Benjamin Clementine – Gone

I remember walking down the A406
Holding bags of mother sent cornflakes
Guessing somebody might have noticed
A little boy big head small ears
Whilst making a ballad through a Sunday mist
Sure we’ve all been there, done it
Prepare a little time to reminisce
On all that eventually fally into nothingness
Oh, all will be gone
After all
Before we all get to the knowing
All will be gone

I went back to where life seemed promising at first
Gambling on memory’s lane
I tried a trip through all the pavements and fields
But I lost cause all had changed
Like the road I used to cross to school
Is now full of prositutes
No wonder why the priest is dead
No wonder why the priest is dead
Oh brother, when did you get married?
Neighbours, where did you vanish to?
If it was to a wonderland,
Well, it’s not known to my kind, mankind

All will be gone
After all
Before we all get to the knowing
All will be gone

And what about relationship?
What is it about relationships that we just don’t get?
Here we are always thinking we’ve learnt
Only to get smacked and realize we are
But mere students of life
And feels like
We’ve been fighting a lost battle
To have always realize at the end on it all
It feels like
We’ve been throught to a royal banquet,
Just to be served a brew and a wretched floor
But I say
It doesn’t matter anymore,
It doesn’t matter
All because I’m here now
I can’t go back, it’s too late
And so i will get it all going
Whilst it all gets lost and gone.

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Album: At Least For Now

Benjamin Clementine – Quiver A Little

Talk to me friend, talk to me, talk to me
I am listening to your advice
Slowly, slowly, please, slowly,
We have a lot of time
Sometimes I would wish that you were I
To see clearly, not just visualize
Many people said
Oh I’m lost, I’m a bastard, Oh I’m lost
Those same people pray,
For the best, for their own brothers,
So why would I quiver but quiver a little,
Then burst in laughter

(He laughs)
Read all the books and you will find
Nothing new has been hidden underneath the sun
Integrity is sometimes hard to climb
But if I look up, not down, and maybe who knows
I might go a bit further up there
Many people will say
Oh you’re lost, you are a bastard, you’re lost
Those same people pray
For the best, for their own sisters
And so I will only just quiver a little
Then burst in laughter

(He laughs)
Life is as cold not literally as in Greenland
Where snowfall is the storm
As opposed to the ray of sunlight
But, like the boy woke up one night
To see his poor mother on the floor
And he screamed “Mother, wake up!”
So why would you waste a lot of your energy
On what people might say
Just quiver a little,
Then burst in laughter
Quiver a little then get back to your stride

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Album: At Least For Now

Benjamin Clementine – The People And I

Woman,
Why are you looking at me?
Woman,
What are you looking for?
Here,
The nations plead
to hear,
how our darling fall came about
And woman,
don’t close your eyes
Let’s be fair,
We stand no more chance
And I am done
And these times, our precious times
Only for the people and I
Woman,
the truth is here
They are all,
to see it clear
And excuse me I’m in the middle of a song,
Right after two years long
In between different sheets found beyond the seeds…
Woman,
Don’t close your eyes
Let’s be fair,
We stand no chance
And I am done
And these moments, our precious moments
Only for the people and I
Mmmmmmmmmm
Boys, boys
Did I sing for the people and I?
And I write for the people and I
I speak for the people and I
Cause they are done
And we are done
And I am done
So these moments and times are precious for the people and I

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Album: At Least For Now

Benjamin Clementine – St-Clementine-On-Tea-And-Croissants

Where is your son?
Where did he go?
Where is your son?
Where did he go?
Sweet Sugar Stranger
Where did he go?
I am asking you, where did he go?
Where did you leave him?
Do you know where he is now?
Do you care?
Go lookk for you son
For even he who has no son looks for a different
Kind of son to be their son
Little Clementine is no tea and croissant

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Album: At Least For Now

Benjamin Clementine – Adios

Adios… adios
Adios to your afternoon
Tonight i will be forever
Chasing the colosseum moon
Into a certain room

Adios… adios

I am sorry for quickly
Jumping into the train
I waited but no one came
You just a little bit too late

The decision is mine
The decision is mine
So let the lesson be mine
Let the lesson be mine
The decision is mine
The decision is mine
Cause the vision is mine
The vision is mine

