James - Hush

Was surprised you showed up to my wake
Guess you wanted proof I’d made it through the gates
Hush a body in the lake takes more weight
I’m not looking for revenge,
I love this place

Time to cultivate patience
It’s not too late
I will, I will, I will wait

Fall in love with creation
Interlaced
I will, I will, I will wait
I’m aligned at the best of times
In death I have true faith
I will wait. I will wait. I will wait.

As above not so below
Love instead
What I would moan
Moan

Time to cultivate patience it’s not too late
I will, I will, I will wait
Fall in love with creation
Interlaced
I will, I will, I will wait
I’m aligned at the best of times
In death I have true faith
I will wait. I will wait. I will wait.

My humming in your sleep keeps you awake
Try writing off this friend that you can’t shake

James - Getting Myself Into

What could go wrong
Was the last song played on deck
She's there and she's gone
I'm already half-past wrecked

If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn't have dared
If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn't have fled

The love of your life
Or a trophy wife
Cinderella at midnight
All I got is a shoe

If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn't have dared
If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn't have fled

Thought I gave it up for Lent
Burning all my bridges down
Sailors dreamed of home
Husband's the open road
Some unwritten law
Keeps me burning all my bridges down
Mermaids on the rocks

If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn't have dared
If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn't have fled

Bury Jack
Bury Jack's magic beans
Magic beans
Pray for me
Pray for me
Bury Jack
Bury Jack's magic beans
Magic beans
Pray for me
Pray for me

Pray for me
(Pray for me)
Pray for me
(Pray for me)

Blackhole swallows a neutron star
Back at the bar it's half-past midlife
Blue shift giving birth to a star
I'm half gas supernova

If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn't have dared
If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn't have fled

If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn't have dared
If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn't have fled

I wouldn't have

James - Beautiful Beaches

Better wake up my love, get up
It's time
Time to get out of Dodge

That case won't fit the car
Racing, we're racing down to those beautiful beaches
Put your foot down to the floor
Racing, we're racing down to those beautiful beaches

We'll take our chances
Take our chances
Burning down the houses
We're surrounded
Take our chances
Get out of Kansas
Escape
Time to escape
Time to escape

It's coming over the ridge past canyon trail
Smoke in the air
Woke me up in the night

That life we left behind
Racing, we're racing down to those beautiful beaches
Put your foot down to the floor
Racing, we're racing down to those beautiful beaches

We'll take our chances
Take our chances
Burning down the houses
We're surrounded
Take our chances
Get out of Kansas
Escape
Time to escape
Time to escape

Take our chances
Take our chances
Burning down the houses
We're surrounded
Take our chances
Get out of Kansas
Escape
Time to escape
Time to escape

James - Wherever It Takes Us

She's weaving from car to car
Checking the doors
Leaving, leaving bloody handprints on the paintwork
All locked shut
Drops to her knees gasping
Wheezing, can't breathe
The gas mask's leaking, acrid smoke
Her pain, her, her, her slip's on fire
She flaps at it
Swung ringed wrists flap-flapping
Beat the embers out

From her crouch she tries another handle
An old Pontiac
Unlocked, she scrambles in
Slams the door shut, ducks down
Peace

We're all in wherever it takes us
We're all in, it breaks and it shapes us
We're all in wherever it takes us
Let's ride

She strips off her slip
Blotted heavy with blood
Tosses it on the pink leather backseat
Smoke coils out of a zig-zag cut on her palm
She sucks on it, metallic taste
Underneath, a jagged flap of skin
Wisps of DNA unwind
Uncoiling, dissipate, float away
"An upgrade," she laughs
Words pour out of her mouth, bubblegum
Like, like, like, hieroglyphs
Bioluminescent opaque shapes
Fill up the Pontiac
And here it is, here it is

We're all in wherever it takes us
We're all in, it breaks and it shakes us
We're all in wherever it takes us
Let's ride

She's in the multiverse
Connected lives overlapping like a
Like a hall of mirrors
Lives lived and shared, lived and shared
Affecting her now
Gig-gigabytes of history like a
Like a, like a map
Ancient cultures where men sit around the fire singing
Whilst the women keep bringing the children in
She strips off her skin suit
It puddles at her feet like worm cast
Every cell illuminates and expands
Spools upwards, melting
Dissolving into, into cold light
She dives in
Illumination
And here it is, here is is

We're all in wherever it takes us
(She's made of stars)
We're all in, it breaks and it shapes us
We're all in wherever it takes us
Let's ride

We're all in wherever it takes us
We're all in, it breaks and it shapes us
We're all in wherever it takes us
Let's