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Beauty Queens
02:17
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James Jefferys - Beauty Queens
I'm scared what I will do in my sleep
My telephone's
Running low
On battery
Not waiting for the light of day
And it's new rules
Cos no-one calls
Me anyway
If I cry my eyes out,
Does that mean I won't see
All the beauty queens,
Precious little dainty things,
Understood and spineless twins
Gathered around me?
Don't care about your feelings or mine
I never flee
This irony
Suits me fine
I haven't talked to anyone
In three days straight
The cashier at the supermarket
Asked if I'd lost weight
But it was hard to answer her
(As it would be a construct)
She disappeared like smoke in air,
I'd made the whole thing up
If I cry my eyes out,
Does that mean I won't see
All the beauty queens,
Precious little dainty things,
Understood and spineless twins
Gathered around me?
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2. |
Anyone?
02:56
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James Jefferys - Anyone?
So what if this tune
Was written about you
Just another things goes by
And before you wake
For habitual sake
Let routine clothe you
And show you the way....
To anyone out there...
Does it sound like I care?
To anyone out there....
So what if these words
Aren't ever heard?
Yet another things goes by
And the melody
A tune from me to me
I can hear, at least
Yet another thing goes by...
To anyone out there...
Does it sound like I care?
To anyone out there....
Anyone?
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3. |
People I Don't Even Know
02:51
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James Jefferys - People I Don't Even Know
Medication extending the lives
Of people I don't even know
You don't deserve,
Haven't earned to draw breath
Find a dark corner
And wait for death
Who are you?
All these statues are
Wearing nice clothes
All of them scared,
Some of them froze
They cling to the chance
That one day they'll dance
Out this museum
And stroke the stars
Who are you?
Their hopes and ambitions
Mean nothing to me
They're a photograph
Of something unreal
Medication extending the lives
Of people I don't even know
Starry-eyed soul
Is something I tried
Pareidolia
Never was shy
Who are you?
Nothing rushed in
To fill the vacuum
I hope that this proves
I won't try to attack you
Taking up space
In the human race
Even coins
And cliffs have a face
If it came down
To just me and you
I'd let you drown
And not lift my boot
Medication extending the lives
Of people I don't even know
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4. |
Tell Me Who Sent You
03:16
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James Jefferys - Tell Me Who Sent You
Purring like a cat
Purring like a cat in a moment
Moving forward, not back
Little things like that keep time in track
Twisted skin stretched over useless bones
Silence in zeroes, speaking in ones
Checking his reflection in all the car windows
The people conversing inside his head
Swung the conversation to his genius, instead
So second by second the world around him fled
Tell me who sent you
Parasite of senses
(ooh ooh, ooh ooh)
Sucking on placenta
Tell me who sent you
Slouching on a beach at four am
Chords like weeds strangle my brain
Won't there ever be a garden again?
It's not all bad
Stop sulking, you dolt
It could well be much worse
I could think of
Many others who
Couldn't finish this verse
Tell me who sent you
Parasite of senses
(ooh ooh, ooh ooh)
Sucking on placenta
Tell me who sent you
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5. |
Faces of Exes
03:54
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James Jefferys - Faces of Exes
The frost thaws on this brand new day
They lost, of course, and so do they
Cross the moors for the sweet bouquet
Or froth at the jaws, as you say?
The scene begins with the parish vicar
Queens or God – what vanishes quicker?
I’m mean, and thinking to lavishly trick her –
Some obscene sinning; it’s sad that it’s sicker.
The only reason I want success is
To imagine the looks on the faces of exes
I dream of a tree in a misty park,
Of seals in the seal with twisting sharks,
And a screaming me under its bark
Peeling and cleaning off lipstick marks.
What Hell on Earth ever happened here?
Lights tell of self-serving nostalgia –
Fell as a birth from a chandelier
And bells declare. It’s perfect for fear.
The only reason I want success is
To imagine the looks on the faces of exes
Hopefully and sillily
I just want them to think of me
The artillery is killing me
I just want them to think of me
I send for the codes, but such things are rationed
Men in black robes mutter of crashes
Then something explodes, and so cutting her losses
She comes over all rosy with a flutter of lashes.
