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BEES IN NOVEMBER
03:26
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There's too much to dream of,
It's a full metal racket
We're sound asleep to shortcomings, meaning nothing.
Fed on information, starved of an outlet.
Soon, forever means another ending.
Stop to think, try to remember the mirror, practice, poise
Locked away all night, raising Bees in November
Catch the cold, surrender your warmth to a vortex
Suck the phantom oxygen it's inside you
Seek to stutter slowly, you are the breath of an angel
Quell the fire, it extinguishes your elation.
Stop to think, try to remember the mirror, practice, poise
Locked away all night, raising Bees in November
Stop to think, try to remember the mirror practice poison member
Stop to think, try to remember the way we all felt in December
Stop to think, try to remember Bees in November
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LILLY (A LOVER'S DREAM)
03:00
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Like a dragon of intervention, there was a blossom in my heart
For the love that waits a thousand years, may the end become the start
At the moment we hit clarity as our skin was intertwined,
Our love became a charity for the pearls amongst the swine
Oh lover! Lovely Lilly! You take the stars out of the sea
Oh lover! Lovely Lilly! You take the stars out of me
As I passed the painted circle full of the ladies in peach dresses
They danced around my questions, all the night had kept me guessing
The riddles of their lovers became the armies to their quest
And as i fell into the circle, we forgot about the rest
Oh lover! Lovely Lilly! You take the stars out of the sea
Oh lover! Lovely Lilly! You take the stars out of me
I walked through darkened corridors and fought with all my strength
Passed rooms with painted animals, they laughed at my distress
The walls were getting narrower, I swore I saw your face
I tripped and fell into you arms, I thought I was awake
Oh lover! Lovely Lilly! You took the stars out of the sea
Oh lover! Lovely Lilly! You took the stars out of me
You took the pain from my face,
You gave me love and changed my fate
You took the stars out of me.
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FINANCIAL TANGO
03:04
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The markets crumble, the bailouts close
Cash cow pensions will be swallowed
Ten percent of the nation will be allright
But there's nothing left inside our bankrolls
Dance the last financial tango
Pick those pennies off the floor
Give them everything you've got
Those repayments aren't enough, let them repossess your soul
Lock up your passports and your credit clones
On information social networks
Electronic lockdown's not so far away
All rainy days with soon be cashless
So, dance the last financial tango
Pick those euros off the floor
Give them everything you've got
Let the bailiffs take the lot, and transfer it all offshore
Dance the last financial tango
Pick those dollars off the floor
Give them everything you've got
If your families aren't enough, then the government will fall
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DOG ARMS & DILEMMAS
03:44
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Plant the black seed into the dark soil
Soon, the crisis will receed and grow
Resume positions, enable devices
Marching forward, absorbing another lifetime
Remember the 60s, and other excuses
When does a mishap become a tragedy?
For Dog Arms & Dilemmas
I am the traveller the devil will not answer
To stock responses, dividing voices
According to policy
My snap decisions, inherent within the system
Are Dog Arms & Dilemmas
You are my dilemma
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ART DECO
02:58
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This landscape of beauty, with plastic adornments
It's the shape of the future, slowly wiped from the memory
The luxury of junk, a generation remembers
We skipped austerity.
The gold from the bronze age was ripped from the skyline
How come we lost our way? From the majesty of modern echoes
How come we lost our way? There was nothing better than Art Deco
This disembodied timezone, such a gentle reminder
We ushered in the machine age, from a provincial slumber
This civilian nightmare is the downtown echo of forgotten laughter
How come we lost our way? From the majesty of modern echoes
How come we lost our way? There was nothing better than Art Deco
How come we lost our way?
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BRING BACK THE BOOM
03:24
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1929, 2001, 1963.
We're killing time, drinking tea, spending cash, planting seeds
I heard it on the BBC about the era of prosperity
Where did it go?
Let's get in our time machines and Bring it back!
Bring back the boom, bring it back, bring back, bring back the boom
Bring back the boom, bring it back, bring back, bring back the boom
I started my apprentiship in 1979
With my history books and my scarf and my timeless sense of style
The Borgias and the Nazis could not overwhelm my guile
So let's unburn all the books and put the jack boots on the fire
Bring back the boom, bring it back, bring back, bring back the boom
Bring back the boom, bring it back, bring back, bring back the boom
We have all the time in the world, my darling
So let's put the wheelbarrows in the back and fill them full of cash.
Let's go to the moon! Let's all go to the moon!
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7. |
THE BLACKOUT
03:19
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Casting a darker shadow,
Forming a shape on my pillow
Written in breath on a mirror
Words that will stay with me forever
I never meant to throw it all away
But memory will chase me forever
When can I open my eyes again?
