James - Shine

Shot myself, ricochet
Crisis as an opportunity
Curtain call to loud applause
As you fall upon your sword

Wake up in a stranger's bed
Hangover and then some
Can't remember what was said
What's her name or what we've done
Wake up in a stranger's head
This one stresses income
On the rich list, born and bred
Blames attached to every sum

Shot myself, ricochet
Crisis as an opportunity
Loud applause
Revealing the conceal
Loser
Shot myself, ricochet
Crisis as an opportunity
Curtain falls to loud applause
The tattoo says it all
Hope and glory
Here's to hope and glory

Where is the peace and the whole
In a half-life?
I can't control my saboteur
Call it my nature
Name it addiction
Kiss on the lips will soon turn sour
Innocence lost in the grip of a hand job
After the surge of ecstasy
I'm walking out the door
Hope and glory

Sh sh sh shine like a ghost
Sh sh sh shine to be loved the most
When you're gone your songs outlive your story
Sh sh sh shine like a ghost
Sh sh sh shine to be loved the most
When you're gone your songs outlive your story
Let it shine
Let it shine
When you're gone your songs outlive your story

James - Protect Me

Oh dear what can the matter be
Princess, dreaming again
Fearful, live life more easily
Darkness, leave her in peace

Always wanting help
Will make you weak
No such place has help
But in your dreams
Climb out of your well

Protect me
Protect me

Angel, what is possessing me
Feeling, making me weak
Falling under your spell again
Wanting, love's out of reach

Climb out of your well
It's not so deep
The price of living life
Is not so steep
No such place has help

Protect me
Protect me

Here they come again, here they come again, here they come again

Always wanting help
Will make you weak
The price of loving life
Does not come cheap
Climb out of your well

Protect me
Protect me

James - Just Like Fred Astaire

Doctor what is happening to me?
Palpitations, my mind is diseased
Even my vision is impaired
I'm losing my hair
'Cause when I hold her in my arms, I feel like Fred Astaire

Lovesick, my temperature's high
Just met a girl who believes we can fly
I'm a bull, not a bear
I'm a millionaire
'Cause when I hold her in my arms, I feel like Fred Astaire

I believe in happiness. I believe in love
I believe she fell to earth from somewhere high above
I believe in Hollywood, don't believe that love must bring despair
'Cause when I hold her in my arms, I feel like Fred Astaire

He said love is just a disease
A plague for the naive
These days no one believes

Meteors may strike the earth, nations live and die
I'm the boy who got the girl and now we're gonna fly
We can cross the race divide, bridge a gap that wasn't really there
'Cause when I hold her in my arms, I feel like Fred Astaire
I'm gonna hold her in my arms just like Fred Astaire
I'm gonna hold her in this charm like Fred Astaire

James - Is This Love

Is this love we just weaponised
Can our love outrun these times
Is this love you just semaphored
You advanced, now you withdraw
What is it good for
What is it good for
I am done with the chase butterfly

Can you love like the wind
Wild and free
Can you love more than one equally
Is love shaped by a screen
Films that you’ve seen

Peace of mind
Peace of mind
Peace of mind

Are you scared of alone or dreaming escape
Who signs up for this pain - why do we stay?
We will get past the hurt to the parade

Peace of mind
Peace of mind
Peace of mind

Is this love or a brick through glass
How long will this heat last
What is it good for
What is it good for
Sweet relief from a world in free fall

Peace of mind
Peace of mind
Peace of mind

Is this love…

James - Stay

Crow
Eats putty from a window pane
Shards of glass
Don't break your fate
Go
Past your threshold of pain
All of our help
You waived away

Flew into the stars
Made of blades
They spun you out
Cut your face

Lovers of God, be grateful
Love what we've got
Life's a struggle of love
Grit, pearl, oyster
Lovers of God, be grateful
Love what we've got
Life's a struggle to love
Grit, pearl, oyster

Stay
Stay
Stay
Stay
Stay

Don't go
Don't let this stain
Dictate tomorrow
Write your refrain
You supposed
That this place was fair
Equal in share
By people that cared

Darling
We're all made of matter
Our bodies will shatter
Unravel under gravity's weight

Lovers of God, be grateful
Love what we've got
Life's a struggle of love
Grit, pearl, oyster

