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I Wish I Was A Bird
04:01
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I wish I was a bird in the sky
i'd fly fly fly never come down
I wish I was a wave in your eye
i'd sigh sigh sigh til I was drowned
I wish I was a flame in your heart
I wish that I could tear you all apart
curling and licking and burning like a star
all that you had
was all that you gave
but in every single way
you fell down
even when the windows
were turned to face the lake
every single voice
screamed turn down!
if I didn't love you best then
you're bound
to rest your face on the windowed lake
til i'm drowned
you can be a bird in the sky
and fly, fly, fly and never come down
and you can be the stone in my eye
i'll cry, cry, cry til my heart is ground
and once I was the flame in your heart
that drove away the horror and the dark
hold to that hearth it will blaze
and bring you home
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Oh To Be Your King
05:13
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Oh to be your King
Bound in ritual and desire
I'd like that more than anything
More than love and more than either
A realised life and more than gold
I want to feed upon your shame
And if I cannot make the rain come down again
You can be the one who lights the flame
And my faith lives on
From the branch where the water sprung
As it pours and tumbles
The fear will wash away be
Gone
Everyone will pray
Crown me and bind me
Bleed me and drive me
Take what's good inside me
Away
Oh to be your King
Bound in ritual and blood
Know that from faith is power born
And as below then so above
Wrap me in your thorns
Roll me down the mission stairs
Let me lie there in your arms
Now I know trust is worthless
Have my heart
And send me away
Crown me and bind me
Bleed me and drive me
Take what's good inside me
Away
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I am the apex of our history
White and tall and strong
Manifestation of divinity
Evolution run too long
But a prisoner bound in pastel
By your needling and your wants
Harassed in my home and pilloried
Assaulted on all fronts
I surrendered my divinity
And I shouldn't have for you
It was a lie to try to walk that line
Now I'm tired and I'm through
I have no thanks to give
I have no thanks to give
I have no thanks to give
I have no thanks to give
Look upon my kingdom
Look upon my life
An illusion of comfort, peace and taste
Pasted over a fault of strife
And when I walk away from it
I will not walk with you
We are all alone, we are unthroned
And darlings, we are all through
I've got no thanks to give
I've got no thanks to give
I've got no thanks to give
I've got no thanks to give
I've got no thanks to give
I've got no thanks to give
I've got no thanks to give
No thanks to give to you
I am the king of the mountains
I am Emperor of all the seas
I am the eagle of the western winds
There's no one big as me
I am the king of the mountains
The Emperor of all the seas
I am the eagle of the western winds
There's no one big as me
I've got no thanks to give
I've got no thanks to give
I've got no thanks to give
I've got no thanks to give
And you do not deserve me
And you do not deserve me
And you do not deserve me
And you do not deserve me
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Terror On The High Seas
05:24
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I said I weren't afraid
That nothing scares me
In my head
The pipe's my serenade
A siren song that draws me
To my bed
Like a zephyr static
Statuesque I am
Ignitable
Groaning wood is
Like a mother's breast
Unmoored we're rolling
And we heave
And we foam
And we grieve
For our homes
The young boy's screaming now
Calls and roars who's candle lit
And spread?
Water water every how
Burning hot from stern to bow
Are we dead?
Like a zephyr static
Statuesque I can
Explode
Blurred and lost ecstatic
Sun lit glow
Smile like a rogue
And they shriek
And they moan
So happy
Far from home
I'm lost inside the fire
I'm lost inside the fire
I'm lost inside the fire
I'm lost inside the fire
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I can't resist you this way
helpless and static
underneath
blue linen fabric
where you sleep
each time I touch you I ache
watch your chest rise
watch it fall
stare at the blank patch
on the wall
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
pale nurses come
and glance and go
don't know my kind face
is a sham
i'm relieved there's not much
you demand
but for to me sit here
and dissipate my days
shutting out the moaning
and the calls
staring at the blank patch
on the wall
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
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Ever Since I Lost You
07:33
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Ever since I lost you
I found myself
Ever since I lost you
I found myself
Ever since I lost you
I found myself
Ever since I lost you
I found myself
Ever since I lost you
I found myself
Ever since I lost you
I found myself
Ever since I lost you
I found myself
Ever since I lost you
I found myself
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I can't resist you this way
you loom like mountain on a lake
inches you give and
I can take
each time you look at me I die
feeling like my chest will erupt
terrible craving in my guts
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
I like you this way
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My head is choked
With noise and sensations
Sometimes I don't
I don't know what is real
What I need from you now
Is simplification
Sometimes it's all
I can do to feel
But I can't let you touch me
I can't let you touch me again
Again
I see your lips move
But you are a world away
I can't understand
What you're saying
Fingers stretched out
But I am afraid of this
My faith in this world
Is rapidly fading
I don't want you to touch me
I'm scared that all you are, is pretend
Pretend
Please don't try to touch me
Though I need it so much my friend
My friend
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Spin me like a tiny little thread
Bind me to your world with your woven thread
Tie me tightly to your soul
And never let me go
Never let me go
Turn me upside down inside my head
Squeeze me cruelly until I'm pale and bled
Chew me like a crust of bread
And never let me go
Never let me go
Never let me go
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