James Bay – Best Fake Smile

No you don’t have to wear your best fake smile
Don’t have to stand there and burn inside
Oh oh oh if you don’t like it

She’s working late and making eyes at the door
She’s sick of everybody up on her floor
She wants the sun in her eyes but all she gets is ignored

She used to put it out and get it all back
But now she’s slipping trying to carry the act
She’s sweating under the lights, now she’s beginning to crack

Woah

No you don’t have to wear your best fake smile
Don’t have to stand there and burn inside
Oh oh oh if you don’t like it

And you don’t have to care so don’t pretend
Nobody needs a best fake friend
Oh oh oh don’t hide it

No hesitation now she gets up and walks
She thinks of all the pain and pride that it cost
She empties all the tip jars and won’t get back what she lost

Outside the window with two fingers to show
She lifts her head up just to blow out the smoke
She doesn’t have to look back to know where she’s gotta go

No you don’t have to wear your best fake smile
Don’t have to stand there and burn inside
Oh oh oh if you don’t like it

And you don’t have to care so don’t pretend
Nobody needs a best fake friend
Oh oh oh don’t hide it

If you don’t bleed it you don’t need it anymore
If you don’t need it get up and leave it on the floor
No more believing like it’s a voice you can’t ignore
If you don’t need it you don’t need it no

And you don’t have to wear your best fake smile
Don’t have to stand there and burn inside
Oh oh oh no if you don’t like it

And you don’t have to care so don’t pretend
Nobody needs a best fake friend
Oh oh oh don’t hide it

No you don’t have to wear your best fake smile
Don’t have to stand there and burn inside
Oh oh oh if you don’t like it

Oh oh oh no if you don’t like it


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James Bay – Let It Go

From walking home and talking loads
To seeing shows in evening clothes with you
From nervous touch and getting drunk
To staying up and waking up with you

But now we’re slipping at the edge
Holding something we don’t need
All this delusion in our heads
Is gonna bring us to our knees

So come on let it go
Just let it be
Why don’t you be you
And I’ll be me

Everything that’s broke
Leave it to the breeze
Why don’t you be you
And I’ll be me

And I’ll be me

From throwing clothes across the floor
To teeth and claws and slamming doors at you
If this is all we’re living for
Why are we doing it, doing it, doing it anymore

I used to recognize myself
It’s funny how reflections change
When we’re becoming something else
I think it’s time to walk away

So come on let it go
Just let it be
Why don’t you be you
And I’ll be me

Everything that’s broke
Leave it to the breeze
Why don’t you be you
And I’ll be me

And I’ll be me

Trying to fit your hand inside of mine
When we know it just don’t belong
There’s no force on earth
Could make it feel right, no

Whoa

Trying to push this problem up the hill
When it’s just too heavy to hold
Think now’s the time to let it slide

So come on let it go
Just let it be
Why don’t you be you
And I’ll be me

Everything that’s broke
Leave it to the breeze
Let the ashes fall
Forget about me

Come on let it go
Just let it be
Why don’t you be you
And I’ll be me

And I’ll be me


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James Bay – If You Ever Want To Be In Love

Saw you today after so much time
Felt just like it used to be
Talking for hours bout a different life
Surrounding us in memories
We were close never close enough
Baby are we now
‘Cause if it’s torn we can stitch it up
Don’t rule it out
Oh no no

I’ll come around
If you ever want to be in love
I’m not waiting, but I’m willing if you call me up
If you ever want to be in love
I’ll come around

Wanted to ask if we could have been
But my tongue wouldn’t break the seal
You always had something effortless
At school you were the biggest deal
Little quirks close and open up
Time is slipping by
Always thinking ’bout the two of us
Replay on my mind
Always playing on my mind

I’ll come around
If you ever want to be in love
I’m not waiting, but I’m willing if you call me up
If you ever want to be in love
I’ll come around

We were young we were side by side
Don’t know when we started losing touch
If you want we could walk around
Maybe that would be enough
Used to talk drinking to the night
I would wake up on the front room floor
All along you’d be in my bed
Make me crazy make me want you more

I’ll come around
If you ever want to be in love
I’m not waiting, but I’m willing if you call me up
I’ll come around
If you ever want to be in love
I’m not waiting, but I’m willing if you call me up
If you ever want to be in love
I’ll come around


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James Bay – Hold Back The River

Tried to keep you close to me,
But life got in between
Tried to square not being there
But think that I should have been
HOLD BACK THE RIVER, let me look in your eyes
HOLD BACK THE RIVER so I
Can stop for a minute and see where you hide
HOLD BACK THE RIVER, hold back
Once upon a dear friend life
We rode our bikes into the sky
With love we call against the tide
Those distant days are flashing by
HOLD BACK THE RIVER, let me look in your eyes
HOLD BACK THE RIVER so I
Can stop for a minute and be at your side
HOLD BACK THE RIVER, hold back
HOLD BACK THE RIVER, let me look in your eyes
HOLD BACK THE RIVER so I
Can stop for a minute and see where you hide
HOLD BACK THE RIVER, hold back
Hold oho, oho, oho, oho
Oho, oho, oho, oho
Lonely water, lonely water won’t you let us wander
Let us hold each other
Lonely water, lonely water won’t you let us wander
Let us hold each other
HOLD BACK THE RIVER, let me look in your eyes
HOLD BACK THE RIVER so I
Can stop for a minute and be at your side
HOLD BACK THE RIVER, hold back
HOLD BACK THE RIVER, let me look in your eyes
HOLD BACK THE RIVER so I
Can stop for a minute and see where you hide
HOLD BACK THE RIVER, hold back
Lonely water, lonely water won’t you let us wander
Let us hold each other
Lonely water, lonely water won’t you let us wander
Let us hold each other


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