Stay
Stay
Stay
Stay
Stay

James - Rogue

Oh no
Oh no I got old
I need a drink to spill my blackest ink
Still think that I am chasing thirty-one
Beauty privileges wasted on the young
My friends, the leavings have begun
I've paid my dues to Caesar
Pray to be spared from Shiva

I've been a whore, a samurai, a guru
Burnt as a witch, worked for the church, a cockatoo
Think I'd be wise from all these lives
But maths won't help ya, maths won't help ya
I've been a monk, an alien, a Habiru
I've been a punk, a saint, a fool, a Vishnu
I've been killer and now I'm a singer
Having a breakthrough I'm about to go rogue
On a roll
On a roll

I've taken off my clothes
I'm lying here, I'm feeling so exposed
My body won't do tricks and flips with grace
My body won't behave
Try bulking up, I'm losing too much weight
My face, my face, my face is full of fouls
I'm still mesmerized by cleavage
I woun't come to Jesus

Lovers of life burn bright, super nova
If your judging is hard come back when you older
Find you a song and sing from your bones
Dance 'til you drop, forget you're being watched

Dance into your trauma there's a key to each lock
From the belly of a whale, out stepped Jonan
All I know, know nothing is for certain
My curse was a blessing, the cure was the poison

I've been a whore, a samurai, a guru
Burnt as a witch, worked for the church, a cockatoo
Think I'd be wise from all these lives
But maths won't help ya, maths won't help ya
I've been a monk, an alien, a Habiru
I've been a punk, a saint, a fool, a Vishnu
I've been killer and now I am a singer
Having a breakthrough I'm about to go rogue
On a roll
On a roll
On a roll
On a roll
On a roll

Where'd I put that "where'd you gone" song?
Where'd you put that "turn you on" song?
Think I'd be wise from all these lives
Some of us still got work to do
Where'd I put that "where'd you gone" song?
Where'd I put that "turn you on" song?
Think I'd be wise through all these lives
Some of us still got work to do

James - Way Over Your Head

If you want it enough
Unbuckle your love
Locked communication
We created another one
We created another one

In a hole way over, way over your head
In need of a friend to come 'round and take you to bed
In a hole way over, way over your head
In need of a friend to come ’round and raise up the dead

Raise the dead

This new job don't pay enough for the bother
Every day, the same old stuff from the robbеr
Barons, stuck, is this forever? One drink, maybе another
Someone hit the buzzer

Driver missed my stop, it's getting dark
Fins and tips of sharks are circling my raft
Stoke the fire, it’s down to sparks
Stoke the fire, it's down to sparks

Raise the dead

Yet a simpler life is calling me
A spit of land community
Can you come around and rescue me?
How blessed I am, your love to receive
In a hole way over, way over your head
In need of a friend to come 'round and take you to bed
In a hole way over, way over your head
In need of a friend to come 'round and raise up the dead
In a hole way over, way over your head
In need of a friend to come 'round and put you to bed
Raise the dead

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 - Walk Like You

You know more than you think you know,
This universe is in your eyes,
Inside the galaxies collide.

Which parent told you that you're slow?
My absent dad, my mum's control,
Schooled me to be a worker drone.

So this is it,
A life on earth,
We're made of stars,
We're made of dirt,
Unconsciousness,
We disconnect,
Tone deaf to calling.

We learn to walk like you,
Talk like you,
Oo-be-do,
Think like you, Whine like you,
Love like you in pieces.

You know more than you think you know,
Your DNA is pulsed by stars,
Reveal the cogs that wheel the show.

So this is it,
A universe of birth and death,
Love and neglect,
But we forget,
Dad's off on tour or in a meeting.

We will not walk like you,
Talk like you,
Oo-be-do,
Fight like you,
Screwed like you,
Break like you,
In pieces.

