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In the darkness
In the darkness
In the darkness we make love
In the darkness
In the darkness
In the darkness we make love
Blackmagic the promise
The premise the endless
The sea we travel
On to arrive at the
Very beginning of where we started
Journeying onward into the light
And deeper into shadow
Life will bring
Trust it will bring
And store the memory you unravel
You messing with my emotions
You messing with the way I feel about you
You messing with my devotion
To what I know and what is real
Your love
Your love is a
Your heart
Your heart brings a
Blackmagic the promise
The premise the endless
The sea we travel
On to arrive at the
Very beginning of where we started
Journeying onward into the light
And deeper into shadow
Life will bring
Trust it will bring
And store the memory you unravel
I feel so close to you
I feel so close to me
I started with the feeling of together
So why do I fear getting close to you
Losing you would mean
The worst had come true
Holding you is all
I seem to want to do
Blackmagic the promise
The premise the endless
The sea we travel
On to arrive at the
Very beginning of where we started
Journeying onward into the light
And deeper into shadow
Life will bring
Trust it will bring
And store the memory you unravel
In the darkness
In the darkness
In the darkness we make love
In the darkness
In the darkness
In the darkness we make love
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Turn me up
Get out your seat
Everybody hit the dance floor
Get with me
I’m burning up
And I’m in demand
I’m so sexy steal your woman and your man
I’m feeling good baby
And I’m feeling free
And yes I’m young, gifted and Black so just let me be
Come get a taste pretty baby
Let me strut my stuff
And if you want more
Then you can turn me up
I’m feeling wonderful
Doing big things in my life
Let’s call it what it is
My own personal paradise
I'm gonna spread my wings
And fly to higher heights
I’m gonna raise my voice
Stand with me and shine your light
Turn me up
So you can hear
The joy in my voice
When I'm smiling from ear to ear
I'm on the beat
I'm in the groove
Watch how I do my thing
When I start to show and prove
Just let the rhythm of the music pull you in
Let's come together on the oneu until the end
This ain't no half step
What we got is real
No masquerade
You got to play the way you feel
I’m feeling wonderful
Doing big things in my life
Let’s call it what it is
My own personal paradise
I'm gonna spread my wings
And fly to higher heights
I’m gonna raise my voice
Stand with me and shine your light
Life is a party it's up you to bring the vibe
Invite the whole family
The ones who make you feel alive
Strangers are welcomed but they gotta know their place
BYO everything but break me off a taste
Turn me up right now
Baby let me funk it down with you
Turn me up right now
Baby let me funk it down with you
Turn me up right now
Baby let me funk it down with you
Turn me up right now
Baby let me funk it down with you
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So long we've been distant now
Since you set out on your own
You told me you had to find
Something to believe in
Never thought you'd ever leave
But as you walked out the door
I prayed that you would soon find
All that you needed
While you're out there on your own
If the rain starts falling
Or you get too cold
If you need a place to go
Oh, I just want you to know
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
Oh, you can come to my door
I don't mind, I don't mind, I don't mind at all
So long you've been searching now
But still I can see your face
The memories numb this pain
Just for a moment
At night I lie sometimes
Awake in my bed
Repeating over and over
Our conversation
Right now as the moon is shining
I know you're out somewhere
And you're doing fine
If you ever feel alone baby
Oh, I just want you to know
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
Oh, you can come to my door
I don't mind, I don't mind, I don't mind at all
And on that fateful day
You know I will be waiting, oh
You'll smile at me, then say
You loved me all along
And you'll come home
Oh, I just want you to know
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
Oh, you can come to my door
I don't mind, I don't mind, I don't mind at all
Oh, I just want you to know
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
Oh, you can come to my door
I don't mind, I don't mind, I don't mind at all
Ooh, I just want you to know
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
Oh, you can come to my door
I don't mind, I don't mind, I don't mind at all
Ooh, I just want you to know
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
Oh, I just want you to know
It's alright, you can come to my door, it's alright, I don't mind
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Love
Look what you’ve done to me
A love
Better than any dream
Oh I always wanted love without the pain
Oh I always wanted thunder without rain
I found a love
The kind to hold
The kind that lifts you from the bottom of your soul
The kind that makes
The broken whole
That dizzy perfect out of my control
I found a love
That lifts me up
You see my weaknesses and stay no matter what
And every day I find I’m falling more and more in love with you
I found a love to pull me through
I found a love
The kind to hold
The kind that lifts you from the bottom of your soul
The kind that makes
The broken whole
That dizzy perfect love that’s out of my control
I found a love
That lifts me up
You see my weaknesses and stay no matter what
And every day I find I’m falling more and more in love with you
I found a love to lift me up and pull me through
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It’s finished
It’s over
It’s time to get out of the rain
Finally sober
But I need a high for this pain
Once I laughed and loved and called your name
But I had to choose from the drugs and the bottle and fame
It’s 3 in the morning and I’m still awake reaching out
Stuck on the shape of your body
The taste of your mouth
Once I laughed and loved and called your name
But I rolled the dice and l lost on your love all the same
Say what you need to
Scream it
Know you mean it
I’m not trying to make you stay
Never been good at goodbyes
But let me say mine
Every heart I hold I break
Say what you need to
Scream it
Know you mean it
I’m not trying to make you stay
Never been good at goodbyes
But let me say mine
Every heart I hold I break
So let’s have a coffee
And let’s smoke one more cigarette
You’ve heard all my stories
You’re somehow not sick of me yet
Once I laughed and loved and called your name
But I paid the price for your love and I’ll take all the blame
Say what you need to
Scream it
Know you mean it
I’m not trying to make you stay
Never been good at goodbyes
But let me say mine
Every heart I hold I break
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Do you feel what I feel?
