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Dreaming In Unison

by Red Cosmos

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1.
Kindred 05:05
I am with you at your bedside Staring at you while you sleep Your face serene and unconsumed by pain I am waiting very patiently for you to be no more So we can be together once again There’s a name Buried deep within your mind Of a correlation vanished over time There’s a tale How you grew to laugh and shine With a bloodless elfin beauty that should be mine Is that movement At the corner of your eye? A hazy shadow dancing in the light You won’t appease my longing With a man lying by your side I need the love that you alone provide There’s a note And it hangs up in the air As you pluck and sing your pretty little song Can it be? A new harmony appears Why can’t you hear your sister sing along? Take a look at yourself You think you know what you’re doing All these friends you’re accruing Won’t be around when you fall Take a look at yourself You think you know what you’re doing All these friends you’re accruing Aren’t going to miss you at all There’s a name Buried deep within your mind Of a correlation vanished over time How can you Be so incomplete yet fine? To share with me a womb but not a life
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Funk Night 05:18
Clasp your hands together baby Supplicate and pray That which you fear is manifest today It finds you in the darkness And it breathes into your ear Whispering words that you don’t want to hear It crawls inside your mouth at night And wakes you with a start Its ugly hand is pressed against your heart It drags you screaming from your bed Repenting all your sins And with this knife it decorates your skin It follows you when you go out And forces you to run It chases you until its work is done And when you think you’re far away And pleasure might ensue Its loathsome figure clambers into view It takes you to the darkest place That dwells within your mind It finds your soul and sticks its tongue inside It magnifies those tiny doubts That linger in your head And when it’s done you wish that you were dead It takes your favourite melody And winds it round your brain And plays it to you over and over again It takes your favourite melody And winds it round your brain And forces you to scream out loud in pain
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Are your eyes a little bloodshot? Is your skin a shade too pale? Are you drinking more than usual? Is your temperature off the scale? Are your nerves all cut to pieces From a life lived on the edge? I can see what time you’re going to bed From my position in your hedge I went to see your doctor And she handed me this letter You’ve got to take me... three times a day Until you’re feeling better Morning, noon and night- time Just before you eat You’ve got to pop me… inside your mouth We’ll get you back on your feet As you labour down your driveway I can tell you’re far from right Is it hard to face the daytime When you’re getting up all night? Do your ankles give you hell From too much time spent on your feet? You need some more of my special cure I’m putting you on repeat Are your children giving you migraines With their never-ending din? Is your husband clinically depressing you With his idiotic grin? Are you getting slightly short of breath? Is your skin both moist and cool? You looked slightly anaemic At the local swimming pool When the sickness takes you And your elegance is blemished We may not have the chemistry, girl But I’ll still be your chemist When you’re feeling better And your beauty re-inforced Don’t throw away the bottle, baby You’ve got to complete the course Morning, noon and night-time You can take me without appointment Pop my pill or better still Use me as an ointment Run away Marry me Show some benediction Let the best man tell the tale Of how you got me on prescription
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Little Foxes 04:43
So lead us not into temptation You know you should have run run run back to your son What harm resides in a conversation? Well show me how our spirit stays strong When our flesh is one This is a chronicle Of a man who lost it all Was it possible That he shunned the sacred call? Was he prodigal? He didn’t comprehend at all The parable Of a vineyard and man’s fall
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Cityscape, concrete tower Snowy yard or dying flower The objects of your eye reveal The wonder you possess Burn your prayers on the floor Be my Muse forever more Singing in a city garden In your pretty dress It’s just to say that I’ve been thinking of you I get distracted by the things that you do I pray to God that you are thinking of me But I can’t see this ending happily It’s just the way that I’ve been thinking of you I get distracted by the things that you do I pray to God that you are thinking of me But I can’t see this ending happily Beauty is ephemeral But yours is nailed into my wall Oh Mother Mary help me find my Castle in the sky Flower child in silhouette Come and fly into my net So long as stars will shine so shall I Look you in the eye Stretched out by a window in the sunshine With your finger pointing to the sky Oh how I get a thrill from your double exposure Your subtle composition gets me high
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Father please forgive me For I strayed beyond your path Absolve me from this final act of love How did a life of jubilance and union sublime Begin with bells but terminate in blood? You found your life back right where it started You put your dreams back in the bag You saw a young man smile at a newborn child And put your head in your mother’s lap You didn’t know then how life would hurt you You couldn’t see what lay ahead You hadn’t met me. I hadn’t met you We should have kissed goodbye instead In my hour of happiness Doubt began to rise Aching thoughts my mind could not allay For how can such perfection be maintained in its true form? Before it all begins to slip away I saw the briefest wandering Of her eye the other day The slightest hint of musing undisclosed Oh Lord I cannot share her with another on this earth So take from me this bounty you bestowed
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Fan Club 04:24
I can’t believe that fate would so reward us To spend our lives together, just us two Oh blessed end to my infatuation A dream come true for me if not for you I dedicate this new intoxication To all the freaks and bachelors combined There’s nothing much that you can do It’s your turn baby to be blue It’s obvious that only fools are kind My angel how I love you from certain angles Your heart will always beat for me alone No longer will you turn away or tempt me from afar The order of the world is overthrown I hope that you are touched by my devotion Our lives are bound together I can tell How nice of you to stay so long And do you like my latest song? Blink once for yes and twice for yes as well Let’s celebrate this marriage of convenience Obliterate all traces of the past We’ll listen to my demos til the morning sun doth rise I’ve found my captive audience at last
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Meet single girls in my area You've got to meet single girls in my area
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I caressed your upper leg While you tried to boil an egg I paused by the nightwear store You started talking about the war I'm the carnal vindicator You said fine I'll see you later I'm the fleshly joy supporter You're imbibing tonic water I eyed up erotic ices You complained about the prices I call you my sexy baby You use words like Hmm and Maybe I'm the filthy binge inviter Looking for an overnighter I'm the wanton lust upholder You're the queen of the cold shoulder I eat mangos with my hand You prefer your peaches canned I serve food with saucy dressing You're engrossed in Doris Lessing I dressed smart like Cary Grant You went off to phone your Aunt I set the mood with some Barry White You turned round and said goodnight
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Of centrespread and hotel bed Our lives revolved around The teenage scream that fuelled my dream Oh far and distant sound Renown and adulation Are burning at the stake From VIP to OAP The path I’m loathe to take You can lead a horse to water But you can’t head back in time You might make gold from the songs of old But your soul will never be revived Put your money in a bad investment Put your faith in our ageing bones We’ll be showing off our post-punk mindset In the grounds of a stately home To leave a corpse so young and fair Your legacy assured A weakness for indulgence Couldn’t put me to the sword My star that evanescent was Cannot you rise once more Euphoria forsook me Back in 1984 We’re despoiling our seminal album As we sink to new depths of bland There’s a gurgling sound where our craftship drowned We’re more lousy than our tribute band It’s the actual original line-up Apart from the bass and drums We’ve got the words on a sheet lying next to our feet With a font size of 81 So unplug the jukebox That music’s lost its taste But how can we refuse you When your love is so misplaced Authentic and delightful Are those new bands that you shun Let’s wallow in nostalgia And fill my pension fund There’s a bad bout of retrospection There’s a melody causing pain You should be looking at time For a three chord crime And abuse down memory lane Watch the songs of your youth get murdered In a parody worse than death Hear an 8-minute bass funk workout While the singer’s getting back his breath Bring a foldable picnic blanket And a bored-looking grandchild too Put your hands in the air from your striped deckchair As if there’s nothing better to do There’s a tear in the space-time continuum Where the bands of old crawl through The monsters of Pop refuse to drop And they’re coming to a town near you
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You can fire your choicest smile in my direction You can try and catch my eye across the street You can hope to re-establish a connection You can grumble that your life is incomplete You can run You can cry You can shout into the sky You can squeeze a year of hurt into a day You can try saying hello Visit places where I go There’s a price that you will always have to pay You can hire the Philharmonic to serenade me You can write my name in smoke across the sky You can plant a thousand roses in my garden I will always look straight through you til I die You can wave from afar You can flicker like a star But you’ll never see the world as it must be You can search for the past For something that couldn’t last There will never be a path from you to me You can sit in the congregation You can wonder if the Lord is on your side You can think back to that conversation When our friendship finally petered out and died You can fill your life with other peoples' wisdom You can flaunt your stolen poems every day I will blow it all apart, this appropriated art You’re an empty soul with nothing much to say With her baby She's a baby On her hands and knees Trying to be a mother So she can have another I've got to leave

