Same Way Home: The Remixes

Tracklist

In release order.

1. 01

   He Plays It Loud (Remix)

   A soul two-step version of a domestic story.

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   Verse 1

   He came downstairs this morning already humming something That nobody else in this house can hear at six AM There's a song that's been on his headphones since before the kids were born And I can hear it leaking through the cushion of his chair across the room He doesn't think I notice I notice everything

   Pre-Chorus

   He's got his garridge I've got my own thing And both of those things Live in this kitchen

   Chorus

   He plays it loud And I love what it does to him He plays it loud And that's how I know that he's home I don't always get the song But I always get the man He plays it loud And that's enough He plays it loud

   Verse 2

   Sunday morning and the same album just came on for the eighteenth year running And our oldest just rolled his eyes the same way I do Which is the same way he secretly loves it too There's a face he makes when the bassline drops in the second chorus That I have watched him make since we were twenty-three The first time I saw it I thought he was having an aneurysm Now I just know it means we're in for a good Sunday

   Pre-Chorus

   He's got his bassline I've got mine And both of those basslines Carry the line

   Chorus

   He plays it loud And I love what it does to him He plays it loud And that's how I know that he's home I don't always get the song But I always get the man He plays it loud And that's enough He plays it loud

   Bridge

   Here's what I worked out about love Years in You don't have to share someone's obsession To know what it costs them You don't have to love what they love You just have to love that they love it That much For that long Without it dimming Some people lose the things they were obsessed with at fifteen Some people just turn the speakers down a notch as the years pass He never did And honestly That's most of why I married him A man who is still in love with something Will never ever run out of room To love you too

   Final Chorus

   He plays it loud And I love what it does to him He plays it loud South London bedroom to a Texas kitchen He plays it loud Twenty-five years and the same song still lands He plays it loud And the music doesn't age And neither does the man He plays it loud He plays it loud

   Outro

   And alright Fine If you really want to know I do know all the words to Fill Me In I have known them since two thousand I'd never tell him Don't you tell him either He'd be absolutely insufferable about it

   131 BPM

2. 02

   Play It Back (Remix)

   Play It Back recut as soul garage.

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   Verse 1

   Cheap perfume in a Corsa Windows won't behave First kiss with the stereo doing all the work cos we were too afraid to be brave School disco and the same ten songs got played until they bled PE teacher near the punch Swearing she was checking stock instead Six mates in a bathroom getting every single ad-lib right Knowing all the words was currency on a Friday night And then Twenty years later Any ordinary week Your body picks a fight your common sense can't beat Trolley's gone Dignity's gone Don't care Seventeen just walked back in with all her hair And her terrible perfume And her beautiful lack of fear Half your life ago Still here

   Pre-Chorus

   One song That's all it takes One song And the years Give way

   Chorus

   Play it back and she walks in like she never aged a day Play it back same song same rush same beautiful mistake Play it back The song remembered you Before you remembered you Play it back

   Verse 2

   He's on a work call Hold music just attacked Tune from ninety-seven and his six-pack just came back Muted on Teams doing something with his chair That would get him fired on camera but he genuinely does not care She's at a barbecue Someone's kid just pressed a song And her whole chest opened up to nineteen-ninety-four where nothing's wrong Her husband says you good babe Yeah Fine She's fine She's just barefoot on a rooftop from a different point in time With a girl whose name got married But whose laugh Whose laugh she'd know in any crowd Any room Any sound One song and you're gone

   Pre-Chorus

   One song And you're somewhere else One song And you're someone Else

   Chorus

   Play it back and the rooftop's still alive inside the bass Play it back and the laugh she lost is looking at her face Play it back The song remembered her Before she remembered her Play it back

   Verse 3

   Shoulders just decided something HR hasn't cleared Knees filing paperwork your twenties volunteered Wooden spoon Kitchen philharmonic Dog requesting transfer to a household less harmonic Van man at the red light giving you a slow clap from three lanes ago And you take a bow Because honestly When the right song hits the right bones Nothing in this world is wrong

   Spoken

   Here's the thing though And I've been thinking about this Actually no I haven't been thinking about it It just hit me In a car park On a Wednesday At like eleven in the morning A song came on that I hadn't heard in God Fifteen years? And I just I just sat there Engine off And every version of me I thought I'd grown out of Just Showed up The one who danced like rent was free And the one who texted back too fast And the one who left the party five minutes before everything changed And I thought they'd gone I really thought they'd gone But they hadn't They were just waiting This whole time Queued up like a playlist I forgot I made For the right song To let them back in And it did One song And they all came back

   Breakdown

   One song That's all it ever took

   Final Chorus

   Play it back Every version of yourself just walked back in Play it back The dancer and the crier and the kitchen violin Play it back From the Corsa to the rooftop to the hold-music sin Play it back The song remembers everything your life forgot to keep Play it back Every laugh and every cry and every dancefloor in your sleep Play it back Especially the ones you think are gone They're not gone The song's got them Play it back Play it back Play it back

   Outro

   One song and you're gone One song and you're found Anyway The trolley's still in aisle four And someone's definitely staring Worth it though

   131 BPM

3. 03

   Through The Static (Remix)

   A melodic garage remix of the radio-under-the-duvet story.

