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Coming Home (Pt.2)

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Video Credits:
Director: Leif Tilden
Producer: Vern Davidson
Creative Producer: Tatiana Tilden
DP: Irvin Liu
AC: Michael McClure
Editor: Marcelo Rodriguez
Assistant Editor: Patricia Lago
Featuring Tim Booth and Lila Joseph

Coming Home (Pt.2)

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Coming Home (Pt.2), a 2018 Single by James.

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Digital single released to promote album Living In Extraordinary Times.

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Coming Home (Pt2)

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Release Name: Coming Home (Pt.2)
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Release Date: 27th June 2018
Format: Studio Single
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From BBC News:

James singer Tim Booth has told BBC Radio 5 live that new song Coming Home (Pt 2) is about “being in denial” over how much he missed his young son while being away on tour.

Booth teared up as he recalled seeing his son after an extended period away.

He told Nihal Arthanayake: “I realised he’d been trying to make it easier for me to be away, but I was like: I’m not doing that again.”

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What’s It All About

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What’s It All About was first released on the album Living In Extraordinary Times.

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Coiled rattlesnake
You play a waiting game
Warn me away
Shake your rattle

One kiss inflames
White rabbit in my veins
Dismember me
Back together

Pain causes change
My life's an altered state
Why complicate
A mosaic

I'm a co-creator
Prisoner and jailer
Lover and a hater
We are one together

See you as another
Mystery to discover
Sing to my confessor
I was made to pleasure

America gets madder
Rise and fall together
Dancing into rapture
Dig for buried treasure

Love beyond all measure
Walking on the water
Bend within the river
Meet you at the border's edge

What's it all about?
What's it all about?

I'm in a state
In a sacred space
Mad as a lead-poisoned hatter

Rewind, erase
My life is so mundane
Kiss the lips of a snake
To discover

I'm a procreator
Prisoner and jailer
Lover and a hater
We are one together

See you as another
Mystery to discover
Sing to my confessor
I was made to pleasure

America gets madder
Rise and fall together
Dancing into rapture
Dig for buried treasure

Love beyond no measure
Walking on the water
Bend within the river
Meet you at the border's edge

What's it all about?
What's it all about?

Collusion, consumer
What makes your car?
Collusion, consumer
This life's VR

Our El Dorado
Buried in landslides
Got lost to profit
Trailed off to nowhere

Our El Dorado
Spiders and quicksand
Fevers and visions
Tourists beware

On a journey I'm invested
I've been asked to wait
From below the way seems twisted
From above it's straight

Don't know where
Don't know how
Know it's fate

On a journey, uninvested
I've been asked to wait
From below the wishing's twisted
From above it's straight

Don't know where
Don't know how
Know it's fate

Don't know where
Don't know how
Know it's fate

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Live In Extraordinary Times

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Song:What's It All About
Released:3rd August 2018
Main Associated Album (or Single):Living In Extraordinary Times
First Heard Live:Middlesbrough Town Hall – 22nd May 2018
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Better Than That

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Better Than That, a 2018 EP by James.

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EP released to coincide with spring mini-tour, ahead of summer album release.

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Better Than That / Busted / Hank / Broken By The Hurt

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Release Name: Better Than That
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Release Date: 18th May 2018
Format: Studio EP
Catalogue: 4050538374995

EP released to coincide with the spring 2018 mini-tour, and ahead of the summer album release. The 10” vinyl EP contained 4 songs, including Busted which was first played live in the summer of 2017.

From official release statement:

James are proud to announce the release of a new four track EP. The Better Than That EP is produced by Mercury and Brit Award winner Charlie Andrew who has previously worked with Alt-J, Nick Mulvey and Wolf Alice. The release will be the first new music since the hugely successful 2016 album Girl at the End of the World, their highest debut entry in nearly twenty years, reaching number two, second only to Adele.

EP opener and first single Better Than That is upbeat and fast-paced, an ode to improvement, urging the universe to do its worst with Tim signing “you can do better than that”, kick starting the four tracks into gear. Busted is more mellow and dreamlike, with gentle guitars building in intensity as drums and brass join the fray. Hank with its buzzing guitars and distorted vocals is the most outspoken lyrically, warning of “white fascists in the white house” encouraging listeners to “bend the knee and stand your ground”. The EP closes with the melancholic Broken By The Hurt, slightly disturbing, dark with pop melodies, it’s a fitting end to a brand-new set of tracks from the ever eclectic, the ever popular, the one and only James.

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Hank

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Hank was first released on the 2018 EP Better Than That.

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This crack head's tiny fingers
Accusing you of what he'll do
White fascists in the White House
More beetroot in your Russian stew

Blinds roll down in the ghetto
Power’s out all over town
Jim Crow rules in the crack down
Bend your knee, stand your ground

Our weapon is a stand up
A jester prancing like a fool
In jest digest the monster
This president’s a dangerous tool

Blinds roll down in the ghetto
Power’s out all over town
Jim Crow rules in the crack down
Bend your knee, stand your ground

Democracy sells easy
NRA high fives
Orlando, Sandy Hook and Columbine
CCTV's grainy
His raptures our decline
Hookers hotels showers dollar signs

Suppress the vote, electoral lies
Black lives matter, shoot on sight
We exist in multiple denials
He just says what they would hide
Rulers rule by divide
Why put your faith in facts when you can lie?
Now every possibility exists in everybody's mind

I'm in the story business
This tower falls without a sound
Only our carbon footprint
Suggests an empire here unwound

Blinds roll down in the ghetto
Power’s out all over town
Jim Crow rules in the crack down
Bend your knee, stand your ground

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Live In Extraordinary Times

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Song:Hank
Released:18th May 2018
Main Associated Album (or Single):Living In Extraordinary Times
First Heard Live:Llandudno Venue Cymru – 16th May 2018
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Coming Home (Pt.2)

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Coming Home (Pt.2) was first released on the album Living In Extraordinary Times.

