lyrics James

Everybody wants to be happy
Everybody wants more money
Everybody needs more loving
Everybody wants the same things

I came across the border
Through the east and west divide
The land between the trenches


Afro Lover

Everybody wants to be happy
Everybody wants more money
Everybody needs more loving
Everybody wants the same things

I came across the border
Through the east and west divide
The land between the trenches
Was patrolled by the deaf and the blind
The blind were shouting listen
While the deaf said can't you see
Somewhere deep in no man's land
Some man has lost a key

I opened up into this mystery
I have seen
I have seen
I have seen

Centuries of fighting
So I brought myself a gun
The salesman called it freedom
So my enemy brought a bigger one
I'm saving up for a missile
That will shoot him up with love
Now his fingers on my button
And my hand is in his glove

I opened up into this mystery
Every key can lock you up
Or set you free
I believe that there is magic in this mystery
I have seen
I have seen
I have seen

Everybody wants to be happy
Everybody wants more money
Everybody needs more loving
Everybody wants the same things

AFRO LOVER

Intro and Verse Chords: A, E, D, A

Guitar 1 starts the song:
E------------------------------
B------------------------------
G------------------------------
D-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11 a lot of times until everything
A-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12 comes in... then the part changes to:
E------------------------------

E---------------------------------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------------------------------
G---------------------------------------------------------------
D-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-11-11-
A-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-12-12-...
E---------------------------------------------------------------
Which is the same for the whole of the verse and intro...
Then, in the chorus, this guitar plays:

E-----------------------------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------------------------
G-----------------------------------------------------------------
D--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11
A-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12
E-----------------------------------------------------------------

The lead part which is played throughout the verse goes:

E--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
B-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-0-3-------2-2-2-2-
G---------1-------2-2-2-2---------

In the chorus, this guitar plays the chords: G, D, A

Crash

A Diva A Lever A Lawyer Imagine Imagine
A Fever A Vision Derision Imagine Imagine
Someone got hurt
Someone got high
Someone got left behind the lines
Someone got hurt
Someone got high
Some of them left the rest behind the lines
All of your male is un addressed
Cut the small boys free from the breast
A Letter A photo ETC ETC A Judas
A Hotel A Motel A Motive Imagine Imagine
Someone got hurt
Someone got high
Someone got left behind the lines
Someone got hurt someone got high
Some of the left the rest behind
All of your male is Un addressed
Cut Her man free from the Hess
Crash Crash Crash
This is hell
This is hell
Crash crash crash

I Know What I'm Here For

What a life
A trick of light
Then everything returns to the sea
You can have whatever you want
But are you disciplined enough to be free

Turning love into a chore
Promises come cheap dear reader
Another page, another door
Follow, follow me

I know what I'm here for
Hanging on through late December
I know what I'm here for
Follow, follow me

Moving on
Don't belong
My life turned into a mall
Every line is in the song
Follow me out of the fall

What an actor, what a show
Going through some holy motions
The bands are sharp but the singers slow
Everything must go

I know what I'm here for

Souvenirs, polygraph tests
Photographs fresh from the wreck
What a poster saint he'll make
In one take, one take

I know what I'm here for
Follow, follow me


Just Like Fred Astaire

Doctor,
What is happening to me?
Palpitations
My mind's diseased
Even my vision is impaired
I'm losing my hair
Cos when I hold her in my arms
I feel like Fred Astaire

Lovesick
My temperature's high
Just met a girl
Who believes we can fly
I'm a millionaire
And when I hold her in my arms
I feel like Fred Astaire

I believe in happiness
I believe in Love
I believe she fell to earth
from somewhere high above
I believe in Hollywood
Don't believe that Love must bring despair
Cos when I hold her in my arms
I'm just like Fred Astaire

He said love is just a disease
A plague for the naïve
These days no one believes
These days no one believes

Meteors may strike the earth
Nations live and die
I'm the boy who got the girl
Who showed me how to fly
We can cross the race divide
Bridge a gap that wasn't really there
I'm gonna hold her in my charm
Just like Fred Astaire


Someone's Got It In For Me

Someone's got it in for me
I don't want your sympathy
Life just never turned out how I wanted it to

Could have been a shooting star
Should have made it past the bar
Would have been a winner if I'd ever got that far

What a state I'm in
My self pitying
Here's another victim
Singing suffering

If only I had made the grade
Been more loved
Been less afraid
If only I had scored the goal
Got the girl
Or even played

What a state I'm in
My self pitying
Here's another victim
Singing suffering

Fall
Let it fall away
Then rise
To be born again
Then fall
Let it fall away
Then rise
To be born again

My life's turned to minor chords
Loser sad
And life's a bore
Can't see the point of living
In this fashion anymore

What a state I'm in
My self pitying
Here's another victim
Selling suffering

Fall
Let it fall away
Then rise
To be born again
Then fall
Let it fall away
Then rise
To be born again
To be born again
To be born again

Strangers

Found a message in the sand
It read, "just do the best you can
This worlds not how I planned
You're on your own
No one can hear you
They're just talking all the time
There's the world
And you're outside
Your home's hard to find
Your home's hard to find

Worn down by strangers
All you need is a friend
You've been worn down by strangers
This is not the end

Guess it's hard to settle down
when love's been spread all around the town
I'm no stranger to this room
My highs just serve to bring me down
I hope to change now
From a sorry state of mind
I had hoped for heart to heart
My heart's hard to find
My heart's hard to find

Worn down by strangers
All you need is a friend
You've been worn down by strangers
This is the end


Surprise

So you thought we were over
Surprize, Surprize
We're not going anywhere
So you fell
On your sword again
Tell me what the views like
Deep down inside your carpet
You were straight
You were straight
Now you're twisted
You're right, you're right
Burn the joint and leave the way you came

Don't you turn, turn out you're lights
Surprize, surprize
Still not satisfied

We all preyed, we all preyed
You'd rise again
From the hard shoulder
What the doctor ordered
Gotta fix, gotta fix
What's not broken
All broke, all broke and busted
Pay twenty-one and over

Don't you turn, turn out your lights
Surprize, surprize
Still not satisfied
Don't you turn
Your day into night
Surprize, surprize
Still not satisfied


Vervacious

Drifting through the atmosphere
Through the afterglow
Witnessing 1,000 lives I'll blow
Where the wind blows

Falling in between the lines
Never fitting in
Someone tell me what's my crime
Too thin
I'm too thin

Due to come back down Due to come back down
Don't wanna don't wanna land
Due to come back down Due to come back down
Don't wanna don't wanna land
Land

This time I've a staring role
Hide the shape I'm in
I'm too old to sacrafice for gold and skin
For gold and skin
For gold and skin

Drifting through the atmosphere
Floating through this land
Sifting through 1,000 years of sand
All sand