Make Your Mark

From my forthcoming album: 'Make Your Mark'
High quality versions soon to be available to buy and stream on all major outlets.

Lyrics:
I'm so tired
Of dragging my heart around for you 
And I admire
The way that you act as if nothing is going wrong
Here, yeah yeah
I'm so torn
What to do? 

Chorus:
'Cause baby now (nightmares are gone)
I can see You for real
Behind those tears you are there
Behind the lies they tell I know that you are

Stop wasting my time
I'm so fed up of hating
Well it's your choice, 
That's right, it's up to you
To end this fight, now tonight
I can't take much more 
So you have 'til morning light

Chorus x 2

Music and Lyrics © James Bennett 2016

Nightmares

From my forthcoming album: 'Make Your Mark'. This track unintentionally addresses a lot of things that are going on in the world today, I feel. Let me know what you think! High quality versions soon to be available to buy and stream on all major outlets. 

Lyrics: 

I've been bitten by the bug of time. 
It's hard to get my head around 
how quickly and so slowly 
it takes your life (then all at once)
Another precious moment is 
gone in the blink of an eye

But it's fine
I can make peace with these demons in my own good time

Chorus:
We'd rather pave a field 
than sit back and see the view
These streets have come so numb 
It's like living in the rear view
Mirrors just reflecting 
The Person you've become that day
I don't wanna live this way

They're turning our dreams into car parks
Filing all the spaces with 
Who they'd like us to be 
And bitterness (it has the wheel)
We've got to show the world
that we're not just pieces in their game

We could change this world
If we stopped looking backwards
And chasing our shadows

Chorus x 2

Music and Lyrics © James Bennett 2016

Live This Way

From my forthcoming album: 'Make Your Mark'; previously featured on my YouTube channel: JamesBennettMusicUK
High quality versions soon to be available to buy and stream on all major outlets.

Lyrics: 

The Alarm Goes, I turn and I see you
I smile and inside the sun rose
It's dark out, but inside it's shining
Because I know it's the start of a new day

With you I can take every weather
Battle on through the toughest storm
Because I know this love is forever
I know my heart can't be wrong.

I spent so many years walking through shadows
Battling fears, feeling alone
Then you came you lit up the darkness
Saved me from a life of sadness

With you I can take every weather
Battle on through the toughest storm
Because I know this love is forever
I know my heart can't be wrong.

Chorus:
When you know, you know
Sometimes it just happens
Love comes and goes
But sometimes it changes
Your life around
Like being stuck in a whirlwind
With rose-tinted glasses
Now I'm looking at life with a smile. 

Sometimes it's tough, the weeks pass so quickly
Feels like you've had enough
No matter what you're not winning
But I'll be there to keep you from falling
I'll be there to make sure you stand strong

With you I can take every weather
Battle on through the toughest storm
Because I know this love is forever
I know my heart can't be wrong.

Chorus x 2

Music and Lyrics © James Bennett 2016

When You Know

The title track from my forthcoming album: 'Make Your Mark'.
High quality versions soon to be available to buy and stream on all major outlets.

Lyrics: 

I can see your light but no matter how I try I can't reach it
It's there in sight but the closer I get the further it feels 
And I know you hate this pedestal
But I know I'll never be strong enough
Or as brave as you
You're like a bolt from the blue

Chorus:
Let go of your worries, just leave them outside
Let 'em wash away with the rain
Stop counting your minutes, start living right now
Before your might have beens become yesterdays

Sometimes it feels like I'm a spider caught in my own web
Spinning myself in circles I couldn't tell you right from left
But I know I could break free if I tried
But it's that feeling deep inside
That holds you back; just run and never look back

Chorus:
Let go of your worries, just leave them outside
Let 'em wash away with the rain
Stop counting your minutes, start living right now
Before your might have beens become yesterdays

And I can't hide
No I can't take it
In a world so torn
Yeah I know if I try I'll make it
I've just got to be strong
I've just got to carry on

Chorus:
Let go of your worries, just leave them outside
Let 'em wash away with the rain
Stop counting your minutes, start living right now
Before your might have beens become yesterdays

Music and Lyrics © James Bennett 2016

From my forthcoming album: 'Make Your Mark'. 
Let me know what you think! High quality versions soon to be available to buy and stream on all major outlets.

