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Ray Wilson

Seb

0/5

White winter : “Bon live, conforme à ce que l’on pouvait attendre de Stiltskin, armé d’un trio de guitaristes au style bien rock…

Il permet d’apprécier encore plus certaines chansons de l’album studio SHE (ou à l’inverse, de les aimer autant moins, la preuve avec moi pour “Taking time”). Les détracteurs peuvent être heureux, pas une seule reprise de Genesis, ni de Phil Collins, ni de Bob Dylan ici, seule la carrière de Ray est concernée : les deux albums de Stiltskin bien sûr, avec les morceaux nirvanesques du premier qui prennent une dimension plus “métal”, mais aussi quelques morceaux bien choisis de l’époque Cut_ (“Ghost”, “Another day” joué pour la première fois dans sa version rock originale).

Sympathique dans l’ensemble, même si il faut être amateur du genre, et des grosses guitares. D’autant plus que, pour la première fois aussi, et un peu à mon grand regret, il n’y a pas de clavier pour “aérer” un peu le tout, comme sur le précédent live électrique de Ray. Seule une guitare acoustique intervient, assez rarement, sur “Constantly reminded” et “Lemon yellow sun”.

Un truc que je comprends difficilement par contre, c’est le “Ray Wilson & Stiltskin”, ça me rappelle autre chose du côté de Mike ça…

Tracklist

Voir album “The mind’s eye”

Voir album “Millionairhead”

Voir album “She”

Voir album “She”

Voir album “Millionairhead”

Voir album “Millionairhead” et “Change”

Voir album “She”

Voir album “She”

Voir album “She”

Voir albums “Millionairhead” (réedition 2007) et “The next best thing”

Voir album “She” 

Voir album “The mind’s eye”

Voir album “The mind’s eye”

Voir album “She”

Voir album “She”

Voir album “Millionairhead”

Infos générales

Ray Wilson : chant, guitares
Uwe Metzler : guitares
Alisdair Ferguson : guitares, choeurs
Lawrie Macmillan : basse, choeurs
Ashley Macmillan : batterie

Seb

2/5

Voilà une grande déception… J’ai eu beau donner plusieurs chances à cet album, rien à faire, je n’accroche pas. Et j’ai vraiment insisté, parce que ça m’ennuie (pour rester poli) de ne pas aimer un album de Ray… Mais je crois que je ne lui pardonnerai jamais la partie rap de Sick and Tired… J’ai un problème avec la production de cet album. Le son de la batterie et le son de certaines guitares clichées sont beaucoup trop Hard Rock FM US… À tel point que je me prend souvent à me dire “mais si c’était pas Ray, jamais je n’aurais écouté ce disque jusqu’au bout… et encore moins acheté”… Mélodiquement, les chansons se ressemblent beaucoup avec des refrains très linéaires avec des choeurs identiques… Il n’y a que le premier single qui semble tiré de Change que j’adore sans mesure… La seconde me gonfle par ses côtés clichés (notamment le verset de l’apocalypse qui est lu à la fin…) et également par le vers “I must be crazy in the head”. “Je dois être fou dans ma tête” ah ah ah… ridicule. Show me the way est sympa, sauf que la partie batterie ne va pas bien avec ce morceau… Fame est rigolote (si on met de côté le son et le jeu de la gratte). Surtout pour le discours de la fille au début. Mais le refrain linéaire (Fame… Fame…) vient tout gâcher. Some of All My Fears…. oui, mais non… C’est quasi la dixième fois qu’on écoute cette chanson depuis le début de l’album… Encore les mêmes guitares, encore la même batterie. Encore ces refrains en choeurs avec Ray qui intervient par dessus… Non, non et re-non… Summer Days commence comme du Genesis… Un peu de fraîcheur dans le disque. Enfin un refrain joli… “Is it me…” mais malheureusement, une minute après la batterie, la guitare et les choeurs reviennent… Le final avec ce synthé, le solo de guitare et la batterie de Nir qui daigne enfin changer un peu fait penser à du Calling All Stations… Ce morceau aurait été parfait pour finir l’album. Mais non… On repart pour la même chanson Hard Rock FM US qui tourne en boucle depuis le début de l’album… Dommage, dommage et re-dommage… Ce que je reproche en fait à ce disque c’est qu’il a un son et une production beaucoup plus US que UK en fait… On dirait du Linkin Park plus que souvent…

Tracklist

See straight, stay awake, live a troubled life
Certified useless
A lost cause, just a waste, stupid
A bit of heat for a cold girl, me
Satellite, satellite, yes
I’m looking out for a new way of life

Did you know ? Who you’re making trouble with, me
Me, me, me

Fly high
Dont let me near you
Fly high
I want to see you

Listen !
Blue eyes, paralyse
It’s a struggle girl, keep away from me
Bad taste, below the waist
I want to take you from behind, oh yeah
What a life, what a life
Living hard, getting harder

Did you know ? Who you’re making trouble with, me
Did you know ? What I wanna struggle with
Me, me, me

Fly high
Don’t let me near you
Fly high
I want to see you
Fly high
Put your hands over your eyes
See me in your mind
Fly high
I wanna fear you
Sentence me to life

Let me love again, help me breathe life
Watch me fall down on my knees
Sheltered from the rain, help you get dry
Wishing you’d become, mine

Let me love again, help me breathe life
Watch me fall down on my knees
Sheltered from the tain, help you get dry
Wishing youd become, mine

Fly high
Wishing you’d become mine

Fly high
Wishing you’d become mine

Fly high
Wishing you’d become mine

I’m taking time getting over it
Burying my head in the sand
Losing faith in reality
First hand

Staying calm through the crisis
Staring my fears in the face
Living life in overdrive, always
I’ll never change

Your words are so colourful
I’m black and blue
I’m falling into

Taking my time
Staying in control
Trying hard to figure out
What it’s all for
I’m caught in two minds
And lonely as hell
Losing all patience
I know it too well
If only I’d listened to my friends
I wish I oould just run away
This fall from grace is too much
I’m stranded alone
Carrying a weight
Talking to myself
Don’t know what’s worse
Been frozen out, it’s cold in hell
Yet here I am making peace with the devil

Blistered down to my fingers
Working my life to the bone
So stressed out, I can hardly sleep
Alone, I’m so alone


Your eyes of steel
Just make me feel
So cold inslde
You lied to me

I’m taking my time
Staying in control
Trying hard to figure out
What it’s all for…

I must be crazy in the head
To believe the thlngs you told me
I knew that they were lies
But convinced myseif that some how you and I
Could find a way

Taking my time (taking my tlme)
Staying in control (staying in control)
Trying hard to figure out
What it’s all for (what it’s all for)
I’m caught in two minds
And lonely as hell
Losing all patience
I know it too well (know it too well)
If only I’d listened to my friends
I wish I could just run away
This fall from grace is too much
I’m stranded alone (stranded alone)
Carrying a weight
Talking to myself
Don’t know what’s worse
Been frozen out, it’s cold in hell
And hear I am making peace with the devil (peace with the devil)

“Woe to you oh earth and sea, for the devil sends the beast with wrath, because he knows the time is short, let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is 666” (Revelation Ch.X111 V.18)

You said you’re getting over me
But I have to know
I have to know it’s over
Cause maybe i’m not over you and i have to go
I have to find another
And lady when I’m over you
Then you’ll have to know
You’ll have to know l’m over you
Something I’ve been needing to
Be alone with you
Don’t tell me that it’s over, no

I feel alive
Feel alive, I don’t know
I feel a light, feel a light coming on
I feel alive, oh no

You said you were getting over me
But I have to know
I have to know it’s over
Cause maybe I’m not over you and 1 have to go
I have to find another
And lady when I’m over you
Then you’ll have to know
Have to know I’m over you
Something I’ve been needing to
Be alone with you
Don’t tell me that it’s over, no

She only feels for me
She only sees for me
She only feels for me
She only sees for me
She only breathes for me
She only lives for me

You said you’re getting over me
But I have to know
I have to know it’s over
Cause maybe I’m not over you and I have to go
I have to find another
And lady when I’m over you
Then you’ll have to know
Have to know I’m over you
Something I’ve been needing to, be alone with you
Don’t tell me that it’s over, no
Don’t tell me that it’s over, no

She
You said your getting over me (repeated)

Forget me !
That’s what you said
For me it was a summer that I’ll never forget
The best way
To believe in the fate
It brought us both together
And 1 know it will again
It’s more than just a moment in time
No question in my mind

The spirit never lies
However hard you try
I could see your tears
In the Lemon Yellow Sun
A picture of your face
Etched on my mind
There’s no use trying to hide your feelings

Forgive me
For telling you straight
I’m not about to turn around
And just walk way
The best things
Come to those who wait
I’ll hold on for dear life
No matter how long it takes
It’s only just a question of time
There’s no doubt in my mind

The spirit never lies
However hard you try
I could see your tears
In the Lemon Yellow Sun
A picture of your face
Etched on my mind
No use trying to hide your feelings

I carry a secret I’ve no one to tell
There’s something that I’ve needed to say farewell to
Follow your instincts
Listen to your soul
There’s no one else who knows
No one else who truly knows

Forget me that’s what you said
Forgive me but I can’t forget
It’s only just a matter of time
No question in my mind

The spirit never lies
However hard you try
I could see your tears
In the Lemon Yellow Sun
A picture of your face
Etched on my mind
No use trying to hide your feelings

So tell me if I’m wrong
And that l’m not the one
Who made you feel alive
In the lemon yellow sun
I know what you’re dreaming of
I know what you’re feeling
I don’t wanna stop myself believing
Believing

There are promises you could not keep
You didn’t even try
And that’s no way
To live your life
Somethings hidden in your past
Preacher pray for me
It’s gonna be black again some day
All of the lies you’re sending
How many times can you break me ?
Until I turn it around

Wake up your mind
Wake up your mind
You’re wasting time, what, are you looking for
Wake up you mind
Wake up your mind

Empty moments that you shared with me
A worthless life
You’re leading me on
Watch the curtain finally falling down
Is your life a circus ?
Did you send me the clown ?

