Genius Meanings
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James Blunt – Out of My Mind
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[Chorus] / Judging by the look on the organ-grinder / He'll judge me by the fact that my face don't fit / It's touching that the monkey sits on my shoulder / He's waiting for the
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James Blunt – Where Is My Mind?
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Ooh, stop / With your feet on the air / And your head on the ground / Try this trick and spin it, yeah / Your head'll collapse / If there's nothing in it / And then you'll ask
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James Blunt – Where Is My Mind? (Live in Ireland)
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[Spoken] / This is our last one. Thanks so much for coming! / [Verse 1] / With your feet in the air and your head on the ground / Try this trick and spin it, yeah / Your head will
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James Blunt – Same Mistake
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[Verse 1] / Saw the world turning in my sheets / And once again, I cannot sleep / Walk out the door and up the street / Look at the stars beneath my feet / Remember rights that I
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James Blunt – Tears and Rain
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[Verse 1] / How I wish I could surrender my soul / Shed the clothes that become my skin / See the liar that burns within my needing / How I wish I'd chosen darkness from cold / How
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James Blunt – Monsters
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At the time, James Blunt wrote this song for his father who had Stage Four Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and was awaiting an O+ donor.
The song was written and recorded without
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James Blunt – High
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“High” is the first single of James’s debut album Back to Bedlam.
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James Blunt – You're Beautiful
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“You’re Beautiful” is a song written by James Blunt, Sacha Skarbek, and Amanda Ghost for Blunt’s debut album, Back to Bedlam. This song talks about Blunt’s ex-girlfriend, whom he
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James Blunt – Next Time I'm Seventeen
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[Verse 1] / It was the year of '91 / Freddy Mercury was gone / And Nevermind was playing on our radios / We were only seventeen / I would park out on your street / Wait for dark to
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James Blunt – So Long, Jimmy
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This song is a tribute to three people. Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and one of his close friends, Jimmy Hogarth.
He confirms this in a interview with Torgen in 2005:
“I wrote that
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James Blunt – Cold
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[Verse 1] / It’s been lonely / Tryna get your attention from a thousand miles away / And you know me / Always overthinking the worst possibilities / Yeah, we both know / In between
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James Blunt – Billy
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[Verse 1] / Billy's leaving today / Don't know where he's going / Holds his head in disgrace / He can't escape the truth / He knows the price that he's paid / He admits that it's
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James Blunt – Make Me Better
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[Verse 1] / You made me breakfast every morning / You made me sleep all through the night / You made me worry without any warning / Let me just lie here, drown in your eyes, dear
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James Blunt – Goodbye My Lover
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[Verse 1] / Did I disappoint you or let you down? / Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown? / Cause I saw the end before we'd begun / Yes I saw you were blinded and I
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James Blunt – Stay the Night
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This song is the first single off James’s third album Some Kind of Trouble.
James said in an interview for STV:
After the last tour I tried writing at the piano, but I was
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James Blunt – Tears and Rain (Live in Ireland)
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[Verse 1] / How I wish I could surrender my soul / Shed the clothes that become my skin / See the liar that burns within my needing / How I wish I'd chosen darkness from cold / How
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James Blunt – Wisemen
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This song is the second single off of James‘ album Back to Bedlam. It is written by James Blunt, Jimmy Hogarth and Sacha Skarbek.
It reached the top fifty in the UK charts.
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James Blunt – I Came for Love
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[Verse 1] / Stepped out together / Into the dark / Yeah, we believed in / The two of us / I heard a countdown / I saw the stars / And for a moment / The dream was ours / [Verse 2
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James Blunt – I Can't Hear the Music
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[Verse 1] / Is it a warning? / Is it an evil sign? / Is it a people who have lost their mind? / Is it the darkness? / Is it a man resigned? / Is it a best friend leaving you behind
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James Blunt – Kiss This Love Goodbye
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My one, true love / You can guess what I've been thinking of? / God knows, we've tried / To stay together while our hearts divided / Put my boxes in the hall / I leave my keys
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James Blunt – Adrenaline
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[Verse 1] / I was so unprepared / Forgive me if I stop and stare / Like my first lung of air / I was here, and you were there / [Pre-Chorus] / You're hitting me harder than a
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James Blunt – No Bravery
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This is the last song of James Blunt’s debut album Back to Bedlam. It is written about the Kosovo War while Blunt was serving there with NATO peacekeepers.
It was released as the
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James Blunt – 5 Miles
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[Verse 1] / It’s a shame / That I’m never gonna see your face again, mmm / We’re both strangers / But I’m kind of hoping maybe that could change, yeah / [Pre-Chorus] / Well, I hope
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