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.​.​.​And Then The Light Went Out L​.​P

by James Andrews

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1.
In Oran 04:14
Don’t look back is easy to say Don’t be scared of being afraid In oran as the rats cremate Heaven locks its doors, just to keep itself safe And there’s the feeling that remains And yet there’s no one around to blame Don’t look forwards is easy to say Don’t be afraid of finding your way In oran as the news breaks Hell freezes over, it wanted to make a change And hope the feeling still remains The one you know protects your pain I am not ready to go Opposite my looking glass A cosmic window We are free We are free We are free We are free And still the feeling it remains And still the feeling it remains Until I go
2.
Ghostwriter 05:19
So here you are Suffer in silence No one in the room But a head full of people You don't know So I'll take you back to the beginning A missing link to absolutely nothing And I feel down Wouldn't you like to be Wouldn't you like to be Oh - the one who saved the world? There must be a key around here somewhere To open my mind to the future I hope there is With brand new eyes That see fit to compromise This age old mantra Just repeating yourself Wouldn't you like to be Wouldn't you like to be Oh - the one who saved the world? (The world, the world, the world, the world, the world) Oh - the one who saved the world Wouldn’t you believe in just about anyone? But how your sound is lost on everyone But I feel down Yeah I feel down
3.
Machiavelli drank dark wine alone By the moonlight With a bloodthirsty colony of bats The inner taskmaster Reveals pain And kills emotion Like some kind of stoic autocrat Bravo as the Buddha Learned to sit quietly In a room alone How the Arno stood still Like a Hockney swimming pool Hitler always felt some bridges Too important to burn I won’t live or die I’ll be only nothing I won’t live or die I’ll be only nothing Socratic navel gazing Through platonic love I’m the olive that falls from the tree Analyse this Albert Ellis I fear I’ve booked my place In the divine comedy Bloodcurdling misanthropy Was my old philosophy I’m taking back every word That I said Down past the house of the Medici In the corridor of the Uffizi The statues shake their heads I never knew I could upset the dead I won’t live or die I’ll be only nothing I won’t live or die I’ll be only nothing I will live and die I will be just something Just something Only something
4.
Et Tu Brute 03:19
Jacob knows this place we can go A place where no hatred can grow He said I would never lie And you would never lie Pure ideas traded, drinks that flow Like wet winter rivers sow A seed that doesn't die These ideas will never die Uncommon ground I find myself awake at night Hoping I've made enough impact in this place A voice will come And drill it in my skull That one day My time will surely come Strangers talk Like friends from birth I look over to Adam and slur That I would never die Like you sir will never die A mind capable of wondering A heart and soul as pure as sin No you would never lie No you I will never lie Uncommon ground I find myself awake at night Hoping I've made enough impact in this place A voice will come And drill it in my skull That one day Your time will surely come Hide the lies in the biography There were some things the world wasn’t meant to see The gods would have bless you my son If you were born in a different age But now it’s far too late Judas knows this place we can go A place where no evil can grow He said you my friend will never die So long as it’s just you and I
5.
Love Is On 04:15
Music has a funny way Of making you feel the same way That you did A long time ago Walking through the fields of snow Used to be an angry man Now I deal with problems the best way that I can Through some kind of spiritual goal So I can win the proverbial Three Points And I’m back Love is on if you want it to be (Ba da ba da da) Yeah, yeah Music has a funny way Of taking you back to the same place That you were a long time ago Now my mind is an endless slideshow All the memories popping I feel the horror rising again (I can’t go back, I can’t back, I can’t go back there) Love is on if you want it to be (Ba da ba da da) Yeah, yeah And I’m back And I’m back again Love is on if you want it to be
6.
Confetti dressed To celebrate your day It wasn't easy But I smiled anyway It's hard to walk around Trying not to catch a stranger's eye As the train pulls away After kissing a loved one goodbye And as the days merge together I won't be content With a clouded head And as the rain came down I kissed my life away I kissed my life away It wasn't like the place Where the vultures sing I forgot to memorise And as the ground caved in The water rose But don't, don't ask why Another bullet in the revolver I want so badly to remind her Of the times I felt nothing I was happy to walk Oh the bittersweet life tragedy Of thinking I know what I don't want So what am I left with now? I was happy to walk It wasn't like the place Where the dead they sing With fire falling from the sky And as the madman sings The water rose But don't, don't ask why It wasn't meant to be Don't ask why
