James Blake - Retrograde (Live On Letterman)

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James Blake - Retrograde (Live On Letterman)
Assume Form
The new album by James Blake. Out now.
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www.jamesblakemusic.com
Lyrics
You're on your own
In a world you've grown
Few more years to go
Don't let the hurdle fall
So be the girl you loved
Be the girl you loved
I'll wait
So show me why you’re strong
Ignore everybody else
We're alone now
I'll wait
So show me why you’re strong
Ignore everybody else
We’re alone now
Suddenly I'm hit
It's the starkness of the dawn
And your friends are gone
And your friends won’t come
So show me where you fit
So show me where you fit
I'll wait
So show me why you're strong
Ignore everybody else
We’re alone now (We’re alone now)
I'll wait (We’re alone now)
(We’re alone now)
(We’re alone now)
I'll wait (We’re alone now)
(We’re alone now)
(We’re alone now)
(We’re alone now)
(We’re alone now)
Suddenly I'm hit
It's the starkness of the dawn
And your friends are gone
And your friends won’t come
So show me where you fit
So show me where you fit
#JamesBlake

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@SmirkzHD 10 лет назад

James is a saxophone manifested into a person.

@minimoo2686 9 лет назад

Hahaha :')

@TheGabeBondocCoverer 9 лет назад

Smerkuh Perfect

@inspir.edmusic 8 лет назад

+Smerkuh Haha! True. But it's "saxophone" lol.

@chlo3ism 8 лет назад

Couldn't agree more

@The_Salty_Siren 7 лет назад

Yaaaaaassss

@YourBoyEobard 10 лет назад

Not many artists sound this damn good live. Holy shit his voice is true.

@masterculturedunkerque7918 Год назад

Victoria Legrand is also as good live as on record

@aam77 Год назад

Wanted to say just that.

@Raymondcurryjr 8 лет назад

I would have lost my shit in the crowd no lie

@halfhigh 8 лет назад

+Raymond Curry I would have lost my shirt too

@SherelleT92 8 лет назад

+Raymond Curry lol trust

@suzannahdanielle7402 8 лет назад

+halfhigh opi

@suzannahdanielle7402 8 лет назад

pkikkkop nephew o8i90

@laleezy77 8 лет назад

Who you telling!

@michmateo 10 лет назад

And when he repeats "we're alone now" i instantly get goosebumps

@By.Design. 9 лет назад

how is it possible that his live performance sounds just like a recorded song on cd, too F'n amazing!

@AlienBusDriver1 8 лет назад

lip synching?

@MsANAIT 8 лет назад

+AlienBusDriver1 it's called actually talent.

@AlienBusDriver1 8 лет назад

MsANAIT its called actually sarcasm

@TayRivers222 6 лет назад

Huy Le I'm saying

@TheMothernerd 2 года назад

Yeah, his Godspeed on Fallon is also 99% true to the recording. So crazy.

@Aleskandro 9 лет назад

The most elegant voice of our times. Blue velvet.

@CassieJazz96 9 лет назад

Very elegant statement.

@SheMeetsCity 10 лет назад

I LOVE THE WAY HE GROOVES!! Damn! lol. Makes me want to move to the UK and marry him! His rhythm is ON point.

@MissC333 10 лет назад

That's very interesting that you caught that. I did also and yes I would like to marry him as well shhhh don't tell anyone lol

@Sahbla 8 лет назад

It's hard to tell at the time, but I have a feeling... when this time of music has passed, people will look back and remember James Blake fondly, and new generations will be able to relate to his messages. Fantastic.

@MooseM3 6 лет назад

Well said

@0xf1337 11 лет назад

i was there, about 3 rows from the front. the bass was incredible - his performances are something that need to be felt as much as heard.

@malachdorell6026 Год назад

haha thats so cool. cant even imagine

@Joe-lq5nt 9 лет назад

Fucking Letterman at the end... "That was nice... Yeah that was lovely..." Chilling performance.

