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When I was first acquainted
With your golden hand
I felt a warmth inside
And a devilish plan

It boosted my ego
To demand what you touched
And watch it turn golden
Well it meant ever so much

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Your golden hand, magic hand
That golden touch, I had a hunch
That if all went to plan
Well I would be a wealthy man
And if all you hold turns to gold
Grasp it tight, tuen sparkly bright
Hell I've said enough
Cuz darling I tell you I'm in love

I once heard a story
Where powers like yours
Seemed fine and dandy
'Til the trouble they caused

I wish I could hold you
I'd love that so much
But only to thank you
For the magic in your touch

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Golden Hand

I'm the remaining gent
Maybe I'm heaven sent
I think my time is spent
My cheeks are glowing
To disappear in smoke
And watch onlookers choke
It's quite beyond a joke
It'll make a poem

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Into the fires of hell
Well its fires of some sort
The flesh makes a burning smell
The last thought that's thought
Into the fire
I can't retaliate whilst I evaporate
And my ashes take to the air

I got my just rewards
For all my suspects thoughts
Like many Damocles swords
Forever dangling
Each one doth cut real deep
And send to ever sleep
You shouldn't dare to peep
Oh body mangling

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A blackened broken tombstone
Of no-one very much known
Despite this lengthy tome
What's to remember?
I thought I left my mark
But it has all gone dark
Reality so stark
I throw my temper

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Ashes

Ok so before anyone thinks I'm 'actually' a narcissist, this is a really tongue in cheek about all of us composers that write lots and no-one listens, but secretly hopes that someday people will :p 

FAMOUS ONCE I'M DEAD
Its a tonic to be writing this song
I knew all along that I'm teetering (on the edge)
So moronic that it all came out wrong
There's no golden gong whilst I'm living
Hold the front page
In my obituary people will see I had something
I'm holding back rage
Because it is only me that knows what I could be and I'm suffering

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(What's left?) So don't listen to a word I've said
(What's right?) I'm a genius in my own head
(Turn left) So don't listen to a word I've said
(I'm right / hold tight)
Like a book not yet read, I'll be famous once I'm dead
(What's left?) So don't listen to a word I've said
(What's right) I can't bother to get out of bed
(Turn left) So don't listen to a word I've said
Like Van Gogh's mutilated head I'll be famous once I'm dead

Clap!
Oh you may well have guessed that I'm self confessed high acumen
Don't turn the tap as my ego exists
I'm just a narcissist again and again
There's a truth I have too many songs
That I knew all along but couldn't stop it
Oh the youth of today have it wrong
So just please sing along to the catchy bit!

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Famous Once I’m Dead

Some people deserve it and others they seek it
And actively cheat it because life's a game
I'm strangely abnormal informally formal
By gods you're adorable yet slightly insane

Like a two for one meal deal I love you you make me feel
And positively surreal the flavour won't last
Cheese mixed with bacon the taste you are faking
The dead are awakin' the souls of our past

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Faded jaded you kinda nearly made it
You kinda were cremated when you went up in smoke
Hated berated die on the bed you made
It it is not understated that you were beyond a joke

You know when you daydream and hear out your teen theme
The fans are all beaming I curtsy than I bow
From sub to domination its an observation
Just like a crustacean I hide in my shell

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Some people deserve it and others they seek it
And actively cheat it because life's a game
I'm strangely abnormal informally formal
By gods you're adorable yet slightly insane

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Made It

Roll up roll up for such obscenity
I know I'm growing old ungraciously
The walls are padded so I pogo wild
Just see the beauty that I have defiled

I counted years but then I lost my count
Its hard to concentrate can I dismount?
My legs are aching when they feel the cold
I've never really done what I've been told
So I'm not old

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Close your eyes there is nothing really left here to see
I promise that I am growing old ungraciously
Pass the tonic I've delusions of grandeur
Hello hello there is still a punk that's standing here

A wrinkled mess but still a lager lout
Who wants to see an old guy with his cock out?
That was no statement but a kind offer
Did I just say that, because its all a blur

Roll up roll up for such obscenity
I know I'm growing old ungraciously
The soon extinct vomiting wild child
I can just stand whilst I have my hair styled
I'm riled

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Growing Old Ungraciously

I can use any name that I want to
I can drink anything and its fun to
I've got hell of a mess left to undo

All the hypocrites have already spoken
I've no idea what they've been smoking
But its a blazing fire that they're stoking

