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Until The Sky Bends Down

by James Harries

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Ella McCrystle This album shows the expanse of a beautiful tune with orchestration, and it has the makings of any great album. On the latter songs, we get the more usual lo-fi sound, and both are great. Favorite track: My Saving Grace.
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1.
Salvation 04:15
Rainy daydreaming take me away a thousand miles And 3 months and 10 days so I can see the sunny skies Where all my tomorrows will be a part of our yesterdays This day I promise that I will find another way I’ll do all I can To be a lucky man When the moon is high and the stars are bright If hope is a crime then lock me up tonight And throw away the key Well there’s room inside my cell tonight I need an alibi To free me from this burden This lonesome sleepless burden Cos Everybody needs salvation But everybody wants it now As I stand here on the outside Everybody show me how Far off a tune’s played honky-tonking out of key For how long was it our song I’m crying at the memory But they’re tears of joy, I’m a lucky boy When the moon is high and the stars are bright If hope is a crime then lock me up tonight And throw away the key Well there’s room inside my cell tonight I need an alibi To free me from this burden This lonesome sleepless burden Cos Everybody needs salvation But everybody wants it now As I stand here on the outside Everybody show me how Well there’s room inside my cell tonight I need an alibi To free me from this burden This lonesome sleepless burden I feel the sun around the corner Yeah a new day is dawning Cos everybody needs salvation But everybody wants it now As I stand here on the outside Everybody show me how
2.
Your Love 04:53
3.
Step by step we complicate Find more reasons to love than hate But feel no malice in the parts we played Let’s be honest and say We’re tired of all the battles Tired of the fights Let’s run from the darkness Run into the light Every time I see you I see a shooting star And every time you touch me We burn bright So why does it tear us apart Endless ends and hopes renewed All I believed in’s alive just bruised We’re tired of all the battles Tired of the fights Let’s run from the darkness Run into the light Every time I see you I see a shooting star And every time you touch me We burn bright But why does it tear us apart
4.
As the dust it settles down As they gather, the gawping crowd I will sit at peace and wait By Saint Peter’s gate For the lovers that I have known for the feelings that I’ve not shown Wish I’d shown them all to you How I wish you knew That time passes slowly As you dance in the street It waits for nobody Won’t you wait and see And I saw you in the mirror You were my lucky charm And I saw you in the windows And in the headlights of the cars And you kept me falling forwards Kept me feeling safe You’re my saving grace For the moments I dared to dream For the moments I breathed you in I wish I’d dreamed them perfectly Oh I hope you see That time passes slowly As you dance in the street It waits for nobody Won’t you wait and see And I saw you in the mirror You were my lucky charm And I saw you in the windows And in the headlights of the cars And you kept me falling forwards Kept me feeling safe You’re my saving grace
5.
When life don’t seem fair 
and all your cares 
bring you to your knees 
When all feels wrong 
the joy is gone
 and you’re out at sea 
 Let me hear you
 let me hear you
 let me hear you say let me see you let me see you let me see you today Let the sunshine in to warm you Feel the love that’s out there for you Kick back take off your well worn shoes I’ll show you round the city Tonight it looks so pretty Tonight it was made for you I can make it happen Tell me what you have to lose Well we've another day we could while away these city hours Just you, you & I
 we could kill some time time that ours
 
 Let me hear you
 let me hear you
 let me hear you say let me see you let me see you let me see you today Let the sunshine in to warm you Feel the love that’s out there for you Kick back take off your well worn shoes I’ll show you round the city Tonight it looks so pretty Tonight it was made for you I can make it happen Tell me what you have to lose
6.
I remember when you ran through a field of sunflowers in bloom. I remember your arms open Wide like wings. Overhead the sun was shining and the clear sky was blue it seemed to be asking you and I to fly. So let us go flying, into the unknown soaring, and if we come down crashing into the sea I will wrap my wings around you I will raise them like a sail until the sky bends down to ask us to fly again. I see you now running through the field of sunflowers in bloom. I see your arms open Wide like wings. So let us go flying, into the unknown soaring, and if we come down crashing into the sea I will wrap my wings around you I will raise them like a sail until the sky bends down to ask us to fly again.
7.
I tried to do right by you I did it all wrong Made light of our story Now I’m all alone Where does the magic go? Go easy go easy on me Go easy go easy on me I woke from the dream Now I wished I could sleep I’m out in the cold How I long for your heat Where does the magic go? Go easy go easy on me Go easy go easy on me Go easy go easy on me Go easy go easy on me
8.
Carolina 03:19
Out of nowhere 
Like you fell from the sky 
So out of nowhere I had no time to hide 
I was looking for something
 Whilst gazing at the floor
 If I'd been looking for someone 
Would I have put up my protective wall
 
Carolina, Carolina 
 
Where do you go
 Where do you go 
When the world turns blue
 Can I come with you?

 You were skinny as a model
 With your jeans hanging down 
Shooting star gazing
 In some strange southern town 
It was on the bridge at midnight
 When I held up my hands
 There was something about you 
Made me cross the line in the sand
 
Carolina, Carolina

 Where do you go 
Where do you go
 When the world turns blue 
Can I come with you? Carolina, Carolina
9.
Don’t scratch the surface Go dig deep There are stories buried here I keep Covered over under dusty sheets In the attic Where my skeletons hide Most of the time Stowed away out of sight and mind When you’re away and the moon is high I can hear them rattling Won’t you lay down beside me And we’ll float down stream I’m so tired of swimming Won’t you come on in Won’t you come on in I remember it well A Berlin hotel A darkened doorway but I don’t kiss and tell I was moving to the rhythm of the tolling bell You gave me syncopation I was yours to discover Yours to bleed I found a place I never want to leave And I don’t need the things that I thought I’d need When I was without you Won’t you lay down beside me And we’ll float down stream Where the water is calmer and the air is clean Won’t you lay down beside me And we’ll float down stream I’m so tired of swimming Won’t you come on in Won’t you come on in
10.
The Hillside 09:19
I came down from the hillside Out of the fog Walked the length of the valley To the damp dazzling dock The harbour lights they shone so bright Opened up my eyes The consolation prize Was a job on a cruise ship Singing the songs Of Sinatra & Elvis The Beatles & Stones 4 months at sea was killing me jumped off at Greece to play on the beach And the long terrace bar fronts And 2 dive bars downtown 4 sets an evening for 45 pounds I loved it I loved it it’s gone I landed in Berlin loaded on speed Playing Hank Williams music 9 shows a week Fell in love each night felt the flame burn bright Got lost inspired was broke but alright And I loved it I loved it it’s gone Offered Champagne in London And drugs for my nose If I played what they wanted Did as I was told Tried to please couldn’t catch their disease I cut my teeth not my wrists or knees Going back up the hillside With my stories and songs And I’ll sing them all to you Before I am gone I love you I love you I’m gone

credits

released August 28, 2015

Produced by Paul Bell

Recored at Svárov Studios, Engineered by Lukaš Martínek
Additional recording at Svengali Studio, Prague with Armin Effenberger & at BANG, Prague with Viliam Béreš

Mixed by Ondřej Ježek at Jamor Studio, Prague

Mastered by Tomas Karasek at Gargle & Expel Studio, Dublin

James Harries – vocals & guitar
Paul Bell – string arrangements, piano & keyboards, percussion
Josef Štepánek – guitars
Jakub Vejnar – bass
John Janečka – drums
Viliam Béreš – keyboards, sounds (The Hillside)
Steve Walsh – guitar (The Hillside)


Cover Photo - Tomaš Jelínek
Design - Štefan Osciatka

Label: Tranzistor
C+P Tranzistor label, James Harries 2015

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