Recovery - James Arthur

Experience: You look yourself in the mirror and you don't like what you see. Do you give up? Or do you try to recover...

Music Video: The camera spins around a bleak, black and white James Arthur. But he's alone - the camera is more about him taking a good look at his own life, than about someone judging him from outside. Maybe the only thing missing is some action: the lyrics end soaring above and beyond a troubled past, but the video ends with James hunching back down into his stool.

Meaning of Recovery: The game eventually ends. And when it does, we all have to face the truth about what we are. It might be wonderful. It could be horrible. But no matter which way the scales tip, there will always be things to recover from. And we can't do that by running away from our errors, or trying to ignore them. We have to face them. That's what Recovery is about: finally sitting down and staring yourself in the face.

Ask Yourself: Do you know what you've done - good and bad - and who you are? Can you change?

LYRICS:

I don't want to play this game no more

I don't wanna play it

I don't want to stay round here no more

I don't wanna stay here

Like rain on a Monday morning

Like pain that just keeps on going on

Look at all the heyday keep on showing

I don't want to see that

Look at all the stones they keep on throwing

I don't want to feel that

Like Sun that will keep on burning

I used to be so discerning, oh

In my recovery

I'm a soldier at war

I have broken down walls

I defined

I designed

My recovery

In the sound of the sea

In the oceans of me

I defined

I designed

My recovery

Keep soaring,

Keep song-writing

My recovery

And I can hear the choirs keep on singing

Tell me what they're saying

And I can hear the phone

It keeps on ringing

I don't want to answer

I know that I used to listen

And I know I've become dismissive

In my recovery

I'm a soldier at war

I have broken down walls

I defined

I designed

My recovery

In the sound of the sea

In the oceans of me

I defined

I designed

My recovery

Keep soaring,

Keep song-writing

My recovery

In my recovery

I'm a soldier at war

I have broken down walls

I defined

I designed

My recovery

In the sound of the sea

In the oceans of me

I defined

I designed

My recovery

Keep soaring,

Keep song-writing

My recovery

Review by Benjamin O'Loughlin