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Give It All A Name

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Give It All A Name is a song referenced in Tim Booth’s book When I Died For The First Time.  During the Music Maps podcast interviews in July 2024 Tim mentioned that he had recorded the song for future release.

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Song Name:Give It All A Name
Alternative Name(s):
Original Artist:Tim Booth
Song Type:Song
First Heard Live:
Original Release Album:
Released:26th July 2024
This song is available on the following releases:
ReleaseArtistFormatYear
Tim Booth: When I Died for the First TimeTim BoothFiction Book2024
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Not available on Spotify.

This song was performed at the following gigs:
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I Do

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I Do is a song that Tim Booth performed live at the When I Died For The First Time book launch at Manchester’s Stoller Hall on May 23rd 2024.

A very limited 7″ single (50 copies) was given away randomly in VIP bags on the June 2024 James tour.

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Song Name:I Do
Alternative Name(s):
Original Artist:Tim Booth
Song Type:Song
First Heard Live:Manchester Stoller Hall - 23rd May 2024
Original Release Album:I Do (Limited Edition Promo)
Released:3rd June 2024
This song is available on the following releases:
ReleaseArtistFormatYear
I Do (Limited Edition Promo)Tim BoothStudio Album2024
Tim Booth: When I Died for the First TimeTim BoothFiction Book2024
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Not available on Spotify.

This song was performed at the following gigs:
  • Manchester Stoller Hall - 23rd May 2024
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    Happy

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    Happy is a song that Tim Booth performed at his When I Died For The First Time book launches in London, Glasgow and Manchester in May 2024.

    A very limited CD-r single (10 copies) was placed randomly in signed copies of the book at the Manchester launch.

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    Song Name:Happy
    Alternative Name(s):
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:London Union Chapel - 20th May 2024
    Original Release Album:
    Released:23rd May 2024
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    Tim Booth: When I Died for the First TimeTim BoothFiction Book2024
    Unknown.

    Not available on Spotify.

    This song was performed at the following gigs:
  • Manchester Stoller Hall - 23rd May 2024
  • Glasgow SWG3 - 21st May 2024
  • London Union Chapel - 20th May 2024
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    Love Life

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    Love Life is a song that was available exclusively on the iTunes download version of Tim Booth’s solo album Love Life.

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    Song Name:Love Life
    Alternative Name(s):
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:
    Original Release Album:
    Released:4th April 2011
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    Love LifeTim BoothStudio Album2011
    Never thought I'd get this old
    Never thought I'd get this far
    Overdose in the back of a car
    Certified as crazy
    How many voices in my head?
    As many strangers shared my bed
    What kind of choices got me here?
    Lived a life so crazy
    Sometimes think I must be dead
    Nothing's real about the life I've led
    Life's a dream, I know it's been said
    My dreams are all crazy
    Love life, love life, love life, love life
    I'm a lover who loves life
    Love the shadow and love the night
    Guess you can tell
    Easy to forget just who you are
    Underneath these grey skies
    Something about leaving a mark
    On the bark in the moonlight
    Easy to forget just who you were
    Underneath these age lines
    Mapping high and low tides
    At times I just felt crazy
    Love life, loves life, love life, love life
    I'm a lover who loves life
    Love the shadow and loves the night
    Guess you can tell
    Hard on myself like nobody can be
    Crucified, a cry for help
    Life's on a loop
    I can't get past me
    Guess you can tell, guess you can tell
    Guess you can tell
    Guess you can tell, guess you can tell
    Guess you can tell
    Guess you can tell, guess you can tell
    Guess you can tell
    Loves life, love life, love life, love life
    Love the shadow and love the light
    Love the shadow and love the light
    Guess you can tell
    Guess you can tell

    Unavailable on Spotify.

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    Surrender

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    Surrender is a song that was available exclusively on the Amazon download version of Tim Booth’s solo album Love Life.