God knows I know no better
Easy to say that I can talk
I can talk
God knows I know no better
Easy to say that I can talk
(I can talk, I can talk, I can talk)
I can talk
(I can talk, I can talk, I can talk)
I can talk
(I can talk, I can talk, I can talk)

Welcome to our coming of age
To embrace all that we've become
Bored with your stories of pain
Shoot yourself with a ricochet
You don't know, you don't know, you don't know me
You don't know, you don't know, you don't know me

Let's inspire, let's inflame, create awe from our pain
Find a love that's as deep as it's holy
Let's inspire, let's inflame, create gods from our pain
Find a love that's as sweet as it's holy
Let's inspire, let's inflame, create dreams from our pain
Find a love that's as plain as it's holy
Let's inspire, let's inflame, create songs from our shame
Find a love that won't fade, love is holy

But I can talk
(I can talk, I can talk, I can talk)
I can talk
(I can talk, I can talk, I can talk)
I can talk
(I can talk, I can talk, I can talk)
I can talk
(I can talk, I can talk, I can talk)

James - P.S.

You're a weapon of devotion
Keep the faithful entertained
You're a lover of attention
Found a way to pawn the soul
Disposition may be fetching
But the world moves on and leaves you far behind

I hear you, I hear you, whispering such gorgeous stories
I see you, I see you, trying to break free
You liar, you liar, you can't live the dreams you're spinning
You liar, love to be deceived

You're falling, you're falling, falling from your god-like distance
You're fashion, just fashion, fashion doesn't keep
You're sour, so sour, all this hope and trust is misplaced
You're sour, now you are alone

Walking on fire, feel the way the world's inclining
Walking on fire, hate to deceive
Walking on fire, now the world will keep its distance
Walking on fire, you rather than me

My son says, dear father, what did you do when the world turned over
Keep spinning, keep spinning, send us off to sleep
You liar, you liar, all your words are just dust and moonshine
You liar, love to be deceived
Walking on fire, found a house away from humans
Walking on fire, hate to deceive
Walking on fire, now the world will keep its distance
Walking on fire, you rather than me

James - It's Hot

It's hot enough within this bed
To melt our differences
Whoa, a leap of faith

This fiery love dissolves the edge
Creates a bridge
A leap of faith

It's hot inside the chrysalis
As cells create a dreamy bliss
A leap of faith and out of this
A floating kiss, life loves to exist

Hangover after the party
Whoa, a leap of faith
Hangover after the party
Whoa, a leap of faith

It's hot inside the chrysalis
As cells create a dreamy bliss
A leap of faith and out of this
A floating kiss, life loves to exist

It's hot inside the chrysalis
As cells create a dreamy bliss
A leap of faith and out of this
A floating kiss, life loves to exist

It's hot inside the chrysalis
As cells create a dreamy bliss
A leap of faith and out of this
A floating kiss, life loves to exist

James - Girl At The End Of The World

Overtaking SUV approaching
We're on a blind curve
There's nowhere to swerve
My mind goes still
As still as he is racing
I whisper a prayer to whoever is there

Remind me to breathe at the end of the world
Appreciate scenes and the love I've received
To love who I've been at the end of the world
The departing
The departing

Remind me to breathe at the end of the world
Appreciate scenes and the love I've received There's always a girl at the end of the world The departing
The departing

A hairpin bend, a moonlight drive
We'll meet it open eyed
The big whatever
While this world can drive me fucking mad
Just off to the side
Is love and laughter

Remind me to breathe at the end of the world
Appreciate scenes and the love I've received
To love who I've been at the end of the world
The departing
The departing

Remind me to breathe at the end of the world
Appreciate scenes and the love I've received
There's always a girl at the end of the world
The departing
The departing

James - Crescendo

Oh, it's a late show
Oh, it's, it's it's a late show

I'm afraid of loneliness swallowing me
I'm afraid of loneliness swallowing me
Swallowing me

Bow down, bow down with someone
Bow down, bow down with somewhere
It's, it's, it's a better than me
It's, it's, it's a better than me
I'm afraid of loneliness swallowing me
I'm afraid of loneliness swallowing me

Bow down, bow down with somewhere
Bow down, bow down with someone
It's, it's, it's a better than me
It's, it's, it's a better than me

Oh, it's a late show
Oh, it's, it's it's a late show

I'm afraid of loneliness swallowing me
I'm afraid of loneliness swallowing me

Hula-hey-rey, hula-hey-rey, hula-hey-rey, hula-hey-rey
Hula-hey-rey, hula-hey-rey, hula-hey-rey, hula-hey-rey

Are you swallowing me?
Are you swallowing me?
Are you swallowing me?
Are you swallowing me?