Do you know what I know?
Do you see what I see?
Wanna go where I wanna go?
And you know I'm feeling
Like a long time I waited
For someone divine and maybe
It's you
Some say it's only
Some have a feeling
It's been such a long time that I
I want to believe it
And you know I'm feeling
Like a long time I waited
For someone divine and maybe
It's you
And I know when you're giving
Your love
Never let go
Hold it close to you
Until you feel the joy that's
All around your soul
Forever and a day
Do you feel what I feel?
Do you know what I know?
Do you see what I see?
Wanna go where I wanna go?
And you know I'm feeling
Like a long time I waited
For someone divine and maybe
It's you
And I know when you're giving
Your love, never let go
Hold it close to you
Until you feel the joy that's all around your soul
Forever and a day
Do you feel what I feel?
Do you know what I know?
Do you see what I see?
Wanna go where I wanna go?
And you know I'm feeling
Like a long time I waited
For someone divine and maybe
It's you
Maybe it's you
Maybe it's you
Maybe it's you
I know it's you babe
I know it's you babe
I know it's you babe
I know it's you oh oh oh
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Go on talk to me, baby
So long say yeah
Trouble and me we got to try and figure out some kinda way to go
That we know
Trouble it meet me every time I step around the way of danger's flow
So we can let it go said
I, I need someone like you
To understand my
Heart babe and my soul
It's on my mind baby it's always
Trouble, trouble, trouble
Trouble, trouble, trouble
And all my light lately
Call on me to
Struggle, struggle, struggle
Struggle, struggle, struggle
Since we been apart baby
I can't figure out which way to go in my life
Whoa since you left my heart and by my side
You'll never believe me
But through wrong and through right
I, I need someone like you
To understand my
Heart babe and my soul
It's on my mind baby it's always
Trouble, trouble, trouble
Trouble, trouble, trouble
And all my light lately
Call on me to
Struggle, struggle, struggle
Struggle, struggle, struggle
Go on talk to me baby
Come on talk to me baby
Go on talk to me baby
Come on talk to me baby
Go on talk to me baby
Come on talk to me baby
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I see an old man
Sittin' on a park bench
Lookin' in the skies when
He can see the mouth-stench
Of the range of the people
Walkin' and talkin' nonsense
In the park
I see a man sittin' there
With a newspaper
Under his head and hair
I think
He would be down for me to tell him
That he'd been waiting 'round here
For all, of his life and
It took time for the soul to come
When it came i saw the same
Old scene over and over again
My friend
People's talkin' and squackin' in the park, and
Sittin' on a bench, thinkin' 'bout things
I think of all the people of the park
Sleepin' in the street
Livin' from their hearts
Sleepin' in the street
Livin's kinda hard
Sleepin' in the street
People fall apart
There's a park bench
That's painted black and white
And when you sleep there
It won't get wet when you wake up
Because the trees are withered
And so you dry in the sunlight
You sit there and you prepare to make
A move and so you go through
Each and every can
Lookin' inside tryin' to see somethin'
That you didn't see last night
Wantin' to get somethin' to eat
And you go down the street
You see some friends of yours
And then they all speak
Sayin' what's happenin' man
You sleepin' in the park again
Yeah nothin' but a survival thang
You know what i'm sayin'
Insha'allah
Then again my friend
All they want to do
Is play you like you are a fool
But i know better
You're safe from school
Through this stay cool
Mark you are mis-skewed
An' now i know better
I maintain black
We'll overcome
In the sun
On the bench
In the park
Where you lay
When it's dark
And it's wet
Cuz it's raining on you
You have newspapers and you'd like to go home
But you can't
Cuz you just got put out on your own
You're thinkin' 'bout your kids
You're thinkin' 'bout your girl
You're thinkin' of all the things you did
You see the children play
You hear the people barely look at you
Laughing while they run away
Sleeping in the street
Living from the heart
Sleeping in the street
People fall apart
In the park, where are
They's every people walkin' round
Lookin' at themselves far
As if they were somethin'
But they ain't nothin', they frontin'
Not a people nowhere standing
All these people are something
Earth, perched on
The edge of all time, and yet they search
For drums imperial dreams
Similarly so barred
Can't buy my soul
Won't sell my soul
To the devil
On the other level never
With another rebel
Under trouble