Adios… adios
Adios to the little child in me
who kept on blaming everyone else
instead facing defeat
After All, why should i regret
If it wasn’t for the mistakes
I made yesterday
where will i be by now

The decision is mine
The decision is mine
So let the lesson be mine
Let the lesson be mine
The decision is mine
The decision is mine
Cause the vision is mine
The vision is mine

Lest the trees cease breathing
Lest all the bees cease breeding
And all the salts in the dead sea
Ferment to honey…

Until then, I will be forever chasing
Chasing…
Chasing it all till the very end

The decision is mine
So let the lesson be mine
Cause the vision is mine
The decision is mine
So let the lesson be mine
Cause the vision is mine

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Album: At Least For Now

Benjamin Clementine – Then I Heard A Bachelor’s Cry

Lately i’ve been searching, searching for answers
I walk around the boulevards, looking for magicians
With a cold feet, black coat full of arms outstretched and a leading voice
And i can’t help but shout at the top of my lungs
Who is next in line to get hurt
Who is next in line to get speared

Bad mouth, bad habits
Now leads icicles growing out me hair
Our past i’d guaranteed you if you’d stay with me your tomorrow will be endlessly free

Don’t know what it was that had made you to come by
Though i know god created me beautifully but don’t you know beauty will forever kill.

Who is next in line to get hurt?

Who is next in line to get speared?

I am sorry
I can see our future
It isn’t so bright
There isn’t any light

Who is next in line to get hurt
Who is next in line to get my spear

And so i wait
I wait for my next prey
I wait.
Here.

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Album: At Least For Now

Benjamin Clementine – London

As i sit on the back of this grey caravan
Tomorrow he will probably be jumping barriers
With a bottle in his hand
Sparkling, Sparkling water mixed with peaches and ram
Honestly i don’t drink but if i did this will be my favourite punch
He said
Walk out the door with her he could see everyone
Dressed in black a class that seem far too fetched

She said look at you, look at you, your game is over
Your cup is full, your cup is full so why you praying for more exposure

It is obvious you are trying, but its dubious stop or you will die here
You are pretending but no one is buying

London London London is calling you
What are you waiting for, what you searching for?
London London London is all in you
Why are you denying the truth
I might I might I might be boring you
Although its not clear as the morning due
Though my ways are not happening i won’t underestimate
who i am capable of becoming

History will be made today is written boldly on his face
So clear you can hardly miss it, you can hardly miss it
For transcending the carries of yesterday was and is the dream
On a road where Cleopatras comes and go like fishes caught in ponds
thrown back for fun

She said look at you look at you, why can’t you just pick a fleet
Your cup is full, your cup is full what have you not achieved
It is obvious you are trying, but its dubious stop or you will die here
You are pretending but no one is buying

London London London is calling you
What are you waiting for, what you searching for?
London London London is all in you
Why are you denying the truth
I might I might I might be boring you
Although its not clear as the morning due
When my ways are not happening i won’t underestimate
who i am capable of becoming

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Album: At Least For Now

Benjamin Clementine – Winston Churchill’s Boy

Never in the field of human affection
Had so much been given for so few attention
Never in the field of human affection
Had so much been given for so few attention

Winston boy
Oh there is packing quietly, alone
You could mistake a clock ticking
For a cricket cricketing
When you’re around him
But I swear
Nobody knows
Nobody knows what’s on this boys mind
And nobody sees
Nobody sees what he’s been picturing

We all make a living by what we get
But we make life by what we give
By what we give
But in some special circumstances
This special circumstance
Winston boy will have to end living for he ends enough living to give
Where is your family
Where are your loved ones
Someone uttered
As he went on, crossing the channel
Well they say no man can be a prophet in his own country
So I left, here I am
Come one embrace me, hold me
I’m your brother
While as he kept on talking
of the magnificent oh well
It’s about time he embraced a guitar borrowed
Borrowed from me
Come to think about it
I think a few years ago I heard him talk about how God blessed an eagle with 54 stars
And maybe he’s gone
He’s gone
Wandering living for his kind of stars
But if them stars
If we think about it
If beautiful stars
They tend to shoot through the night and you never find them again
Never and never and never again
And so don’t you judge Winston Boy
Don’t you ever judge Winston boy
One day this boy might be the man
Though clearly nobody knows when or how
One day this boy will stand in front of
As the world gets him by permanent
There you will tell the world where he’s been and how
Underground to upper ground in the depths of
Sureley survived
They share his story with a cup of thea streaming from his eyes
One day this boy will be fine
One day this boy will be fine
Better watch out now
That day might be today

