' it down in my soul
So how you gon' say it's gon' disappear one day?
No
I wouldn't know
They wouldn't know
I been waitin' on this pain to go
I been feelin' it down in my soul

They say that one day it disappears
But no one else could ever understand
They won't know
It hurts
It stays
They stay
My scars
Oh I wear my scars
(I wear my scars)

No
I can't lie
You hurt me more than I thought you would
Oh
You can't deny
That you took everything you could
You broke my heart
Made me bleed
Tore me apart
It hurts
It stays
My scars
I wear my scars
(Scars)
My scars



Scars

Credits
Performed by King Chico
Lead and Background Vocals: King Chico
Written & Composed by: King Chico
Produced by: King Chico Music
Published by: King Chico Universe © 2025

Chama (Phonk)

Middle English (1100-1500 CE)
(Modern English lyrics further down)
[Verse I]
Upon þe ferre syde of hevene blwe,
Hwær sterres whispren soft and trewe,
A storm of stilnesse lieð as stoon.

[ Chorus]
In skye above þe nyght, on ferrest bounde,
þer lorné shadwes walken rounde,
þer ekoos faden, dremes wexen drye;
In skye above þe nyght, naught left to trye,
þe ende of lyf biholdeð tyme go bye.

[Verse II]
þe grounde doeð cleve as shelle y-brake,
A whispring groweð dede-knell’s wake;
Faces vanisshen in þe air,
Upon þe ferre syde of blwe—no wight þer.

[Bridge]
Is it þe ende, or first of voyde?
Is it makyng, or what man destroyde?
Only þe ferre syde of nyght clepeð me.

[Chorus]
In skye above þe nyght, on ferrest bounde,
þer lorné shadwes walken rounde,
þer ekoos faden, dremes wexen drye;
In skye above þe nyght, naught left to trye,
þe ende of lyf biholdeð tyme go bye.

-- Modern English --
[Verse 1]
On the far side of the blue
Where the stars only whisper
A storm of silence like a stone

[Chorus]
In the sky, above the night, on the farthest side
A place where lonely shadows roam 
Where the echoes fade and dreams go dry
In the sky, above the night, nothing left to try
The end of all life watches time go bye

[Verse 2]
The ground is cracking like a shell
A whisper turns booms a death knell
Faces vanish in the air
On the far side of the blue, no one's there

[Bridge]
Is it the end or the start of the void
Is it creation or what we destroyed
Just the far side of the night calling me

[Chorus]
In the sky, above the night, on the farthest side
A place where lonely shadows roam 
Where the echoes fade and dreams go dry
In the sky, above the night, nothing left to try
The end of all life watches time go bye

Tyme Go Bye

Vesuvius Inc 2025

Can I pay for your coffee?
I say I left my wallet in the car
I don't have a car
The way you move and the way you are
You look so sweet and the boys at the bar
Get nervous when you ask
"Can I pay for your beer?"
Well
You could have
But my demons already paid for it
You could have
But my demons already paid for it

[Prechorus]
And my best friend died
And my girlfriend cries

[Chorus]
When the whiskey takes over
And I do what I'm told
I am not that strong
And when I get older
I wanna see you there
My demons pay the beer
My demons pay the beer
My demons pay the beer

[Bridge]
You know what I mean
You know what I mean
You know what I mean

[Chorus]
When the whiskey takes over
And I do what I'm told
I am not that strong
And when I get older
I wanna see you there
My demons pay the beer
My demons pay the beer
My demons pay the beer

My demons pay the beer

SXS-Synthwave

JUST YOU

Hi all, so from 2016 to 2024 I assembled and produced a large collection of covers of many of my favorite tunes as my own hobby (and many during COVID lock-downs!) and I have accumulated over 3,000,000 plays across the world which is awesome!

I am much more of a producer that a musician. These first 8 years of my music was mostly based on midi cover tracks often downloaded from the Internet but heavily reproduced and re-imagined variously on my two Yamaha keyboards (Clavinova and PSR 975), but also using PC midi editing & DAW software.

Towards the end of that period, I added some of my more original electronic music which I produced over the past two decades under the name of Funkleberry in order to consolidate my Soundcloud accounts. 

But in 2024 I got into AI music generation and I am now  a freelance songwriter and AI music producer. It's been a fun journey!

My first 4 AI Albums can also be found here:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4iZUxtVnHl09U3UJ0nbt2L OR

in Apple music (search Funkinova and/or AI Collective)

If you like anything you hear, please pass them on!