about

Dreaming In Unison is Red Cosmos’ second album.

These 12 songs give a voice to fantasists, freaks, dead twins, popstars past their sell-by-date, the deluded, the bereft and the downright horny.

credits

released May 26, 2015

All songs written and recorded by Kim Tortoise.

Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange.

Contact: kimtortoise@hotmail.com


WHAT THEY'VE BEEN SAYING ABOUT RED COSMOS:

Friends and family:

“I haven’t listened to it yet.”
“I look forward to hearing it when it’s mixed properly”
“Sounds like A Flock Of Seagulls.”
“…loses its sense of direction, leaving the listener floundering in a formless morass of sounds.”

Blogs:

- wildly schizophrenic
- essentially a comedy single about balls
- extremely catchy hook which was deeply stupid
- His voice is strange, adenoidal and flat
- It’s mental and left me speechless
- He can write lyrics but he can’t really sing.
- a truly awful and irredeemably bad piece of music
- inadvisable sampler action the likes of which you haven’t heard since 1982.
- …but then he starts singing the chorus in such a ghastly contrived style that I am forced to throw my headphones across the room and slap my own ears.
- the album seems to go on and on and on
- long periods of monotonous electronica
- strange peripheral noises that don’t seem to be part of the song
- impenetrable and not particularly user friendly
- this isn't helped by vocals that have a default setting of bored and flat
- a heck of a lot of truly average music
- Red Cosmos is just about worth persevering with.

Radio:

- Possibly one of the daftest tunes I’ve ever played
- It’s weird music that I mostly hate

LastFM:

-Dunno whether to get up and dance or headbut my comp..
- I'm confused, but not in a bad way

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"Red Cosmos might be the kind of band to drown fish just for the perverse pleasure of seeing if they can."

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