I'll never see you go down
My people can't go down
My people can't go down
Sleeping in the street
Leaving from the heart
Sleeping in the street
People fall apart
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Light the words that are spoken
Light the hurts that are open
Like the birds that are floating
Don't resist the need no-win
Light the way for tomorrows
Light the shame you can't swallow
Make or build take or follow
Beg or steal buy or borrow
Light the place you go hoping
Hope the meaning of knowing
Know the meaning of coping
Cope to build the day s'posin
S'pose the place you got gone and
Code the building block zoning
Zone the twi like you holding
Hold it tight cuz we on it
This the only thing real and
This the only thing real and
Makes you drop what you stealing
Like your lips on my skin that
Make me holler and feel it
In a way I can't be mad
You're unstoppable female
You're the probable feeling
This the drop of the needle
This the top of my people
My intention is legal
My retention is lethal
Bump the shit while you rolling
Roll the shit ‘til the morning
Morning come in it's own way
Like to live to the dawn and
Put away all the nonsense
Will you stay with me darlin'
Will you stay with me darlin'
Show you what I have dawning
Build your scream to a moan and
Like the place you was born in
I'm original soil and
People call me old soul and
Like the body you owning
Touch ya fill you with longing
Wanna do it the long way
3 o' clock like the song say
We could stay a bit longer
We could stay a bit longer
We have everything wanted
We have everything honest
Call you baby or mama
Call me sugar or honey
Live your life like you wanna
Live your life like you want it
Touch in all the right places
Touchin' on empty stages
Where my memory is ageless
Where desire is nameless
Don't forget who you came with
Lovely beautiful Angel
Just in case you was waiting
I done made all arrangements
Love the rain on my face when
Water teardrop I taste it
Slowly slowly we ain't in
Rush or hurry or pacing
Just the beauty created
Just a beautiful lady
Just a beautiful day to
Just a moment to say this
When the night becomes day and
When your life becomes weighty
Don't forget what my name is
Don't forget what my name is
Don't forget what my name is
Don't forget what my name is
Don't forget what my name is
Don't forget what my name is
Don't forget what my name is
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Wish I knew why I'm so in love with you
No one else in this world will do
Darlin' please save your love for me
Run away
If I were wise I'd run away
But like a fool in love I stay
And pray you'll save your love for me
I can feel it even when you're not here
Can't conceal it
I really love you my dear
And though I know no good can come from lovin' you
I can't do a thing
I'm so in love with you
So darlin' help me please
Have mercy on a fool like me
I know I'm lost but still I plead
Darlin' you'll save your love for me
I can feel it even when you're not here
Can't conceal it
I really love you my dear
And though I know no good can come from lovin' you
I can't do a thing
I'm so in love with you
So darlin' help me please
Have mercy on a fool like me
I know I'm lost but still I plead
Darlin' you'll save your love for me
You may have fun with the crowd
But for cryin' out loud
Darlin' please save your love for me
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In the darkness
In the darkness
In the darkness we make love
In the darkness
In the darkness
In the darkness we make love
Blackmagic the promise
The premise the endless
The sea we travel
On to arrive at the
Very beginning of where we started
Journeying onward into the light
And deeper into shadow
Life will bring
Trust it will bring
And store the memory you unravel
You messing with my emotions
You messing with the way I feel about you
You messing with my devotion
To what I know and what is real
Your love
Your love is a
Your heart
Your heart brings a
Blackmagic the promise
The premise the endless
The sea we travel
On to arrive at the
Very beginning of where we started
Journeying onward into the light
And deeper into shadow
Life will bring
Trust it will bring
And store the memory you unravel
I feel so close to you
I feel so close to me
I started with the feeling of together
So why do I fear getting close to you
Losing you would mean
The worst had come true
Holding you is all
I seem to want to do
Blackmagic the promise
The premise the endless
The sea we travel
On to arrive at the
Very beginning of where we started
Journeying onward into the light
And deeper into shadow
Life will bring
Trust it will bring
And store the memory you unravel
In the darkness
