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James Cooper’s ’Foreign Cities’ Lyrics
All songs written by J. Cooper (Control) © Copyright, 2012.
Track 1. “Love, Come Quickly”
Words & music J. Cooper (Control) © Copyright, 2012.
Love, come slowly
Love, come quickly
Be, mine tonight
Draw, your face in the grass
‘Cause I, I have been, but a fool
Oh, oh my God now I’m free
Now I’m free
Love, come slowly
Love, come quickly
Be, mine tonight
Draw, your face in the grass
‘Cause you are the one that has been
Yes you, you have been
Lovin’ me (repeat)
Track 2. “My Deceiver”
Words & music J. Cooper (Control) © Copyright, 2012.
Go your own way my deceiver
Go your own way back again
Go your own way back again
Go your own way my deceiver
Go your own way back again
I have loved you through ages
I have known you all my life
I have come to the water
To drink with you all your days
Go your own way my deceiver
Go your own way back again
Go your own way to the sunlight
To drink water all your days
Come redeem me my creator
Come deliver from the void
You have loved the world you’re from
So do you see me dressed in white?
I have loved you through ages
I have known you all your life
I have come to the water
To drink with you all your life
Go your own way back again
Oh my deceiver
My deceiver
Oh my deceiver
My deceiver
You have left me for dead
My deceiver on the ledge
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Track 3. “Foreign Cities” (Single)
Words & music J. Cooper (Control) © Copyright, 2012.
We have loved foreign cities
It’s been hard and it’s been cold
We’ve been patient and understanding
But still things seems to go astray
We exchanged our knowing glances
Then we broke the bread and drank the wine
Spoke in tongues of mercenaries
And we’ve always run from place to place
Yes we’ve always run from place to place
And now we live within the arms of understanding angels
We look back and down on heaven and we
See a light that’s shining through
All those years we’ve spent together
Always tryin so hard for time
While we flew to foreign cities
Well we always ran from place to place
Yes we always ran from place to place
Sayin stand still, won’t you stand still, my love
I wanna hold you in my arms
Yes I wanna hold you in, my arms
So now we live in eternity and we are equal partners
A hundred thousand million chorus singing hallelujah glory be
And we stand still
Yes we stand still, in time and weep, my love
We are moving standing silent singing hallelujah glory be
And we stand still yes we stand still
We always ran from place to place
So we saw the things
We saw, the face
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Track 4. “Epitaph”
Words & music J. Cooper (Control) © Copyright, 2012.
Somewhere dead and buried a strange bird lies
It’s wings around it’s head
On filtered grey and gritty coffee as a bed
It leaks and it spews all of last year’s news
And reaches from the dirty epitaph
To hand a fickle flower to communicate with you
As the rain clogs up and the lover’s walk from the graveyard queue
A little Carnaby Street bowler hat was left to say,
“Won’t you live for long? Will you put me on?”
As he walked as he walked with the fickle flower too
And he passed along the way
The giant old man became the new
And ever so small, ever so trifle, and ever so blue
He left the bird dead and buried
And he flew to somewhere new
And he flew to somewhere new (repeat)
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Track 5. “Dancin’ Embers”
Words & music J. Cooper (Control) © Copyright, 2012.
Staring down into the flames
The backbeat bolts around the town
Embers burn and heat transpires
You’re looking sin right in the eye
Restful soul I have not felt
Have not felt this way for long
I could curl up with a good book
Youre feeling numb in the head
Dancin Embers On my bed
Dancin Embers in my head
Dancin Embers fully formed
Down you go with the tide
Feel the devil up close
he’s testing all the limits that you broke
safe & sound in that place
twice resounding come redeem me
Dancin Embers On my bed
Dancin Embers in my head
Dancin Embers fully formed
Down you go with the tide
Staring down into the flames
The backbeat bolts around the town
Embers burn and heat transpires
You’re looking sin right in the eye
Dancin Embers On my bed
Dancin Embers in my head
Dancin Embers fully formed
Down you go with the tide
Keeps me sane in this world
Keeps me from the next
Holds me from the kingdom feeling like I’m blessed
Like I’m blessed
Like I’m blessed
Like I’m blessed
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Track 6. “Ab Aeterno” (Instrumental)
Music J. Cooper (Control) © Copyright, 2012.
