Jamie Cullum Prom BBC Proms

One, two, three, four...

When I was asked to do this Prom, I actually thought,

you know, what I'm going to do is not only play a load

of different songs but also focus a little bit more exposing

new talent, which has been something that I've really done on

my BBC Radio 2 show.

Hi, everybody, it's Jamie Cullum here and I'm live here

at BBC Radio 2.

I decided to make this Prom as much about collaboration

within songs as anything.

One of the things that makes Jamie really unique and special

to me is the way in which he's so open

to having people involved in music making with him

and alongside him.

So, Eska's going to be duetting with me on a song called

Good Morning Heartache.

If you're a fan of music, you know her and you kind of worship at

her shrine. She can kind of sing anything, but this is a beautiful,

warm bath of a sad song, if that makes sense.

# Good morning heartache

# Here we go again... #

On my radio show, I regularly use BBC Introducing,

this amazing resource to...

For young, under-the-radar, unexposed acts -

so I've taken some of my favourites out of BBC Introducing

to perform with me.

The BBC Introducing crew are going to be featuring

Remi Harris - an unbelievable guitarist.

It's a completely new experience cos I'm used to playing in very small

groups, trios, duos, quartets.

And a very unique-sounding brass band from Bristol who I

really love, called Dackhla Brass.

We were fortunate to have been picked by him

and BBC Introducing to play a bucket-list gig at the

Royal Albert Hall.

They're going to be collaborating with Coco -

who is an amazing MC and he has completely jumped in.

Just expect to see a lot of energy and

hopefully get everyone on their feet, man.

Also, collaborating with the orchestra and big band

and with the Roundhouse Choir, which is this amazing youth choir

I've been working with.

I think it's going to be pretty epic.

The whole night is going to be incredible.

Whatever you've seen before, expect a lot better.

When I look at it on paper, I feel like I'm going to,

I'm going to faint, um...

But I know after today's rehearsal, everything's going to...

come together.