@beobe99 10 лет назад

Sounds of desperation, uncertainty, confusion, love slain, zero hope, and passion! All the ingredients that create Soul. It doesn't matter what your Nationality is, most of us have it! Some more than others, and only a few can radiate it vocally. James Blake confuses your stereotypical senses to remind us we're all one!! In other words, pretty good song :)

@amoore3734 3 года назад

Listening in 2021 like this came out last week. He voice is amazing..

@palunium378 2 года назад

in 2022 same

@CharifRocka 2 года назад

In 3024, still incredible. 👽

@djblondi138 2 года назад

in 2022 same...it sounds new every time i listen ...i luv his music 🎶🎶🎶

@MrThessalonikiman1 Год назад

In 2023 nothing changed since 2013

@saxtonmartin3956 5 месяцев назад

The echoes of "we're alone now" are infinitely beautifully haunting. GENIUS!

@cdurkinz 10 лет назад

Best song I've heard in soooo long. Damn this guy is good

@clevermoron 9 лет назад

Ditto.

@scarletcrusade77 3 года назад

Its even better live, trust me

@ultimatewick 3 года назад

Unfortunately he doesn't have many songs as good as this one. I only really enjoy like 3 of them.

@genesisosuna 3 года назад

@@ultimatewick your opinion. I find most of music great. Personal favorites being Are You Even Real?, Overgrown, Mile High, Say What You Will, I Am Sold, Wilhelm Scream, I Never Learnt To Share, Limit to Your Love, Unluck, Measurements, Into The Red

@AbrahamJunaid 2 года назад

@@ultimatewick man, I daresay I only don't like 1 or 2 of his songs. Most of them are killer.

@Jopeal 10 лет назад

Dude has amazing tone.

@CassieJazz96 9 лет назад

Yes he does and great range too!

@shakylaashabazz4059 9 лет назад

I was crying before he even started singing

@maitai1708 10 лет назад

His voice is pretty in perfection, I'd really pay to see him live in concert

@raccoonsalamander4646 6 месяцев назад

This made him a lot of fans even people there are not attracted by this kind of music cause hes soooo good, voice and live construction of a unique sound

@Super3855 6 месяцев назад

Well said

@stiv147mccluskey3 2 года назад

His voice is alluring

@KruthiNair 8 лет назад

I want to die listening to his heavenly humming.

@rushijoshi3880 8 лет назад

Ya i love this humming 😍😍😍

@chameleon8656 7 лет назад

me too... if that happened i'd die in peace

@astonmargolis-dias7089 10 лет назад

Even though its old, I'm vibin to this song sooo much right now

@Muzikman127 2 года назад

Took the words out of my mouth, only 7 years earlier lol

@giselcastillo2080 9 лет назад

god his voice gives me chills

@jonathanoxlade4252 5 лет назад

It gives me chills why can't morden music be more mixed like this and with more talent than the auto tuned over bassy hits and distorted Vocals

@taylorhunt7559 10 лет назад

his voice is beautiful and soulful loved it

@lydiahallman765 10 лет назад

Yass I agree

@ebonyjones1206 8 лет назад

I love the way James Blake groove to his own sound. I got to have it!

@theruff713 8 лет назад

get the album. it's crazy...

@kayrup3712 4 года назад

Ikr, it's so ......sexy and simple

@pinkmazohyst 9 лет назад

I like how at the end of the performance Letterman asks Rob what instrument he's playing

@serenavenus4233 2 года назад

It’s the fact that his voice is studio ready for a live audience 🥰🥰🥰 my ears are in love

@janninejohnson869 9 лет назад

This young man is amazing. Something about this song that hits the core of person. I cry every time...