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    Dreams are free, Susanna says
    But I've this feeling I'm shortchanged
    Something's wrong, I'm just 21
    But I feel like I'm middle-aged
    I can't believe that's all there is
    She plays a record while he shaves
    I can't believe that's all there is
    I'm just an echo
    Now I surrender
    I am lost every time you go
    Get out of neutral
    Everyone's connected by your love
    Dreams are free, Susanna says
    But mine just seem to fade
    She says, I don't understand
    Why bad things happen to me
    Why true love never stays
    You have to break this chain, he says
    Your life just follows your beliefs
    You have to break this chain, he says
    And change will follow
    Now I surrender
    I am lost everytime you go
    Get out of neutral
    Everyone's connected by your love
    Now I surrender
    I am lost everytime you go
    Get out of neutral
    Everyone's connected by your love
    Now I surrender
    I am lost every time you go
    Get out of neutral
    Everyone's connected by your love

    Song: Surrender
    Released: 4th April 2011
    First Heard Live:
    Where To Get:

    Tim Booth: Love Life

    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    Love LifeTim BoothStudio Album2011
    Tim Booth (5 Track Demo)Tim BoothPromo Single2001
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    Next Door To Heaven

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    Next Door To Heaven was first released on the bonus CD of the deluxe vinyl version of the Tim Booth’s solo album Love Life.

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    Song Name:Next Door To Heaven
    Alternative Name(s):
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:
    Original Release Album:
    Released:4th April 2011
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    Love LifeTim BoothStudio Album2011
    Heaven
    Next door to heaven
    The ocean views are full of cranes
    Heaven
    So close to heaven
    We can commute by bullet train
    Got to take a breath and catch my breath
    After all this hard work climbing
    Can't see the lake from here
    Always further peaks in clouds and snow
    Waters forming waterfalls
    In the drink our ice is melting
    I know it's somewhere here
    Turn a place of rest into a zoo
    Love you it's a miracle
    Outside here the sun is shining
    I's way too serious
    Innocence is bruised
    A sawchestra
    A toy gazoo
    A xylophone
    Didgeridoo
    Green eggs and ham
    Tales of Pooh
    The way of man-cub
    Loves Baloo
    Perfection is impossible
    How'd I get so cynical
    Put on my Buddha shoes
    On the way to Shangri-La we sue
    Everything is cyclical
    Must be a pattern here
    Lost the thread then reappears
    Fumbling for love to see us through
    The way hello becomes I do
    The way a mist gives way to views
    Where I saw fall
    A rebirth's due
    We can't go round
    We must go through
    Heaven
    Next door to heaven
    The ocean views are full of cranes
    Heaven
    So close to heaven
    We can commute by bullet train
    Heaven
    Next door to heaven
    There's shanty towns across the bay
    Heaven
    So close to heaven
    Refugees all wait in vain
    Heaven
    Next door to heaven
    The landscape's grey
    It always rains

    Unavailable on Spotify.

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    Faith

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    Faith was first released on the bonus CD of the deluxe vinyl version of the Tim Booth’s solo album Love Life.

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    Song Name:Faith
    Alternative Name(s):
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:
    Original Release Album:Love Life
    Released:4th April 2011
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    Love LifeTim BoothStudio Album2011
    Tim Booth (5 Track Demo)Tim BoothPromo Single2001
    What was that you said to me?
    Where did I go wrong?
    Strength and vulnerability is the road I'm walking on
    What was that you said to me?
    I need you to make me whole
    I'm afraid this empty place's
    Something I mistook for soul
    What was that you said to me?
    Only love can make us strong
    Strength and vulnerability is the road love's built upon
    Love declares an amnesty, love suggests a soul
    You're just coming on to me
    I suggest I'm getting old
    Can you hold on?
    Can you hold on?
    Can you hold on to your way?
    Can you hold on?
    Can you hold on?
    Can you hold on to your way?
    What was that you said to me?
    Where's my sense of fun?
    I believe in divinity so why am I so highly strung
    I live way too seriously, where's my sense of fun?
    What was that? I'm going deaf
    What was that? You're moving on
    Can you hold on?
    Can you hold on?
    Can you hold on to your way?
    Can you hold on?
    Can you hold on?
    Can you hold on to your way?

    Not available on Spotify.

