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Magic Bus / Life

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Magic Bus is the ninth track on the CD and eighth track on the vinyl of the album All The Colours Of You.

An early demo version of the song, called Life, was released as part of the Deluxe Digital release of the album. An acoustic version featured on the Campfire EP.

The song was performed at all the 2023-2024 orchestral dates despite never previously being played live.

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All aboard magic bus
Take a ride become one of us
Here we all bring our minds to accord

We had maps we got lost
We had plans they got tossed
We dropped out for the love and the trust
Pledge you my troth

By these bones
By this blood
Who we are is enough
By these bones
By this blood
We exist for the buzz
By these bones
By this blood
We’re divine, we are dust
We’ll find god when we’ve lost all we’ve got

Only fools ride this bus
Uninsured, we are driverless
We aspire to the heights of a ziggurat
Spirit moves through the cracks
Our guru is a cat
Who lives both in this world and in that
Pledge you my troth

By these bones
By this blood
Who we are is enough
By these bones
By this blood
We create for the buzz
By these bones
By this blood
We’re divine we are dust
We’ll find God when we lost all we got

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Campfire EP Version

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Song:Magic Bus
Released:4th June 2021
Main Associated Album (or Single):All The Colours Of You
First Heard Live:Brighton The Dome – 25th April 2023
Played at:
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Wherever It Takes Us

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Wherever It Takes Us is the fifth track on the album All The Colours Of You.

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She’s weaving from car to car
Checking the doors
Leaving, leaving bloody hand prints on the paintwork
All locked!
Shots!
Drops to her knees gasping
Wheezing
Can’t breathe
The gas mask’s leaking
Acrid smoke
Hot Pain
Her …her slip’s on fire.
She flaps at it
Swan winged wrists
Flap flapping
Beat the embers out
From her crouch
She tries another handle
A mauve Pontiac
Unlocked!
She scrambles in
Slams the door shut
Ducks down
Peace.

We’re all in
Wherever it takes us
We’re all in
It breaks and it shapes us
We’re all in
Wherever it takes us
Let’s ride

She strips off her slip
Blotted heavy with blood
Tosses it
On the pink leather back seat
Smoke coils out of a zigzag cut on her palm
She sucks on it
Metallic taste
Underneath the jagged flap of skin
Whisps Of DNA unwind
Uncoiling
Dissipate, float away
An upgrade
She laughs
Words pour out of her mouth,
Bubblegum,
Like, like, like hieroglyphs
Bioluminescent opaque shapes
Fill up the Pontiac
And here it is
Here it is

We’re all in
Wherever it takes us
We’re all in
It breaks and it shapes us
We’re all in
Wherever it takes us
Let’s ride

She’s in the multiverse,
Connected lives overlapping
Like a,
Like a hall of mirrors
Lives
Lived and shed,
Affecting her now
Gig, gigabytesof history
Like a, like a, like a map
Ancient cultures,
Where men sit around the fire singing whilst the women keep bringing the children in
She strips off her skinsuit
It puddles at her feet like wormcast
Every cell illuminates and expands
Spools upwards
Melting dissolving
Into, into code
Light
She dives in
Illumination
And here it is, here it is
She’s made of stars

We’re all in
Wherever it takes us
We’re all in
It breaks and it shapes us
We’re all in
Wherever it takes us
Let’s ride

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Song:Wherever It Takes Us
Released:4th June 2021
Main Associated Album (or Single):All The Colours Of You
First Heard Live:Oxford O2 Academy – 17th August 2021
Played at:
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XYST

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XYST is the closing track on the album All The Colours Of You.

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Throw me a bone here
I’m down on my luck
You won life’s lottery
Now you don’t give a fuck
Throw me a bone here
You’ve so much on your plate
Strip the fields like locusts
Then flush us down the grate

At what cost innocence?
When we’re crushed
Jump the fence
Don’t forget you’re one of us
You’re one of us

It’s medieval
Lepers at your gate
Homeless and lonely
There’s no net to take our weight

At what cost innocence?
When we’re crushed
Jump the fence
Don’t forget you’re one of us
You’re one of us

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Song:XYST
Released:4th June 2021
Main Associated Album (or Single):All The Colours Of You
First Heard Live:Never performed live
    Can't find any records of performances.
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Hush

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Hush is the sixth track on the album All The Colours Of You.

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Was surprised you showed up to my wake
Guess you wanted proof I’d made it through the gates
Hush a body in the lake takes more weight
I’m not looking for revenge,
I love this place
Hmmm Hmmm
Time to cultivate patience
It’s not too late
I will, I will, I will wait
Hmmm
Fall in love with creation
Interlaced
I will, I will, I will wait
I’m aligned at the best of times
In death I have true faith
I will wait. I will wait. I will wait.
As above not so below
Love instead
What I would moan
Moan
Time to cultivate patience it’s not too late
I will, I will, I will wait
Fall in love with creation
Interlaced
I will, I will, I will wait
I’m aligned at the best of times
In death I have true faith
I will wait. I will wait. I will wait.
My humming in your sleep keeps you awake
Try writing off this friend that you can’t shake
Hmmm Hmmm

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Song:Hush
Released:4th June 2021
Main Associated Album (or Single):All The Colours Of You
First Heard Live:Never performed live
    Can't find any records of performances.
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Miss America

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Miss America is the seventh track on the CD and ninth track on the vinyl of the album All The Colours Of You.