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   Verse 1

   Thirteen and the radio borrowed from the kitchen Hidden underneath the duvet so my mum wouldn't know I'd nicked it Tuning the dial in the dark with the volume down to almost nothing Static and a voice and a static and a voice and then A bassline came through clean Like it had been waiting on that frequency For somebody exactly like me To find it

   Pre-Chorus

   And I sat up In the dark And I didn't breathe Until the chorus came

   Chorus

   Through the static Through the static It came through the static when I was thirteen And it never left Through the static Through the static Found the frequency the high street didn't know was there And it changed me Through the static

   Verse 2

   Recorded the next show on a tape with my finger on the pause Trying to catch every drop and miss every advert Played it back the next morning under the same duvet Like a secret nobody else in school had even been told existed Took me three months to find out the DJ's name Took me three years to find out he was eighteen Took me three decades to admit He was probably making it up as he went along And it was perfect anyway

   Chorus

   Through the static Through the static It came through the static when I was thirteen And it never left Through the static Through the static Found the frequency the high street didn't know was there And it changed me Through the static

   Bridge

   Here's what pirate radio actually was It wasn't an alternative It was the actual real thing The radio they sold you was the lie The static was the truth And once you knew which frequency to find You couldn't go back to anything else The signal was illegal The feeling was the only legal thing in the building Some of those DJs went on to be famous Most of them didn't But every one of them Was telling the truth On a frequency Nobody had given them permission to use That's what made it real That's what made it last

   Final Chorus

   Through the static Through the static It came through the static when I was thirteen And it never left Through the static Through the static Twenty years and four thousand miles and the signal still finds me Through the static Through the static The high street still doesn't know Through the static Through the static

   Outro

   Still got the tape Still got the player Don't have a single one of those frequencies anymore But I know exactly where they used to be On a dial That doesn't exist On a radio That's in a loft Above a kitchen That somebody else lives in now But the songs Still here Came through the static Stayed

   132 BPM

4. 04

   Boots on a Bassline (Remix)

   A garage-forward version with two brief pedal-steel moments.

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   Verse 1

   Eighteen, rainy alleyway Speaker stack against the wall Bassline shaking through the door That's the night I gave it all

   Pre-chorus

   Boot on the kick Heel on the snare London swing In Texas air

   Chorus

   Boots on a bassline (yeah-yeah) Step in time (woah-oh) Boots on a bassline (yeah-yeah) London state of mind (woah-oh) Boots on a bassline (yeah-yeah) Step in time (woah-oh) Boots on a bassline (yeah-yeah) Boots on a bassline (yeah-yeah)

   Verse 2

   Twenty years, thousands of miles Same swing, different sky Texas night on a London tune Same beat, same boots, same I

   Pre-chorus

   Boot on the kick Heel on the snare London swing In Texas air

   Chorus

   Boots on a bassline (yeah-yeah) Step in time (woah-oh) Boots on a bassline (yeah-yeah) London state of mind (woah-oh) Boots on a bassline (yeah-yeah) Step in time (woah-oh) Boots on a bassline (yeah-yeah) Boots on a bassline (yeah-yeah)

   Bridge

   Long way home Long way home Good hook travels fine Long way home

   Spoken Breakdown

   From a rainy London alley To a porch in Texas night The bassline never noticed the difference Same shuffle, same heart Boots on a bassline

   Drop

   Boots on a bassline! (yeah!) Boots on a bassline! (yeah!) London swing! (Boots on a bassline!) Texas air! (Boots on a bassline!)

   Final Chorus

   Boots on a bassline (yeah-yeah) Step in time (woah-oh) Boots on a bassline (yeah-yeah) London state of mind (woah-oh) Boots on a bassline (yeah-yeah) Step in time (woah-oh) Boots on a bassline (yeah-yeah) Boots on a bassline (yeah-yeah)

   Outro

   Boots on a bassline Boots on a bassline Boots on a bassline

   132 BPM

5. 05

   Big Sky Thinking (Remix)

   A remix that travels from a close room to an open porch.

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   Verse 1

   First night I stood outside in Texas and I couldn't find the ceiling Just sky going on forever like someone had taken the lid off London and shown me what was underneath the grey I just stood there Neck tipped back Drink getting warm in my hand And thought I have never in my life seen this many stars

   Chorus

   Big sky thinking Room to breathe where there was none before Every small thing I was holding onto Doesn't seem to matter anymore Big sky thinking Stars I never knew were there Calling me outside to stare And finally there is room up there For everything

   Verse 2

   Back home the sky is something you walk under Head down, umbrella up Horizon's just the next building Out here the sunset takes forty-five minutes Just pinks and golds rolling out like they've got nowhere else to be And people sit on their porches and actually watch it Like it's a show And maybe it is Maybe it always was And I just never had a seat

   Chorus

   Big sky thinking Room to breathe where there was none before Every small thing I was holding onto Doesn't seem to matter anymore Big sky thinking Galaxy on display where the street lights used to be And I found the thing I didn't know I'd lost Somewhere underneath the Milky Way

   Final Chorus

   Big sky thinking Room to breathe where there was none before From a city full of ceilings To a sky that has no floor Big sky thinking And I'm never going back To a life without the stars Big sky thinking

   124 BPM