    This song was performed at the following gigs:
    Unavailable

    Gloria Descends

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    Gloria Descends was first released on the Tim Booth’s solo album Love Life.

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    Song Name:Gloria Descends
    Alternative Name(s):
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:Manchester Club Academy - 20th April 2011
    Original Release Album:Love Life
    Released:4th April 2011
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    Love LifeTim BoothStudio Album2011
    Love Life (Promo)Tim BoothPromo Album2011
    Half moon bay looking up at the stars
    Hanging on a plank at the edge of the sea
    Praying that a shark doesn’t read me as seal
    Shiva laughs in the curl of a wave, a wave
    Drag a breaker to carry me home
    Shift my weight to anticipate
    Permutate into a body of light
    As overhead the stars pulsate, pulsate

    Out here in the oceans surf
    We’re particle to waves
    Out here in the oceans surf
    We dream…..

    Glory descends
    Glory embraces you
    Her Glory descends
    Glory through my guards
    No alone when you know there is only one, is one, is one

    Here I is one and one is we
    Here I is star lights devotee
    Here I is dream

    Glory descends
    Glory embraces you
    Her Glory descends
    I’m just passing through
    Glory descends
    Walks right through my guards
    No alone when you know there’s only one, is one, is one

    I know nothing
    I know I know nothing
    I know I know nothing
    I know I know nothing
    I know I know nothing
    I know I know nothing

    Glory descends
    Glory embraces you
    Her Glory descends
    I’m just passing through
    Glory descends
    Walks right through my guards
    No alone when you know there’s only one, is one, is one

    Glory descends
    All is Gloria
    No alone when you know there is only one is one is one

    This song was performed at the following gigs:
  • Patras Old Church - 8th May 2011
  • London Camden Dingwalls - 3rd May 2011
  • Brighton Komedia - 2nd May 2011
  • Sheffield Leadmill - 30th April 2011
  • Wrexham Glyndwr University - 28th April 2011
  • Leeds Cockpit - 27th April 2011
  • Cambridge Junction 2 - 26th April 2011
  • Kendal Brewery Arts Centre - 23rd April 2011
  • Manchester Club Academy - 20th April 2011
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    Shatters

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    Shatters was first released on the Tim Booth’s solo album Love Life.

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    Song Name:Shatters
    Alternative Name(s):
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:Manchester Club Academy - 20th April 2011
    Original Release Album:Love Life
    Released:4th April 2011
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    Love LifeTim BoothStudio Album2011
    Love Life (Promo)Tim BoothPromo Album2011
    "We wandered through abandoned streets
    Shutters torn from walls
    Wild dogs flit between the wrecks we keep the children close
    Somewhere inside a baby cries / a cry that must be fed
    We've not enough to feed ourselves
    Too late the boy breaks off and goes

    Down through the buckled doors
    Down to the mud and the straw
    Down where the cables strobe the rupture
    Down through the halls of shame
    Down past the need for blame
    Down where the waste piled up like sculpture

    All that shatters, all that shatters
    Breaks us open
    All that shatters, all that shatters
    Lets the light in
    All that shatters, all that shatters
    Breaks us open
    All that shatters, all that shatters
    Lets more light in

    In the half light I catch sight of her
    In laughter‘s 3 note song
    In the darkness I’m in need of her
    Reach out and then she’s gone
    Like a dream she enters in to me
    Complete we move as one
    Close to touch yet visionary
    Fragile and yet strong
    In a labcoat they would capture her
    Shape her like a bomb
    Copyright and manufacture
    Her endless fractal song
    In foolish hands we kill ourselves
    One finger on the gun
    In shooting at an enemy who’s everybody’s son
    All that shatters, all that shatters
    Breaks us open
    All that shatters, all that shatters
    Lets more light in
    All that shatters, all that shatters
    Breaks us open
    All that shatters, all that shatters
    Lets more light in"

    This song was performed at the following gigs:
  • Hop Farm Festival - 2nd July 2011
  • London Camden Dingwalls - 3rd May 2011
  • Brighton Komedia - 2nd May 2011
  • Sheffield Leadmill - 30th April 2011
  • Wrexham Glyndwr University - 28th April 2011
  • Leeds Cockpit - 27th April 2011
  • Cambridge Junction 2 - 26th April 2011
  • Birmingham Glee Club - 24th April 2011
  • Kendal Brewery Arts Centre - 23rd April 2011
  • Glasgow Oran Mor - 21st April 2011
  • Manchester Club Academy - 20th April 2011
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    Do Yourself A Favour

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    Do Yourself A Favour was first released on the Tim Booth’s solo album Love Life.

