Get all 29 James Jefferys releases available on Bandcamp.
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Children
04:44
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Jimmy Biggs- Children
Wool makes it better,
Knit a happy sweater
And wrap yourself up in the sun
Sweaty cotton flowers
Cooling July showers
Are making this year what it was
Boats leave the sea
To an ocean of harmony
Left with peaceful sounds
We've forgotten about the town
That money can't be bought
Is a dying, naive thought
And we surrender
Hoping that I don't offend her
The sun plays hide and seek
But the children sneak a peek
From their spot on the hill behind the tree
The sea smiles on the children,
Then it parts in seven ways
But we won't have to tell them
Cos the language talks in waves
The sea smiles on the children,
Then it parts in seven ways
But we won't have to tell them
Cos the language talks in waves
Boats leave the sea
To an ocean of harmony
Left with peaceful sounds
We've forgotten about the town
That money can't be bought
Is a dying, naive thought
And we surrender
Hoping that I don't offend her
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Flamingo
03:19
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Jimmy Biggs- Flamingo
Lovely day for croquet,
Wouldn't you say?
My friends say 'come and play!'
But I'm okay
But I'm asleep, tucked up in bed
Hoops in my dreams instead...
Rain licks the field
Like a child with an ice-cream, baby.
The clouds are hot,
But the rain is not, warm gravy
But I'm asleep, tucked up in bed
Hoops in my dreams instead...
Parasols grow on the golfing pros, flamingo
Mushrooms rush with brushes and brooms to lush tombs
Lovely day for croquet,
Wouldn't you say?
Water polo solo in the choppy sea,
Just me,
Again.
But I'm asleep, tucked up in bed
Hoops in my dreams instead...
Lovely day for croquet,
(One day) but not to-day.
When you need a boat
To skip the moat
A vote results in total dismay
But I'm asleep, tucked up in bed
Trickles down my leg instead
Parasols grow on the golfing pros, by jingo
Mushrooms rush with brushes and brooms cos doom looms.
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Dolphin
03:42
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Jimmy Biggs- Dolphin
Meaningless offerings, fun and games
This isn't suffering, ignore James
Death in the family, who's to blame?
Now's the time to act all scared and tame.
Someone pulls the strings, but it's not you.
They're not instructions, you fool.
You're just a good looking tool.
I'm in the park with my pride
Told the sharks my secrets then they died.
Looked like a bee sting when it dried
Dolphins gathered round and surmised.
Someone pulls the strings, but it's not you.
They're not instructions, you fool.
You're just a good looking tool.
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Aardvark
02:37
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Jimmy Biggs- Aardvark
Cockroach, wicker stage
I'm all they ever wanted
Flightless egg, all the rage
My baby learned piano
Le Lavandou
Regret your mistake
Chrysanthemum
You were young anyway
Aardvark, so rude
Let your lady proceed
You've eaten all your food
Before she's even been seated.
Garden Center day out,
What a blast!
Tripping through colours and plants
And our past!
Bormes-Les-Mimosas
Chinese rocks...
K talks the talk
But does he squirrel?
Aardvark, so rude
Let your lady proceed
You've eaten all your food
Before she's even been seated.
Tall, grey stone walls
Nothing's up, nothing falls
Tall, grey stone walls
Tear well in pools...
Tall, grey stone walls
Nothing's up, nothing falls
Tall, grey stone walls
Tear well in pools...
Tall, grey stone walls
Nothing's up, nothing falls
Tall, grey stone walls
Tear well in pools...
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Pig
03:12
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Jimmy Biggs- Pig
Let me start again
I'm only nervous
And what's worse is this crushing pain
My trotters,
Used for trotting,
It's unfair.
Let pigs cuts the clouds, they're only hoping
Let pigs cut the clouds, it beats their moping.
Get back to your kite...
Let me start again
Puff out my lungs
To resolve the opposing thumbs
Providing the provider provides,
It's fine.
Let pigs cuts the clouds, they're only hoping
Let pigs cut the clouds, it beats their moping.
Get back to your kite...
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Jellyfish
03:42
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Jimmy Biggs- Jellyfish
Late night swimming in the thrashing sea
It really takes something to impress me
Oh, come on ocean – make it so.
Kicking with his arms, Hyena draws a joker.
Here's a sharp alarm – I think it's getting closer
Oh, come on ocean – make it so.
Fear-induced panic attack,
Floating like a twat on his back
Feels it deep down in the sack
From the very start it meant jack...
Just one wish before I kiss the ocean floor and I'm banished to eternal you in this horrible brew (It's true) … Jellyfish
Third degree burns to half my body
Alone in the sand, how'll I tell Mummy?
No, nobody ever should know.
I lie cracked ice on a throne of urchins
Slightest movement sends my stomach lurching
No, nobody ever should know.
Washed-up, alone and sore
Tossed like a bone on the shore
Lost, far from home and I'm sure
That jellyfish don't have the cure
Just one wish before I kiss the ocean floor and I'm banished to eternal you in this horrible brew (It's true) … Jellyfish
I'm having the time of your life-
Dancing in a room with your wife
She begs me not to stop
As I slowly unbutton her top...
Just one wish before I kiss the ocean floor and I'm banished to eternal you in this horrible brew (It's true) … Jellyfish
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Horse
02:56
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Jimmy Biggs- Horse
Walk, walk with the same shoes
What have you got to lose?
Horses, along for the ride
Horses using your stride
I sit so quiet in jail.
Luck, you bought me good luck
Now I'll die here on this rock
Horses, along for the ride
Horses using your stride
Ask me how I bit the rail
I whistle our own tune
Still just me and the full moon.
Horses, along for the ride
Horses using your stride
Ask me how I bit the rail
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Mouse
04:16
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Jimmy Biggs- Mouse
I'll take good care of her
Walk her to the graveyard
With my violin over my shoulder
Plants sprout through my toes
The mice respect the prose
There's cowardice in rhyming
The vicar left here long ago
It's just a garden, now.
And the mice aren't even real...
You could walk from Biarritz
To Phuket, you could
If that's what someone
Required of you
And the mice aren't even real...
And the distance from the mice
To the rings around Saturn
Could be our song to share
If they'd only stop moving
And the mice aren't even real...
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Canary
04:13
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Jimmy Biggs- Canary
Mindful, tip-toe, Minefield,
(Sweeper tread gently, you're not representing)
Mindful, tip-toe, Minefield,
(Sweeper tread gently, you're not representing)
You've nothing to prove to your squadron
You're not their yellow canary
Float on ahead, above ground
Don't let them know what you found
Mindful, tip-toe, Minefield,
(Sweeper tread gently, you're not representing)
Mindful, tip-toe, Minefield,
(Sweeper tread gently, you're not representing)
Sleep, sleep on the job while you're entrusted
You, sir, are no-one's canary...
Let your pace slow to a crawl,
Light a cigar, have a ball
Mindful, tip-toe, Minefield,
(Sweeper tread gently, you're not representing)
Mindful, tip-toe, Minefield,
(Sweeper tread gently, you're not representing)
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