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Track 7. “Cry Yourself To Sleep”
Words & music J. Cooper (Control) © Copyright, 2012.
This week this year you’ve conquered so many fears you’ve done The things that you set out to do
Fulfilled the promises that kept you here
This day this month I’m feeling tired of all thats been
My faith is failing me I don’t know what to do & so I talk to you
I ask you how?
And after all these moments of trials & testing
So many prayers & no time to rest
And you ask me how to do this alone?
So I cry
Yes I cry (repeat)
So I cry myself to sleep (repeat)
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Track 8. “Flowers”
Words & music J. Cooper (Control) © Copyright, 2012.
Of all the wonderful things I could say
I’m just saying this “You make me smile”
Complexities, timetables, stresses and finance, your Worldly Gods
External pressures well none of it really matters
Cause you make me smile
Yeah you make me smile
I know it sounds simple
And I hope on the surface it sounds too pretty
But deeper inside on a carpet ground level
It’s all smiles and I thank you
It’s all smiles and I thank you
It’s all smiles and I could thank you for hours
I wanted to write this song
To put it down in words & music
Like giving you flowers
Only well, that felt wrong
Flowers felt wrong as I drove past the shop
And I saw the man collecting all the used pots
All the used pots
So now as I roll and I pretend that I, pretend that I have done
These things these things are meaningless
But to one
And that one makes me me smile
And I’m grateful for that
I’m grateful for that
For that
And I know it sounds simple
But on the surface it sounds all pretty and things
But deeper inside on a carpet ground level
It’s all smiles and I thank you
It’s all smiles and I thank you
It’s all smiles and I could thank you for hours
For hours, for hours, for hours
But flowers, they felt wrong
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Track 9. “Icarus”
Words & music J. Cooper (Control) © Copyright, 2012.
You remember there were days when I didn’t know if you’d survive
There were times when all the pills you took didn’t seem to help at all
Like a pair of wax wings in the sun the unknown still pulls inside
All the hours alone so vivid still
Everything had been done
It was so cold that day
It was so cold that day
Icarus flew out in front of me
Its enough to make you want to leave
Icarus flew out in front of me
Icarus flew out
Night times that you spent crying by my side being one day from the grave
You’ve seen sadness now it’s in the sky now you know a compromise
Thankfully a man there knew your name he said Jesus knew your pain
You threw all of your defenses down accepted Jesus in your heart
It was so warm that day
Life had changed in subtle ways
Icarus flew out in front of me
It’s enough to make you want to leave
Icarus flew out in front of me
Icarus flew out
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Track 10. “In My Dream”
Words & music J. Cooper (Control) © Copyright, 2012.
Can we be friends forever?
Can we go out in style?
Can you be mine to hold near?
Can we be lovers?
I’ve never said I love you
Cause every one’s done that
I give you my attention
You wear your strawberry hat
I want you here I need you now
You far away I don’t know how
You’re something new
It’s all okay
You never mattered anyway
In my dream you and me
Together we’re free
In my dream you and me
Together we’re free
You know I’m feeling blue here
A darker sense of that
Suspicion’s been suppressed now
The sky is wearing veils
I want you here I need you now
You far away I don’t know how
You’re something new
It’s all okay
You never mattered anyway
In my dream you and me
Together we’re free
In my dream you and me
Together we’re free
I want you here I need you now
You far away I don’t know how
You’re something new
It’s all okay
You never mattered anyway
In my dream you and me
Together we’re free
In my dream you and me
Together we’re free
Ooooh (repeat)
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