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    Song Name:Do Yourself A Favour
    Alternative Name(s):
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:Wrexham Glyndwr University - 28th April 2011
    Original Release Album:Love Life
    Released:4th April 2011
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    Love LifeTim BoothStudio Album2011
    Love Life (Promo)Tim BoothPromo Album2011
    Do yourself a favour accept I'm into you
    Bypass dramas of insecurity
    You could put me through
    Yeah, maybe we'll fail but respect is due
    I'm still looking for love
    While the roof’s caving in
    And the monkeys control the zoo

    You disturb my sleep
    Dreams and fantasies
    You’re awakening me
    To possibilities

    Maybe I'm crazy, delusional
    Do yourself a favour, do yourself a favour
    Maybe I'm crazy, delusional
    Do yourself a favour, do yourself a favour

    The ship is entering the dock
    Beneath the bridge the car is locked
    The windows are steamed
    Where would love be without insanity?
    I'm sawing through my ball and chain
    No sooner free than chained again
    10,000 new ways
    I'm so blinded by love and the sirens says
    Risk the waves

    Maybe I'm crazy, delusional
    Do yourself a favour, do yourself a favour

    And I'm praying you feel the same way
    And I’ll find out one of these days

    Revolutions coming, long overdue
    Get in touch with your heart
    And the rest of you too

    Crazy, delusional
    Do yourself a favour, do yourself a favour

    Hold tight
    Steep climb
    Riptide
    Loves bride
    Sharp drop
    Shy smile
    Don’t stop
    Just glide
    Hold on

    This song was performed at the following gigs:
  • Wrexham Glyndwr University - 28th April 2011
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    Monsters

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    Monsters was first released on the Tim Booth’s solo album Love Life.

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    Song Name:Monsters
    Alternative Name(s):
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:Manchester Club Academy - 20th April 2011
    Original Release Album:Love Life
    Released:4th April 2011
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    Love LifeTim BoothStudio Album2011
    Love Life (Promo)Tim BoothPromo Album2011
    Monsters (Tim Booth)Tim BoothVideo Single2011
    Monsters (Tim Booth)Tim BoothVideo Single2011
    He took a watch on a chain from a waistcoat pocket
    Unhooked the clasp
    Flipped open the lid
    Inside’s a universe of constellations
    Said ”What’s the time Mr Rabbit?”
    He said, “It’s closing time”

    Won’t be long we hit the low point on the high road
    If you do your sums
    Or the high point on the dirt road
    Then we’ll soon be done
    I said Buddy tell me how does this work
    On this lamppost it read DOG
    It read AND
    It read EVE
    It read EVOL
    Backwards

    Old man, what do you see
    We’re just bugs heading into a windscreen
    The constellations pulsed and glowed
    Reading the future in the guts of a cane toad
    The angle of stars when you’re conceived
    The point of return written into your genes
    I conceive when I breathe.

    There’s monsters coming to get you

    Closing time
    Dreams come true
    We collude
    There’s monsters coming to get you

    Break down or breaking through
    DMTv
    Give me the Nembutol
    Banging at my door
    Banging at my door
    Stirring the witches brew
    Kicking off downstairs
    Stuck in a déjà vu
    Banging at my door
    Banging at my door

    He took a bleached white bone from his pocket (an inside pocket)
    Mumbled a spell
    Sound like a song
    Petitioned his gods with prayer as if his life depended on it
    Said “Whats the time Mr Rabbit?”
    He said, “There is no time”
    Used the bone to let some blood fall on the dry land
    Then he passed it on
    He let my blood spill on the parched land
    I took up his song
    Sang,
    “Buddy tell me how does this work?”
    With my blood
    He wrote, AND
    He wrote, EVE
    He wrote, DOG
    He wrote, EVOL
    Backwards.

