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Bait My Soul
02:42
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BAIT MY SOUL: I saw a beautiful girl floating down the street with “fuck off” lips and a face so sweet. She wore a knit hat that said “Satan.” I lazered in on her and our eyes did meet. The other angels can’t compete. Today is a good day for forsaking. I said "I could really use your help right now. I need a way out but I can’t see how." I’ll tear a page from Robert Johnson’s book: bait my soul on a fishing hook. Oh baby, would you please take care of me? Of course I’ll pay your spiritual fees for a Benz and clear complexion. Now I race the streets of Dis in a bucket seat. Dante failed to enjoy this treat: down here, everyone is naked. I know where I wanna spend eternity. All you saints look down on me. Well, I don’t need your persuasion. Thank you, but I’ll hang with dead rock stars and in bathroom stalls in Hell’s dive bars I’ll have me some spectral fornication.
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Not Thinking it Over
03:00
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NOT THINKING IT OVER: No, I’ll never run away. That’s not the path that I choose. Living to fight another day is for fakes with nothing to lose. I’m not thinking it over. My mind’s not wandering. This argument’s insane, it’s gonna tear me apart. You know I’m never going to change. I’m the same that I was from the start. You’re thinking I’m crazy and I’m not blaming you. My promise still remains: I could bear you for miles. But would it cause you any pain to lift the hood every once in while? The circuitry’s alive and no one noticed.
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Prison Font
03:49
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PRISON FONT: Do my sleep talks freak you out (fevered ramblings)? The doubt that they must bring about. I imagine you (as) a waning moon. You used to shine but haven’t tried since, leaving tired winter-lit rooms and that screaming heavy silence. Don’t leave me alone. I swear this time I’ve grown. Does the name of my dead dog turn you on (tattooed in a prison font)? I imagine you (as) my favorite tune. You flutter and swoon. In your defiance you left tired winter-lit rooms that scream with heavy silence.
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Restless Ones
03:56
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RESTLESS ONES: I will play my guitar and my friends will sing along. It’s crazy how some live forever. It’s crazy how some never die. And how some become your favorite for no real reason why. I was gonna go to college but I guess I’ll just write some songs. I will shout out some words and I hope folks sing along. I used to want to live forever but now I’m not so sure. I’d be cool with just a couple of years if they were beside her. All night long I hear you screaming over and over… I feel it coming up slow, we’re the restless ones. In the frozen New England winter I was made whole when she opened the door and let the light in the basement of my soul. I had searched for her forever. I made an enemy of time. But at the edge of that endless wasteland she’d be mine.
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Feel My Love
04:30
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FEEL MY LOVE: Your love’s like a rose as red as your blood. Mine’s like a towering wall with all portals sealed shut. I want you to feel... Can you feel my love? Pedals fall to the floor. Running low on your touch. It burns up the feeling and I can’t get enough. Hell, it’s my life and I’m still kickin’. If you burn out like a light we both know what you’ll be missin’. That’s why I ask you tonight, can you feel my love?
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Rolling Stoned
03:16
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ROLLING STONED: Hey Nics, does it feel like there’s no hope in this town? I might take some risks, oh lord, but I won’t let you down. No, I won’t let you down. Tell me, how amazing would it be to be rolling stoned with you beside me? You see where those green and blue rectangles meet? That’s where we need to be. “Fame this” and I hear “Fame that.” I don’t need a crown. Though I might need your help, oh girl, but I won’t let you down. No, I won’t let you down.
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James A.M. Downes New York, New York
Brooklyn based singer-songwriter. James A.M. Downes has been around since 2002, knee deep in the basements of the American
indie/hardcore scene.
His debut EP Prison Font reverberates with lush guitar beds and new-retro progressions that are the bedrock to lyrical narratives that teem with dark humor and humility.
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