Wake up your mind…
Love, Peace, War, Hate, Words
No, they mean nothing to me
Love, Peace, War, Hate, Words
No, they mean nothing to me
Sleeping, 1 watch you sleeping
Wake up your mind

Wake up your mind
Wake up your mind
You’re wasting time, what, are you looking for
Wake up you mind
Wake up your mind
Wake up you mind
Wake up your mind
You’re wasting my time
You’re wasting my time
You’re wasting my time

Love, Peace, War, Hate, Words no, they mean nothing to me
Love, Peace, War, Hate, Words no, they mean nothing to me

I used to think it would never end
Eternally, forever and a day, infinite, always
Nothing could be better than a life alone with you

The funny thing is a piece of me
The sceptic who is walting for the day to prove me wrong again
You’re wrong again !
Should have known better than to leave myself open
The fool is a victim
Sitting in the corner of a room somewhere with pictures in pieces
Scattered all around

The conversation is about life
How so many things come and go with no rhyme or reason
Seems the best ones, come to those who wait

I’m sick and tired of waiting
Wasting so much time when you dont want me to hold on
It’s messing up my mind
I’m not expired or broken
There’s still so much lnside
And yes I listened, you told me
Every word a lie

I really hope that it works out
I wouldn’t wish any harm to find you
Everything is destiny
Whether I like it or not – I don’t
I’ll find faith in my own way
Part of me will always wonder what you’re thinking
Who you dream of
Want and are in need of

I’m sick and tired of waiting…

Sick and tired
It’s all excuses
Every word you tell me
Seems to disappear without trace
I’m alive don’t you see it
Every word is nothing but a lie to me I know it so well

I don’t think that you could ever leave me
I know you’re rightfully the one for me
’cause evemhing is destiny !
The ride is fast but I hold tight
I raise my dukes and prepare for a new fight
Not what is right but what is wrong
I feel the winds of the storm but I carry on
While you’re torn, I’m born
You think in lies this is no fun
But look inside and you’ll see there’s a new sun !

I’m sick and tired of waiting
Waiting
Wasting so much time when you don’t want me to hold on
What is rlght for what ls wrong
It’s messlng up my mind
It’s messing up my mind
I’m not expired or broken
While you’re torn, I’m born
There’s still so much inside
And yes I listened, listening, you told me
Every word a lie
Hearing all your lies

I’ve been thinking a lot these days
And trying to make it work between us
I sense you slowly moving away
Not taking me with you
If aill the years amount to nothing
With the future so unclear
Is this what it was all for ?
Do you want me to leave here ?

I’m done with waking up alone
And tired of being cast aside
Still hurting from your promises
The ones you couldn’t keep and didn’t try to
And maybe I trusted you too much
I’d like to take it all back now
Start over again
Having learned from my mistake

Constantly reminded of you
Everywhere I look I see your face
It’s painted on my mind
I’m still lonely
And constantly reminded of you
I just had to let you know

You’re all that I wanted
I’m not lying to myself
I’m entrusting somebody else
To make it ok
I want to be there with you
I want to hold onto you
Will you stay with me tonight ?

Constantly reminded of you
Everywhere I look 1 see your face
It’s painted on my mind
I’m still lonely
And constantly reminded of you
I just had to let you know

I live ln fear, constantly
I never know why
I don’t even know me
I’m a shadow of myself
To be here, constantly
Following me
I’m gonna make it out

Constantly reminded of you
Everywhere I look I see your face
It’s painted on my mlnd
I’m still lonely
Constantly remlnded of you
I just had to let you know
Constantly reminded of you
You’re painted on my mind
Constantly reminded of you
I just had to let you know

A fading photograph
The one I thought was mine
You’re always there, always there
Are you there ?

It was all or nothing
This much I know
A chance I had to take
My instincts I followed
And if 1 do regret it
It’s just a lesson learned
Could you stay another day ?

It’s all a blessing
I should tell myself
It’s all for a reason
And only a cry for help
And maybe next tlme
I’ll find a different way
To stay another day

Just show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way
How long, how long
Is there time enough to change it ?
How long, how long
Will I know when 1 have found it ?
Stay in my life
Teach me how to find my way
Stay here, all eyes
Are upon you hoping
Would you help me ?

Just show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way

I feel you close to me at night
I always know that you are there
There is a part of me that walks alone
Until 1 see you again

I’m not taking the easy way out
Taking the easy way out
I’m not taking the easy way out
Of here, of here, of here

Hello, my name ls Marta, 1 am 22 Years old, my hobbies are dancing and singing, my ambition ls to help people who are less fortunate than myself and to make a shit toad of cash

Nothing ever comes easy in this life
You never know what they’re really thinking
Try hard to pretend it’s ok
You get down and you just end up drinking
And so you look to the Gods for help
And try to make sense from it all
Just breathe easy and believe me
Nothing worthwhile ever comes easy
You’re in the machine now

Fame, fame the people know your name
It isn’t all that lt’s cracked up to be
I’ll say it again
Famz, fame welcome to the machine
You got exactly what they wanted for you

You see all these talent less fuckers on TV
And a judge with suit from Armani
Sits back with his words of wisdom
As the TV ratings go through the ceiling
And all the people at home with their shallow lives
Looking to be part of something
Just entertain me nice and easy
Take my extremely dull life and free me
I’m living the dream

Fame, fame the people know your name
It isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be
I’ll say it again
Fame, fame welcome to the machine
You got exactly what they wanted for you

I know there’s no point in saying this
It’s maybe even a little bit dangerous
Be aware that the share holders own you
They can bounce you around if they want to
It’s good that they fight for survival
At least until there’s a Beatles revival
Looks like those days have gone
If the numbers don’t add up
It must be wrong

RIGHT ? QUITE RIGHT !

Oh my God thank you for making my dream a reality, thank you so much, thank you, I’m so happy

Fame, fame the people know your name
It isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be
I’ll say it again
Fame, fame welcome to the machine
You got exactly what they wanted for you
Fame, fame
Fame, fame
Fame, fame welcome to the machine
You got exactly what they wanted for you

I’m so happy, thank you, you guys are great

Can you erase such deep emotion ?
Should we extract the hand of peace ?
Hide in shelters with blank faces
Fill the hole and lay the wreath
Do we belong ln the same surroundings ?
Fuelled by guilt and hate and greed
Does anybody have the answer ?
Could someone please explain to me ?
Some of all my fears

I, sleep with one eye open
I, asking for forgiveness
Why, begging you for mercy
I, Oh just what are you afraid of

To be oppressed, destroyed or cast aside
Surely only makes it worse
Ridicule exposes weakness
And reads like some satanic verse
It’s easy just to show indifference
When deep down we all know it’s use
Strike a blow or strike a balance
Before they breed their Hitler youth
Call a meeting of our spirits and drive a stake through our beliefs
Or tell them we don’t care at all

I, stand up and be counted
I, stun me into silence
Why, sleep with one eye open
Oh just what are you afraid of

The sum of all my fears
Some of all my fears
Some of all my fears
Oh just what are you afraid of

I, sleep with one eye open
I, asking for forgiveness
Why, begging you for mercy
I, just what are you afraid of

Why, begging you for mercy
I, just what are you afraid of

Endless nights, summer days
Thoughts of you never fade
I see you still in my mind
Every day and through the night

What you told me, echoes still
It never leaves me, it never will
You can’t imagine
How I feel

Is it me holdlng on too long ?
Is it me who’s more than just a friend ?
Is it me expecting too much
Is it me ?

