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ANTI LOVE SONGS

by JAMES COOK

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1.
FOREIGN GESTURES Live life 'til the end, Keep up with your friends Head down, don't be scared Science will take you there Please forget to fight your loved ones Please remember your compassion They move in foreign gestures They experiment on their own kind They move in foreign gestures They're from another time We are the smart phone generation Lonely in social isolation Set out to ruin conversation Follow the vision of the zombie nation Raised in a test tube to start a riot Make the matches to start a fire They move in foreign gestures
2.
VENUS DE MILO Some like to keep moving, some like to stop Some like to drag themselves all the way to the top Some let their insecurities tell them who to love Don't let delusion dictate like a voice from above She was my Venus de Milo But she had no arms to catch me when I fell You who worship false idols know that you can never win! Unrequited adulation will eat you from within She was my Venus de Milo But her phantom limbs could not hold on to my heart I loved my Venus de Milo But I lost my love as I slipped right through those arms I will always love you, my Venus de Milo
3.
Sensations 04:01
SENSATIONS I won't catch this light again Strange thoughts echo round my brain She won't follow every course I can't contain this anymore She can follow everything I say with sensations, sensations She can shatter all my memories with sensation, sensations There's some comfort on the phone We won't ever be alone Screen lights console you when you're down You don't have to be around She can follow everything I say with sensations, sensations She's the shadow of my melodies in sensations, sensations There is a place where I can be with her in sensations, sensations I give her everything when I transfer my sensations, sensations See her, feel her
4.
Waves 03:14
WAVES Here come the waves, crashing down Crashing on me, waves of despair I was happy in the haze of my oblivion Sweet thoughts of opportune emotions Like a school boy waiting for September On the verge of a breakthrough Then came the waves, crashing down Crashing on me, waves of despair Single file, all my problems are approaching Am I the puppet or the master? Hold tight while I sink into oblivion Am i the prophet of my own disaster? Dive into the waves, ride the waves Get a grip on the waves, ride the waves
5.
ATOM OF JUSTICE I saw her face in a crowd, I stopped dead, we shook hands I wore my heart on her sleeve But tough luck, we lost touch When someone comes into your life That you're with, that you want You'd better hope that time is right Cos sometimes We need an ounce of affection, A drop of emotion We need a fragment of friendship We need a hint of compassion, A slice of devotion We need an atom of justice If you don't look at a tree when it falls, is it free? If you don't stick when she calls, when you twist, you bust There are no rules to flaunt or fail, sometimes.... Who's gonna drop the bomb? Who's gonna find my heart? Who's got a heavy load? Who's gonna time it right? Summer's gone, fragments in isolation Memories, relapses, synapses Wear the badge, carry the torch Be free
6.
FEB 14TH Awake, and wait for me early Sleep and wait for the sound I lie alone in the bedroom A bleep, to say you're coming around Won't you sneak into the bedroom on Feb 14th? Won't you show me how a good time can make me feel happy? You say that love is blind on Feb 14th I'm not sure that a good time is gonna make me feel happy How have we stayed in the same room? We could never be more apart We crawl into our own world And fall asleep alone in the dark FEB 14TH is frozen in my mind FEB 14th is just a waste of time
7.
Remember the day of 'The Great British Coup'? You were asleep when it happened to you Aggression presided, divided and ruled Contrarians derided, branded 'a fool' We traded in arms and designed all our foes Payrolled the schemes that provided our woes As we victimise scapegoats, legitimise crooks Corroded our culture and burned all the history books Remember the day of 'The Great British Coup'? Remember the day when it happened to you? Election results were our terror alarms We closed all the borders to keep us from harm See human rights disappear in a day The false opposition is fading away As controlled social media feeds the mainstream This culture of chaos will fuel national socialist dreams We won't be lost, we won't be scared Make no mistake, they put you there When will it end? Where do we start? Wear no more scars...
8.
MOONRISE (THE DAY THE POWER DIED) The terror twilight, the sun revolted The riff pulsated, the diamond rusted Awake at moonrise, the moon will rise over you We sucked in sunlight, our strenght diluted The sparkled synapse, the dream vibrated Awake at moonrise, the moon will rise over you A crash to awake you, another crash to take you down Tesla and Edison meet, the day the power died The breath vibrated, a Tesla moment The line corrupted a broken slumber Awake at moonrise, the moon will rise over you A crash to awake you, another crash to take you down Tesla and Edison meet, the day the power died Awoken with a bang, the full moon shining on our face Consciousness created with naked electricity
9.
(CONSTRUCT YOUR) SUNRISE In your seventh heaven, when will you endeavour To stretch those ideas further, overcome disaster Kill your malevolent master, make those friendships better Heal those lesions faster, help evolution conquer Construct your sunrise When can we get started, countermand the market? Make our illusions sharper, reflect those moonbeams darker? Pull on tightrope harder, grow our ambitions larger? Make our concepts smarter, pool our resources farther? Construct your sunrise Distance makes lonely adversaries, of us all...

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released April 5, 2016

Recorded, Produced and Mixed by James Cook and Nicola Sannino
Vocals, Bass, Guitars and Synths by James Cook
Drums by Pablo Sosa (except Great British Coup by Tom Marsh)
Violins and string arrangements by Anne Marie Kirby
Synths and vocals (on Venus de Milo and Sensations) by Emma Price
Vocals on Divide et Imperar and Feb 14th by Andrea Bruschi
Mastered by Milan Adamik at Masterworksaudio
Artwork by Andrea Froehner

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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 ... more

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