Freak Radio - October 2020

I worked my way through the various tracks I've written and recorded and selected 1 track from each of my shorter EPs and 2 from each album, starting with the earliest recording.  They are probably my favourites from each, but often don't match with the most played songs!  But this would be a starting point for a live setlist for me I think

Marc Freak - 1 from each EP, 2 from each album

This Playlist is About You

"Love" - A Marc Freak Valentines Day Collection

Its no time its no year
Well I'm flying when the coasts looking clearer
I feel fine give a cheer
Hell I'm crying don't judge a book by appearance

In the past in the light
It fades fast well thank God I'm a fighter
Called to task scared of heights
So I'll bask in the heart of the sunlight

CHORUS
When you say the slightest word I'll come running
I only need a single word not two
The dreams are good the prospects sure are stunning
I think I get carried away

Its no time its a fact
I'm no Einstein indeed I'm mentally cracking
I'm fine but lets chat
And I pine when my batteries are failing

CHORUS

Carried Away

In a shot (bam) I'd flee from this land
To a distant place where we can walk hand in hand
Give it time (tic) we'd certainly click
I hope I've not been beaten by the ugly stick

CHORUS
Its true
Heaven is a place with you
We two

If I stare into space at your beautiful face
Its just because it takes me ti a much better place
In a short while I'll control my smile
I hope that you don't see me and you run for a mile

CHORUS

In a shot (bam) I'd flee from this land
I'm feeling so giddy that I can only half stand
My heart beat when I dream how we meet
Its fair to say you've gone and swept me off of my feet

CHORUS

Heaven is a Place With You

Creatures and plant life evolve but the worlds vaguely the same
I've a short shelf life
I've been the heir to fortune just in name

Picture a princess
Picture such a beauty as you wish
Though I may confess
I've picked up the most tasty dish

CHORUS
And I will always feel the same through pain and thunder
And I will always feel the same
And I will always feel the same until you cast me asunder
A chance to run dear as I'll always feel the same

Sat at a table staring gormless at your eyes
The best I'm able I'll lift you up into the skies

A voice mesmerising
It suits the accomplished written hand
You are so tantalising
I've a different wish than originally planned

CHORUS

The Same

You can't stop the waving frantic from the shore
I've sent all my loving and I'm still sending more

CHORUS
I'm simmering under
I'm testing understanding
I'm literally under your skin

I'm full of the wise cracks my stories the same
There are butterfly flutters each time when I see your name

CHORUS

I work like I'm clockwork in some ground hog day
I'm waffling endlessly and I don't go away

CHORUS

Under Your Skin

The first of the Marc Freak EPs, Wraith combines the lofi pop of Guided by Voices, with a splattering of Bowie, and a dash of Nick Cave to arrive at a package of college style alt rock.  With the theatrics of Iggy Pop thrown in for good measure.

Wraith

Keys are key on this pop tune about a mad lover that shows restraint with excitement but no restraint with anger

Limiter On Your Life

Don't worry, I'm not the ogre that its said I am
I'm broken from head to toe
Some rumours when written can crush a soul like mine
I was smitten for a year or two

CHORUS
I call in pain no love remains
We fall, blood stains, I can't let this happen again

Fake traction, fake everything in fact
I tried to hold you but I broke my back
What gumption to allege the lies alleged
If I'd guessed it I'd have done much worse

CHORUS

Ogre

Chirpy little pop song about rough sex.

NEANDERTHAL WOMAN
I can't comprehend you
Believe all that's said
Put the feelings aside
You're nothing but park and ride

Access all areas
Come on join the crowd
Ignore the stagnant stench
Dive in with buttocks clenched

CHORUS
Don't mean to hurt you love, or do destroy your pride
But if I touch/tap your skull its hollow inside
So limited but wonderful, primitive Neanderthal woman, woman
Easy come, easy go, primitive Neanderthal woman, woman, woman

I'm powerless to stop you
You can't change your ways
Some aspects are pleasing, yet
Diseases you can't forget

You carry a burden
You're ridden bare back
Spurt out small words so gruff
Sounds like you like it rough

CHORUS

Neanderthal Woman

Christ I'm crazy, or just afraid, see
I'll make it up with love
The barrier's broken and now we've spoken
I'll pray to the above

'Cause I was frightened more than you would believe
My hands were shaking, I'm sure that you could see
A little luck - you're also trembling at me
You do not stop
And when our eyes met I sensed we were alike
I held your hand and we danced into the night
A little love - you're scared but I promise I don't bite
A little love, a little love, a little love

When the night ends, we part as just friends
My heart is torn apart
So familiar, we are far too similar
And its over before it starts

All the courage it took to make my move
Is wasted like the time I spent with you
What little luck - when I thought some luck was due
It all breaks up
Why such surprise as I've felt this way before
I'm so low that my chin touches the floor
So little love, next time I see you I'll ignore
Our little love, little love, little love
So little love, little love, little love