In the darkness
In the darkness we make love
In the darkness
In the darkness
In the darkness we make love
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Promise in love then baby gon' take you on a high
Promise in love then baby let's make everything alright
Promise in love then baby we're living for today
Promise in love then baby let's take it all the way
Yes babe
I know that you are
The only one for
Me and it's already
There on your face
Something I can do
Nothing I won't lose
Baby you're the only
One for me and I know that
You and I stepping in the
Club tonight we're so close so
Close inside feeling like our
Hearts might explode
Nothing left to prove
Only me and you
Spreading light into the
World is what we plan to do
Promise in love then baby gon' take you on a high
Promise in love then baby let's make everything alright
Promise in love then baby we living for today
Promise in love then baby let's take it all the way
And now a song
Sweet and simple like a song
And now we sway
To eternal life of praise
And now tonight
Love and touch you divine
And now we say
Love has given us this day
Promise in love then baby gon' take you on a high
Promise in love then baby let's make everything alright
Promise in love then baby we living for today
Promise in love then baby let's take it all the way
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Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Heaven is a moment when
Beautiful melodies pour from your body
You are in my life to stay
Let’s go inside to the magic place
Of love
Of seduction
Of dance
Lovers do
Of love
Of seduction
I’ve known love and intrigue since I’ve been with you
Darling come and slide with me in bed
We’ll lay and watch the morning sun rise through the day
Moving towards you we embrace
And find the sweetness that is made for love
Made for love
Made for love
Made for love
Made for love
Let’s make love
Let’s make love
Let’s make love
Let’s make love
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Hold me close angel
This is real love
This is real magic
Coming from above
Only our hearts
Tell us right from wrong
Whisper in my ears
Your sweet song
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Made for love
Made for love
Made for love
Made for love
Let’s make love
Let’s make love
Let’s make love
Let’s make love
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
Love to touch your body
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And I need your loving baby
Maybe
Crazy lately thinking of you
And I need your arms around me
Now that you found me
Always thinking of you
ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Sometimes in wonder girl
I think about the way that you move me
Let me talk about it
Yes and everything that you bring to my life
You’re my pride and joy and
Everything is gonna be alright
Everything gonna be alright
You and I alone together
This love could bring us to a higher place
I know if we can get together
And I need your loving baby
Maybe
Crazy lately thinking of you
And I need your arms around me
Now that you found me
Always thinking of you
You're not the average man
You blew my mind
And you invaded my thoughts
Yes I've gotta speak about it
When you're around me I feel complete
You're all that matters to me
I know I'm gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be alright
With you baby
Our love can conquer the world
Hey imagine what we can do
We belong together
And I need your loving baby
Maybe
Crazy lately thinking of you
And I need your arms around me
Now that you found me
Always thinking of you
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I see an old man
Sittin' on a park bench
Lookin' in the skies when
He can see the mouth-stench
Of the range of the people
Walkin' and talkin' nonsense
In the park
I see a man sittin' there
With a newspaper
Under his head and hair
I think
He would be down for me to tell him
That he'd been waiting 'round here
For all, of his life and
It took time for the soul to come
When it came i saw the same
Old scene over and over again
My friend
People's talkin' and squackin' in the park, and
Sittin' on a bench, thinkin' 'bout things
I think of all the people of the park
Sleepin' in the street
Livin' from their hearts
Sleepin' in the street
Livin's kinda hard
Sleepin' in the street
People fall apart
There's a park bench
That's painted black and white
And when you sleep there
It won't get wet when you wake up
Because the trees are withered
And so you dry in the sunlight
You sit there and you prepare to make
A move and so you go through
Each and every can
Lookin' inside tryin' to see somethin'
That you didn't see last night