Swallowing me
Swallowing me
Swallowing me
Swallowing me

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 - Make For This City

Stand at the curbside and watch the world go by

In this town no one looks you in the eye

Where is the place not driven on by time?

Where's the city of dreams, a city made of light?

Where people laugh more than cry

Leave their doors open

Fall in love everyday

Brave hearts get broken

This city aims to love regardless of the bruise

We love and marry any sex or race we choose

Make for this city

Make for this city

On the underground, we all look so worn down

On the circle line forever going 'round

We love our children, not school down, open minds

We learn that happiness is the aim of life

Make for this city

Within our minds

Make for this city

City of light within our minds

Where's the connection to the heart of living?

Where's the connection to life?

The life we are living is unforgiving

Less like a flower than a knife

Where's the connection to heart living?

Where's the flower of life?

We aren't defined by our work and what we own

If you can find your way here, you've made it home

We love and marry any sex or race we choose

There's no one here who use their gods to exclude

Make for this city

Make for this city

Make for this city

Make for this city

Make for this city

Make for this city

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 - Moving Car (Demo)

Making out

In the back of a stolen car

Seventeen

Leather seats, tangled hair

What you said?

I believe in everything, hit the gas

Time is creeping up and it ain't slow

No, it ain't slow

Relative speed

Memories bridge now and then

Love God hard

Plane fall down over Troy deep within the grass

Arrowheads, shards of vase, storage lots

Time rewinds the past and it ain't slow

This pirate's drunk

From your cup of amnesty, became a monk

The love of ghosts, Titanic sunk

No, it ain't slow

We drive, we drive, we drive so fast

Jumping out of a moving car

We drive, we drive, we drive too fast

Jumping out of a moving car

We drive, we drive, we drive too fast

Jumping out of a moving car

We drive, we drive, we drive too fast

Jumping out of a moving car, okay

Okay

If nothing is less than zero

How come your absence causes me this pain?

Okay, okay

Understand we're alone

I believe in everything

I lost this feeling long ago, in the school yard

I believe in everything

Enough pretending that we know how this game's played

We've lived many lives

Journeyed across the time

Dropped off by the side of the road like a

Christmas duck

Open mouth surprise

We've lived many lives

Journeyed across the time

Open mouthed resuscitation

Tears we almost, tears we almost drowned

Tears we almost, tears we almost drowned

James - Seven

Blow me away
Was that love you declared
Only a word
Love can mean anything

I understand the world, we're living in

Oceans apart
What's that view from your wave
Beautiful craft
Weather and change

I understand the world, we're living in
Love can mean anything

God made love to me
Soothed away my gravity
Made me a pair of angel's wings
Clear vision and some magic things

God is love to me
Thank you for those things

I understand the world, we're living in
Love can mean anything

Darling, I'm open
Unguarded, unbroken

Now we've done our time
We can drift away
Like the heavy cloud
With the weight of rain

I understand the world, we're living in
Love can mean anything

I understand the world, we're living in
Love can change anything

I understand the world, we're living in
Love can mean anything

I understand the world, we're living in
Love can change anything

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

James - Tomorrow

I see you falling
How long to go before you hit the ground
You keep on screaming
Don´t you see me here
Am I a ghost to you

Now your grip's too strong
You can't catch love with a net or a gun
Gotta keep faith that your path will change
Gotta keep faith that your luck will change tomorrow
Tomorrow

Why are you phoning
What am I to do when you're miles away
You're always calling from the darkest moods and we're both scared

Now your grip's too strong
You can't catch love with a net or a gun
Gotta keep faith that your path will change
Gotta keep faith that your love will change

Now your grip's too strong
Can't catch love with a net or a gun
Gotta keep faith that your path will change
Gotta keep faith that your love will change tomorrow

I'm just out of your range
Tomorrow
All your suffering's in vain
Tomorrow

Now your grip's too strong
You can't catch love with a net or a gun
Gotta keep faith that your path will change
Gotta keep faith that your love will change tomorrow

I got out of your range
Tomorrow
All your suffering seems vain
Change tomorrow
Some forgiveness now
Tomorrow
Love's no sacred cow