CHEERING

# Do you know what it means To miss New Orleans?

# And miss her each night and day

# I know I'm not wrong

# Cos the feeling's getting stronger

# The longer I stay away

# Miss them moss-covered vines

# And tall sugar pines

# Where mockingbirds used to sing

# And I love to see that old lazy Mississippi

# Just hurrying in the spring

# Moonlight, moonlight on the bayou

# Creole tunes, whoa, they fill the air

# And I dream, I dream about magnolias in June

# I keep wishing that II-I was there

# Do you know what it means To miss New Orleans?

# When that's where you left your heart

# There's one thing more

# I miss the one I care for

# More than I miss New Orleans

# Moonlight, moonlight on the bayou

# Creole tunes, whoa, they fill the air

# And I dream, I dream about magnolias in June

# I keep wishing that I were there

# Do you know what it means To miss New Orleans?

# When that's where you left your heart

# There's one thing more

# I miss the one I care for

# More than I miss More than I miss

# More than I miss New Orleans

# More than I miss New Orleans. #

CHEERING

CHEERING

# I looked at you and suddenly

# Something in your eyes I see

# Soon begins bewitching me

# It's that old devil moon

# That you stole from the sky

# It's that old devil moon

# In your eyes

# You and your glance make this romance too hot to handle

# Stars in the night blazin' their light can't hold a candle

# To your razzle dazzle

# You got me flying high and wide

# On a magic carpet ride

# Full of butterflies inside

# I just wanna cry, wanna croon Wanna laugh like a loon

# It's that old devil moon

# In your eyes

# Just when I think I'm free as a dove

# Old devil moon deep in your eyes blinds me with love

# I looked at you and suddenly

# Something in your eyes I see

# Soon begins bewitching me

# Woo

# You've got me flyin' high and wide

# On a magic carpet ride

# Full of butterflies inside

# I just wanna cry I wanna croon

# Wanna laugh like a loon

# It's that old devil moon in your eyes

# Just when I think

# I'm free as a dove

# Old evil moon deep in your eyes blinds me with

# Love... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# In oversharing times

# Under some weary skies

# Forgotten how to try

# Everything you say sounds like a lie

# The fog that greets the man

# As old as time began

# Is no more clearer now

# I think we understand even less somehow

# The bottle green of the water on the streets

# It's climbing higher and higher in defeat

# We never drown cos we keep kicking our feet

# So rally all of your friends cos they're your fleet

# It's just the same things that we don't know

# It's just the same things

# It's the same things, it's the same things

# It's just the same things that we don't know

# It's just the same things

# It's the same things, it's the same things

# Oh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

# Oh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

# What is a truthful state

# Is it one you create?

# A boat you built for sea

# All you need now is some company

# I no longer share my bed

# With anyone who said

# "So I enjoyed your show, now you can tell me where you want to go."

# I wish the chaos could swirl right out of me

# I'm not cut out for this world that you can see

# If I was trying I'd never make the team

# Just making peace with my fickle hopes and dreams

# Just the same things that we don't know

# It's just the same things

# It's the same things, it's the same things

# It's just the same things that we don't know

# It's just the same things

# It's the same things, it's the same things... #

Good evening, Royal Albert Hall.

CHEERING

My name's Jamie Cullum, welcome to Prom number 36.

CHEERING

Please give it up, ladies and gentlemen, for Mr Jules Buckley

and The Heritage Orchestra.

CHEERING

CHEERING

# You paint the pictures of future memories

# And modify it with sticks and dirty leaves

# So grab a hold of the only one who sees

# And see that clearly you're never gonna be

# It's just the same things that we don't know

# It's just the same things

# It's the same things, it's just the same things

# It's just the same things that we don't know

# It's just the same things

# It's the same things, it's the same things

# It's just the same things

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# Just the same things

# It's the same things, it's the same things

# Just the same things

# Yeah-hey-hey

# Just the same things

# It's the same things, it's the same things

# It's just the same things that we don't know

# It's just the same things

# It's the same things, it's the same things. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you, Proms, thank you, Royal Albert Hall. Welcome!

Thank you so much for coming out to this late night Prom,

Prom number 36. I'm, in fact, 36 myself.

And I don't know whether that's why they asked me to do it

but I'm very glad they did,

so thank you for helping make this happen as well.

And we promise you... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

We promise you the very best, and I can say that with absolutely

no nuance at all.

One of the things I wanted to do tonight, on this Prom,

is to do something a little bit more collaborative, involving

musicians that I've met along the way, doing my BBC Radio 2 show.

I've been in contact and got to meet with this incredible music scene

that exists in this country,

and the standard of musicianship on the stage tonight is unrivalled,

I'll tell you that. So you'll be hearing from these people tonight.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

You already heard from The Remi Harris Trio up there.

There they are, hello.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

And, of course,

you're going to be hearing a lot from Jules Buckley

and The Heritage Orchestra, and at the very back there we have

the wonderful Roundhouse Choir, ladies and gentlemen.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

And standing right here is the man

responsible for many of these arrangements, most of them

the orchestral arrangement - the musical director Mr Tom Richards,

ladies and gentlemen.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I decided I wanted to write a couple of new songs especially for

this size of ensemble, with all these colours available to me.

So I've written a song now that I'm going to play for you

especially for the Proms,

and it's going to feature that wonderful Roundhouse Choir as well.

And it is a song called Life Is Grey.

I think the world is in a very strange place right now

and there don't seem to be many answers,

everything just seems to get more confusing by the day.

And so the song tries to say that although life and the answers

are grey, hopefully you can still find beauty in it.

So we're going to play it for you for the very first time right now.

It's called Life Is Grey.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Only yesterday

# I told myself that life

# Is grey

# Didn't make me sad

# Made me feel human

# Only yesterday

# I told myself that love

# Is green

# Greener than the trees

# Growing in my bedroom

# Made me want to lose myself

# Lose myself

# In a song about the sun

# Or the many things

# That I don't understand

# Like I did

# Since I was young

# Made me want to open doors

# Sleep on floors

# In a world outside your door

# Watch a movie

# Play some piano

# Write a sonnet

# Build an army

# Let's build an army

# Let's build an army

# Let's build an army

# The truth is life is grey

# The truth is times are strange

# The truth is I'm OK

# And you're beautiful

# Only yesterday

# I told myself that people lie

# Lie to understand

# Make them feel better

# Made me want to lose myself

# Lose myself

# In a song about the earth

# Till I remember

# We're all tiny

# But together

# We're the army

# We're the army

# Let's build an army

# We're the army

# The truth is life is grey

# The truth is times are strange

# The truth is I'm OK

# And you're beautiful

# The truth is life is grey

# The truth is times are strange

# The truth is I'm OK

# And you're beautiful

# And you're beautiful

# And you're beautiful

# And you're beautiful

# And you're beautiful

# And you're beautiful

# And you're beautiful

# And you're beautiful

# And you're beautiful

# And you're beautiful

# And you're beautiful

# And you're beautiful. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

OK, are you ready?

One, two...

One, two, three...

# Comes a rainstorm

# Put your rubbers on your feet

# Comes a snowstorm

# You can get a little heat

# Comes love

# Nothing can be done, yeah

# Ha!

# Comes a fire

# Then you know just what to do

# Blow a tyre

# You can get another shoe

# Comes love

# Nothing can be done

# Don't try hiding

# Cos there isn't any use

# Whoa, you start sliding

# When your heart turns on the juice

# Ohhh, comes a nightmare

# You can always stay awake

# Comes depression

# You may get a lucky break

# Comes love

# Nothing can be done

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

# Nothing can be done... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# That's all, brother... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# If you've ever been in love

# Whoa, yeah, that's all, my brother

# You know what I'm thinking of

# Oh, comes a nightmare

# You can always stay awake

# Comes depression

# You may get a lucky break

# Comes love

# Nothing can be done

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

# Nothing can be done

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Nicole Thompson and Rory Simmons right there.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

The Roundhouse Choir.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I think you guys just raised the dead.

I swear Henry Wood came alive behind you while you were doing that.

So, one of my special guests is about to come on now

and she is a singer's singer but she is also the people's singer as well.

It is my pleasure to bring her on right now to sing with her.

Please give it up for ESKA, ladies and gentlemen.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

We're going to do an extraordinary tune,

not only for its lyrics and its melody,

but also this is a pretty faithful arrangement

of the version Billie Holiday did.

It's our version of Good Morning Heartache.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Good morning, heartache

# You ole gloomy sight

# Good morning, heartache

# Thought we'd said goodbye last night

# I tossed and turned

# Until you had gone

# But here you are with the dawn

# Good morning, heartache

# You're here to stay

# It seemed I met you

# When my love went away

# Now everyday I start

# By saying to you

# Good morning, heartache, what's new?

# Stop haunting me now

# Can't shake you no how

-BOTH:

-# Just leave me alone

# I've got those Monday blues

# Straight through Sunday blues

# Good morning, heartache

# Here we go again

# Good morning, heartache

# You're the one who knew me when

# Might as well get used to you hangin' around

# Good morning, heartache, sit down

# Stop haunting me now

# I can't shake you no-o-o how

# Well, just leave me alone

# I've got those Monday blues

# Straight through Sunday blues

# Good morning, heartache

# Here we go again

# Good morning, heartache

# You're the one who knew me when

# Might as well get used to you

# Hangin' around

# Good morning, heartache

# Sit down. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

ESKA, ladies and gentlemen.

CHEERING

Thank you so much.

That's what they call a heroically slow tempo.

We're going to do something different now.

This is a tune that I wrote

and I know there's been a lot of talk

about who the new James Bond is going to be.

Is it going to be Idris Elba?

Is it going to be Tom Hiddle...stone?

LAUGHTER

But I hear, on the grapevine, I heard it on Twitter

that they've lowered the height requirement...

CHEERING

..for James Bond. Yep.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

We're trying to get to a more even society,

so I think this is a good thing,

so just to let them know that I'm available,

I did actually write a Bond song

for the Bond film that doesn't exist yet.

How weird would it be if I was James Bond? Super weird.

But let's just believe that for a second.

We're going to play a song for you called Edge Of Something.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

One, two...

One, two, three, four.

# I've got some ways of forgetting now

# What you're finding out, what you're finding out

# I've got some ways of believing now

# What you're leaving out, what you're leaving out

# So take a reach down inside your soul

# What you gonna find, what you gonna find

# And it's so deep down inside your soul

# What you leave behind, what you leave behind

# I can hear it calling

# Can't you tell?

# I'm on the edge of something

# So I just keep running every time

# I lose my head

# I'm on the edge of something

# So I just keep falling every time

# I lose my head

# Are there some secrets embedded down

# In the frozen ground, in the frozen ground?

# Under a cold moon and a fractured sky

# There's a universe there behind those eyes

# You're gonna make good on promises

# That you know you could, that you know you could

# Cos no-one here worships idleness

# Though you wish they would, though you wish they would

# I can hear it calling

# Can't you tell?

# I'm on the edge of something

# So I just keep running every time

# I lose my head

# I'm on the edge of something

# So I just keep falling every time

# I lose my head

# I don't need a vision I'm just waiting on collisions

# Of the brain and the heart

# I'm patient for decisions and some stormy revelations

# I can claim from the start

# I'm kicking up a storm

# In the valley I was born

# I can hear the tower ring

# Out here on the edge

# Of something

# I'm on the edge of something

# So I just keep running every time

# I lose my head

# I'm on the edge of something

# So I just keep falling every time

# I lose my head. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Thank you, everybody.

I would like to introduce you now to two more BBC Introducing acts.

This is a unique collaboration that we put together

especially for this. It features the sound of Dakhla Brass.

They are from Bristol, they melt the sounds together of jazz,

of Balkan music and traditional brass bands with beats like

you have never heard.

And then they are going to be featured alongside an amazing

new artist called Coco.

Check this out right now. Dakhla Brass.

# Love

# Love for sale

# Appetising young love

# Young love for sale

# Love that's fresh and still unspoiled

# Love that's only slightly soiled

# Love for sale

# Who-oo-oo

# Who will buy?

# Who would like to sample my

# Sample my supply?

# Love that's fresh and still unspoiled

# Love that's only slightly soiled

# Love for sale

# Let the poets pipe of love

# In their childish way

# I have seen every type of love

# Better far than they

# If you want the thrill of love

# I've been through the mill of love

# Old love, new love

# Anything but true love... #

BBC Proms right now, Royal Albert Hall. Myself, Coco, yeah?

What we saying, Jamie?

Yes, people. Yo.

HE RAPS

Jamie, what you saying?

Where's the crew?

-Thank you very much.

-Give it up for Coco!

CHEERING

Give it up for Coco, ladies and gentlemen.

Give it up for a Dakhla Brass.

APPLAUSE

Thank you, everybody.

All right.

I agree. OK, here's a song I wrote some time ago.

I promise you it's not about my wife, OK?

Some of it is, some of it isn't.

# I think I love

# Every single little crack on your face

# And I think I love

# Even our most casual embrace

# You don't have to try

# Cos I've made up my mind

# Baby, I think I love you today

# Remember that time

# You threw a can of beer at me like a stone?

# You drunk too much wine

# And threw up in the taxi cab on the way home

# You looked like a mess

# But I must confess

# Baby, I think I love you today

# When I think what we could do

# If I could only say to you, yeah

# All of these things Well, do I dare?

# And would you care?

# And I think I love

# Every time you honour me with a kiss

# And I think I love

# There are just a million things I could list

# I should let you know

# Maybe tomorrow

# Baby, I think I love

# You today. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you.

# And I know she'll be the death of me

# At least we'll both be numb

# And she'll always get the best of me

# The worst is yet to come

# But at least we'll both be beautiful

# And stay forever young

# This I know

# This I know

# She told me, don't worry

# About it

# She told me don't worry

# No more

# We both know we can't go

# Without it

# No, no, we'll never be

# Be alo-o-one

# I can't feel my face when I'm with you

# But I love it

# But I love it

# I can't feel my face when I'm with you

# But I love it

# But I love it

# And I know she'll be the death of me

# At least we'll both be numb

# And she'll always get the best of me

# The worst is yet to come

# All the misery was necessary

# When we're deep in love

# This I know

# This I know

# She told me, don't worry

# About it

# She told me, don't worry

# No more

# We both know we can't go

# Without it

# She told me, you'll never be

# Be alo-o-one

# I can't feel my face when I'm with you

# But I love it

# But I love it

# I can't feel my face when I'm with you

# But I love it

# But I love it

# I can't feel my face when I'm with you

# But I love it

# But I love it. #

Ladies and gentlemen, in the spirit of doing something spontaneous,

that you don't always get to completely do

when there are this many musicians onstage.

I'm going to try and create an arrangement onstage,

live in front of your very eyes.

Don't panic, everyone. It'll be fine.

Don't worry.

OK. I've got this all worked out in my head.

Brass players.

Just the trombones and the French horns, soft bucket mutes, please.

You play the chords with me, OK,

as beautifully and as quietly as possible. OK?

So the chords are....

C major concert. B-flat major.

D minor.

A minor.

Let's do that as gently as possible.

That's good. OK.

OK, strings, first violins, please. Concert D, wherever you want.

Second violins.

C, wherever you want. Low or high.

Violas, you play an A.

Cellos, you play a G.

Just hold that, yeah.

Sounds good.

Woodwinds, could you do trills or holes on those notes

that I just gave them? Wherever you like.

OK, audience, it's your turn.

AUDIENCE CHEERS

This is where it gets hairy.

Part one, on this side of the room,

please join in or I'm going to look like a right idiot.

Part one on this side,

part two on this side.

OK, part one, I want you to sing...

HE PLAYS MELODY ON PIANO

OK, part one, you sing this and keep going until I say, "Stop". OK?

HE SINGS WORDLESS MELODY

AUDIENCE JOINS IN

Part two...

HE SINGS MELODY AT DIFFERENT PITCH

Everyone together.

AUDIENCE SINGS

SINGING STOPS

APPLAUSE

Ladies and gentlemen...

..I would like to play a song for you now.

It's about a young boy at school

who cannot get girls interested in him.

So what he decides to do

is become extremely good at the piano...

and exceptionally famous

in some countries.

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

So he can stand on stage and point and laugh at the girls

who rejected him at school.

Thank you very much.

I'd like it known that this song is entirely fictional.

It is not based on my own story.

I was, in fact, the school stud.

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

The girls - pupils, parents, teachers,

it didn't matter - they would hang around my neck like monkeys.

But that will be the subject of another song,

perhaps for my next Prom.

Right now, I'm going to play this one,

it's an anthem for our times, ladies and gentlemen.

It's called When I Get Famous.

APPLAUSE

Not yet.

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

# There's

# Diamonds hiding in my hands

# They're gonna cut through the windows

# Ain't no-one messing with my plans

# Right now my star is in limbo

# Sit back and watch my scrawny frame

# Invade your feelings

# All the years you caused me pain

# Oh, I got some wounds that need healing. #

Oh, God, that feels so good.

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

One, two, three, four!

# You were just too damn aloof

# Wearing your Morrissey T-shirt

# The kind of girl that's born for youth

# Well, that's a blessing and some curse

# I tell you, son, beware of those

# Who peak too early

# Cos all that magic can't be froze

# And now it's you who ain't worthy

# So baby when I get famous

# Everybody's gonna see

# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

# You never really knew me

# Does it make sense to simplify

# Now we're knotted in riddles

# But I don't care, do you know why?

# The girls are falling like skittles

# Whoever said you needed rights

# To tame your beauty?

# I'll say goodbye to lonely nights

# Girls, form an orderly queue, please

# So baby, when I get famous

# Everybody's gonna see

# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

# Never really knew me... #

Come on, tell 'em how it is! Oh!

# So given knowledge, given time

# I'd take us out of recession

# I'd tell Donald Trump that all was fine

# And that your freedom's a blessing

# Cos when I'm looking from the top

# You'll all seem smaller

# That's the one thing I am not

# And that's the one who was taller

# So baby, when I get famous

# Oh, oh, oh

# Everybody's gonna see

# Oh, oh, oh

# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

# You never really knew me

# So baby, when I get famous

# Everybody's gonna see

# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

# You never really knew me

-# So, baby when I get famous

-Oh, oh, oh

-# Everybody's gonna see

-Oh, oh, oh

# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

# You never really knew me

-# So baby when I get famous

-Oh, oh, oh

# Everybody's gonna see

# Oh, oh, oh

# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

# You never really knew me. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you, everybody.

Thank you, everybody, so much.

We don't have long with you left, but,

when I thought about creating this Prom and

thought about what it's like when you have lots of collaborators

with you on stage and how it's lovely that you all

sing something together at the end,

and how cheesy that always ends up being, I thought,

what can we do that is just joyful and something

that everyone wants to take part in?

And I thought, well, why don't we play the greatest pop song,

the greatest song written of all time?

When you get inside this song, it is so musically adventurous and

exciting, it's been a thrill to learn it and along with Tom,

create it for this ensemble here,

and we're going to invite Eska back onto stage as well,

ladies and gentlemen, we're going to do a version of

God Only Knows for you right now.

OK.

One, two. A one, two, three, four.

# I may not always love you

# But long as the stars shine above you

# You'll never need to doubt it

# I'll make you so sure about it

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# If you should ever leave me

# Life would still go on, believe me

# The world could show nothing to me

# So what good would living do me?

# God only knows what I'd be without you

THEY VOCALISE

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# If you should ever leave me

# Life would still go on, believe me

# The world would show nothing to me

# So what good would living do me?

# God only knows what I'd be without you... #

Ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it one more time for

the Remi Harris Trio, ladies and gentlemen.

CHEERING

Also from BBC Introducing, Dakhla Brass and Coco.