In my life you belong
I’ve made my mind up and you’re the one
I’ll be waiting from now on

And what you promised
It echoes still
I believed you and I still
Can remember how you feel
So real

Is it me holding on too long ?
Is lt me expecting too much
Is lt me chasing a dream ?
Is it me ?

I’d cry a million tears and they keep falling
I guess I was weak
I should have walked away
Calling out I’m calling out
Hear me, can you hear me

Is it me holding on too long ?
Is it me expecting too much
Is it me lying to myself ?
Is it me, is it me
It’s not my fault

A lonely ghost’s holding me
Let me out
Let me die slowly
I hide away totally alone
Don’t come around here to see what’s going on
I know, I’m a stranger
Everywhere I look
The pictures remaining the same
I’d crawl a high wire
Just to escape with
Bits and pleces of me
It’s no way to live, I’m wasted here

In this town everything stays the same
Let’s get the fuck out of here
In this life, you’re too predictable
You’re borlng the ass off me
Strong words from such a small mlnd
Just goes to show
Should be leavlng the past behind
In this town everything stays the same
Better luck next time

Small town politics, lts all around
The best idea ls what I have in mind
Words with”mecining, from the soul
I sit around a lot and fool around too much
I’m glad I’m alive I wish I was sane
Whatever sane is ?
It’s 6 o’clock and l’m still bere
But not for long
It’s no way to live
I’m wasted here

In this town everything stays the same
Let’s get the fuck out of here
In this life, you’re too predictable
You’re boring the ass of me
Strong words from such a small mind
Just goes to show
Should be leaving the past behind
In this town everything stays the same
Better luck next time

God alone knows God alone knows
Feel what 1 feel from my heod to my toes
God alone knows God alone knows
He knows you know

In this town everything stays the same
Let’s get the fuck out of here
In this life, you’re too predictable
You’re boring the ass of me
Strong words from such a small mind
Just goes to show
Should be leaving the past behind
In this town everything stays the same
Better luck next time

With this lie nobody takes the blame
Let’s get the fuck out of here
In my head you’re all I can ever hear
You’re draining my energy
Small words just to kill time
You never know if they’re working you from behind
In this town everything stays the same
Better luck next time
I wish you luck next time
Now get the fuck out of here

Infos générales

Ray Wilson : chant, guitare, basse (10)
Uwe Metzler : guitares
Alvin Mills : basse
Irvin Duguid : claviers
Nir Z : batterie
Scott Spence : guitare principale (2, 11)
Henrik Mueller : batterie (10)
Peter Hoff : programmation et claviers additionnels
Adonis, Rayla, Garcia (Maria) : choeurs

Cordes (Strinx Connexion) arrangées par Irvin Guguid.
Kllaus Marquardt, Andrea Langenbacher, Johannes Krampen : violons
Carolin Kriegbaum : alto
Felix Brade, Nane Kalb : violoncelles

Produit par Peter Hoff.

Seb

5/5

Sublime ! Voilà ce qui ressort de l’écoute de ce disque… déjà le troisième “live acoustique” de Ray et c’est somptueux. Ray est ici tout seul à la guitare et s’en sort remarquablement bien. Chant parfait, mais également le son… Parce que le son de ce live est vraiment excellent… Rien à voir avec le tout premier live qui sonnait vraiment “bootleg”… Ici donc, son somptueux et performance remarquable… Et puis enfin une version de “In the air tonight” par Ray qui est potable… la première ayant été massacrée par la choriste et la seconde étant complètement plate et sans envergure… Vraiment un très très bon live, qui ne fait absolument pas doublon, malgré les apparences trompeuses de la set list. Ray considère que ce concert est le meilleur qu’il ait donné, et à l’écoute, on comprend pourquoi…

Tracklist

Petite histoire racontée par Ray

Some things disappear inside, should I try to run away
If I could I would escape you
I won’t argue anymore, I have lost the will to be
Hope you don’t think I’m ungrateful
Why, why are you laughing
Is it something that I said
I don’t like this place at all, makes me wonder what I’m here for
Someone take this pain away
Dying to see another day
Close the curtains lock the door, left my note upon the stair
In hope you wouldn’t read it
Fake emotions in my head, everything I’ve seen and read
Can’t begin to find a reason
Why, why are you laughing
Is it something that I said
I don’t like this place at all, makes me wonder what I’m here for
Someone take this pain away
Dying to see another day
And I don’t want to be your friend, or pretend I can fit into
I’m incensed, I’m blown away
Dying to see another day
I don’t like this place at all, makes me wonder what I’m here for
Someone take this pain away
Dying to see another day
And I don’t want to be your friend, or pretend I can fit into
I’m incensed I’m blown away
Dying to see another day

Petite histoire racontée par Ray

Yes I found heaven and I can take you there
And I found a reason but you don’t care
So turn your back don’t look round close your eyes make no sound are you leaving?
Close the door like before turn around are you sure that you mean it?
And you can take another step along the way

Just keep your eyes on the road
That lies before you
Take advice from a fool
Who chose to ignore you
And choose the side of the fence that you sit and just keep crossing that bridge

Take it or leave it
The decision is yours now
Is it time to get even or time to just go now?

But as you’re breaking free you mean nothing to me just a memory
And the memories will fade just like tides drift away to the sea

Keep your eyes on the road that lies before you
Take advice from a fool
Who chose to ignore you
And choose the side of the fence that you sit
Just believe in it now
And walk away from the world you don’t fit
And just keep crossing that bridge.

Keep your eyes on the road that lies before you
Take advice from a fool
Who chose to ignore you
And choose the side of the fence that you sit
Just believe in it now
And walk away from the world you don’t fit
But just keep crossing that bridge

Yes I found Heaven

Petite histoire racontée par Ray

I can feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh Lord
I’ve been waiting for this moment, all my life, Oh Lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh Lord, Oh Lord

Well, if you told me you were drowning
I would not lend a hand
I’ve seen your face before my friend
But I don’t know if you know who I am
Well, I was there and I saw what you did
I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off the grin, I know where you’ve been
It’s all been a pack of lies

And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh Lord
I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my life, Oh Lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, Oh Lord, Oh Lord
And I’ve been waiting for this moment all my life, Oh Lord, Oh Lord

Well I remember, I remember don’t worry
How could I ever forget, it’s the first time, the last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep your silence up, no you don’t fool me
The hurt doesn’t show; but the pain still grows
It’s no stranger to you or me

And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh Lord…

Petite histoire racontée par Ray

Just when I was getting over you
You appeared from out of nowhere
A little older and wiser
But I’m at pains to believe in you

I can’t imagine you’d remember me
You never did spend much time thinking about me
And time will not erase
Oh that memory
It won’t erase the memory

Cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to
You can cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to cry

You seem a little heavy round the eyes
Another line or two on that ageing forehead of yours
But you know just what to do
To reel me in
You always throw me back again

Cry if you want to don’t cry if you don’t want to
You can cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to
You can cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to

I blame me
I should have known much better than this
Cause inside I believe
Only for you

Cry if you want to don’t cry if you don’t want to
Cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to

You can cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to
Cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to

Cry if you want to don’t cry if you don’t want to

You can cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to
Cry if you want to don’t cry if you don’t want to cry

Petite histoire racontée par Ray

I’m a million miles from anywhere, where can I be
Somewhere out on the ocean
Just take a look out on the horizon, what can you see
There’s nothing there for me

I feel shipwrecked, I might as well be shipwrecked
I’m helpless and alone drifting out to sea
I can’t believe what you said to me

Even standing on the corner of a busy city street
I still feel so lonely
Why do you say you want to be with me
But the next day say you don’t

I’m shipwrecked, I might as well be shipwrecked
I’m helpless and alone drifting out to sea
I can’t believe what you said to me
Without you I feel shipwrecked
But I can’t let it show
A million miles away from anywhere, ooh, ooh, ohh

Is it my imagination
Or is it getting darker, are the waves getting higher
I’m a million miles from anywhere
A million miles from anything I know

You know that’s why I’m shipwrecked
I might as well be shipwrecked
I’m helpless and alone drifting out to sea
I can’t believe what you said to me
You know that’s why I’m shipwrecked, shipwrecked
Losing my direction
Please come and rescue me (shipwrecked)
Shipwrecked
Shipwrecked
Shipwrecked
Shipwrecked…

Petite histoire racontée par Ray

Making the most of it
Turning a light up and
Breaking the back of a
Killing the negative
Finding the faith isn’t
As much as I’d like it to be
Follow the path set by
Somebody else’s hand
Craving addiction and
Living in fear of me

But I don’t think that I can change
I’ve been feeling this way for so long now
And this feeling inside still remains
I aint gonna change
Aint gonna change

Bent on destruction I
Have no intention
Black into day into
Dark into Night I go
Blaming myself like I
I’m in control of it
I Turn it around for a
Just for the fun of it
Back to the start I go
I Wish I had learned from you

