Jake Bugg – A Song About Love

Jake Bugg (born Jake Edwin Kennedy; 28 February 1994) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. His self-titled debut album, largely co-written with songwriters Iain Archer, Matt Prime and Crispin Hunt, was released in late 2012 and reached number one on the UK Albums Chart. His main influences as a songwriter are Don McLean, The Beatles, Oasis, Donovan, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, and Nick Drake. Bugg was born in Nottingham, to musical parents who separated when he was young. His father, whose last name was Bugg, was a nurse, and his mother worked in sales, both having previously made recordings. He grew up in the Clifton council estate of Nottingham and started playing guitar at the age of 12 after being introduced to the instrument by his uncle Mark. He also states that his formative musical moment was hearing Don McLean’s “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)” on an episode of The Simpsons. He was enrolled in a music technology course, but by the age of 16 he had dropped out and was writing and performing his own songs influenced by The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Oasis, Donovan, The Everly Brothers and Jimi Hendrix. On 27 August 2013 he was reported by Contact Music to have expressed a certain discomfort after touring the home of Elvis Presley, in Memphis, TN, because as he put it “I felt like an intruder and I wouldn’t like hordes of people traipsing around my house with their dirty shoes.” Wikipedia®.

Jake Bugg – A Song About Love

Jake Bugg peforming Song About Love on Later with Jools Holland,the show was broadcast on BBC2 11th October 2013.

Jake Bugg – A Song About Love Lyrics:
You tell me all the things you do
Tell me that it’s up to you
Crying in the peaceful night
Telling all the things you hide

But out there in the future
Maybe you’re the rainbow
There’s no song without love
With your eyes shut you cry in your bed

Is that what you wanted?
Songs about love
Is that what you hoped you would find
Well it’s burning inside
But a song about love’s not enough

So what do you want for?
What are you needing?
Songs about memories that hide and then shatter your mind
Like a constant reminder
I just want to find where you are
I just want to find where you are

I hold you and your eyes fall down
You barely even make a sound
Crying in the peaceful night
Showing all the things you hide
But out there in the future
Maybe you’re the rainbow
There’s no song without love
With your eyes shut you cry in your bed

Is that what you wanted?
Songs about love
Is that what you hoped you would find
Well it’s burning inside
But a song about love’s not enough

So what do you want for?
What are you needing?
Songs about memories that hide and then shatter your mind
Like a constant reminder
I just want to find where you are
I just want to find where you are
I just want to find where you are.
Jake Bugg backstage at Ziker Park, Texas

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