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You, Me And All Of It (2020 version: remixed, remastered, resequenced)

by King Colossus

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1.
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've Got No Thanks To Give 04:13
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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 Like You This Way part 1 06:38
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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 Like You This Way part 2 01:54
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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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I Can't Understand What You Are Saying 06:19
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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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Never Let Me Go (September 14) 08:05
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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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I Wish I Was A Bird inspired by Basom Lamar Lunsford's I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground
Oh To Be Your King inspired by James Frazer's The Golden Bough
Terror On The High Seas from Proust's In Search Of Lost Time
I Like You This Way part 1, Ever Since I Lost You, I Like You This Way part 2 about a person whose partner is in a coma and discovers to their horror that that is how they prefer the relationship

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released March 3, 2016

2020 Remixed remastered version
All instruments and vocals and technical attempts by Seamus Kirkpatrick
Huge production thanks to Ben Stewart, Rob Maric and Luke Jaaniste
Special thanks to Dan Goodman and Alan Richardson
Photo by Rachael Weir
Also huge thanks to anyone who has had a kind or kindly critical word. Thankyou thankyou thankyou

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