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1. |
James Band Evil!
00:20
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2. |
i SEE
01:46
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Dreams can tell you truth
All your problems too
Like how you're doing great
What is mind and what is fake
People tell me things
And I can't hear what you say
I guess this sounds like nothing at all
Doesn't matter at all
I guess this sounds like nothing at all
Doesn't matter at all
This is broken therapy
See how far its come for me
This is broken therapy
See how far its come for me
I get spent saying things that I don't mean a lot
But if I spit on the ground, would I be stirring the pot
I remember a lot
And I'll get younger I won't elect the best of it
When I get younger I'm sure I'll sit
I won't forget, I won't forget
When I get bigger
I won't forget the half of it
I see it
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3. |
THERE IT IS!
02:52
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Hey now
The world is sun
You're getting burned the minute you
Wake up and then
Watch out for talking in this space
You don't move in
If there are artifacts that hold
The parallel hand
The way that history demands
Your feet fall in the sand and
You're reaching around for land
And can you not see?
This might have nothing to do with me
And right this way there's a cabinet
To keep all the peace inside
And can you not see
This might have nothing to do with me
We could all be free
I know it's gonna take some time
It's gonna take some time
The great divide
Might take some time
The great divide
To take some time
Stretched across the shattered hemisphere
Referring to a curated coffee table book
Made from leftover amazon boxes
Hypocritical and topical and normal
Not normal
Not normal
Not normal
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4. |
i will, I will.
02:51
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I don't wanna have a say
In the process
I promise I got this now
Resolution come around
Everyone hates it after a while
Resolution comedown
You have to spread the feeling out until it clashes with the doubt
That's how you scare it away
And that's a resolution rundown
It's evolution somehow
All that doing slows down
Well I heard that people like fear
And I heard
The ghost that you brought was in tears
And I heard
And I heard that people love love
And I heard
That hatred can fit like a glove
And I heard
And I heard that feelings are fake
And I heard
We're burning ourselves at the stake
And I heard
I don't wanna have a say
I don't want a brighter day
I don't want to have to move
I like where I am right now
And I know it's just about to let me down
And I think I've had enough for now
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5. |
idc.
02:34
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Locked up, doing nothing
Closing every door in the house
So quiet
Like it
Hate it
Love the speakers in the living room
Loud
Oh no
Must we turn them all down?
Let me know if I projected my body too wide
There's so many people inside
I'll be quiet
But good luck tryna to get me to shut up
And the wild thing is
Is all the wires coming out of my forehead
Plugged into an adapter
We can talk about it after
Is this a grade school?
How we 'sposed to measure what is cool
What they say
How they dress
What their thoughts are in their head
I'm upset
No I'm not
Are we trapped inside this box
Spell this out for me or not
Grip the handles on the locks
I'll be quiet
I promise to be quiet
But good luck tryna to get me to shut up
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6. |
Neighbor Chicken
02:36
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Today I woke up
To the doorbell ringing off the hook
It was a chicken
And he got spooked and
Went running in ways
Went running in ways
If I could behave
If I could behave
I'd tell him something
To get out of his way
To go out of his way
To go out of my way
To get out of my way
And when I checked on the way he went
Poured out the living room into the yard
And I could sense the way he felt about it
But I couldn't let go
I couldn't let go
I couldn't let go
I cannot let go
I will not let go
Out of my way
Out of my way
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7. |
Sliding Door
03:06
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So who left the sliding door open
Who left the refrigerator door open
Who thinks that it's ok to leave it open
Because this will follow all our lives
And keep us down and depressed till the end of time
It's like a black mark on our lives
It's like a black mark on our lives
So who left the sliding door open
So who left the front door open
If its not fixed this second, this time
It's gonna follow our lives
Forever till the end of time
So who is responsible
Gonna open up an
Investigative
Breach of contract
Breach of heart and
Cold
So you start feeling good about yourself
Beneath the moments that you help
Looking around you just might see
All of the fingers point at we
And if you detect a bit of steam
It's cause of the dishes finishing
Things are neither dirty or clean
All because of quarantine
We notice things
We notice things
We know these things
We know these things
I don't know
I don't know
I just don't know
So who left the sliding door open
We must have left the window cracked
Cause its not that simple
Not that simple
You
Come down
With the facts of the whole matter
Without
Without talking
Without thinking
Without being together with your friends
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8. |
friends
03:25
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Lines might be moving
System is grooving and
Conflicts are shifting
People might be lifting up their pain
I just can't wait to speak
Titans are falling
Buying their people
And doing their business
Out in the broad daylight
They infect themselves too deep and late at night
It comes from me
Go
Where do you come in