7.
Open Oak 04:19
My friend told me You can’t hold onto sand It has its own agenda It’ll slip through your hand So hold onto what’s tangible Like the ones you love See how long that lasts for Before you all run out of trust So study your hand, correlate your lines With the things in your life In your life People are a mystery People are a lie They come round here But they won’t say why They move just as a fast As an airplane in flight Pray for a soft landing Or we’ll lose them from the radar tonight People always change But I am still the same Open oak Yes people always change It feels like a brand new day But It’ll always be that way They build up buildings They build foundations high Pillar huge structures To compete with the sky They move the green out And they bring in the grey Open oak People always change But I still feel the same Open oak
8.
Fire Escape 03:51
Don’t be a stranger now I know you have right to be I’ve gained sleep debt I guess I used to dream Oh, it’s the usual way To get you through the day Daydream of TV at home Alone, but alone Build my hopes Knock me down It won’t be long Before it’s gone But it’s not leaving me fast enough A happy accident Can take you where you want to go My soul doesn’t feel life-size I guess it still needs to grow A proposition I still need to define Like I don’t mean anything When I say these words of mine Build my hopes I knock myself down It won’t be long Until it’s gone It won’t be long A happy accident Can take me where I want to go I don’t feel quite right I guess I’m on my own
9.
Small little life Caught in the headlights You didn't see the car speeding through the night Brave born baby girl Welcome to this world I hope you're forever content Through white and black veils For all philosophy sold To conflicting worlds For half of what I would pay Connect with the dead Listen to what they've said And apply it to how you live from now Cold wind creeps Through the night time streets And back alley creeps They have no belief They say find your own fix A habit you must pick But don't tell anyone Moonlit exchange of wit Midnight whisky drip Oh kid you had us worried sick Make your peace to the night As you watch it getting light Stumble, and start again For the trouble foretold In a miserable world I am saying nothing new I am saying nothing new For the cold blooded heat That melts the tropical street The sun dried hanging meat Exchanged for harvest wheat See reflections of your soul In the market gold But don't tell anyone See calm crest of waves And the chaos in the bay As the village screams We've lost another man Look longing to the sky Ask your questions of why And know you're whole life is rhetorical Cobweb mist on the hills Murder by the mill The water forms a pool still On the freezing windowsill Keep your secrets close to you This rhetoric is your truth And don't tell anyone
10.
Hordes of wisdom The march of time Sysophian optimism Things are looking up Now they’re looking down As my mind works through the seasons Paradise exists But only in your heart One foot in the future And one trailing in the past But never am I here right now Life never happened and then the light went out Lady macbeth Liars and clowns Night of the long knives I’m so high And I can’t come down Die a little, to feel more alive But my minds a maze And I can’t get out But freedom coming my way Spring is alive Winter hasn’t won And at least I made it through today Paradise exists But only in your heart One foot in the future And one trailing in the past But never more will you hear the sounds A life well lived and then the light went out Freedom is coming our way
11.
Clarion Call 05:37
This is a clarion call This is a clarion call This is a clarion call This is a clarion call This is a clarion call This is a clarion call This is a clarion call This is a clarion call Nothing changes around here As far as I know Thunderstruck and crushing And it won’t be long No I’ll never go that low Love is on if you want it to be

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released April 24, 2021

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James Andrews London, UK

James Andrews is a London based songwriter and alt-rocker Having spent the best part of fifteen years focusing on a delicate and introverted approach to making music, he felt that for this record - it was time make a rock album. Merging tender introspective balladry with scratchy and crunchy guitars, the new album …And The Light Went Out is out now. ... more

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