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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
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Venus de Milo
03:19
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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
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Sensations
04:01
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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
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Waves
03:14
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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
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Atom of Justice
03:51
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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
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February 14th
03:37
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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
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The Great British Coup
03:14
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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...
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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
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(Construct Your) Sunrise
03:04
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(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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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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