Going and taking and shaking away all your grey
All your friends will get you through
If you listen they will do
Anything for you
Anything for you
But they don't see
And you're racing to convince the protectors
While they write up plans
To get your hands
In a spot to cut off circulation
And the handcuffs lock
And the handcuffs lock
So I come out from the bottom of the basement
And the people sigh and the people
Board up all the windows and the entrance
Smell the fragrance
Smell the fragrance
It's just death
Of what shouldn't have died
You begged you borrowed and you fought and lied
I thought you knew better
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9. |
What's Wrong
05:22
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I feel like something
Somethings wrong here
I know I'd better get my facts straight in fear
Although its getting kind of bad
And though I'm ready
I don't like it
Stop thinking
Stop moving
Stop feeling
You'll burn for your crimes
Stop breathing
Stop thinking
Stop moving
You'll burn for your crimes
Cross made up lines
And now that we know
You see them show up
Turn away
Move along
There's nothing to see there
Furthermore
You could say
They tried to ruin your day
And you will stand
Above 'em all
With a tall, loud and thunderous voice
Hey
Stop
Stop right now
Stop moving
Stop breathing
Stop rolling
Where are you going
Where are you going
You'll burn for your crimes
If you could just stop right now
You should
You're leading a road right down
To sin
It's kind of interesting
The world is so demanding
I think it's silly
See for yourself
How it helps
Who's got the virus
Just avoid their cause at all costs
I know its tempting
But you know things
Ah
No
You cannot end things
So you will cut in
I can't believe this
It's going crazy
Stop
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10. |
idontknowanything
05:52
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All things settle down
All things settle down
If they have room
When they have room
All things settle down
If they have room
If they have to
The knot in my soul
I've got the will
And I'm stuck underneath
Thinking too much
Maybe not enough
How can you tell?
Peeling off the edges
Beautiful lawns and hedges
Dying on the side
You've got to hide
But not by your choice
Silenced your voice
I think its my fault
I know its my fault
I can't set things down
Glued to a pinhole
And so I will fall
Continue to fall
And yes
I know
Whatever's rolling around up there's not good
And yes
I know
Whatever's rolling around up there has gotta go
But no
It isn't that easy
It isn't that hard
It isn't that hard
It isn't that hard
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11. |
the weekend
02:53
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Good morning good day
I'm in a rush, so I will run
But I can probably fit you into my schedule
You know that I want to be
Employee number 1 in that department
Ok
I'll put you down for three o clock
And we can talk about whatever you want
And when the week gets done
We're gonna set the table up with no distractions and say
When the slow days come
I wanna wrestle with my demons and my sorrows
Flinch, when the customers call
I have to go, I think it's slow
And the connection's just not working like its sposed to
Oh no
You know that I want to be
Employee number one in that department
I wanna stop another day
So I can get attention when my ego wants you
Please please please please
I have to spiral
I have to spiral
I have to spiral
I have to spiral
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12. |
END OF THE WORLD
12:21
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I know the calm before the storm
Informs the whole of ourselves
So what?
A simple saying paints a funny picture
Makes the whole world red
Like us
Underneath the skin
Flaps another image out
I couldn't shout louder
I just might die in this empty house
Actually its full
And I cannot tell
If I will obey
If I can't avoid any more upset
In the rainy intermission ever after
I'm the rainy intermission ever after
Blue skies, end of the world
We're doing ok for now
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Covid nipping at your nose
Separated carols
Being sung by ourselves
Peacefully breathing in sequence
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13. |
done.
02:37
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I still feel it
I still feel it
Forms in the paint and the pencil lines rough
It's a shifting idea of how much is enough
Like the number of couches and beds that we need in the house
Day in day out we observe and report
All this guessing is terrible
Hearts always hurt
Except for the feelings we know
Especially ones we don't show
Daytime is different than the night that was before
I get what that means
As I sink to the floor
At the thought of my memories warped and destroyed throughout time
Feel struck by fire
By fire
I still feel it
I still feel it
Crash land
Incompetent
In conversation
Draped demands
Appalling
Get up get up
I beg you not to do it again
I am begging
Oh, I am begging
You know I am begging
I am
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14. |
a perfect day
04:07
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Stay quiet and teach your messy brain to live again
So far that's the season
With work you can forge a new expression of yourself
Repair your perceptions
And its hard but its needed
I've only started to feel it
Ah
Who do I speak to
About getting a refund for this year
It's a disaster so far
Started so easy
Every day I prayed for a new smile
It's so amazing, living each day
Now, lets be realistic
Some love is fiction
I must have missed it
Running away
Let's be realistic
No days are perfect
They're always ready to come crashing down
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James World Brooklyn, New York
The Wrong Band for the Wrong Times
contact: jamesworldphx@gmail.com
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