@HarperSophia 5 месяцев назад

Same. Every time

@LoddyDah 2 года назад

I love artists that just loop themselves like that and then just jam. Skillz. 🎶🎧😌

@dmrsk1899 9 лет назад

I rarely see James Blake so well-dressed. This vid is very important

@pinkmazohyst 9 лет назад

I'm laughing so hard at your comment and it's quarter to 3 AM. He always has some sort of questionable shirt on lmao

@dmrsk1899 9 лет назад

***** by questionable did you mean like this? 😂😂 40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltgv5gqbk31ql4w22o1_400.png

@pinkmazohyst 9 лет назад

Diana Mariska YES but I've seen worse on him than that. He better be lucky that he has a nice face lmao

@VanIsleBC 5 лет назад

drummer went hard on this. what a beast

@HomegirlfromKC 10 месяцев назад

this is where i discovered him, saw this on tv when it aired, the next day went and bought his album.deadass no bs.10 years lm still in awe of his voice. PUT SOME MF RESPECT ON THAT MANS NAME. it honestly makes me cry. love from KANSAS CITY, KANSAS USA

@alicemary7913 10 лет назад

he's a phenomenal singer. it's refreshing to know he sounds exactly the same as on his studio recorded songs as he is live.

@MrSyabuSyabu 10 лет назад

he is a fucking genius.

@jadefitzgerald9151 11 месяцев назад

Still one of my favourite live TV performances of any artist - almost 10 years on.

@chilliwraslin2510 3 года назад

HOW TF AM I ONLY SEEING THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME. AMAZING!

@3nduser 9 лет назад

hauntingly good

@gmoolah804 10 лет назад

This song has a real sinister feel to it, like the phantom on the organ. Love it!

@naginivoldermort4852 5 лет назад

I was nervous about listening to the live version thinking it might kill the song for me but it just made me love him more

@jimmiejones9596 Год назад

I was Absolutely Blown away by this Performance.. So beyond Magnificent, even more POWERFUL Than the Original Studio Recording... That Speaks Volumes and is a Testament to you and your Bandmates.. ✊🏿💯💯💯

@ItsBonnieAdams 10 лет назад

This is the first time im hearing him and Im infatuated. i remember hearing this actually i think in a commercial or in the background of a YT video and It was killing me for months that I couldnt find out what it was called. Now I found it and Im obsessed

@bransonlights 9 лет назад

Dang....he is amazing. Love his voice.....some baby making music right there.

@askfirmationassociation 10 лет назад

I wanna walk down the aisle to this. I wanna sound off an army to this. I wanna good gawd this is...just. if I could bottle up his voice and sell it...but this type of voice has to be free. How can I leash and leave this voice in straight abandon. I need a SDLP projector so I can put crazy pictures all over my wall and listen to this. This is divine. He's like a white Erykah Badu man. He's making me feel like I felt when I was a kid and fell in love with Michael Jackson. I'm a kid all over again and its all because a white boy with a black voice....fuck it I'm buy in this and I'm dead broke.

@postmodernfreak 10 лет назад

wow...he's really affected you. I love him. I saw him perform live in Manchester. It was amazing. I saw Erykah Badu there, too...she's so cool!

@huntern64 10 лет назад

No, she's saying James Blake has a lot of soul in his voice.

@Flirtkakat 10 лет назад

Well here's a fucking tip: Stop making "having soul" a racial thing. Either you have it or you don't, black or not.

@pavansridharan 10 лет назад

Markus Eriksson No need to lose your temper, son. Black people predominantly had "soul", not white people. You need to stop making everything a "racial thing" just because a reference to black or white is made.

@postmodernfreak 10 лет назад

pavan sridharan You say that ''black people predominantly had soul'' and then say ''stop making everything a racial thing''. You just did! Singers all have 'soul' regardless of colour or how they express it; soul music, on the other hand, has been associated with black vocalists.

@LindaWisdomphotography 9 месяцев назад

This video looks so dated, but the song was and still sounds ahead of its time!! Brilliance!

@ssharkbait 10 лет назад

I heard this song song on the Lianne La Havas station on Pandora and have been trying to find it. Finally! I've been dying to hear it again.

@ptitesirna1 9 лет назад

Whoa. I haven't been rendered speechless from such raw talent in....forever....

@justsid 10 лет назад

I don't think I've seen someone manifest soul with such an ease. This man conjures up some very soulful tones without showing almost any expression.

