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Come With Me (written for the T-Mobile ad campaign)
This House Will Burn
2 July 2007 · Print This Article
(Russell, Owens)
You left me nothing to lose
Falling out of my skin
I found that all this time
You’ve been lying to me
They left me battered and bruised
All these things that I’ve seen
Houses will burn down
And we will be torn at the seams
I’m taking everything back
I’m reclaiming the old city streets
I found that all this time
They’ve been waiting for me
They left me crawling and sick
All these things that I’ve seen
Houses will burn down
And we will be haunted by screams
Houses will burn down
And we will be torn at the seams
Now I talk in my sleep
I tell tales of daring and pain
All of my friends will be gathered in thundering rain
The truth is my sweetheart you’ll never see my face again
So you stand and you stare
If you think that I’m wrong, I don’t care
I’m pouring out all my heartbreak
But nothing is stirring inside
All that I ask for
Is some sign that I’m still alive
So I pour myself another black and white
And resign to settle in here for the night
I don’t care if you bring me back – just keep her safe from harm
And now I’m waiting for the call to bring my brothers home
Safe here in my arms
You left me nothing to lose
Nothing is real when there’s no one to hear you
In front of your eyes your whole life will come crashing
She will betray you as if you mean nothing
Painters will paint you a room that is flaming with fear
This house will burn down so please take me far, far from here
*This song is being released on Universal Records on January 11 2010. Watch this space for more information on how to download your copy! In the meantime, check out the music video here*
(Russell, Owens, Ward, Glozier)
I pack my case in the night
You tell me I’ll be alright
I call up all of my friends
I hold my breath, count of ten, then you
Come to me, we go together and you
Stay with me, we stay together and you
Come with me, we go together and we
Run
First light and we’re on our way
I say all I have to say
You stand with all of my friends
I run and run and run and run and then you
Come to me, we go together and you
Stay with me, we stay together and you
Come with me, we go together and we
Run
Come with me
Stay with me
Come with me
Stay with me
Come to me, we go together and you
Stay with me, we stay together and you
Come with me, we go together and we
Run
Chord Sequence (repeated throughout):
One bar of A followed by half a bar of D and half a bar of E
| A A A A | D D E E |
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Corperate crap; anlong with manafactured emotion tryng hard to clone and capture the free evolving spirit of the World Wide Web and sell it in a bottle.It has no soul and the silent majority see through this. Another annoying commercial.
Fair enough, Quing – we can’t expect to please everyone! We had a great response to the song from live audiences on the tour though, so we were pretty happy about that. I should also probably stress again that we’re a hard-working, self-represented, independent band, writing and recording music that is meaningful to us. It won’t resonate with everyone, but then that’s the beauty of music, eh?!
ps. you spelt “corporate” wrong.
pps. oh… and “manufactured”.
Quing has a point. It is manufactured the minute a large company like T-Mobile gets involved. Personally I think the whole thing initially is a setup. Never heard of Josh Ward before the adverts and how it came about. You might be an independent band but reckon you have got sucked into something bigger. Also people are generally thick nowadays so Quing I don’t think many people see through it but get sucked into it too.
Guys, we appreciate your comments and are genuinely interested in hearing what people think about our music. We could easily delete negative comments if we saw fit but I’d much rather engage in a visible debate on the subject…. so here goes.
In the last few years, since the record labels began their decline, unsigned bands have sought alternative business platforms to launch their careers. It’s now common knowledge that the major record labels have been ripping off musicians for decades, to the point that even some of the ’successful’ artists with hit albums have been making less money from their trade than they would do working in a cornershop. As a result there is a quiet revolution happening amongst musicians and many of us are considering the backing of alternative corporations – booking agents, private investors, advertising agencies etc – to help bring our music to a mainstream audience. You’re kidding yourself if you think The Beatles, The Stones, Queen, The White Stripes, U2, Kasabian or indeed any household name since the ’50s made it onto your stereo without the assistance of “a large company like T-Mobile”.
Hmmm, So a camera crew just walked up to Josh in the street and asked what he’d do with free texts for life. Nice story, but a strong smell of bullplop. Ad campaigns are planned, budgeted and orchestrated a lot more than that methinks. The song is good enough, but let’s not pretend this is what rock and roll is all about or that this is any more than a cash-in on the back of an ad campaign. Not that I blame you for that, but would the song stand up on its own two feet and would it chart without T-Mobile’s involvement?