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I missed your seventh birthday
Last kiss, five thousand miles away
Face time on father's day
Father's day, five thousand miles away

Forever touring
Never land
Live like a rolling stone, rolling stone
My life's not in my hands
I hope you understand

I'll be coming home
I'll be coming home
I'll be coming home
I'll be coming home
I wanna
I wanna
I wanna
I wanna hold your hand across this dark

My life is always leaving
Packed up my bags are full of bones
Don't know when I'll arrive
I'm waiting, I'm waiting to take five

My life is calling
My feet are falling
Somewhere away from here
Away from here
Waiting to arrive
Waiting to arrive

I'll be coming home
I'll be coming home
I'll be coming home
I'll be coming home
I wanna
I wanna
I wanna
I wanna hold your hand across this dark

Missed you when you're small
Missed you when you're cold
Placing you on hold
Love to endure

I'll be coming home
I'll be coming home
I wanna
I wanna
I wanna
I wanna hold your hand across this dark

I'll be coming home
I'll be coming home
I'll be coming home
I'll be coming home
I wanna
I wanna
I wanna
I wanna hold your hand across this dark

I'll be coming home
I'll be coming home
I'll be coming home
I'll be coming home
Across this universe
Of time and space
You shift my heart's tectonic plates

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Song:Coming Home (Pt.2)
Released:27th June 2018
Main Associated Album (or Single):Living In Extraordinary Times
First Heard Live:Llandudno Venue Cymru - 16th May 2018
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Leviathan

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Leviathan was first released on the album Living In Extraordinary Times. When it was performed on radio sessions, the lyric was changed from “fucking love” to “tainted love”.

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Take my hand
One, two, three
We will jump together through
The skylight on the sea
Become one with me
Find a gap in the folds
Between the worlds

Where I will wait for you, love
With our bruised love
Love that's weathered has a shape
Beyond a new love

Fucking love
Before they drop the bomb make sure
We get enough
Fucking love, fucking and love
Before they drop the bomb make sure
We get enough

You blow my mind
We will come together
A rent in time
Takes two of us to breach
You blow my mind
Into the whatever
How high's too high
A singularity

Let me know if you got free
Did your star map lead you home?
The skylight on the sea
Trust outweighs beliefs
We're just guests within these skins
Of blood and bones

Ride inside your star ship
Never twice the same trip
Hold me in a tight grip
Healing for the lovesick

Ride inside your star ship
Never twice the same trip
Hold me in a tight grip
Healing for the lovesick

Right inside your star ship
Never twice the same trip
"Don't wanna be alone"
Written on my headstone

Right inside the star ship
Never twice the same trip
"Don't wanna be alone"
Written on my headstone

You blow my mind
When we come together
A rent in time
Takes two of us to breach
You blow my mind
Into the whatever
How high's too high
A singularity

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Live In Extraordinary Times

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Song:Leviathan
Released:3rd August 2018
Main Associated Album (or Single):Living In Extraordinary Times
First Heard Live:Llandudno Venue Cymru – 16th May 2018
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Heads

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Heads was first released on the album Living In Extraordinary Times.

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Hey, hey, hey, hey
It's just a fever of greed
Don't believe in the white American dream
God bless inequality
The poor vote the rich
To hammer nails in their feet

Land of the free
Land of the free
Land of the free
Land of the free

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Fake news divides to conceal
History's rich get to keep whatever they steal
This buffet's all you can eat
Devouring resources
Of our sons and daughters

Don't say it's ok
Don't say it's ok
Bought into this crap
That we can't take back

Here's the dream
I, the we
Tapestry
Dovetailing empathy
Centipede
Synchronise
Hundred feet
Dance to the beat
Mycelium
Meets the needs
Sun provides
Every tree
Lungs to breathe
Enough for everyone
Harmonise
Land of the free

Don't say it's ok
Don't say it's ok
Bought into this crap
That we can't take back

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Live In Extraordinary Times

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Song:Heads
Released:3rd August 2018
Main Associated Album (or Single):Living In Extraordinary Times
First Heard Live:Llandudno Venue Cymru – 16th May 2018
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Broken By The Hurt

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Broken By The Hurt was first released on the 2018 EP Better Than That.

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Suicide or cancer
Loss of child
Betrayal, deceit
How’d you not get bitter
When life kicks you in the teeth?

We must all get battered
Lose our trust and self belief
Find what really matters.

We’re made of clay
Left long in the blaze
Fire makes us brittle
Gives us our shape
And all that remains
Two fragile flames
Dancing like jesus
Don’t come without pain
See you later.

Broken by the hurt
Broken by the hurt
Broken by the hurt

Some of us born monied
Some never make it to their feet
Some born lucky
Some born hopeless

We’re made of clay
Left long in the blaze
Our heirs and graces
Melt them away
See you later
Broken by the hurt
Broken by the hurt
Broke open by the hurt
Broke open by the hurt

We all die
More than once
In this life
Butterfly
Lift, lift up
Show me your hard earned love
Broken by the hurt
Broken by the hurt
Broken by the hurt
Broke open by the hurt
Open by the hurt

We must die
More than once
In this life
Butterfly
Lift, lift up
Show me hard earned love
Broken By The Hurt
Open by the hurt
Open by the hurt
Open by the hurt
Open by the hurt
Open by the hurt
Open by the hurt

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Live In Extraordinary Times

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Song:Broken By The Hurt
Released:2nd May 2018
Main Associated Album (or Single):Better Than That
First Heard Live:Margate Winter Gardens – 6th March 2019
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