But I don’t think that I can change
I’ve been feeling this way for so long now
And this feeling inside still remains
I aint gonna change
Aint gonna change

Petite histoire racontée par Ray

She arrived so unexpectedly, with a thousand untold truths
Hidden in behind a smile, you couldn’t see through
And all those frown lines on her forehead
Disappeared before my eyes
She told me I’d arrived, just in time

And you could see it in her face
There was more than meets the eye
Something hidden all those years and hidden deep inside

So Goodbye Baby Blue
Goodbye Baby Blue
I spent so long thinking of you

She would lie awake, every night I’d hear her cry
Her mind in slow decay, I guess she couldn’t take goodbye


So Goodbye Baby Blue
Goodbye Baby Blue
It’s been so long, I’m thinking of you

So Goodbye Baby Blue
Goodbye Baby Blue
It’s been so long, I’m thinking of you

I’m thinking of you

Petite histoire racontée par Ray

Swing low in a dark glass hour
You turn and cower
See it turn to dust

Move on a stone dark night
We take to flight
Snowfall turns to rust

Seam in a fusing mine
Like a nursing rhyme
Fat man starts to fall

Year in a hostile place
I hear your face
Start to call

And if you think that I’ve been losing my way
That’s because I’m slightly blinded
And if you think that I don’t make too much sense
That’s because I’m broken minded
Don’t keep it…
Inside
If you believe it
Don’t keep it all inside

Strong words in a Ganges sky
I have to lie
Shadows move in pairs

Ring out from a bruised postcard
In the shooting yard
Looking through the tears

Out of the black slate time
We move in line
But never reach an end

Fall in a long stray town
As the ice comes down
Rivers start to bend

And if you think that I’ve been losing my way
That’s because I’m slightly blinded
And if you think that I don’t make too much sense
That’s because I’m broken minded
Don’t keep it…
Inside
If you believe it
Don’t keep it all inside

Petite histoire racontée par Ray

Petite histoire racontée par Ray

Petite histoire racontée par Ray

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Petite histoire racontée par Ray

Petite histoire racontée par Ray

Lets all go down to the beach
Breathe in the air, take in the sun

Lie there trying not to notice
What goes on around you
Buried and unseen

I know it wasn’t done on purpose
It rests beneath the surface
Hidden from your view

Lets all stroll into the sea
Washing away the memories

Try to stop yourself from drowning all the fears surrounding
Everyone you meet
They know
They don’t know I think so
Heaven waits an answer
Prayers are seldom heard

I know it wasn’t done on purpose
It rests beneath the surface
Hidden from your view
They know
They don’t know I think so
Heaven waits an answer
Prayers are seldom heard

A little piece of something
Falling gently down down down
No one understands you like I do

I’d rather be beside you
Everything we know so well
Tell me what you feel now
Show me what you think of it

It’s not about us anymore
It’s all about the reasons
That we think we’re fighting for
It’s not about hate
It’s not about pain we always feel
I know we have our problems
But we’re not the only ones
It’s not about you it’s not about me
It’s not about anger
It’s more about the loneliness we feel

How can I begin to
Ask for some forgiveness
For all that we have taken
There’s nothing left now

Just a little piece of something
Falling gently down down down
No one understands you no no
Like I do
There’s nothing left now

It’s not about us anymore
It’s all about the reasons
That we think we’re fighting for
It’s not about hate
It’s not about pain we always feel
I know we have our problems
But we’re not the only ones
It’s not about you it’s not about me
It’s not about anger
It’s more about the loneliness we feel

It’s not about us
It’s not about hate
It’s more about the loneliness we feel, can you feel it
It’s not about anger
It’s not about wanting
I know we have our problems
But we’re not the only ones, we’re not the only ones
It’s not about you, it’s not about me…

Sarah, sweet Sarah, hold me so close to you
Reach out, no reason needed
You’re the one for me, Sarah
You’re the one for me
Like a dream come true, so beautiful
I will be with you forever
And if the nights grow cold, I’ll be there for you
Please don’t make me wait
People surround me, offers of sympathy
I just want to be left alone
Sarah, sweet Sarah, hold me so close to you
Take in all I say, listen carefully
Words I want you to remember
And if the nights grow cold, I’ll be there for you
Please don’t make me wait
People don’t make me wait
People surround me, offers of sympathy
I just want to be left alone
Sarah, I’ll miss you
I don’t regret all that we shared together
Everything I need, given to me

Here I am sitting at the airport
Waiting on a plane
Taking me to New York
Choking on my coffee
As a girl goes past
Only funny things seem to make me laugh

When I came I didn’t know that I’d be
Still here a week next Friday
The plane was late
Cause it’s raining outside
Someone stole the engines
And were going to have to glide

But I can’t sit here forever
Cause I want to go home
Never have I felt so bad
Maybe I’ll just take a cab
Cause I think I’m going mad
Went to the bar to buy myself a beer

Met up with a guy
Who’d arrived last year
Bought myself a whisky
And lit a cigarette
Said the more you seem to drink
Well the easier it gets

So I guess I’m trying to tell you
That if you’re going to fly
Get a set of wings
And kiss your ass goodbye
When you pack your case
Better pack yourself a bed
Cause if you had a wish
You’d be wishing you were dead

But I can’t sit here forever
Cause I want to go home
Never have I felt so bad
Maybe I’ll just take a cab
Cause I think I’m going mad
Went to the bar to buy myself a beer

La la la la !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

September ’77
Port Elizabeth weather fine
It was business as usual
In police room 619
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

When I try to sleep at night
I can only dream in red
The outside world is black and white
With only one colour dead
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

You can blow out a candle
But you can’t blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

And the eyes of the world are
watching now
watching now

I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can beat them, just for one day
We can be heroes, just for one day

And you, you can be mean;
And I, I’ll drink all the time
‘Cause we’re lovers, and that is a fact
Yes we’re lovers, and that is that

Though nothing, will keep us together
We could steal time, just for one day
We can be heroes, for ever and ever
What d’you say?

I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, for ever and ever
Oh we can be heroes, just for one day

I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can be heroes, just for one day
We can be us, just for one day

I, I can remember (I remember)
Standing, by the wall (by the wall)
And the guns, shot above our heads (over our heads)
And we kissed, as though nothing could fall (nothing could fall)
And the shame, was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be heroes, just for one day

We can be heroes
We can be heroes
We can be heroes
Just for one day
We can be heroes

We’re nothing, and nothing will help us
Maybe we’re lying, then you better not stay
But we could be safer, just for one day

Oh-oh-oh-ohh, oh-oh-oh-ohh, just for one day

‘m a young man on the edge, with his head held in his hands
A look of desperation touching the fingers he hides behind
I lost my head and made a mess, showing signs of faithlessness
Having other people laughing at you is hard to take
You have all I have to give
You break me into many pieces
I was just beginning to forget
In my mind I’ve tried, can’t make sense of what it is
Wishing one day you could understand
Everything takes time
The thoughts I have, won’t leave me
You say you’ve heard it all before
You sit there like a wall I have to break through
Some drug I didn’t take to
You have all I have to give
You break me into many pieces
I was just beginning to forget
Should I feel anger, should I be patient
Do I belong here, do you have the answers
How long can I hold on
Do I belong, where do I belong
You have all I have to give
You break me into many pieces
I was just beginning to forget
Don’t laugh
Don’t make me
I was just beginning to forget
You have all I have to give
You break me into many pieces
I was just beginning to forget

Infos générales

Sorti le 10 mars 2006

Enregistré en Pologne en 2003

Ray Wilson : chant, guitare.

Produit par Ray Wilson

Seb

5/5

Premier album live de Ray en “groupe”. Je n’irai pas par quatre chemins : ce disque est une bombe. Toutes les périodes de sa carrière sont très bien représentées, tout y est parfait (sauf les reprises d’In The Air Tonight et de Biko qui sont vraiment nettement très en dessous du lot)… Du très grand Ray Wilson, un “The Actor” magnifique, “Change” et “Goodbye Baby Blue” super efficaces, des reprises de Genesis audacieuses et très réussies, notamment un “Ripples” qui donne beaucoup de regrets eu au égard au destin funeste de Ray dans Genesis. Si vous hésitez, si vous ne savez pas par quoi commencer pour découvrir ce merveilleux artiste qu’est Ray : vous pouvez y aller les yeux fermés, c’est celui là qu’il vous faut. D’autant plus que Ray est enfin débarrassé de Amanda Lyon, la hurleuse, qui a eu la bonne idée de quitter le navire quand elle et Steve Wilson, le frère de Ray ont décidé de rompre. Heureusement qu’il s’agissait du frère de Ray, sinon malheureusement, il y a fort à parier que ce soit le guitariste qui ait fait les frais de cette histoire… Mais tout est bien qui fini bien, et nous avons là un des meilleurs live de tous les temps, si ce ne sont ces deux reprises, surtout In The Air, vraiment ratée.