As for the comparison with the Beatles, Stones, Queen et al they served a long apprenticeship (as no doubt did the Lightyears) as struggling artists before they hit big. I don’t remember ‘Love Me Do’ featuring in a Daz commercial, or ‘Seven Seas of Rhye’ being used to sell Holidays. (Although Gimme Shelter was adopted by the RAC and U2 are just baby kissing corporate whores these days!)
You’re right, Ian – a song that has emerged from an ad campaign isn’t very rock ‘n’ roll! We’re not too bothered about that though because we’re a pop band and always have been – and that’s what our fans want from us. This would be different for other acts who considered themselves to be “rock and roll”, of course, and I can definitely see Slipknot fans turning against the band if they did the same thing!
As for your first point, I know it’s hard to believe but the story about Josh being approached in the street by a camera crew is genuinely true! Well, unless Josh is lying to me that is… which is unlikely as I’ve known him for years.
Whether or not you ‘believe’ in the advert or the ‘truth’ of it seems somewhat irrelevant, I’m not so sure that those other people really did get their car insurance off the internet or that they didn’t know they were going to be in a ‘Daz doorstep challenge’.
Personally, i don’t get that mentally involved with adverts unless the music is good (at which point i try and work out who it is). Big bonus that this ad had the main men in various shots (and i don’t mean Josh) and i’d much prefer this to a track from an established artist, such as Coldplay or U2.
At the end of the day, if the corporations DIDN’T give exposure to independent artists when they could people would complain, and when they do – people complain.
Glad to see a squatter like you stuck with it and are getting your just rewards. Best of luck for the future…
We are no longer in the 60’s. Chris Lightyear is right, the music scene has evolved. Passionate AnR men don’t get into their cars and travel down the motorway to hear authentically grown bands like The Beetles play live anymore. Bands have to do what they can to expose themselves these days with the ever moving goal posts caused by the WWW.
But it is important to maintain your integrity somewhat as you battle the difficult times as a band. When you dilute yourself by attaching to a somewhat naff project like this it weakens you. The song is pleasant enough, not a worldwide smash or anything but everything does smack of corporate BS. This project is ultimately going nowhere because Universal will jump once your song fails to chart (they would have protected themselves to be able to have first refusal to extend a proper deal if by some magic it had charted well) and T-Mobile will have waved goodbye a while ago. They don’t care about you. YOU should care about yourself, your music and your direction. You don’t come out of this looking like artists, just fame opportunists, which indeed you might not care about – I haven’t heard your music.
If you don’t believe enough in your talent and musicality to take you where you need to be with the right kind of exposure why would anyone else?
In other words involve yourself with whatever corporate entity you see fit. That isn’t the issue. But do enough ground work so that your next corporate relationship is on your terms, not a hit and run that leaves you going “..um …what next?” Good luck.
Well argued…! And I have no doubt that your viewpoint on the subject will be echoed by certain others too. But our fans don’t see it that way, and neither do we. For you this may have “diluted” us as a band; however, for those that are into our music – and have discovered our music as a result of the project – it has been an exciting series of events reflective of how, in The Lightyears, we believe passionately in the work we do and have always kept our eyes open for new and unexpected ways of making music. You say that we “don’t come out of this looking like artists” – an opinion to which you are of course fully entitled – but as artists the two most important things we do are write and perform music… and if you watch the video that accompanies “Come With Me”, you’ll find us doing just that.
As for Universal, Josh’s Band were only signed up for a one-off single deal in any case and it was never expected to turn into a long-term relationship. As for T-Mobile “waving goodbye”, unless you work for them and know something I don’t (!), that can only be pure assumption on your part. Josh’s Band performed for T-Mobile and the Big Dance at a press launch in London at the end of January (several weeks after the single release), and more events of a similar nature are planned for the future.
Finally, as for the question “Um – what next?”, for us that was fairly straightforward to answer. We jumped on a plane bound for South Africa to embark on our 2010 Cape Town tour! Which reminds me, I must get back to my poolside mojito…