Little Love

Your beauty excites and it blinds
You truly are dressed to the nines
You're one of my favourite finds of all
Your smile also makes me smile
Which I have not done in a while
Lets walk hand in hand down the aisle this fall

CHORUS
And I question is that me?
Is it just some fantasy?
Could it all break in a heartbeat heartbreak
I would never let that be

I've pages and pages of lines
Of how you are dressed to the nines
You simply are just sublime it seems
Your laugh also makes me laugh
We roll around the floor really daft
I wanted, I prayed and I have the dream

CHORUS

Your beauty excites and it blinds
You truly are dressed to the nines
You're one of my favourite finds of all
Favourite finds of all

Dressed To The Nines

I'd swim through seas of fire and brimstone
To nestle in your arms
I'd fight the dragons and slay the monsters
To protect you from harm

CHORUS
What I'd do to get to you
And these promises are true
I have no super strength
I have no secret route
I just battle through

I'd climb the tallest most jagged mountain
And I'd sleep within the snow
I'd walk upon a ledge of spikes
And I'd take the mightiest blow

CHORUS

What I’d Do To Get To You

Demo 

A Love Song ( Ft The Mongolian Death Beetles )

Rough video - https://youtu.be/5gaYofokLkw 

A grey hair - I turned the other cheek
If I turn away for long enough I won't find what I won't seek
Be I wise or be I clown?
It even hurts a little bit when I am sitting down

CHORUS
Whoever you are I'm older than you think
I'm glad that you think otherwise - I'm truly tickled pink
Whoever you are I'll gladly take the praise
I'm slowly growing older but I hope its just a phase

Won my heart all torn and soiled
It has beaten and then burst more than anyone in this world
Have a laugh - give a smile
I'm an educated mind but mentality of a child

CHORUS

Tickled Pink

The GrOOvebOx is an "ideas and support" collective
with no specific genre barriers, just alternative open minds.

Please click link for lyrics and further information about this track, 
and if you like it here, it would be nice to like it there as well : 
https://soundcloud.com/a-saner-world/savages

A Saner World - Savages

Wake up and smell the coffee
It smells much better than the mess you've made
Games up you've been acknowledged
For all the damaging games you played

CHORUS
I can't forgive all the grief you caused
I can't forget how my whole life paused
But I can tell you now that I've sourced you from this Ouija board

You're dead but not forgotten
Well by most people but not by me
You can't wake, can't smell the coffee
I hope the floor you stand on is fiery

CHORUS

I look up to give a prayer
But I can't bring myself a single nice word
Anyway I really should look down
Because you're smouldering in the heat, I heard

CHORUS

Ouija Board

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4E91iv6ciiQBtsyQaprtug

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2z2ugiTNppfcvhmUq8ocsY?si=ooZFkaWIQI29JN7KRHe84Q

Another Time

OUT OF TIME

Like a very distant star
Sparkling with mystery
I stare, looking from afar
Wondering where the future leads
And every night the starlight seems brighter
Twinkling dreams across the ripples on the water

CHORUS
I think of all the things I want
And wonder how those things would be
And I feel such a lonely voice
Calling out to sea

Let me sail upon your waves
Embrace the calm in me
Take me to the better days
I drown in joy beneath the deep blue sea
And every night the starlight seems stronger
Twinkling dreams across the ripples on the water

CHORUS

Calling Out To Sea

I'm sure you'd never be bored
'cause what's to be bored with what we have
It's pure, we play the same chord
And what a great chord that makes me smile and laugh

CHORUS
I can hear you breathe when I wake at night
Then I realise that I'm just dreaming
But I feel a warmth from your body held tight
This time I tell it true
This song is about you

I'm sure you'd never be bored
'cause what's to be bored with what we have
There's no cure for the feeling you've stirred
But please keep on stirring - I'm crush starved

CHORUS

This Song Is About You

Once again, a great pleasure to work with IT! ( https://soundcloud.com/samantha-hubbs ) some more.  She has added such another (sultry) dimension to this (and I love it).  Its like Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin have been embraced by a bondage clad Depeche Mode.  Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording it.

DOWN ON MY KNEES
[I know what you want to do
Let me play with you
You can look but you can't touch it
You must obey, you must submit
Bad boy, do as I say
I want you to crawl my way]

I'm lost in these echoing corridors
I'm caught in this maze
Searching out for someone to save me
So I don't rot in this place
Repeat / refresh
I hear the voice again

CHORUS
I'm down on my knees to pray
To give all my life away
I'm aware of my place
A punch in the face
Mistress I will do all that you say

I have no direction or ambition
And that's why I serve
All my life is a contradiction
I've been a slave since birth
Do this / do that
I hear the voice again
And I like it

CHORUS

[Such slender, so divine
Surrender, now you're mine]

CHORUS

Down On My Knees (featuring IT!)

Prolific musician, author, photographer and oddity.  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 - this is Marc Freak.  Former frontman of Freak Circus and Dead Joe.  An experiment in DIY and lofi.  The odd bum note here, the even odder bum note there.  But with art do we care?