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Sorti en Mars 2005

Seb

5/5

Grandiose ! Deuxième véritable album solo de Ray et ce dernier affirme de plus en plus sa personnalité musicale… Cet album est de toute beauté. Il est remarquablement produit, super bien joué, les compos sont excellentes, avec de l’énergie là où il faut, de l’émotion là où il faut… La reprise de Inside, tout premier tube de Ray avec Stiltskin peut sentir le coup foireux commercial à plein nez, mais j’y vois plus une volonté de s’approprier musicalement la chanson, sans que ce soit plus une reprise comme une autre dans son répertoire. D’ailleurs, le fait qu’il ne l’ait pas sortie en single va plutôt dans ce sens là. Sinon, il n’y a pas de véritable single dans ce disque et le choix de These are the changes, avec ces extraits de discours de présidents américains, est plutôt surprenant, même si la chanson est excellente. On croirait The Next Best Thing, la chanson titre, tout droit tirée d’un album de Genesis, mention spéciale à The Actor et Sometimes. Superbe utilisation de la trompette sur deux morceaux… Bref, un très grand disque qui n’est pas que du simple Rock, mais qui a quelque chose en plus, une petite magie qui vient surprendre lorsqu’on pense que c’est du déjà vu. Le seul petit reproche que je lui ferais est que certaines chansons aurait méritées d’être plus développées que ça…

Tracklist

These are the changes the day brings us
These are the changes the day brings
These are the changes the day brings us
These are the changes

Know me, see me, Try to understand me
Why you ask

Swing low in a dark glass hour, you turn and cower
See it turn to dust
Move on a stone dark night we take to flight
Snow fall turns to rust
Seam in a fusing mine like a nursing rhyme
Fat man starts to fall
Year in a hostile place
I hear your face
Start to call


And if you think that I’ve been losing my way
That’s because I’m slightly blinded
And if you think that I don’t make too much sense
That’s because I’m broken minded


Don’t keep it, inside
If you believe it
Don’t keep it all inside


Strong words in a Ganges sky
I have to lie
Shadows move in pairs
Ring out from a bruised post card
In the shooting yard
Looking through the tears
Out of the black slate time
We move in line
But never reach an end
Fall in a long stray town as the ice comes down
Rivers start to bend


And if you think that I’ve been losing my way
That’s because I’m slightly blinded
And if you think that I don’t make too much sense
That’s because I’m broken minded


Don’t keep it, inside
If you believe it
Don’t keep it all inside


(Keep it all Inside)
Don’t keep it, inside
If you believe it
Don’t keep it all inside
Don’t keep it all inside
If you believe it
Don’t keep it all inside

I can’t believe it, Inner feelings ever changing
This time it’s me slowly going insane
You can’t expect me to believe, not this time
Cause I’m going crazy
I’m going out of my mind


How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go


I had a dream, heavens gate came to me.
And I fell in to it
This never ending sleep
I had to try hard not to feel inside me
And it wasn’t easy to leave it all behind


How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go


You can’t expect me to believe
Cause I don’t believe it

How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go

She was a loner type
Found it was easier that way
With no one to break the peace she gained
From learning to walk away


And he was without good reason
For changing her life the way he did
He took her for everything
Stripped her of dignity


It’s a lonely life
Never that easy these days
The money to pay the bills
It just don’t come easily
And he was a man that didn’t care anyway
He’d just play the clown and sit around all day


With an atmosphere
You could have cut it with a knife


It’s the fool in me
It wouldn’t be hard to see it
Others can hide themselves away
I have to live with it
Nobody wants left on a fence
Or spiritually die in ignorance
It’s all just a chance you take
Reality’s final break


With an atmosphere
You could have cut it with a knife

See the sign in my eyes. Mind escaping from me
On the crest of my wave too dark to see
And the soreness that I feel beneath the surface
Fear the worst is still to come


Threatening words come my way in some strange disguises
Flesh torn gestures in my face
Don’t take my place away
I could try to forgive, even though I don’t know what should be forgiven


Do I go crazy, before you take notice, until you can see it in me?


Drift away touch upon the deepest emotion
As I watch you’ll become, someone else’s problem
Given time I’ll make waves in another ocean
I’m the chosen one.


Do I go crazy, before you take notice, until you can see it in me, why can’t you see it in me?


I adore you. I deplore you
All your actions I can see through
I can’t pretend I know what’s going on


Do I go crazy, before you take notice, until you can see it in me, why can’t you see it in me?

See me out, out the door, across the way
And let me walk for miles and miles and miles
Calm me down when I get scared
And hold my life in your hand


The living space inside my head is there for you
Like a long lost friend
Innocence and pride
Makes me vulnerable sometimes
Love ain’t enough


Sometimes love just ain’t enough
Sometimes love ain’t enough
You give it time
Somehow time’s all you have


It’s the meaning of life
And no amount of time will change a thing
Why oh why
In Gods name do you lie?
All the time


Sometimes love just ain’t enough
Sometimes love ain’t enough
You give it time
Somehow time’s all you have

Autumn leaves are falling down again.
Last year seems like yesterday
What to do now that those days have gone
I have to start again.


Inspiration ain’t so hard to find
Words already on the page
I just have to write it down
In my own way
Say something worth saying


Time comes and goes
A life unnoticed
Cry out loud


Don’t let me wake from this dream
I won’t be a friend in need
No one escapes from this feeling
No no


I tell myself hold on
Everything is right, not wrong
Love is what I ask for tonight


Hold onto me
I can’t breath
Why am I alone


Blame them but don’t blame me
I know all the liars disagree
You can’t just escape from believing
No no

Life’s a magic train hell and back again
Rollercoaster for emotion
You think you’ve seen it all you think you know it but you don’t know


Life’s a magic train that we’re all travelling in
Each new day another station
She said she wanted me but it might take a little time
Make take a little time


Am I supposed to wait around for you?
I’m not opposed to waiting around
I just need to know cause it’s nice to be needed
It’s getting me down, doing it now


I hold on to love
It’s a better place for everyone to be
I alone can’t save the world
I’ll only save this little part for me
I lie here in my bed
Wishing it would all just blow away


Am I supposed to play the clown for you?
I’m not that use to fooling around
You say you need me now
Well I’d like to believe it
It’s getting me down and doing it now
Getting me down and doing it now
You’re going ruin my life

I smile at the misplaced faces
Trying to convince myself
All the answers lye with me


I look at my broken picture
Find it so hard to believe
As now the past comes back to haunt me


It’s alright I’m alright
I just need to believe
I’m not afraid anymore
I will feel my way back
Lay your hands on me


Wish I hadn’t been so vain
Been and gone and thrown away
Regrets I keep
The blame I give to me


It’s alright I’m alright
I just need to believe
I’m not afraid anymore
I will feel my way back
Lay your hands on me


Here’s the point I raise blame
And discipline the fool inside my head
Where nothings fair and no one there
To honour all mistakes I’ve made
And looking through my own debris
I see nothing but me and more of me
It’s so distressing all the blessing
Never seems to fall on me.


The pictures framed to form an edge
The truth it lies within the heart
It’s funny how we live this life and
Never seem to live enough
I won’t be true
Cause I can’t seem to
It’s only just a state of mind that
Time and time and time and time again


It changes, I swallow
What I want to say
I’m broken up I cannot breath
I cannot be I need I need to
All in all and every time I follow you
I see it out; see it out of blind eyes


It’s alright I’m alright
I just need to believe
I’m not afraid anymore
I will feel my way back
Lay your hands on me

Upon my life love of an honest day
The memory of you will slowly fade
Within I hold
Hold it all alone
The fire in my soul begins to burn


Better to be alone
Better be alone
It has to be said
Better to be alone
Better be alone


(I believe in me)
No sense in holding on
No eyes to see clear
Pretend to gain control
Of my life


Better to be alone
Better be alone
It has to be said
Better to be alone
Better be alone
It has to be said


(I believe in me)
No sense in holding on
No eyes to see clear
Pretend to gain control
Of my life

So what’s it all about
Does anybody know?
It’s hard to figure out
To be patient
The time is nearly now


The walls are closing in
And time is running out
I’m getting out


These changes wash over me
In my head


The fear is taking over
And left me so alone
It leaves me feeling angry
With myself


These changes wash over me
In my head
These changes wash over me
In my head in my head


What’s it all about what’s it all about
Does anybody know?
How can I explain to you?
When how do I, I don’t know I won’t go
What’s it all about where’s the feeling gone
I can’t explain it
It’s in my mind
Burning like a fire that won’t go out it won’t go out.