@KWoo92 10 лет назад

The UK Has Great Music, James Is A Perfect Example Of That.

@afsanakhanom3938 3 года назад

he’s so talented he deserves more recognition

@askfirmationassociation 10 лет назад

Lmao....I'm laughing because listening to this is making me cuss. Only cuss words are coming out of my mouth. Lmao its so funny lookin back. He is like a musical Messiah.

@toyagibson7976 10 лет назад

Some artist have the ability to glide straight past your entrances and pierce your soul. Hes one of them. This has repeat status credibility as far as I'm concerned

@christopherroblodowski6699 2 года назад

I first heard this song in The Leftovers Season one trailer. Didn't hear it again until I just randomly found it on RU-vid. It's a great song.

@giveyourheadawobblee Год назад

Just discovering James Blake now in September 2022 after this song randomly came through my discover playlist on RU-vid music in my car.... WOW... Gave me gooseys. Now on a binge of his music and finding out what a talent he is 👏🏻 👏🏻

@Demial_Sparda 7 лет назад

I dont know... but I always crying at part when he sing "And your friends now gone, and your friends wont come"...

@layla30000 10 лет назад

His voice has so much soul

@cannibale101 2 года назад

Unbelievable. I keep coming back to this

@jewjew559 11 лет назад

The first time he says, "We're alone now." In that deep voice...My heart races...It's like falling in love.

@AshleyReinaFit 7 лет назад

The best white soul singers from this generation come from Britain...Amy Winehouse, Adele, Sam Smith, James Blake

@Narut0Kur0saki 7 лет назад

Julie NYC 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@lizardlenny 7 лет назад

You can't blame another country for America's problems. I think you'll find Britain does not have anywhere near the problem of prejudice as the US does so somewhere along the line you have to start blaming yourselves.

@shatzposter 7 лет назад

except for james blake, this list kinda suck.

@poopalover 7 лет назад

Yeah shittynlidt list. unless you buy smash hits

@lunairies 6 лет назад

@Julie NYC Wow no, no no no no nooope. That's a very ignorant comment to make. Britain has most absolutely definitely given its very large share of gross into the world with the colonisation of many many countries. Most countries have positive and negative contributions to the world. But do not think that because Britain has a decent role in general media that there is not more underneath that.

@RandomPersonette 10 лет назад

He's a huge D'angelo fan and you can definitely see and hear the influence.

@gigaha 2 года назад

It would be nice to hear D’Angelo make some synth-heavy music like this.

@qwertyismymom 10 лет назад

There are two things I'm envious of: Incredible knowledge and musical talent. Just listening to this gives me goosebumps and sweaty palms

@nurularishaashiqinbintiaff2145 7 лет назад

i had a very depressing life back then and i always listen to this song. it makes me cry every night. one day i realise, its the LYRIC that makes me feel so fucking lonely and needy. but i still love james blake

@brindlebriar 4 года назад

When someone said, "I'm going to hum part of the song..." and then the world changes, and humming becomes the highest form of music ever.

@NictoriaJ 5 лет назад

He's everything just everything and these lyrics are gospel!

@BrownEyedBeauty831 8 лет назад

Makes me want to play borderlands again.

@Hampeeng 8 лет назад

Ikr

@Dell-ol6hb 5 лет назад

BrownEyedBeauty831 so true

@RebeccaDInbal 2 года назад

Just genius.. An angel fallen.. Amazing and so sensitive ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@m.v.1054 10 лет назад

I usually don't like live versions of songs bcause the artist always does something different with it, BUT OMG, James Blake did this song justice!!! He sounds just like the recorded version, Love this song, so powerful and somber and sad at the same time. NICE job!!

@brianbelcher7279 6 лет назад

Is prince feeling up michael in your profile pic?

@GladRaisaMunaiseche 6 лет назад

Brian Belcher 😂😂😂😂😂

@Runmindrun 10 лет назад

Man James Blake will have me crying like a woman quick yo...music from the heavens.

@LoddyDah 3 месяца назад

Still a brilliant live performance. 🎶🎧😌💙

@TheJones1 9 дней назад

Omg. Hr freaking sounds so mother FREAKING dope!!! The vocals live are currently unmatched by MANY!!!! MAGNITUDES

@sierradelta07 10 лет назад

Can't. Stop. Playing. This. Song! So so beautiful. Masterful live performance.

@Andreiiiiiioooooshellllll 11 месяцев назад

this is one of my favorite tracks in my whole damned life

@sweetangiegirl1 10 лет назад

There should be a like button for comments. I am so agreeing with most of the commentary. I was watching HBO and heard this song. It immediately caught my attention and I immediately downloaded it. His voice is so mature and sexy. It's got some deep down, make you close your eyes and do a stank face, grit and funk and soul. I'm all in.

@TheDavidBoomah 4 года назад

Possibly my favourite liver performance ever; possibly !!!!

@biggpapi29 10 лет назад

uh damn i've been sleepin...wow this dude is nice

@malibumalik5169 10 лет назад

My God this may just be one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard

@teddy.yellowbuckets 2 года назад

Such a beautiful voice

@marvelandgroup 3 года назад

These UK male artists never cease to amaze me. Real singers. Elton John George Michael Boy George Sam Smith Daley Leo Kalyan James Blake live sounds just like the CD

@jbs1713 8 лет назад

I could listen to this every single minute of my life

@kustomkure 8 лет назад

highly agreed

@timoniksen9857 6 лет назад

This songs gives me goosebumps and tears in my eyes very damn time. Gold

@florentincraineanu7848 3 года назад

best live performance of the song

@pattip8110 5 лет назад

I fell in love with song the first time I watched him perform it here on Letterman❤ The same feeling every time❤ I come back every year for this live🧡🧡🧡😌MAGICAL✨️

@septicwomb4394 2 года назад

What a voice.

@Sally4831 10 лет назад

the power and control he has over his voice is just mesmerizing. so much love

@MrKillianDude 10 лет назад

I'm scared he's even better live, I just saw him in Paris tonight, no words.

@lisab4049 7 лет назад

what a juxtaposition between nonsense and beauty

@chbailey081 10 лет назад

I just love hearing this live.

@massivelikes 10 лет назад

I saw him live. It was flawless, on top of that he's so humble. Blake is going to go far.

@TechnoEmanHDTV 10 лет назад

LEGEND. Nothing can touch this

@mmmmrobbie 11 лет назад

just saw him in barcelona , outstanding favorite of the whole primavera festival

@nilaparker6111 Год назад

Sounds amazing even better live ❤❤

@isabelborges7947 2 года назад

Meu Deus 😱 que voz. Sensacional 👏👏

@patrickstephens3468 9 лет назад

Blows me away.. dude's sick.

@Debsaji 11 лет назад

Just astonishing ! I'm stunned by the tunes in such a wonderful voice in a live performance !

@goldengal1989 10 лет назад

I love his voice!!

@kiwifruit138 10 лет назад

how is he humanly possible?

@hauntedfantasy87 2 года назад

I never get tired of this performance! James is magical !

@florigian5379 8 лет назад

This song literally comes on a few times a day at my work (RH). It was the first time I heard it and it is my new favorite song right now.

@blackamericanlesbianprofes4357 8 лет назад

I have just heard a song from James Blake's new album on the radio around an hour ago while driving to London. The song is called I Need a Forest Fire, I really like it! So I am researching his music, and I was suggested to hear this one. Nice. Thank you for posting. :-)

@nyahmalone906 8 лет назад

I need a forest fire is so good!

@loisjohnson-mead7304 10 лет назад

Just heard this on the pilot for HBO's LeftOvers.... this is amazing, rich, and elegant! Well done!

@vatsalasharma3232 10 лет назад

getting chills up my spine, seeing him perform live, even better!

@StarFyaJY87 8 лет назад

Love this! He reminds me of both Sam Smith and Sam Sparro. I guess the Brits and Aussies are just on another level with their beautiful, soulful voices and music.