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James And The Cold Gun

This version of James And The Cold Gun was released by Kate Bush in 1978.

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James, come on home.
You’ve been gone too long, baby.
We can’t let our hero
Die alone.

We miss you day and night.
You left town to live by the rifle.
You left us to fight,
But it just ain’t right to take away the light.

Remember Genie from the casino?
She’s still a-waiting in that big brass bed.
The boys from your gang are knocking whisky back,
‘Til they get out of hand and wish they were dead.
They’re only lonely for the life that they led
With their old friend.

Ooh, James, are you selling your soul to a cold gun?
Selling your soul to a
Ooh, James, are you selling your soul to a cold gun?

Where lies your heart?
It’s not there in the buckskin, baby.
It’s not there in the gin
That makes you laugh long and loud.

You’re a coward, James.
You’re running away from humanity.
You’re running away from reality.
It won’t be funny when they rat-a-tat-tat you down.

Remember Genie from the casino?
She’s still a-waiting in that big brass bed.
The boys from your gang are knocking whisky back,
‘Til they get out of hand and wish they were dead.
They’re only lonely for the life that they led
With their old friend.

Ooh, James, are you selling your soul to a cold gun?
Selling your soul to a
Ooh, James, are you selling your soul to a cold gun?

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You can understand the lyrics to James And The Cold Gun if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to James And The Cold Gun" means the words set to the music of James And The Cold Gun, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Kate Bush. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to James And The Cold Gun and the lyrics to James And The Cold Gun are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Kate Bush who came here looking just for the lyrics to James And The Cold Gun, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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