These changes wash over me
In my head


So what’s it all about
Does anybody care?
Can you feel the fear?
Washing over everybody, everybody’s head


These changes wash over me
In my head
These changes wash over me
In my head in my head
In my head in my head
In my head

Infos générales

Sorti le 28 juin 2004

Ray Wilson (chant, guitares, basse, “mouth organ”, guitare slide)
Amanda Lyon (choeurs)
Irvin Duguid (piano, strings, orgue hammond, moog, harpsichord)
Nir Z. (batterie)
Scott Spence (guitare)
Ashley Macmillan (batterie)
Colin Steele (Trompette)
Brian McAlpine (piano, orgue, accordéon)

Single : The Next Best Thing : sortie le 28 juin 2004

Seb

5/5

À la première écoute, j’ai été déçu. À la deuxième j’ai été interpellé. À la troisième écoute, j’ai été impressionné. À la quatrième écoute, j’ai été conquis. Je pensais ranger ce disque très vite au placard, mais il a fallu que je m’y habitue et je l’écoute maintenant avec beaucoup de plaisir, énormément même. Des morceaux comme Goodbye Baby Blue, Change ou Another Day sont des ultras classiques de Ray, mais vraiment rien n’est à jeter. Et puis il y a quelques joyaux qui demandent plus d’écoutes encore, comme She Fades Away ou Believe. Attention, ce n’est pas le disque du siècle, mais c’est un très bon disque, qui passe très très bien et qu’on écoute avec beaucoup de plaisir.

Tracklist

(Ray Wilson)

(Instrumental)

(Wilson)

She arrived so unexpectedly, with a thousand untold truths
Hidden in behind a smile, you couldn’t see through
And all those frown lines on her forehead
Disappeared before my eyes
She told me I’d arrived, just in time

And you could see it in her face
There was more than meets the eye
Something hidden all those years and hidden deep inside

So Goodbye Baby Blue
Goodbye Baby Blue
I spent so long thinking of you

She would lie awake, every night I’d hear her cry
Her mind in slow decay, I guess she couldn’t take goodbye

So Goodbye Baby Blue
Goodbye Baby Blue
It’s been so long, I’m thinking of you

So Goodbye Baby Blue
Goodbye Baby Blue
It’s been so long, I’m thinking of you

I’m thinking of you

(Wilson)

Making the most of it
Turning a light up and
Breaking the back of a
Killing the negative
Finding the faith isn’t
As much as I’d like it to be
Follow the path set by
Somebody else’s hand
Craving addiction and
Living in fear of me

But I don’t think that I can change
I’ve been feeling this way for so long now
And this feeling inside still remains
I aint gonna change
Aint gonna change

Bent on destruction I
Have no intention
Black into day into
Dark into Night I go
Blaming myself like I
I’m in control of it
I Turn it around for a
Just for the fun of it
Back to the start I go
I Wish I had learned from you

But I don’t think that I can change
I’ve been feeling this way for so long now
And this feeling inside still remains
I aint gonna change
Aint gonna change

(Steve Wilson)

Yes I found heaven and I can take you there
And I found a reason but you don’t care
So turn your back don’t look round close your eyes make no sound are you leaving?
Close the door like before turn around are you sure that you mean it?
And you can take another step along the way

Just keep your eyes on the road
That lies before you
Take advice from a fool
Who chose to ignore you
And choose the side of the fence that you sit and just keep crossing that bridge

Take it or leave it
The decision is yours now
Is it time to get even or time to just go now?

But as you’re breaking free you mean nothing to me just a memory
And the memories will fade just like tides drift away to the sea

Keep your eyes on the road that lies before you
Take advice from a fool
Who chose to ignore you
And choose the side of the fence that you sit
Just believe in it now
And walk away from the world you don’t fit
And just keep crossing that bridge.

Keep your eyes on the road that lies before you
Take advice from a fool
Who chose to ignore you
And choose the side of the fence that you sit
Just believe in it now
And walk away from the world you don’t fit
But just keep crossing that bridge

Yes I found Heaven

(Wilson)

Don’t talk to me
It’s time to walk away and make it easy
Cause I can’t see clear
And the further away you go, the more I want you near

I Wish It Was Yesterday
How I wish it was yesterday

I can’t erase, I’ve been thinking about you every day
Place faith in me
I just find this all so hard to believe

I wish it was yesterday. Cause you’d be in my life again
I just wish it was yesterday, putting wrongs to right again
I wish it was yesterday
Today is only just another day without

We watched the sun go down
Stayed out in the rain
We’d talk all night
And dream all day

And why I wish it was yesterday? Cause you’d be in my life again
I just wish it was yesterday putting wrongs to right again
I wish it was yesterday
Today is only just another day without

That’s why I wish it was yesterday, Cause you’d be in my life again
I wish it was yesterday, so the sun would shine again
I just wish it was yesterday
Today is only just another day without

Another Day Without

(Wilson)

Lets all go down to the beach
Breathe in the air, take in the sun

Lie there trying not to notice
What goes on around you
Buried and unseen

I know it wasn’t done on purpose
It rests beneath the surface
Hidden from your view

Lets all stroll into the sea
Washing away the memories

Try to stop yourself from drowning all the fears surrounding
Everyone you meet
They know
They don’t know I think so
Heaven waits an answer
Prayers are seldom heard

I know it wasn’t done on purpose
It rests beneath the surface
Hidden from your view
They know
They don’t know I think so
Heaven waits an answer
Prayers are seldom heard

(Wilson)

Just when I was getting over you
You appeared from out of nowhere
A little older and wiser
But I’m at pains to believe in you

I can’t imagine you’d remember me
You never did spend much time thinking about me
And time will not erase
Oh that memory
It won’t erase the memory

Cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to
You can cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to cry

You seem a little heavy round the eyes
Another line or two on that ageing forehead of yours
But you know just what to do
To reel me in
You always throw me back again

Cry if you want to don’t cry if you don’t want to
You can cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to
You can cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to

I blame me
I should have known much better than this
Cause inside I believe
Only for you

Cry if you want to don’t cry if you don’t want to
Cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to

You can cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to
Cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to

Cry if you want to don’t cry if you don’t want to

You can cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to
Cry if you want to don’t cry if you don’t want to cry

(Wilson)

It was faith that brought me here
Conversation of the year
You talked so much but nothing said
Empty words just fill my head

I can’t lie
But I could try

You’re beautiful
Beautiful
A beautiful child

Little by little you fade away
I’m just living for the next day
With that in mind, I say goodbye

To beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful child

So as I’m trying to understand
Just move on to the next man

I can’t lie
But I could try

You’re Beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful
A beautiful child

Nan Na Na na na na na

You’re Beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful
A beautiful child
Nan Na Na na na na na

Shut Up

(Steve Wilson)

She says the feelings won’t slip away, Yeah
And he says, she never felt them anyway

She stares out of the window the world just walks on by
The faces she won’t meet, she won’t even try
And she fades away
She fades away, just fades away
Like a smile upon her face, disappears without a trace
She fades away

She lies there in the darkness
The moon lights up her face, yeah
Her breath steams up the window, her smile seems out of place
Strange how she feels just fine, can’t feel the pain this time
She lets the moment pass
And it seems so far away but the memory’s here to stay
In the bottom of her glass and she fades away
She fades away, just fades away
Like a smile upon her face disappears without a trace
She fades away

She says she’s hoping that her time will never come
Turn and face it or to turn around and run
She lies there thinking has the moment passed her by
But never thinks to ask the reason why
And she fades away

She fades away
Just fades away
Like a smile upon her face
Disappears without a trace
She fades away
She fades away
Just fades away

(Steve Wilson)

I look for you there
I look for you there
This dream won’t let me in
This dream won’t let me in

(Wilson)

She said I like the way you smile at me
Always makes me feel so young
And that’s the difference between you and all the other ones

She kept a note of all the things he said
In a diary hidden under her bed
And every now and then she’d sleep with it held in her hand
Pretend he was there

And that’s all that she believes in
Lives her life pretending one day
He’ll come home again
Don’t think she’ll ever lose that feeling
Until the day

Until there’s nothing left in front of you
Until there’s nothing left that you can do
Until regret remains the parting view
Forget it

She said I like the way you smile at me
I just know that I should hold on
And that’s the difference between
Me and all the other ones

And that’s all that she believes in
Lives her life pretending one day
He’ll come home again
Don’t think she’ll ever lose that feeling
Until the day

Until there’s nothing left in front of you
Until there’s nothing left that you can do
Until regret remains the parting view
Forget it

Until there’s nothing left in front of you
Until there’s nothing left that you can do
Until regret remains the parting view
Forget it

(Wilson)

Some things disappear inside, should I try to run away
If I could I would escape you
I won’t argue anymore, I have lost the will to be
Hope you don’t think I’m ungrateful?
Why, why are you laughing?
Is it something that I said?

