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How Hard The Day

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How Hard The Day was first released on the album Living In Extraordinary Times.

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Write me a prescription, keep the lonelies at bay
How much of this friction will it take to enflame?
I don't need a doctor to diagnose pain
Full of pricks and bruises, yet somehow we stay

When it hurts
You know how hard
You know how hard
I rub my nose in the dirt
And it hurts

Started with some crying, all ends in decay
Told you I was lying when I said I was brave
There's no silver lining at the end of this page
Life is an affliction, we all get in the way

When it hurts
You know how hard
You know how hard
I rub my nose in the dirt
And it hurts

When it hurts
You know how hard
You know how hard
I rub my nose in the dirt
And it hurts

Can't believe I can get so bleak
I don't swing this way, so to speak
And when I bleed, all I see is decay
I don't swing that way

When it hurts
You know how hard
You know how hard
I rub my nose in the dirt
And it hurts

You know how hard
You know how hard
I rub my nose in the dirt
And it hurts

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Song:How Hard The Day
Released:3rd August 2018
Main Associated Album (or Single):Living In Extraordinary Times
First Heard Live:Album: Living In Extraordinary Times
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Picture Of This Place

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Picture Of This Place was first released on the album Living In Extraordinary Times.

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Mystical
When you come
So alive
I fucked up that time

Feel the pressure building
Belly throat to eyes
Mystical
Shake rattle roll

Risk it all
Amelia Earhart
Missed my landing strip
It's a one way trip
Overshot
In fog I lost my way

I'm unfaithful
To the culture that I'm in
I inflamed her
Left the stinger in the skin

Who can blame her
She had thrown away her ring
I love danger
Farther out than I can swim

Take a picture of this place
Memorize your face then throw away
Messiah, messiah
Aim higher

Take a picture of this place
In a cave, I lost all sense of place
Messiah, messiah
Aim higher

Mystical
When you come
But blow
Love is just like smoke

Hallucination
Slip your hands right in
I'm your Siamese twin
Connected to everything

I'm unfaithful
To the culture that I'm in
I love danger
Farther out than I can swim

The gods they need a trade
Karma must be paid
Faith showed me the way

Was fun to lose my way
I can't help myself
Fate led me astray

Take a picture of this place
Memorize your face then throw away
Messiah, messiah
Getting higher

Take a picture of this place
In a cave, I lost all sense of place
Messiah, messiah
Getting higher

This all makes sense on LSD
You act like you are into me
This cock is under lock and key
Male desire

Without these looks where would I be
Long life of mediocrity
Andy root, toot, toot, toot, toot
Andy root, toot, toot, toot, toot
Andy root, toot, toot, toot, toot

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Song:Picture Of This Place
Released:3rd August 2018
Main Associated Album (or Single):Living In Extraordinary Times
First Heard Live:Album: Living In Extraordinary Times
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Hope To Sleep

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Hope To Sleep was first released on the album Living In Extraordinary Times.

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Lost, west of these mountains
She walks the island, highland to fell
Stars blink out directions
Through cloud formations
Some kind of a code
She reads this language
Half moon's her lantern
No sign of a road
This land is breathing
She sues for meaning
Molecular show

Can't hope to sleep
On this restless beat
She keeps coming back
To this place of fear and lack
Can't hope to sleep
All her fears repeat
What she gave did not come back
She goes 'round and 'round this cul-de-sac

Can't hope to sleep
On this restless beat
She keeps coming back
To this place to fear and lack
Can't hope to sleep
All her tears repeat
It's bitter to her taste
What she can't digest, regurgitates

Back is bowed beneath her heavy load
Lost her map along this lonely road
Loved him where he lacked
But he couldn't love her back

Back is bowed beneath her heavy load
Lost her map along this lonely road
Loved him where he cracked
So he couldn't love her back

Back is bowed beneath her heavy load
Lost her map along this lonely road
Loved him where he lacked
But he couldn't love her back

Back is bowed beneath her heavy load
Lost her map along this lonely road
Loved him where he cracked
So he never loved her back

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Song:Hope To Sleep
Released:3rd August 2018
Main Associated Album (or Single):Living In Extraordinary Times
First Heard Live:Album: Living In Extraordinary Times
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Moving Car

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Moving Car was first released on the album Living In Extraordinary Times.

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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 got hard
Plane forced down over Troy
Deep in the grass
Arrowheads, coloured glass, stories last
Time rewinds the past and it ain't slow

This pirate's drunk
From your cup of amnesty, became a monk
But all those ghosts, Titanic's sunk
No, it ain't slow

We drive and we drive and we drive so fast
To be 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

OK, OK
If nothing is less than zero
How come your absence causes me this pain?
OK, OK
I understand we're alone but I keep missing you again

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 time
Dropped off by the side of the road like a Christmas dog
Open mouth surprise
We've lived many lives
Journeyed across time
Open mouthed resuscitation
Tears we almost, tears we almost drowned

Tears we almost, tears we almost drowned

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Song:Moving Car
Released:3rd August 2018
Main Associated Album (or Single):Living In Extraordinary Times
First Heard Live:Album: Living In Extraordinary Times (bonus track)
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Extraordinary Times

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Extraordinary Times was first released on the album Living In Extraordinary Times. The band have listed it with the longer “Living In Extraordinary Times” name on the setlists they have posted on Twitter.

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Fuck you
I wanna fuck you
Until we break through
Into other dimensions
Where we're all one
Before the Big Bang
Blew

We can hold it all, hold it all together
In this never-ending game of hide and seek
We're reaching out for ecstasy forever
While the bodies pile up, face-down on the beach

It's true what the mermaids sing
It's love makes us blind
Don't ever forget we're living in
Extraordinary times

Love you
Most of me loves you
Some of me hates you
Like I hate myself
When I don't live to
Some aspiration
That never flew

We can hold it all, hold it all together
In this never-ending game of hide and seek
Oh, we're reaching out for ecstasy forever
While the bodies pile up, face-down on the beach

You hang by a spider's thread
Swinging so high
Don't ever forget we're living through
Extraordinary times

How to ignore this
Live in the moment
How to ignore this
Live in the moment
How to ignore this
Live in the mo-

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Song:Extraordinary Times
Released:3rd August 2018
Main Associated Album (or Single):Living In Extraordinary Times
First Heard Live:Album: Living In Extraordinary Times
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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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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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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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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: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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Leviathan

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

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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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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
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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Song:Broken By The Hurt
Released:18th May 2018
Main Associated Album (or Single):Better Than That
First Heard Live:James official YouTube channel - 1st May 2018
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Better Than That

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Title track from the 2018 Better Than That EP. First heard on BBC R6M.

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Awake
This song has found you
Asleep at the wheel of your car
You’re boring; bored; unengaged
Life comes to rattle your cage

You can do better than that
Hit me again and give it some impact
(Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
You can do better than that
(Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
Hit me again and show me where I crack

This naked ape
So out of shape
Sedated by hi-tech
Wants fame on a plate
Though water flows round rocks
Its path don’t deviate

You can do better than that
(Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
Hit me again and give it some impact
(Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
You can do better than that
(Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
Hit me again and show me where I crack
(Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
You can do better than that

You’re coming out of your way
Live like today's your last day

You can do better than that
Hit me again and give it some impact
You can do better than that
(Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
Hit me again and show me where I crack
(Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
You can do better than that

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Song:Better Than That
Released:18th May 2018
Main Associated Album (or Single):Living In Extraordinary Times
First Heard Live:BBC R6M Steve Lamacq Show, 3rd April 2018
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