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In Oran
04:14
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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
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2. |
Ghostwriter
05:19
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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
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3. |
My Renaissance
07:33
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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
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4. |
Et Tu Brute
03:19
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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
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5. |
Love Is On
04:15
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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
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6. |
Don't Ask Why
05:52
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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
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7. |
Open Oak
04:19
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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
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8. |
Fire Escape
03:51
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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
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9. |
Small Little Life
04:27
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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
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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
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11. |
Clarion Call
05:37
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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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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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