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Look at the camera and say cheese
All the negative eruptions
Dribble sap and then hide in the trees
All the negative eruptions
And the negatives rub off on me
All the fake praise and fake sympathy
Hold your head up high and freeze
All the negative eruptions

So the horse has already bolted
I've a book of my faults that I've noted
Its a nugget of shit that's been coated

I can use any name that I want to
I've got hell of a mess left to undo
I can drink if I want to

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Negative Eruptions

I jot essentials down - I couldn't miss it
I think you want me ungowned - your text's implicit
I may have simplified and truly pissed it
Do not forget I can be totally explicit

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I Will love you 'till I'm famous
And I will love you 'till your beauty fades
Cuz love forever is just dangerous
Its bitter and contagious

Are you listening now? I hear a dialling tone
I've wasted many hours fondling a spurned bone
Try again tomorrow and my number will be unknown
I really cant be bothered to even class you friend-zoned

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Touch me here, touch me there, I felt a tingle
But don't touch for too long I very rarely mingle
I like the accent but don't understand the lingo
Lets just get on with it, I'm happy staying single

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I Will Love You Till I’m Famous

Be a shining example of
Ways that question the point of love
Why should I have to follow code
When others collapse on this broken road
Wave in pointy finger mode (again)

Cancel the party and party hats
Pray for a sudden purge of the brats
Ignore what the papers are telling you
I can see the output and know I'm through

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Perplexing questioning is a regular thing
Count the lemmings on the ledge
Perplexing questioning is a regular thing
Stereotypes look funny falling from same heights

Thank you for the luminous underwear
Be afraid that the neighbours might look and stare
Curse that you don't have the style yourself
Bless the lord for your ever expanding wealth
But that won't guarantee health (oh no!)

Part the crowd and start to disperse the throng
I know that I've not done anything wrong
Take part - I'm occasionally visionary
Listen as I mumble hysterically

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Stereotypes Look Funny Falling From Same Heights

Misread eyes, misread signs
Regurgitated happenings from bad to the sublime
Static stare, fools beware
I've finished searching something that was never really there

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I don't have time for this commotion
Puppy dogs and fluffy things
Designed to mess with me and my emotions

Clapped out heart, bombs aloud
I think that I'm exploding with my head up in the cloud
Dodge the trash, thoughts are rash
I don't have time for silly games excuse me whilst I dash

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"Got" at last, read and weep
Commotion is commodity and violence is just cheap
Claim the prize, take the rise
My ever growing ego is transcending to the skies

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Commotion is commodity and violence is just cheap

Puppy Dogs And Fluffy Things

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

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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

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Tickled Pink

Cover up?  I've nothing to be ashamed of
I'm growing up - I guess I am, well kind of
What you see is what you have forgotten
Enjoy the sight because I'm starting to go rotten

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She saw me and I'm not fazed
We capsized in the old days

Poisoned chalice, but the venoms deep in your blood
Are you thinking?  I thought I heard a loud thud
Sink or swim, won't you please pass me the armbands
Picture me naked waving at my true fans

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I’m Not Fazed

Negative thoughts from the dull and inept
Delicate flower all windswept
I'll put my foot down as enough is enough
I'm gambling for a little bit of rough

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I'm smiling hard under a face of stone
Can't knock being alone
I'm drowning in the rain of money I've blown
Alone alone alone

I sketched my life on the back of a fag packet
I looked so cool in my leather jacket
Pass the ouzo, let me pass the time
Every single second of which is mine

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I took a picture on my mobile phone
I quote, I can't knock being alone
Now I'm skipping to my grave stone
Alone alone alone 

My hand can't reach to my itchy crutch
I think again I forgot lunch
What do you fancy doing tomorrow dear?
Oh wait I'm the only one here

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Being Alone

I'm clairvoyant knowing where you've been and you're not annoyed
I'm always itchy and I'm under your skin like a haemorrhoid
But I'm overjoyed

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However hard I'm trying not to break it
I've had a history of being a half-wit 
If I hold on tight I hope you won't split from me

I read your letters and I read your mind.  Its audible
I'm digging deep to see what I may find and I'm gullible
But I'm still loveable

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I’m Clairvoyant

"What an image of future want and need" I mutter in my glass
Watching the people come and go I feel the bottle sure won't last
Everything looks so fine when soaked in wine, I'm soaking up the spite
If I could ask you out... well I thought about it and I think I might

Stylised people watching
Faintly erotic touching

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Captured in a video
Now I can't get rid of you
Not that I would want to
I'm really besotted by you
All the people come and go
Only half of which I know
Perhaps I've been here for too long
Maybe that's where I went wrong?