I don’t like this place at all, makes me wonder what I’m here for
Someone take this pain away
Dying to see another day

Close the curtains lock the door, left my note upon the stair
In the hope you wouldn’t read it
Fake emotions in my head, everything I’ve seen and read
Can’t begin to find a reason

I don’t like this place at all, makes me wonder what I’m here for
Someone take this pain away
Dying to see another day
And I don’t want to be your friend, or pretend I can fit into
I’m incensed, I’m blown away
Dying to see another day

(Wilson)

(Instrumental)

(Wilson)

Sister I’m depending on your strength to help me through it all
And foresight to make sure I find my way
Colours paint the photograph the picture isn’t always black
For deep within I know I’m flying high

Oh li la li la li

Substance is what makes me strong and blind faith helps me carry on
Without it I can only ever dream
Bewildered now I find myself though clearly I can see a wealth
Of wisdom that lives deep within my soul

The sun shines down into the garden
It helps the seeds to grow
Rain in June, makes it much harder
When rain turns into snow

And I’m bored to hell
With all this negative
It makes me want to shout it out

Don’t forget, don’t even try to
Help the feelings grow
I feel alive the passion never dies
There never can be failure
Which only goes to show

Gouranga

The sun shines down into the garden
It helps the seeds to grow
I’m still alive the passion never dies
There never can be failure
Which only goes to show.

(Steve Wilson)

Where were you when I needed you?
The fear that I would call out to despite
You

Lying staring at my feelings across some sacred crowd
An endless search for anger
This silence is too loud
Do I have no strength?

Oh Oh
There’s a long way to go
Oh Oh
A long way

From the black of night
My darkness fades to grey
Like the ramblings of a fool
There was nothing I could say

My spirit it was broken
My body it was weak
The truth comes from a liar, whose promises I keep
I promise to keep them

Oh Oh
There’s a long way to go
Oh Oh
There’s a long way

There’s a lonely place I fear, I can taste it it’s so near
I feel it surround me
I think that’s its here,
I think that it’s here,
I know that it’s here

Like an endless search for truth, nothing left to hold on to
Here alone it gets so dark, so dark
Oh Oh

She came to me like a hurricane crashing through the trees
Lifted me like a fires dancing embers in the night
My spirit it was broken my body it was weak
Do I have no strength ?

(Wilson)

Must I be forced to remember?
You aren’t meant for me
Oh how I tried, but it wasn’t to be
I’m so alone
Fate to me is recognised
The nights are spent alone

Cool Cool Water
Cool Cool Cool Water

It takes me back
I thought it was gone
You teased me
You held me close

The pain in my life goes unrecognised
Nights are spent alone

Cool cool Water
Cool cruel cruel water
Cruel cruel Water
Cool cruel water

Stay
The dawn of time
Close
Love
Hold
Me
Love
Me
Watch the garden catch the sun

Cool Cruel Cruel water
Cool Cool Cool Water
Cruel Cruel Cruel Water
Cruel Cruel Cruel Water

Infos générales

Produit par Ray Wilson
Ingénieur du son, programmation et mixage : Uncle Jack
Enregistré à Jaggy Thorn Studio, Edinburgh et Brooklyn Broadcast, New York
Mastering par Mark Finlay et David Taylor

Ray Wilson : chant, guitare, basse, orgue “bouche”, piano, cordes
Steve Wilson : guitare et coeurs
Amanda Lyon : chant
Nir Z : batterie et percussion
Brian Mc Alpine : accordeon
Andy Hess : basse
Irvine Duguid : orgue hammond, wurlitzer et cordes
Taj Wyzgowski : guitare, guitare slide, mandoline
Paul Holmes : claviers et cordes
John Haimes : basse
Adam Holtzman : wurlitzer
James Mckintosh : percussion
Jenny Gardner : violon
David Paton : basse
Ornette Clennon : Clarinette

Sorti en avril 2003

Single :
Mars 2003 – Change/Gouranga
Septembre 2003 – Goodbye baby blue

Seb

5/5

Et si je pouvais en mettre plus je le ferais volontiers. Un des meilleurs albums live que je possède. Ray a une voix exceptionnelle et reprend à son avantage un certain nombre de chansons à la guitare acoustique, seul ou accompagné de son frère et d’une choriste faisant également quelques nappes de clavier. Et les chansons fonctionnent parfaitement, même des chansons n’ayant rien à voir avec la guitare comme Mama ou Carpet Crawlers ! Le choix des chansons est excellent, Ray allant pecher dans toutes les facettes de sa carrière : Guaranteed Pure, Stiltskin, _Cut et évidemment Genesis. Franchement, il n’y a rien a jeter dans ce disque. Si un tout petit truc (il en faut toujours un !) : la fille qui fait les choeurs : une sorte de hurleuse comme c’est la mode en ce moment… Chanter comme ça sur In the air tonight mérite pas moins que la peine de mort par pendaison, puis fusillade (ce qui est plus sportif que le contraire) au petit matin.

Tracklist

I can feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh Lord
I’ve been waiting for this moment, all my life, Oh Lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh Lord, Oh Lord

Well, if you told me you were drowning
I would not lend a hand
I’ve seen your face before my friend
But I don’t know if you know who I am
Well, I was there and I saw what you did
I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off the grin, I know where you’ve been
It’s all been a pack of lies

And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh Lord
I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my life, Oh Lord
I can feel it in the air tonight, Oh Lord, Oh Lord
And I’ve been waiting for this moment all my life, Oh Lord, Oh Lord

Well I remember, I remember don’t worry
How could I ever forget, it’s the first time, the last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep your silence up, no you don’t fool me
The hurt doesn’t show; but the pain still grows
It’s no stranger to you or me

And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh Lord…

Swing low in a dark glass hour
You turn and cower
See it turn to dust

Move on a stone dark night
We take to flight
Snowfall turns to rust

Seam in a fusing mine
Like a nursing rhyme
Fat man starts to fall

Year in a hostile place
I hear your face
Start to call

And if you think that I’ve been losing my way
That’s because I’m slightly blinded
And if you think that I don’t make too much sense
That’s because I’m broken minded
Don’t keep it…
Inside
If you believe it
Don’t keep it all inside

Strong words in a Ganges sky
I have to lie
Shadows move in pairs

Ring out from a bruised postcard
In the shooting yard
Looking through the tears

Out of the black slate time
We move in line
But never reach an end

Fall in a long stray town
As the ice comes down
Rivers start to bend

And if you think that I’ve been losing my way
That’s because I’m slightly blinded
And if you think that I don’t make too much sense
That’s because I’m broken minded
Don’t keep it…
Inside
If you believe it
Don’t keep it all inside

Each night I taste the silence
Of the words in my throat
Each day we hide in laughter
When they turn round and float

Do you lie back and think of England
As they shout in your face
Stand up and give them flowers
Mary full of grace

Temper’s out of control again
There’s an itch in my soul again
If I scratch it I will rest in peace

Each day I’m in the future
Of a net curtained past
Each day I’m out of pocket
Time didn’t last

Each night I wake up smoking
And my eyes start to sting
Wish I could keep them open
When the trees start to sing

Temper’s out of control again
There’s an itch in my soul again
If I scratch it I will rest in peace

Each night I taste the silence
Of the words in my throat
Each day we hide in laughter
When they turn around and float

Temper’s out of control again
There’s an itch in my soul again
If I scratch it I will rest in peace

I’m a million miles from anywhere, where can I be
Somewhere out on the ocean
Just take a look out on the horizon, what can you see
There’s nothing there for me

I feel shipwrecked, I might as well be shipwrecked
I’m helpless and alone drifting out to sea
I can’t believe what you said to me

Even standing on the corner of a busy city street
I still feel so lonely
Why do you say you want to be with me
But the next day say you don’t

I’m shipwrecked, I might as well be shipwrecked
I’m helpless and alone drifting out to sea
I can’t believe what you said to me
Without you I feel shipwrecked
But I can’t let it show
A million miles away from anywhere, ooh, ooh, ohh

Is it my imagination
Or is it getting darker, are the waves getting higher
I’m a million miles from anywhere
A million miles from anything I know

You know that’s why I’m shipwrecked
I might as well be shipwrecked
I’m helpless and alone drifting out to sea
I can’t believe what you said to me
You know that’s why I’m shipwrecked, shipwrecked
Losing my direction
Please come and rescue me (shipwrecked)
Shipwrecked
Shipwrecked
Shipwrecked
Shipwrecked…

A little piece of something
Falling gently down down down
No one understands you like I do

I’d rather be beside you
Everything we know so well
Tell me what you feel now
Show me what you think of it

It’s not about us anymore
It’s all about the reasons
That we think we’re fighting for
It’s not about hate
It’s not about pain we always feel
I know we have our problems
But we’re not the only ones
It’s not about you it’s not about me
It’s not about anger
It’s more about the loneliness we feel

How can I begin to
Ask for some forgiveness
For all that we have taken
There’s nothing left now

Just a little piece of something
Falling gently down down down
No one understands you no no
Like I do
There’s nothing left now