If I wait for the blackout, will I wait for you forever?
There's a black cat, shut out
Locked inside this cold December
We have a history that's hollow
Holes in our nature will follow
Time for you to rewrite the story
We are basking in our reflected glory
When there's nothing left will you remember us?
Sorrow will fill you like an empty cup
This melody fades into the autumn light
You will wait for the blackout, as you wait for me forever.
There's a black cat, shut out
Locked inside this cold December
If I wait for the blackout, will I wait for you forever?
There are black cats, shut out
They will be in the snow forever
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JAMIE
03:33
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And if, one day, I should become a wedding singer to the young
I'd sing for all the yummy mummies
I'd croon my heart out every night
In fake Las Vegas neon lights, like some 50's Argentinian
My name would be Antonio, a burning torch, the new Tom Jones
'Retro king of the modern age'
Young girls' wet knickers on the stage
I'd have to get drunk every night, viagra pills and fishnet tights
Plastic surgery delights, like decorated Christmas Trees
In the drunken haze of a dressing room,
Pink elephants would sing of doom
A childhood song would come to me
About the time they called me 'Jamie'
If I could be, for only an hour
If I could be, for an hour every day
If I could be, like Andy Warhol said
'The brainless babe of this media age'
And if i joined the social world
The London life, the Geldof girls
Then I could be the new Hugh Hefner
My records would be number one
10 million views on all my songs,
With cover versions on 'X Factor'
My name would then be Simon Cowell
Plucking stars out of my bowels
Import a whiskey entourage of phoney queers and real virgins
Then I would shut down all the banks
So i could buy out Goldman Sachs
And leave the ruling classes ranks WikiLeaking in their own pants
In some crack den in Chinatown
With Amy, Pete and Kurt Cobain
I'd sing the song that gave me fame
About the time they called me 'Jamie'
If I could be, for only an hour
If I could be, for an hour every day
If I could be, in Justin Bieber's place
As 'the brainless babe of this media age'
Then in the glorious afterlife, singing to angels through the night
I would reflect my past transgressions
As they would harmonise with me, I'd look down at my legacy
And teach the world a few more lessons
Then I would be the Holy Ghost
I would become omnipotent
Pronounce my holy manifesto with a beard like Fidel Castro
I would become the Three Wise Monkeys
Give salvation to the junkies
Break my heart to make things right
And know that every single night...
When I return to be redeemed
Angels and Devils sing to me
The childhood song of all those years
About the time they called me 'Jamie'
If I could be, for only an hour
If I could be, for an hour every day
If I could be, at a decent hourly rate
'The brainless babe of this internet age'
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TIDAL WAVE
04:04
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Unfaithful, shiny and playful
You're like water, an invitation to disorder
Ungrateful, bitter and spiteful
You're like vinyl, you reflect me like a rival
But I'm not sure if I'm having a fit
So hook me up to the National Grid
The meaning is lost when the vision is done
And my fingers are burnt by the alien sun
It's such a tidal wave when you're an ocean
Proving the people wrong, knowing a weakness
A tidal wave when you're an ocean
Watching the scenery, waiting for feeling
Unstable, there's no money for the disabled
You need a diamond to cut through the asylum
It's not paid for, there's no money on the table
Just like Jesus facing the receivers
But I'm not sure if I'm having a fit
So hook me up to the National Grid
The meaning is lost when the vision is done
And my fingers are burnt by the alien sun
It's such a tidal wave when you're an ocean
Proving the people wrong, knowing a weakness
A tidal wave when you're an ocean
Watching the scenery, waiting for feeling
I'm faithful, infallible, ungrateful, just like an animal
I'm not sure if I'm having a fit
So hook me up to the National Grid
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AUSLAND/OUTSIDE
02:41
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November we rise, November we fall
Waiting for snow in late December
Whenever we fly, our chariot calls
This is the land of false horizon
We rise, we fall, we cry, we crawl
I'm escaping, I'm evading, I'm erasing, not invading
Outside, outside please tell me where your country lies
Outside, outside please tell me why your country lies?
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James Cook London, UK
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James Cook made 3 albums between 2004/8 w/London indie
electro outfit NEMO. 2010's' The Dollhouse' project preceded 5 solo albums. 'Arts and Sciences' (2012). 'Adventures in Ausland' (2014) 'Anti Love Songs' (2016). 'tHE nEW nORMAL' (2020). Compilations JAMES NEMO (vol one), JAMES COOK (vol one) plus two covers albums lead to a 5th solo studio album proper in 2024
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