Lyrics:

And the room it split in two
On one side was me and the other you
I tried to reach out for your hand
But it was no good, I lost you long ago
And the battles of me and you
The number of times we said that we were through
This rollercoaster rise and fall
As we engage in this lovers pitfall

But you just blinked and began to forget about our love
How can you cast me aside was I never enough

Chorus:
I've been blinded by the city lights
Bitten hard by its cold lonely nights 
It's no place to be when your love is never around
I see your face wherever I go
On the signs and the posters all over town
I know there's just no hope 
but I'm holding on for one more chance

Thinking is all I can do
I stare at the walls and on the white I see you
A canvas of memories
The times we smiled for what felt like an eternity
But like glass we just shattered all over the floor
Into a thousand pieces, beyond all repair
There's no going back without a miracle
Tell me is there nothing that I can do

You just blinked and began to forget about our love
Is this a storm in a tea cup or is this just hopeless romance? 

Chorus
I've been blinded by the city lights
Bitten hard by its cold lonely nights 
It's no place to be when your love is never around
I see your face wherever I go
On the signs and the posters all over town
I know there's just no hope 
but I'm holding on for one more chance

For you to come home
You to come home...
What happened to this flame lasting forever
What happened to the promise you'd leave me never
I hope you're happy just know that I loved you whatever

Chorus
I've been blinded by the city lights
Bitten hard by its cold lonely nights 
It's no place to be when your love is never around
I see your face wherever I go
On the signs and the posters all over town
I know there's just no hope 
but I'm holding on for one more chance
What happened to this flame lasting forever
What happened to the promise you'd leave me never
I hope you're happy just know that I loved you whatever

Music and Lyrics © James Bennett 2016

Blinded By The City Lights

A solo vocal with Piano track from my forthcoming album: 'Make Your Mark'. 
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Lyrics:

I'm gonna pack up my things
Head on back to New York
I'm so sick and tired
of lying here in the dark

There's so many people around me
So why do I feel so alone? 
It's like no-one here understands
So I need to go home. 

I'm gonna pack up my things
Head on back to New York
I miss the way that the wind plays with your hair
In Battery Park

Do you remember standing by the rails? 
We watched the city get dark
Well the lights filled the skies in the distance
Light neon stars

I'm gonna pack up my things
Head on back New York
I'm so sick and tired
Of lying here in the dark

I don't know if I can take it
I don't know if knowing you're not there
Will continue to stop me continuing
My life as it stands

So I've packed up my things
I'm heading back to New York
I've gotta know if it's over
Or if we have a shot

Music and Lyrics © James Bennett 2016

Back To New York

From my forthcoming album: 'Make Your Mark'; Acoustic Version previously featured on my YouTube channel: @JamesBennettMusicUK and available on a limited edition E.P. from my website.
High quality versions soon to be available to buy and stream on all major outlets.

Lyrics:

I think I found something
A tiny spark that used to be a fire
A world that once believed in itself 
But it has lost its confidence
I'm certain my uncertainty
Will guide me through life's dark times
Be a light in my hour of darkness 
Be a compass when I am blind, yeah. 

I've travelled in this circle for so long now
I've found myself back at the beginning
It's been so long since I've seen this place
That I can't help but have the feeling
'You are no longer welcome here' 
A man said to me whilst crying
'All the people like you left a long time ago 
and left the people like me here dying.'

Chorus:
And all of life's heartaches will only take
Just a minute to find you
To take up root within your soul and hold you back
Never choose a life alone within the dark
Just love someone with all your heart
Yeah love somebody with all your heart

I fell too fast to break your fall 
Running in my hall of dreams
Conditioned thoughts portrayed on the walls
Projected onto plastic screens
Well these calming pills that I've been prescribed
Ain't doing nothing but keeping me up all night
But how can I get a minute's rest 
With all these thoughts of you in my head? 

Chorus x 2

Music and Lyrics © James Bennett 2016

A Little Differently

A Tiny Spark That Used To Be A Fire

From my forthcoming album: 'Make Your Mark'; Acoustic Version previously featured on my YouTube channel: @JamesBennettMusicUK and available on a limited edition E.P. from my website.
High quality versions soon to be available to buy and stream on all major outlets.

