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I am a Living God

from Spaceship Toga Party by The Songs of Tom Smith

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Caesar in death was deified
What’s the point of being honoured when you’re not alive
Carve my head sufficient times
Replace every head of a god with mine
Castor and Pollux’s temple is annexed
They are now doormen of my palace
I set up my priesthood in Jupiter’s temple
As the king of the gods with a statue of myself

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I am the Emperor and I declare
I’m the first living god
I won’t wait til I’m dead
I/am a living god

My sister nursed me back from death
Then died of the fever I had spread
Smiling’s banned as I mourn
The Temple of Venus for her adorned
Disguised myself as a beggar and roamed
Got arrested after sitting through some show
For the love of my sister I am mocked
I will declare myself a god

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An Emperor they said I would never make
More chance of riding my horse across the bay
I lined up every last grain barge
Then rode across with the Praetorian Guard
In a purple cloak like Alexander the Great
Dressed up in jewels and his breast plate
Thousands of torches lit across the bay
Turned water into land and night into day

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from Spaceship Toga Party, released November 26, 2022

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The Songs of Tom Smith is a recording and performance project created by Tom in 2012. It has a large pool of musicians across Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

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