Get all 29 James Jefferys releases available on Bandcamp.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Lifetime for the Shy, So Now He Hides, Songs For People Who Keep Their Heads Down, Or a Hollywood Movie, All Is Worry, Now I Can See Exactly Where the Sea Begins, Gone is Trouble, Stand Outside Your House, Face the Street and Shout, and 21 more.
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Reams of Things
00:39
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James Jefferys - Reams of Things
When your whole life has been a dream
You've seen
Reams of things
That might not be real
Remember day when consequence
Meant something
And worlds of dreams
Ripped at their seams
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2. |
Good Morning
00:56
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James Jefferys - Good Morning
Ain’t it good waking up in the sunshine
And not because of a ringing bell?
Ain’t it good being slowly lifted
Out of a dream into which you fell?
Ain’t it good with no interruptions
Rolling over as long as you want?
Ain’t it good
Ain’t it good….?
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3. |
Summer Song
01:27
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James Jefferys - Summer Song
Come out from inside, love
From where you were hidden
It’s good under your hood
Until you realise what you’re missing
All of your friends
Make the same decision
And fear when they’re not here
What it could be that they’re missing
A longer, better day
Far more time to play
Our shadows laying long
With time enough to sing our Summer Song.
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4. |
Before Sunflower
00:29
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(instrumental)
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5. |
Sunflower
01:24
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James Jefferys - Sunflower
Lovely and lively
Laboured breathing
Yet to exist
As a souvenir
Lost on concrete
A meadow's foe
The woody stem
Of my reluctance
Father of some
Flower of sun
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6. |
Rainbow
02:40
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James Jefferys - Rainbow
A red river runs
Right through a rainbow
Cuts course in the sky
Winding and weaving,
Coming and going without ever leaving
A blue child skips
Right though a rainbow
Both feet through the clouds
Tripping and soaring
Coming and going, without ever boring
A yellow light flashes
Right through a rainbow
Followed by thunder
Echoing, booming
Coming and going, without ever looming
A orange sound flutters
Right through a rainbow
Trickles through silence
Coming and going, without ever leaving
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7. |
Fox & Snail
02:12
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James Jefferys - Fox & Snail
We followed the slugs
We followed the snails
Down country paths
And long forest trails
I'm glad it took so long
Yes, I'm glad it took so long
Foxes miss the hints
With stealthy, healthy sprints
Deer don't find the clues
As they smoothly cruise
I'm glad it took so long
Yes, I'm glad it took so long
Everything goes by so fast
I'm glad it took so long
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8. |
Away With the Fairies
00:42
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James Jefferys - Away With the Fairies
I spent the day with Arthur
A day so calm and airy
A day at the foot of his garden
A day away with the fairies
So I don’t care what the others say
For me, it has no bearing.
On anything I saw today
Whilst I was with the fairies.
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9. |
I, If I
01:19
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James Jefferys - I, If I
What, if this is nothing
Could it ever be?
I, if I be lifted up
Will draw all men unto me
This, if what love is
Only what it is to me
I, if I be lifted up
Will draw all men unto me
Love, if I'm enough
And faithful, if not free
I, if I be lifted up
Will draw all men unto me
I, if I...
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10. |
Wood Won
02:15
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James Jefferys - Wood Won
Everything stopped working
Everyone went home
Every bird began to sing
And wood won
People left the world
From the same place they had come
Let nature again unfurl
And wood won
The clouds shyly parted
And out shone the sun
We're back to where we started
And wood won
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11. |
Autumn Song
01:22
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James Jefferys - Autumn Song
It appears to be
That it’s all coming down
Water’s storing itself in the clouds
And it’s crunchy on the ground.
Bark climbs up my shins
My roots try harder than ever.
The ‘all’ I speak of
Forms a carpet at my trunk
And when the compost’s sunk
The sun can spark upon my spiral sons.
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12. |
Ask Them
01:45
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James Jefferys - Ask Them
Ask them where they come from
Ask them where they’ve been
Ask them who they travelled with
And what they’ve smelled and seen
Ask them what the questions were
Ask them ‘bout the birds
Ask of time and space and reason
And what they felt and heard
Ask them when it all began
Ask them where they’ll go
Ask them how the whole thing turns
But never what they know
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13. |
Midday
02:11
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James Jefferys - Midday
It's the middle of the day
And hopefully
I'm closer to birth than death
And birds above
As these things happen only once
It's closer to breakfast than bed
Closer to fly than a web
Inside the white spider, instead
And closer to birth than death
To be closer to birth than death
With unsaid heads left to bless
A fight against time and what's best
And without much a care for the rest
It's midday,
And I'm closer to birth than death
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14. |
Peppermint
03:27
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James Jefferys - Peppermint
That bite in the air
Can't do what it's told
It's not set to regret
Or lament that it's cold
Because it just is -
It's Peppermint
The jags on the rocks
Not as soft as the harp
So cuts and knocks
Still slice quite as sharp
Because it just is -
It's peppermint
Peppermint
Clicks its heels
And's the last to confess
Exactly how fresh
All of this feels
Peppermint
The fruits on the trees
Raise up their arms,
Say 'believe in us, please!