It’s not about us anymore
It’s all about the reasons
That we think we’re fighting for
It’s not about hate
It’s not about pain we always feel
I know we have our problems
But we’re not the only ones
It’s not about you it’s not about me
It’s not about anger
It’s more about the loneliness we feel

It’s not about us
It’s not about hate
It’s more about the loneliness we feel, can you feel it
It’s not about anger
It’s not about wanting
I know we have our problems
But we’re not the only ones, we’re not the only ones
It’s not about you, it’s not about me…

Some things disappear inside, should I try to run away
If I could I would escape you
I won’t argue anymore, I have lost the will to be
Hope you don’t think I’m ungrateful
Why, why are you laughing
Is it something that I said
I don’t like this place at all, makes me wonder what I’m here for
Someone take this pain away
Dying to see another day
Close the curtains lock the door, left my note upon the stair
In hope you wouldn’t read it
Fake emotions in my head, everything I’ve seen and read
Can’t begin to find a reason
Why, why are you laughing
Is it something that I said
I don’t like this place at all, makes me wonder what I’m here for
Someone take this pain away
Dying to see another day
And I don’t want to be your friend, or pretend I can fit into
I’m incensed, I’m blown away
Dying to see another day
I don’t like this place at all, makes me wonder what I’m here for
Someone take this pain away
Dying to see another day
And I don’t want to be your friend, or pretend I can fit into
I’m incensed I’m blown away
Dying to see another day

Sarah, sweet Sarah, hold me so close to you
Reach out, no reason needed
You’re the one for me, Sarah
You’re the one for me
Like a dream come true, so beautiful
I will be with you forever
And if the nights grow cold, I’ll be there for you
Please don’t make me wait
People surround me, offers of sympathy
I just want to be left alone
Sarah, sweet Sarah, hold me so close to you
Take in all I say, listen carefully
Words I want you to remember
And if the nights grow cold, I’ll be there for you
Please don’t make me wait
People don’t make me wait
People surround me, offers of sympathy
I just want to be left alone
Sarah, I’ll miss you
I don’t regret all that we shared together
Everything I need, given to me

God is my witness I can feel you
There! Before my very eyes, a vision to me
Don’t put out this fire
It’s burning for me, burning for you
Stand within the sunlight, press against me
Take me back to other times, different days
Love I do surrender, it belongs to
Belongs to me, belongs to me
Lay down on me, naked gypsy
Watching you bathe in water
False childhood lies, fear in your eyes
Give me a son and daughter
There is nothing I can’t see in my mind
A picture of you painted, so vividly
Blood runs through my fingers
And in through
Through my light, through my darkness
Lay down on me, naked gypsy
Watching you bathe in water
False childhood lies, fear in your eyes
Give me a son and daughter
Wish I could, wish I could see you
Lay down on me, naked gypsy
Watching you bathe in water
False childhood lies, fear in your eyes
Give me a son and daughter
Lay down on me, naked gypsy
Watching you bathe in water
False childhood lies, fear in your eyes
Give me a son and daughter
Son and daughter

Another Saturday night
I’m sitting here at home
Ain’t got nobody
I’m all alone
Sometimes it seems
Like there’s no-one to love me
No more
Oh oh oh

So I put on some jeans
And I head off down town
To look for some fun
But there’s none to be found
Sometimes it seems
Like there’s no one to party
No more
Oh oh oh

Maybe I’m getting old
But I’m not getting grey
Brighten up your life
In that old familiar way
(What you going to do)

You’ve got to swing your bag
(Swing your bag baby)
Let your hair hang down
(Swing it swing it)
Always look behind
Before touching your toes
You’ve got to swing your bag
(Swing your bag baby)
Right around your head
(Swing it swing it)
Whenever your life
Is becoming a drag
Swing you bag

So if watching the box
Becomes top of the bill
Get some insurance
Maybe make out your will
You only live once
But it’s never too late
You can even swing your bag
Up at those pearly gates

Maybe I’m getting old
But I’m not going grey
Brighten up your life
In that old familiar way
(What you going to do)

When I wake, you’re holding me
Like a child to his father
And I can feel the real love
I could love no other

And in your eyes I see innocence
You’re so beautifuly naive
To me you are so beautiful
I could never leave

You’re always in my heart
However far appart
We may be
You’re always in my heart
And my life
You can share with me
Always stay with me

I can’t stand to see you cry
It just breaks me up inside
Takes the whole of my devotion
And waves goodbye

We might not grow old together
But we’ll never be appart
I guess somethings never change
You’re always in my heart

You’re always in my heart
However far appart
We may be
You’re always in my heart
And my life
You can share with me
Always stay with me

From outside our love
I’ll bath in in your water
Without and within I’ll brick down this wall
Always in my heart

You’re always in my heart
However far appart
We may be
You’re always in my heart
And my life
You can share with me
Always stay with me
Always stay with me

Walking across the sitting-room, I turn the television off.
Sitting beside you, I look into your eyes.
As the sound of motor cars fades in the night time,
I swear I saw your face change, it didn’t seem quite right.
…And it’s hello babe with your guardian eyes so blue
Hey my baby don’t you know our love is true.

Coming closer with our eyes, a distance falls around our bodies.
Out in the garden, the moon seems very bright,
Six saintly shrouded men move across the lawn slowly.
The seventh walks in front with a cross held high in hand.
…And it’s hey babe your supper’s waiting for you.
Hey my baby, don’t you know our love is true.

I’ve been so far from here,
Far from your warm arms.
It’s good to feel you again,
It’s been a long long time. Hasn’t it?

The crawlers cover the floor in the red ochre corridor.
For my second sight of people, they’ve more lifeblood than before.
They’re moving in time to a heavy wooden door,
Where the needle’s eye is winking, closing in on the poor.
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
“We’ve got to get in to get out
We’ve got to get in to get out
We’ve got to get in to get out.”

There’s only one direction in the faces that I see;
It’s upward to the ceiling, where the chamber’s said to be.
Like the forest fight for sunlight, that takes root in every tree.
They are pulled up by the magnet, believing they’re free.
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
“We’ve got to get in to get out
We’ve got to get in to get out
We’ve got to get in to get out.”

Mild mannered supermen are held in kryptonite,
And the wise and foolish virgins giggle with their bodies glowing bright.
Through a door a harvest feast is lit by candlelight;
It’s the bottom of a staircase that spirals out of sight.
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
“We’ve got to get in to get out
We’ve got to get in to get out
We’ve got to get in to get out.”

The porcelain mannikin with shattered skin fears attack.
The eager pack lift up their pitchers – they carry all they lack.
The liquid has congealed, which has seeped out through the crack,
And the tickler takes his stickleback.
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
“We’ve got to get in to get out
We’ve got to get in to get out
We’ve got to get in to get out.”

September ’77
Port Elizabeth weather fine
It was business as usual
In police room 619
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

When I try to sleep at night
I can only dream in red
The outside world is black and white
With only one colour dead
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

You can blow out a candle
But you can’t blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead

And the eyes of the world are
watching now
watching now

I can’t see you mama
but I can hardly wait
ooh to touch and to feel you mama
oh I just can’t keep away
in the heat and the steam of the city
oh its got me running and I just can’t brake
so say you’ll help me mama
cos its getting so hard – oh

Now I can’t keep you mama
but I know you’re always there
you listen, you teach me mama
and I know inside you care
so get down, down here beside me
oh you ain’t going nowhere
no I won’t hurt you mama
but its getting so hard – oh

ha ha, ha ha ha ha, ha ha, argh
ha ha, ha ha ha ha, ha ha, argh

Can’t you see me here mama
mama mama mama please
can’t you feel my heart
can’t you feel my heart
can’t you feel my heart oh
now listen to me mama
mama mama
you’re taking away my last chance
don’t take it away
can’t you feel my heart?

ha ha, ha ha ha, ha, argh

It’s hot, too hot for me mama
but I can hardly wait
my eyes they’re burning mama
and I can feel my body shake
don’t stop, don’t stop me mama
oh make the pain, make it go away – hey
no I won’t hurt you mama
but its getting so hard – oh

Now I can’t see you mama
but I know you’re always there
you taunt, you tease me mama
but I never never can keep away
it’s the heat and the steam of the city
oh got me running and I just can’t brake
so stay don’t leave me mama
cos its getting so hard – oh

don’t go no no, don’t go
no no no, don’t go…

May God bless and keep you always,
May your wishes all come true,
May you always do for others
And let others do for you.
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.

May you grow up to be righteous,
May you grow up to be true,
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you.
May you always be courageous,
Stand upright and be strong,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.

May your hands always be busy,
May your feet always be swift,
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift.
May your heart always be joyful,
May your song always be sung,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.

Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
You been out ridin’ fences for so long now
Oh, you’re a hard one
I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin’ you
Can hurt you somehow

Don’ you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She’ll beat you if she’s able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet

