Could someone please tell me what this song is...

[Poster Saint]

I just returned home as the work situation wasn't ideal in Halifax, the capital of my province. I've just been perusing some of the stuff I had left on a computer here, and I've come across a song with Tim's vocals that seems to be unreleased. I haven't yet acquired a copy of BATBA but I desperately hope this song is on that record because I'll be promptly ordering the disc if it is. The file is called melting.mp3 and this is my best effort at the lyrics, most of which are quite audible:

Melted away, high hopes that this was forever
Melted away, high hopes that this one would last
Came in the spring, left with a change in the weather
Waking in May
How summer lasts

Fools
We couldn't help spoiling perfection
To test how we'd feel
Fools
I knew I could make you reject me
Then hate me
Then leave me

Suffering fool
The man on the cross must have got me
Poor when I was young
Suffering sins
A foolish way to feel deeply
When will it change?

Fall, fall from a tree in the garden
So peaceful, so serene

Land, land in the chaos of freedom
Such choices, such choices

When I'm with you I want to be with another
When I'm with her I want to be on my own
When I'm alone I feel I so restless and lonely
Who was the fool who made me feel this way?

Fool
Say that this life has no meaning
No purpose without doubt
Fools
Believe that there must be a learning
A loving
A leaving

Melted away from who was making me happy
Don't feel I deserve
Making me pay for the all this love and this loving
Please return
Won't you please return?
Won't you please return?

P.S. You may be able to clarify what the song is, but no one will satisfy me as to why this remains unreleased, if in fact that is the case. I'm assuming it's "Meltdown Jingle" that's listed in the song archive, but the lyrics aren't spoken, so it may be something else. What a beautiful song though. Not typical James, but someone knows their way around the ivories.

[lostinsound]

It's called Melting Away. It's a b-side on the I Believe single off BATBA. When You Smiled is the other b-side, which is also worth getting a hold of. Both are great songs.

[Poster Saint]

Well rest assured I'll be tracking down the singles and the LP. I'm relieved that it's out there somewhere, because I prefer having a stereo quality copy. It really doesn't sound like James though, but Tim really does bring a touch of finesse to everything he does. Mind you this completely annihilates "Down to the Sea". Gorgeous work.

[lostinsound]

Actually, both I Believe singles are on ebay right now, as well as the album. Just search for booth angel and it will list all of them.

[cat]

I think the vocals on "Melting Away" are some of the most beautiful Tim has ever done. I absolutely love it. No, it's not on the BATBA album, but it is on the B-side of the "I Believe" single, CD 1. CD 2 of that single also has a good B-side song: "When You Smiled." It's not as gorgeous and melancholy as "Melting Away," but I still think it's a good song, well worth having.

There are multiple copies of both CD singles available from various music dealers online. They're too numerous to list, but if you go to GEMM, Musicstack, or Netsounds and do a search for "Booth and the Bad Angel" it will list those available and there should be plenty to choose from. Here are the addresses:

www.gemm.com/

www.musicstack.com/

www.netsounds.com/