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.
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