Novelist
from Leaving Town by Jack James
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Written: 19th May 2011 (finished in a few hours)
Recorded: 1st October 2011
Recorded: 1st October 2011
lyrics
Tell me your story and I'll pass it along
As a work of fiction, as a work of song
I need some information would you please hold on?
I have an idea, oh god don't be wrong
You can write what you want but I won't let you on
To this stage or this platform from which to speak from
I've got your information right here in front me
But nothing really stood out from what I've seen
If no one reads this but me, does it still count as read?
Does an idea exist if it's just in my head?
I need your information, would you please hold on?
I have an idea, oh god don't be wrong
As a work of fiction, as a work of song
I need some information would you please hold on?
I have an idea, oh god don't be wrong
You can write what you want but I won't let you on
To this stage or this platform from which to speak from
I've got your information right here in front me
But nothing really stood out from what I've seen
If no one reads this but me, does it still count as read?
Does an idea exist if it's just in my head?
I need your information, would you please hold on?
I have an idea, oh god don't be wrong
credits
from Leaving Town,
released December 3, 2011
Jack James - Vocals, Banjo
Jack James - Vocals, Banjo
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Jack James Glasgow
Rangy songwriter.
“From Neil Young... by way of Bonnie "Prince" Billy, to Arab Strap, without the
charming vulgarity”
-The Herald
"Sounding more like a Scottish Leonard Cohen than ever"
-Scots Whay Hae
"Jack James may be doomed"
-The List
... more
discography
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May 2009
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