The only reason I want success is
To imagine the looks on the faces of exes
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6. |
Rampage & Focus
02:55
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James Jefferys - Rampage & Focus
Rampage of the beasts
Mighty like the Taurus
Stupid like the finch
Focus comes along and it's colder
Than a setting sun
Is it safe to fight it or to run?
I've got one hand waving and the
Other holding tight
Leaving on a ship in the middle
Of the night
All the crowds have gathered
Just to see the fruition
Jostling to check
That I have gone
Tearing through the dark
Ripping up the icebergs
Playing a bit part
Focus comes along and it's weaker
Than the strength of one
Is it safe to fight it or to run?
I'm stuck in the throes
Of being caught of my toes
And nobody knows
And everything froze
When I chose
But that's how it goes...
I've got one hand waving and the
Other holding tight
Leaving on a ship in the middle
Of the night
All the crowds have gathered
Just to see the fruition
Jostling to check
That I have gone
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7. |
Sophisticated Minds
03:03
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James Jefferys - Sophisticated Minds
Sophisticated minds
Always seem blind
To desperate persuasion
(That's all I'm saying)
But don't take that from me
I don't hold the key
To perfect conversation
(Just frustrated chasing)
Colours splitting out from the clouds – as many as your head will allow!
Ours is just to reason why – ask, worry and then to die
Sophisticated minds
Mechanised sublime
Everyone else can tell
You're thinking too high of yourself
But don't take that from me
Cos I can barely see
Barely see you at all
From my pedestal
Colours splitting out from the clouds – as many as your head will allow!
Ours is just to reason why – ask, worry and then to die
Sophisticated brains
Decorate the drains
In pretty shades of red
Green, purple (that's been said)
Acid rain
Here again
Psycho rain like yesterday
Paint me fast
So I'll last
Psycho rain like yesterday
Colours splitting out from the clouds – as many as your head will allow!
Ours is just to reason why – ask, worry and then to die
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8. |
Miserable Somewhere Else
03:45
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James Jefferys - Miserable Somewhere Else
Sunny contradiction, send your rays
The leaves have said what they've had to say
And all above our heads is grey
And over that, a piercing blue
That lets the cold air drift straight through
How can this petty reprise
Never bring someone new to tell?
And always come as a surprise
I'm not miserable somewhere else
Here it is – a new beginning
A not being given the chance to win in
The creaky season where everyone's grinning
And over that, they're positive
And worse than that, they've closeted
All the things that I've laid out
Until my mind is just a shell
September's time to look about
To be miserable somewhere else
Comparing things is quite a game
When you know not of other's shame
Or through which door their problems came
And over that, the door's still open
Which could be why they're always joking
They've just found the time to chime
Their beautiful new bell
But scratching round all the while
To be miserable somewhere else
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9. |
All Torn Up
02:53
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James Jefferys - All Torn Up
All Torn Up
All Torn Up
Striding with pride
What a great new gait that you've got
Problems aside
That it's about time you forgot
All Torn Up
All Torn Up
Then round the bend
There's something that sends you to slouch
Your face turns to paste
At the sobering sight of a couch
All Torn Up
All Torn Up
Absurd on the curb
Saltlick to troubled minds
Stable in stable
Now let out on the field just to find
All Torn Up
All Torn Up
I'm thinking the shrink
Hasn't shut down, not nearly
Afraid, instead
Just bought a new bed from my fee
All Torn Up
All Torn Up
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10. |
Not Enough
03:47
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James Jefferys - Not Enough
Not Enough
A simple song of one, not love is
Not Enough
To work out how to get above is
Not Enough
I froze myself and climbed atop and
Not Enough
Was not a song I ever sung
Snow blowing in my hair
Nobody else was there
Not Enough
To stand on those who came before, and
Not Enough
To maybe, one day think you're sure, but
Not Enough
A little bit is never more, and
Not Enough
Is ice to those who never thaw
Snow blowing in my hair
Nobody else was there
Beyond compare,
It always got me down
It's all there to share
So let it all go round
Snow melting from us all
We must have seemed like fools
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