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Album: At Least For Now

Benjamin Clementine – Nemesis

If I held my breath on you
I would have died a thousand times
And if chewing was to show you how much I cared
I’d probably be wearing by now

If I held my breath on you
I would have died a thousand times
And if chewing was to show you how much I cared
I’d probably be wearing by now

Our promises, broken
Nemesis sour token
You turn around
March on to your new home
Where have gone darling
Don’t you ever forget
To treat others the way you want to be treated
Remember your days I’m falling down to earth

Just march one
March one
March one

If you held your breath on me
You would have died a million times
And if chewing was to show me how much you cared
You’d probably swallowed your tongue by now
All I’m trying to say darling
As you know very well I left for you
I guess you’re doing the same old same thing to me now
Now these days
Heresey dreins my veins
As my Nemesis smiles at me
Now heresey march me a new fate fate
Whether you’ve chosen to believe darling
Don’t you ever forget
To treat others the way you want to be treated
Remember your days I’m falling down to earth
Treat others the way you want to be treated
Remember your days I’m falling down to earth
Can’t say anything for you no more
Nemesis in the cage darling
Next time treat others the way you want to be treated
But otherwise
You get your punishment
Nemesis is
Nemesis is
Nemesis is
Nemesis is as a matter of karma
Remember karma
Remember karma
Remember karma
Remember
Remember

So long you wrath

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Album: At Least For Now

Benjamin Clementine – Cornerstone

I am alone in a box of stone
When all is said and done
As the wind blows to the east from the west
Unto this bed, my tears have their solemn rest

I am lonely, alone in a box of stone
The claim they loved me but they all lieing
I am lonely, alone in a box of my own
And this is the place, I now belong

It’s my home, home, home, home home home home home
It’s my home, home, home, home home home home home

It wasn’t easy getting used to this
I use to scream
It’s not true, that its only when the door is locked
That nobody enters
Cause mine has been open till your demise
But none has come, well who am I,
What have i done wrong?

I’ve been lonely, alone in a box of my own
They claim to be near me but they were all lieing
I’ve been lonely, alone in a box of my own
This is the place I know I now belong

It’s my home, home, home, home home home home home x2

Friends, I have met
Lovers have slept and wept
Promises to stay had never kept
This bare truth of which most won’t share
I hope you share, I hope you share

Cause I have been lonely
Alone in a box of stone
They claim to love me and be near me
But they are all lieing
I have been lonely, alone in a box of my own
And this is the place I now know I belong

Its my home, home, home, home home home home home
Its my home, home, home, home home home home home

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Album: At Least For Now

Benjamin Clementine – Condolence

I swear that you’ve seen me
yes you’ve seen me here before, before
and so don’t tell it
don’t tell it otherwise
This voice, this particular voice
yes you’ve heard it before, before
and so don’t you dare tell it
don’t you dare tell it otherwise

No wonder why the road seems so long
’cause I have done it all before
and I won

You felt τhis feeling
tell me, don’t be ashamed
you felt it before, before
and so don’t tell me
don’t tell me otherwise
I almost forgot, foolish me
I almost forgot, forgot
where I’m from you see the rain
before the rain even starts to rain

Before I was born there was a storm
before that storm there was fire
burning everywhere, everywhere
and everything became nothing again
then out of nothing
out of absolutely nothing
I Benjamin, I was born
so that when I become someone one day
I’ll always remember I came from nothing

No wonder why you’ve been buggering me
’cause this walk it’s a previous journey
and no wonder why the road seem so long
’cause I have done it all before
and I won

I’m sending my condolence
I’m sending my condolence to fear
I’m sending my condolence
I’m sending my condolence to insecurities
You should know by now
you should know by now that I just don’t care
for what you might say
might bring someone downhill
I’m sending my condolence
I’m sending my condolence to fear

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Album: At Least For Now