Wantin' to get somethin' to eat
And you go down the street
You see some friends of yours
And then they all speak
Sayin' what's happenin' man
You sleepin' in the park again
Yeah nothin' but a survival thang
You know what i'm sayin'
Insha'allah
Then again my friend
All they want to do
Is play you like you are a fool
But i know better
You're safe from school
Through this stay cool
Mark you are mis-skewed
An' now i know better
I maintain black
We'll overcome
In the sun
On the bench
In the park
Where you lay
When it's dark
And it's wet
Cuz it's raining on you
You have newspapers and you'd like to go home
But you can't
Cuz you just got put out on your own
You're thinkin' 'bout your kids
You're thinkin' 'bout your girl
You're thinkin' of all the things you did
You see the children play
You hear the people barely look at you
Laughing while they run away
Sleeping in the street
Living from the heart
Sleeping in the street
People fall apart
In the park, where are
They's every people walkin' round
Lookin' at themselves far
As if they were somethin'
But they ain't nothin', they frontin'
Not a people nowhere standing
All these people are something
Earth, perched on
The edge of all time, and yet they search
For drums imperial dreams
Similarly so barred
Can't buy my soul
Won't sell my soul
To the devil
On the other level never
With another rebel
Under trouble
I'll never see you go down
My people can't go down
My people can't go down
Sleeping in the street
Leaving from the heart
Sleeping in the street
People fall apart
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Baby don’t cry for me babe
Baby don’t try for me girl
Baby don’t cry for me babe
Baby don’t try you know it’s time to go darling
Know it’s time to go
Baby don’t cry for me babe
Baby don’t try for me girl
Baby don’t cry for me babe
Baby don’t try you know it’s time to go darling
Know it’s time to go
Last night I
Saw the writing on the wall and knew
I made up my mind to give my heart to someone new
(Not to you)
This morning
In the mirror saw a different face
Boy I look too fine to waste my time waiting for you to change
So baby let’s raise a glass
Forget the past
And make it last tonight
Tonight
Baby don’t cry for me babe
Baby don’t try for me girl
Baby don’t cry for me babe
Baby don’t try you know it’s time to go darling
Know it’s time to go
Baby don’t cry for me babe
Baby don’t try for me girl
Baby don’t cry for me babe
Baby don’t try you know it’s time to go darling
Know it’s time to go
Fast driving
Got the top down and I’m feeling right
I made other plans for love
And plan to step you out my life
(Got to do it)
This morning
Woke up feeling like somebody new
Got to give myself a chance of loving with a heart that’s true
So baby let’s raise a glass
Forget the past
And make it last tonight
Tonight
Baby don’t cry for me babe
Baby don’t try for me girl
Baby don’t cry for me babe
Baby don’t try you know it’s time to go darling
Know it’s time to go
Baby don’t cry for me babe
Baby don’t try for me girl
Baby don’t cry for me babe
Baby don’t try you know it’s time to go darling
Know it’s time to go
Baby don’t
Don’t cry for me
Baby don’t
Don’t cry for me
(It is time to go)
Baby don’t
Don’t cry for me
Baby don’t
Don’t cry
Baby don’t
Don’t cry for me
Baby don’t
Don’t cry
Baby don’t
Don’t cry for me
Baby don’t
Don’t cry
Please
Do not cry for me
It is time to go
Time to go baby
Don’t cry for me no
Don’t cry for me
It is time to go
Time to go
Don’t cry
I’ve gotta go and make up a life for myself
Don’t cry for me
Don’t cry for me
Oh no
Don’t cry for me
Don’t cry for me
Don’t cry for me no
Don’t cry for me
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"José James: New York 2020" (Live) is the first highly anticipated live album from an artist with a decade long career built on his electric live show. Despite an entire year without shows, James found a way to create & connect with audiences during the peak of Coronavirus NY lockdown. José James is known for assembling some of the best live bands in the world, & his "New York 2020" crew is no exception. Each song resonates with the creative urgency of an effervescent, resilient 2020 New York City.
released February 19, 2021
José James - vocals
Taali - vocals
J. Hoard - vocals
Big Yuki - piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B-3, synth
Marcus Machado - guitar
Ben Williams - bass, vocals
Jharis Yokely - drums
Recorded live at Levon Helm Studios on October 3rd, 2020 by Pete Hanlon
Recorded live at Le Poisson Rouge, NYC on August 13th, 2020 by Jay Eigenmann
Mixed by Brian Bender at The Motherbrain West, LA
Mastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road Studios