Lyrics:

I'd climb these walls no matter how tall 
You decide to build them for me
I work so hard just trying to get you to notice me
But the thing is; if I were to climb a mountain
Would you follow me wherever I go? 
If I were to swim the seven seas, 
Would you think of me
A little differently? 

I've read the line in this book of mine
Five times now maybe more
I just can't seem to stop you from
Hanging on my thoughts
This never ending road I'm on 
Feels so much like this life of mine.
So empty, still and meaningless
Without you I am Blind

Chorus:
All I need, is the reassurance you'll be there
When I wake up and when I sleep
Holding on-to what you love and need
Every moment of every week
Well I just hope that what you love and need is
Me

I've checked the mirror two thousand times
Just incase you're hidden inside
I think I catch a glimpse of you, 
But it's only in my mind
I think of you when I wake up
And the moment I go to sleep
The very thought of you being there 
Seems to help me dream sweet dreams

Chorus
Solo
Chorus

Music and Lyrics © James Bennett 2016

From my forthcoming album: 'Make Your Mark'; Featuring Charlie Caine on Drums and Navid Asghari on Bass. 
Acoustic Version previously featured on my YouTube channel: @JamesBennettMusicUK and available on a limited edition E.P. from my website.
High quality versions soon to be available to buy and stream on all major outlets.

Lyrics:

I've got this feeling in the back of my throat
It's like the words are trying to get out with nowhere to go
It's a fire raging hot inside
Is it the feeling I can't feel thats tearing me up tonight 
Or is it smoke rising up around my eyes
These poisonous little lullabies
The honey that you've been dripping
I'm trying so hard to get a grip 
But I'm 
losing my mind and I think this time
it's for real and this is forever
I'm counting my heartbeat before I climb 
These walls and I run away scared

Chorus
If we stand together we can take this fight
If we stand together we can win this fight
Just promise you'll hold on forever 
And we can take on life
Just close your eyes and we'll find a-way
To fight another day

I wear the scars of my life with pride
Like tattoos to show the world what I've survived
The knocks and scraps that made me strong
The battles I've fought but the war's never one
It's like picking the short straw when none are long
But never regretting a single thing I've done
What's the point in ever looking back
The future's in front and it's a one way track but

Every time I think I've lost my mind
I remember it's not forever
I take the first step and I make that dive
'cause no matter the pain I'll be stronger

Chorus

Middle 8
The picture began to melt away 
In the heat of the summer day
And though it spoke a thousand words
It still had nothing to say
Locked inside his cage of glass
Watching the world and watching it pass
His eyes turned a colour grey 
The marks became clearer upon his face
And though it was clear, it was obvious that
The one he loved was never coming back
As the tears fell they left a stain
Every millimetre marked his pain. 

Chorus

Stand together
Stand Together
Stand together
Well just close your eyes and we'll find a-way 
To fight another day


Music and Lyrics © James Bennett 2016

Fight Another Day

From my forthcoming album: 'Make Your Mark'; 
Featuring Charlie Caine on Drums and Andrew Blowers on Bass.
High quality versions soon to be available to buy and stream on all major outlets.

Lyrics:

Let's not make an announcement, 
Can we make this thing brief? 
Let's take things just a step at a time
and see where it might lead. 
I'll run and close all of the curtains
Ensure no light's let in
Hide away from the spies of the day and
Live in our Secret Sin

I'll stop the clocks from ticking 
Freeze the Earth in its place
I'll chase away the night from the day
So I can longer see your face
We'll watch each others every move
Bathe in every breath
I'll fall asleep to the sound of your voice
In love we will remain

Chorus: 
I'll fight your corner when you've been beaten
Take all the weight when life gets too heavy
Do whatever it takes just to make you smile
And I won't let life defeat you
But sometimes the road is rough
Just remember one thing on those cloudy nights 
You will always have my love

Love has refracted a tear in my eye
And now the world around me is gold
Thoughts of you have taken over my mind
Well, yeah, I think of how we could grow old
We'd live off our laughter and smiles
Build a life within a wall of happiness and never once see a cloud

Solo
Chorus x 2

Music and Lyrics © James Bennett 2016

Make Your Mark

James A. Bennett