If I could design the perfect woman I would surely design you
All the best bits of all the passers by I videoed (and drooled)
I've possibly built you up to be someone that does not truly exist
But anyway its been fun watching and drinking until I got pissed

Stylised people watching
Faintly erotic touching

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Stylised People Watching

Wipe away the solitary tear and just embrace the truth
The rampant tears of the narcissist who dictates the whole group
Then realises all the flaws that humans all enjoy
Whilst spitting on the homeless now that they are unemployed

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There's no laughter
Did you have to drown the clown?
You didn't have to
He was just fooling around and round the people go
To find someone to blame
A few embarrassing moments and some discredited fame
He wasn't funny anyway you should have just sent him away
"Thanks for coming over, but not today"

Did I hear a chuckle or a moment of pure fun
There are a growing handful with no time for anyone
Which one is the master and which one is the clown?
All the people pass and wave if you are going down

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Drown The Clown

Mind abuse
I have tried to break your world in two
But what's the use?
You've already made me look a fool

Class reject
I just hoped things would improve in time
Course neglect
This is nobody's fault but mine

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Gained a death warrant
Gained a smear on the bedpost
Gained a death warrant
But I warrant I've seen the least and not the most

Spank the slave
I've been building up to this for years
Soul to save
Though I do not have any super powers

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The Least And Not The Most

Hanging out in occasional bars
And I'm not looking too far I believe
Pass the jar oh I'll think I'll go far
Drink it up in an hour or three
Maybe I'm thirsty or just searching light relief
Hahaha!  Its a fun seminar
Of the new drunken class with no teeth

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People have no time
People are fading into the past
People have no time for me

Must be time to be hitting the floor
Don't remember at all, where's my coat?
Mind the sick from that withered old chick
Who taught me a cool trick of some note
Maybe I'm thirsty or just searching light relief
I want more, I have been here before
I've got nothing at all underneath

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Hanging out in occasional bars
And I'm not looking too far I believe
Pass the jar oh I'll think I'll go far
Drink it up in an hour or three
Maybe I'm thirsty or just searching light relief
Hahaha!  Its a fun seminar
Of the new drunken class with no teeth

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Occasional Bars

Check out my smile and smell the posies
And take the front seats
Now get ready to applaud

You truly are looking fantastic
Slightly plastic
Lets just say it, I'm a fraud

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You realised I'm ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-charming
Now you're paralysed by my ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-charming

Every cloud has a silver lining
Mine needs refining
But I'll dance on anyway

Please take my hand for quite a journey
Got to get up early
But thanks again for the fun play

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Charming

Chapter Seven of a concept album about a rock band performing their first celebrated gig whilst the world comes to an end.

Ch 07 - Only in my Wildest Dreams - Just as hope is lost, a figure of beauty appears.  A true love is born.

ONLY IN MY WILDEST DREAMS
At a time when I'd given up and trashed any hope
I saw an angel shining vibrant through the dust and the smoke
Its no joke

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I'm jumping - my heart started pumping - this truly is something
Only in my wildest dream
She's running towards me - My legs have gone wobbly
Only in my wildest dream
The smile when the eyes meet - A beauty so complete
Only in my wildest dream

She ignores all my faults, disregards how I look
Since the world went and ended I've been down on my luck
What a schmuck

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I'll endeavour to keep her forever - till death or whatever
Only in my wildest dream
I can sense I'm  new man - to be her true champion
Only in my wildest dream
Let's dance through pollution - we're new evolution
Only in my wildest dream

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Only In My Wildest Dreams

Chapter Ten of a concept album about a rock band performing their first celebrated gig whilst the world comes to an end.

Ch 10 - Looking out over you all - They hung him up on the cross, another hero raised from nothing and swiftly destroyed

LOOKING OUT OVER YOU ALL
I've really got nothing left to say
All I had is taken away
Nail me up, remind you that I'm there
More fitting than the quick electric chair
The beauty of the rise to the downfall
But I'm still looking out over you all

I will return come what may
As life it drifts slowly away
Build me up then slowly cast me out
That's really what this life is all about
The beauty of the rise to the downfall
But I'm still looking out over you all

You can't kill my legacy or steal my love
I'll contemplate her beauty from above
The cruelty of the rise to the downfall
But I'm still looking out over you all

Looking Out Over You All

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?