ELECTRICITY (I REMEMBER LOVE)
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Electricity (I remember love)
I remember love
I remember love
The electric thrill
Kisses like silk
My memories quilted with places and names
My chest in chains my soul detained
By the smile in your eyes
I remember love
I remember love
That moment of recognition
Searing cognition
A vague suspicion that becomes addition
Down on one knee I hand you all the
Ammunition to harm me but I’m
Not afraid
I remember love
I remember love
A tiny spark in a garden of
Grey black hearts that begs
For the tiniest flesh touch
Of bare bear skin that catches
Rough and hairy your body
Is a vast country earth I
Want to blunder a plain I
Want to wander for a thousand
Years
I remember love
I remember love
I remember it all and somehow
I remember you
Look At All The Stuff I Got
Look At All The Stuff I Got
I can exert control
over a globe spoiled
rotten with polling
And dirty with oil
I got believers
who’ll turn out in millions
leaders and pleaders and preachers and billions
of mouth breathing schemers trickle down deceivers
turn coat bank note straw man punching
arseholes
good friends
business partners
partners in mergers and supreme court perjurers and lithesome fulsome arse kissing burghers
Look at all the stuff I’ve got
i’m a very rich man
I can use words
all simple and brutal
it’s futile to bicker
to wicker and snipe I
delight in the fight in the snarl in the bite
and I just love to knife stab and splutter
with dough hands ungainly but mainly
ornately to carve in a stately but
measured but mannered
And stellately answered
by name
cause I am a star
and I burn
and I burn
and I burn
it’s too late to say sorry
I burn
it’s too late to entreat
cause I burn
not too late to predate to prostrate to cremate
but too late to migrate
cause I burn
Look at all the stuff I’ve got
i’m a very rich man
but i’m not perfect
I can be a little spiteful
prideful fratricidal
and there’s no one who’d call me
delightful but there’s lots who will if I ask
Look at all the stuff I’ve got
i’m a very rich man
Seamus Kirkpatrick is a Brisbane-based writer, singer and multi instrumentalist. He mixes songs and poems of loss and grief with moody pop, cinematic textures and noisy, soul guitar.
It’s an immersive, abrasive, ambient and affective combination of electronics, voice and visuals. He is a previous member of beloved Brisbane funk/punk band Taxi, as well as folk groups Cole, Kirkpatrick and Van Dijk and One Straw, jazz trio The Charlie Moreland Trio and The Shenzo Electric Stunt Orchestra. He currently performs with Luke Jaaniste in his HHAARRPP.collective, Nick Watson And The Bawdy Dicks, Fronz Arp and is a regular collaborator with writer, artist and film maker Jake Connor Moss.
For more on King Colossus see https://kingcolossus.bandcamp.com/
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