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From: Sharpie Category: Music Date: 04 June 2008 Time: 06:47 AM Review: I love the paltry emotions, I wish I had such an ability to simplify my inner life like this. Souls in the night, I am here for you if you only care, you have been the one, I have seen fear and I've seen trouble, I have seen peace, I have seen pain, do you see truth do you see the world through troubled eyes, I'd spend a life time with you, I cannot live with out you. What does all this stuff mean? What is James Blunt's soul, what does it do? What is "a life time" in James Blunt's songs, is it a period of time like the time it takes to eat a meal, or make a journey (everyone likes a journey), or is it more like a small object? How does one "spend" such an intangible thing? I would understand if he said some thing like "I'd go to the cinema with you", and might accept such a proposal but a "life time"? I think it is just a meaningless concept. Any way all this meaninglessness in the songs is very up lifting and gooey but I just wonder what James thinks he means by singing this stuff. I WANT ONLY MEANINGLESS NONSENSE IT IS MUCH NICER.