We meant you no harm.'
Because it just is -
It's Peppermint
But along comes a man
With white flag aloft
Says 'let's do what we can'
'To forget the lot,
We forgive what we can't
And take what we ought
And never had chance
To be at fault'
Peppermint
Clicks its heels
And's the last to confess
Exactly how fresh
All of this feels
Peppermint
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15. |
Winter Song
01:52
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James Jefferys - Winter Song
Plastic flowers on the window sill
They’ve been ill
For some time, now.
Count their pennies to work out the cost
They’ve laughed at frost
For some time, now.
The cups are china clean
The kettle rumbles steam,
And I go outside
Snow lands in my tea and I
Smile at the sky
The stillness of an icy calm
Feel your eyelashes dancing on my palm.
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16. |
I, If I'm Sorry
01:41
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James Jefferys - I, If I'm Sorry
I'm damned, unrounded malice
This is all my mess
I'm clammy-handed ballast
To all your hopes, at best
I'm ram-mounted balance
At a lonely sheep's behest
And lamb as bounty callous
And you can see my breath
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I couldn't feel more sorry
I, if I...
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
I couldn't feel more sorry
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17. |
Friends Again
00:57
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(instrumental)
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18. |
Just For Us
01:36
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James Jefferys - Just For Us
It's a little too hard
To put a face to this place
The mouth talks to me
In whispers of clean
Old memories
The ears of this land
Can't understand
In tongues flowery or plain
What it is that I'm saying
Not long ago
Such a thing wasn't so
We spoke in terms
Just for us to discern
And the prettiest show
Was just for us to know
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19. |
Disappear
02:40
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James Jefferys - Disappear
Heads down
The sun is going away
Heads down
There's no reason to look
Heads down
93 million miles away
Heads down
Has bowed, like you
Heads down
Bowed like you, to the moon
Heads down
Bowed like you, to the moon
Heads down
Nothing's special, no, not here
Heads down
It disappears... you disappear.
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20. |
Into Black
00:56
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(instrumental)
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21. |
Spring Song
01:49
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James Jefferys - Spring Song
Spring is sprung
With blossoms free
Their scents are sent
And received by me
And waiting, too
My patient ear
Not much to hear
Throughout the year
It's been quiet...
Yes, it's been quiet
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22. |
Kind Dark
01:48
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James Jefferys - Kind Dark
You can be strong
And you can be brave
But it would be wrong
To be afraid
Hush, little child
With the baby bird
And do not try
To say a word
Hold its wings
In your tiny arms
In what kind dark brings
Till morning comes
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23. |
Croix De Feu
03:27
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James Jefferys - Croix De Feu
Wandering pupa, take me on
Cos punishment is also bliss.
A struggle to accept when it comes
From one like this, a chrysalis
And I am you, a constant second
From just being born
Croix De Feu, newly wetted
Doesn’t yet light up a lawn
Pupa crawls and clings and clutches
And still does what it can’t.
Everything now isn’t much, it’s
All the world, it’s just this branch.
And I am you, trembling child
And at best benign
Croix De Feu, sparkles mild
Our time of time sees time
Brazen and bulging, the pupa pristine
Allows the breeze to shake it
Savouring the sultry soup of the scene,
Allows the breeze to take it…
A broken body left behind
And far beyond a violence
Rises over all of Kind
Hark at the stillness of silence
And I am you, eternal comfort
To touch those who cry
Croix De Feu, burning sumptuous
Flying high, butterfly
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24. |
Dog & Hen
00:23
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James Jefferys - Dog & Hen
The lazy dog looked at the hen -
“I'll never race with you again!”
The clever hen looked at the dog -
“Next time you mightn't be so smug!”
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25. |
Daffodil
00:40
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James Jefferys - Daffodil
Darling daffodil,
Don't you have a bed to fill?
Folded under, waiting loyal
Your bulb pushed deep into the soil.
A thin film of needless pain
Waits to be doused by the April rain.
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26. |
Tuck Me In
02:52
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James Jefferys - Tuck Me In
Find me.
Look through the whole forest
If necessary
I'll be there
It may not look so, but
I am, I swear
In a shadow
Head in my hands, pretending
That I'm sad, and
So awake
Kiss me, lift me, and
For my own sake
Tuck me in.
No, I'll never know how much
I'm a lucky thing
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