CHEERING

Give it up for the marvellous Eska!

CHEERING

Right here in the middle, ladies and gentlemen, is my band.

Right here Loz Garratt, Brad Webb, Rory Simmons.

CHEERING

And, of course, Mr Tom Richards over here.

Standing behind them, we have the incredible Heritage Orchestra,

led by Jules Buckley.

And she's conducting at the moment, but that is Osnat Schmool

right there, ladies and gentlemen, leading the Roundhouse Choir.

OK.

These wonderful voices, we've been so lucky to have them on this Prom.

Please show your appreciation

for the Roundhouse Choir, ladies and gentlemen.

CHEERING

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# Who knows what I'd be without you?

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows

# God only knows what I'd be without you... #

Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to ask you to join in in a minute.

You know the words. Don't start yet, wait till I count to four.

Are you going to sing with us, ladies and gentlemen?

Prom 36, are you going to sing with us?

Then here we go.

One, two, three, four.

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# Oh, yeah

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows what I'd be without you

# God only knows

# God only knows what I'd be without you. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you, everybody. We have time for more music for you,

do you want some more?

CHEERING OK.

Let's take it back, see if I can remember this one.

# I get no kick from champagne

# Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all

# So tell me, why should it be true

# That I get a kick out of you?

# Some get their kicks from cocaine

# I'm sure that if I had even one sniff

# That would bore me

# Terrifically, too

# Yet I get a kick

# Out of you... #

INSTRUMENTAL

# I get a kick

# Every time I see you

# Standing there before me

# I get a kick

# Though it's clear to me

# That you obviously

# Do not adore me

# I get no kick in a plane

# Flying too high With some girl in the sky

# Is my idea of nothing to do

# Yet I get a kick

# Out of you... #

Come on!

INSTRUMENTAL

DISTANT CHEERING

# Some get their kicks from champagne... #

WHOOPING

# I'm sure that if

# Mere alcohol

# It would bore me

# Terrifically, too

# That I get a kick out of you

# Some get their kicks from cocaine

# I'm sure that if I had even one sniff

# That would bore me, terr...

# Terrifically, too

# That I get a kick out of you

# Oh...

# I get a kick

# Every time I see you

# Standing there before me

# I get a kick

# Though it's clear to me...

# That you obviously

# Do not adore me

# I get no kick in a plane

# Da, da, da, da... #

# Flying too high With some girl in the sky

# Is my idea of nothing to do...

# I get a kick

# Ah, she gives me a boot

# I get a kick out of you... #

INSTRUMENTAL

Ya, ya, ya ya!

HE WHOOPS

INSTRUMENTAL CONTINUES

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

One more time, ladies and gentlemen!

APPLAUSE

Before we go and leave you to enjoy the rest of this incredible thing

known as the Prom -

it's been going for many years now and it is an amazing institution

that I'm so proud to be part of - I'd like to finish with a song.

It's a brand-new song. And if there's one thing that really,

really has changed my life, it's having two children of my own.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I have two daughters with my wife, who's here tonight.

And the idea of raising girls is a scary one,

but I wanted to write a song for them that tells them that the best

things happen while you're awake.

It's great to dream, but it's important to do stuff

while you're awake as well.

It's called Dream, My Girls.

Thank you so much, everybody.

APPLAUSE

# Yesterday, you fell out of the atmosphere

# Something in your eyes says not your first time here

# Don't let anybody tell you you can't save the world

# And don't wake up inside of someone else's dreams, my girl

# If the love you get is equal to the love you give

# Don't accept the boxes they provide you with

# If there's one thing I can tell you now, it's go to bed

# And don't wake up inside of someone else's dreams instead

# How did you sleep last night?

# Time for another day

# You don't always have to fight

# A beautiful tearaway

# On the balcony that night, I had a vision

# I could see us all connected by collision

# I was picking up the cars along the highway

# What it took to get me there that night, I cannot say

# If you fight for love, rise above the legacies

# You can open up the curious, the remedies

# When the world is weighing heavy on your adult soul

# Don't you dream, my girl

# Just blink at life and taste it all

# Seems like yesterday you fell out of the atmosphere

# We held you in our arms and felt a world appear

# Don't let anybody tell you you can't save the world

# And don't wake up inside of someone else's dreams, my girl. #

APPLAUSE

Thank you so much, everybody.

Thank you.

Thank you for a great night.

We'll see you all soon.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

CHEERING