    Old man, what do you see?
    We’re just bugs heading into a windscreen
    The constellations pulsed and glowed
    I saw the future in the guts of a cane toad
    The angle of stars when you’re conceived
    The futures melting, melting like ice cream
    I conceive when I dream

    There’s monsters coming to get you

    Closing time
    Dreams come true
    We collude
    There’s monsters coming to get you

    Closing time (Break down or breaking through)
    Dreams come true (DMTv)
    We collude (Give me the Nembutol)
    Banging at my door
    Banging at my door
    Stirring the witches brew
    Kicking off downstairs
    Stuck in a déjà vu
    Banging at my door
    Banging at my door

    We murder the hero

    This song was performed at the following gigs:
  • London Camden Dingwalls - 3rd May 2011
  • Brighton Komedia - 2nd May 2011
  • Sheffield Leadmill - 30th April 2011
  • Wrexham Glyndwr University - 28th April 2011
  • Leeds Cockpit - 27th April 2011
  • Cambridge Junction 2 - 26th April 2011
  • Birmingham Glee Club - 24th April 2011
  • Kendal Brewery Arts Centre - 23rd April 2011
  • Glasgow Oran Mor - 21st April 2011
  • Manchester Club Academy - 20th April 2011
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    Bless Them All

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    Bless Them All was first released on the Tim Booth’s solo album Love Life.

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    Song Name:Bless Them All
    Alternative Name(s):
    Original Artist:Tim Booth
    Song Type:Song
    First Heard Live:Manchester Club Academy - 20th April 2011
    Original Release Album:Love Life
    Released:4th April 2011
    This song is available on the following releases:
    ReleaseArtistFormatYear
    Love LifeTim BoothStudio Album2011
    Love Life (Promo)Tim BoothPromo Album2011
    We survived another night
    Tortured by reflected light
    All our battles are in the mind
    Revenge is never without cost
    Can't retrieve the things you lost
    Please remind me what this war was for
    To the south there's a storm tonight
    Off to the east a force is rising
    In the West we must agree to disagree

    And the hail balls down hard
    And the walls cry
    Love is the cure
    And the heart it breaks break breaks
    Cracks in the sidewalk
    Chase veins across freeways write
    Love is the cure
    As the earth it shakes shake shakes

    Bless them all
    Bless them all
    Beyond understanding

    Please don't let the fires go out
    Hope's the antidote to doubt
    Way too soon to say we've done our best
    Luck has borne me in the West
    I can choose to be oppressed
    I mostly choose to feather my own nest

    We came across in this awful light
    Depends upon the lens you're using
    We'll not go quietly you should know by now

    Bless them all, bless them all
    Beyond understanding
    Bless them all, bless them all
    Beyond understanding

    Will someone please explain to me what makes a human being
    Love is the cure
    As the earth tilts 6°
    We succumb to some dumb calling
    One-man stand against tanks
    Love is the cure
    Let go and set yourself free
    Towers falling slow motion
    Sky scraping one by one
    Love is the cure
    For the land of the ill at ease
    Lifted clean into the air in the fist of a twister
    Love is the cure
    Crash down on the sickening breeze
    We built these walls piece by piece
    Trade spawned, turtle speed
    Love is the cure
    Blown away in a blink or a sneeze
    Through the land I breeze
    Updrafts lift me
    Love is the cure
    From these heights I see

    This song was performed at the following gigs:
  • London Camden Dingwalls - 3rd May 2011
  • Brighton Komedia - 2nd May 2011
  • Sheffield Leadmill - 30th April 2011
  • Wrexham Glyndwr University - 28th April 2011
  • Leeds Cockpit - 27th April 2011
  • Cambridge Junction 2 - 26th April 2011
  • Birmingham Glee Club - 24th April 2011
  • Kendal Brewery Arts Centre - 23rd April 2011
  • Glasgow Oran Mor - 21st April 2011
  • Manchester Club Academy - 20th April 2011
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