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Miss America’s wearing thin
She’s all tiaras and glamour
Can’t stop the boss from keeping his hands off
Its all snakes no ladders
Miss America says live the dream
So long as you’re born white
Killed the natives and jailed the slaves
Move more to the right

May God bless you
And your golden sons
May God bless you
And your love of guns
May God bless you
And your passion for freedom
Sold to the man with the tan

Looked so good in the photograph - just smile
Not so good when the lights go dark
Heels about to break
She’s not straight
Her judge cries
Fake
Miss America’s rescue plan
Rocket ships to Mars
Fouled the nest so we’ll start again
With billionaires and film stars

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Campfire Version

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Song:Miss America
Released:4th June 2021
Main Associated Album (or Single):All The Colours Of You
First Heard Live:Wolverhampton KK Steel Mill – 23rd November 2021
Played at:
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ZERO

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ZERO is the opening track on the album All The Colours Of You.

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We’re all gonna die
That’s the truth
Quit measuring time
By money and youth
Time’s no straight line
Time’s a slope
My credit’s declined
Keep dancing with hope
We’re all going to die
Prescriptions and pills
So live to your shine
Don’t live unfulfilled
Life’s a free climb
No ropes
Let go of the mind
Lie back and float

Some days I go no
Some days I go yeah
Some days I go woah
Some days I go yeah
Woah
Yeah

We’re ageing like wine ‘til we don’t
I’ll be by your side
I’ll sing when you choke
We’re all gonna die
No joke
So live to your shine
Before you go croak
Some days I go no
Some days I go yeah
Some days I go woah
Some days I’m a yeah
Woah
Yeah
Woah
Yeah
Woah
Yeah

Oscillator
Up
Oscillator
Down
Oscillator
Oscillator
Round and round

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Song:ZERO
Released:4th June 2021
Main Associated Album (or Single):All The Colours Of You
First Heard Live:Oxford O2 Academy – 17th August 2021
Played at:
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Absolute Radio Session – 3rd June 2021

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Setlist

All The Colours Of You / Say Something / Beautiful Beaches / Getting Myself Into / Tomorrow

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Five track Absolute Radio session recorded at Broughton House to support the All The Colours Of You album release. The video replay of the session is below.

Getting Myself Into

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Getting Myself Into is the eighth track on the CD and seventh track on the vinyl of the album All The Colours Of You.

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What could go wrong
Was the last song played on deck
She’s there and she’s gone
I’m already half past wrecked
If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn’t have dared
If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn’t have fled

The love of your life
Or a trophy wife
Cinderella at midnight
All I got is a shoe

If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn’t have dared
If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn’t have fled

Thought I gave it up for Lent
Burning all my bridges down
Sailors dream of home
Husbands the open road
Some unwritten law
Keeps me burning all my bridges down
Mermaids on the rocks

If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn’t have dared
If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn’t have fled

Bury Jack
Bury Jack’s magic beans
Magic beans
Pray for me
Pray for me

Bury Jack
Bury Jack’s magic beans
Magic beans
Pray for me
Pray for me

Black hole swallows a neutron star
Back at the bar It’s half past mid-life
Blue light shift giving birth to a star
I’m half gassed
Supernova

If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn’t have dared
If I knew what I was getting myself into
I wouldn’t have fled

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Song:Getting Myself Into
Released:4th June 2021
Main Associated Album (or Single):All The Colours Of You
First Heard Live:Absolute Radio Session – 3rd June 2021
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Isabella

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Isabella is the tenth track on the album All The Colours Of You.

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Someday soon when I die
They’ll do an autopsy
Find your bullet inside
The way that you killed me that night
Shot a hole in my heart
Some part of me died

Two bodies on a bed jack knife
One’s a lover the other’s my wife
Something about you came alive
From the sing of your song
To the ring of your lies

Shake she’s coming

Isabella
Loves the altitude
Freedom lover
Shakes an Earthquake of such magnitude
Every pleasure denied
Wakes the devil inside

Madness season
We’ve stopped breathing
Un-cock your shotgun
Way past victim

Isabella
Loves the altitude
Freedom lover
Shakes an Earthquake of such magnitude
Every pleasure denied
Is a compromise
Every pleasure denied
Wakes the devil inside

Freedom
Lovers
Karma
Freedom
Lovers
Every pleasure denied
Wakes the devil inside

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Song:Isabella
Released:19th May 2021
Main Associated Album (or Single):All The Colours Of You
First Heard Live:Amazon Music/Twitch.tv Session – 10th June 2021
Played at:
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Recover

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Recover is the third track on James’ All The Colours Of You album

It was previewed at the Music Feeds online festival on January 29th 2021 with the song’s performance being compiled from at home footage of Tim, Jim, Saul and Mark.

The song is about the death due to COVID-19 of Tim’s father-in-law Savile Shela.

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Cry
For the ones we have lost we have loved
Wash your hands
There’s a thief of our breath

Stay inside
Stay alive
It will be alright
Stay inside
Stay alive
It will be alright

Nature needs a break
So we wait in our home ,our foxhole
I’m out of a job
Confronting my life
The walls of my home
It’ll be alright
It will be alright

Will he get better?
A cold
Will he get better?
Just a chill, sore throat
Will he recover?
In a ward all alone
Will he recover?
He can’t breathe without a machine to carry the load
It’ll be alright
It will be alright

We will remember
Your wicked sense of fun
We will remember
Now the circus has moved on
We will remember
Your last call was a song
We will remember
How to pass your spirit on

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Campfire EP Version

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Song:Recover
Released:5th May 2021
Main Associated Album (or Single):All The Colours Of You
First Heard Live:Oxford O2 Academy – 17th August 2021
Played at:
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