One Crowded Hour (The Voice 2013 Performance)-James Walker

[ti:One Crowded Hour] [ar:James Walker] [al:2013 April 09-24 Single Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]One Crowded Hour (The Voice 2013 Performance) - James Walker [00:16.72]Should you expect to see something [00:18.76]That you hadn't seen [00:20.27]In somebody you'd known since you were sixteen [00:23.73]If love is a bolt from the blue [00:27.26]Then what is that bolt but a glorified screw [00:30.90]And that doesn't hold nothing together [00:33.39] [00:34.82]Far from these nonsense bars [00:37.12]And their nowhere music it's making me sick [00:40.32]And I know it's making you sick [00:42.08]There's nothing there it's like eating air [00:45.06]It's like drinking gin with nothing else in [00:48.99]That doesn't hold me together [00:51.08] [00:53.20]But for one crowded hour [00:56.28]You were the only one in the room [00:59.20] [00:59.94]And I sailed around all those bumps [01:02.52]In the night to your beacon in the gloom [01:05.71] [01:06.69]I thought I had found my golden [01:09.04]September in the middle of that purple june [01:12.19] [01:13.19]But one crowded hour would lead [01:16.91]To my wreck and ruin [01:18.89]Now I know you like your boys [01:20.97]To take their medicine [01:22.81]From the bowl with a silver spoon [01:25.33] [01:26.16]Run away with the dish [01:27.94]And scare the fish by the silvery light of the moon [01:31.94] [01:32.66]Who were taught from the womb [01:34.45]To believe to the tune [01:36.10]In as far as their bleeding eyes see [01:38.67] [01:39.27]Is a pleasure pen meant for them [01:41.44]Built for and rent for them [01:43.05]Not for the likes of me [01:44.91] [01:45.52]Not for the like of you and me [01:50.86]And for one crowded hour [01:53.73]You were the only one in the room [01:56.64] [01:57.37]And I sailed around all those bumps [01:59.95]In the night to your beacon in the gloom [02:03.19] [02:03.94]I thought I had found my golden [02:06.52]September in the middle of that purple june [02:09.86] [02:10.62]But one crowded hour would lead [02:14.35]To my wreck and ruin [02:16.60]Oh but the green eyed harpy of the songland [02:22.26] [02:23.79]She takes into hers my hand [02:29.09] [02:29.81]She says "boy I know you're lying [02:32.57] [02:34.24]Oh but then so am I " [02:37.22]To this I said "Oh well " [02:39.36] [03:03.27]They put me in a cage full of lions [03:05.79]I learned to speak lion [03:07.73]In fact I know the language well [03:10.36] [03:10.95]I picked it up while [03:12.58]I was versing myself in the languages [03:15.87]They speak in hell [03:17.44]That night the silence gave birth to a baby [03:21.20]They took it away to her silent dismay [03:24.41]And they raised it to be lady [03:27.72]Now she can't keep her mouth shut [03:32.68]But for one crowded hour [03:35.59]You were the only one in the room [03:38.61] [03:39.38]And I sailed around all those bumps [03:41.93]In the night to your beacon in the gloom [03:45.05] [03:45.79]I thought I had found my golden [03:48.47]September in the middle of that purple June [03:51.67] [03:52.43]But one crowded hour would lead [03:56.31]To my wreck and ruin [03:58.50]Yes and for one crowded hour [04:01.86]You were the only one in the room [04:04.94] [04:05.61]Well I played a few songs for [04:07.47]Those bumps in the night [04:09.01]In fact I played this very tune [04:11.82]You said [04:12.51]"What is this six stringed instrument [04:15.49]But an adolescent doom " [04:17.84] [04:18.78]And one crowded hour would lead [04:22.64]To my wreck and ruin [04:24.38] [04:25.12]Yes and one crowded hour would lead [04:29.27]To my wreck and ruin [04:31.39]Yes and one crowded hour would lead [04:35.77]To my wreck and ruin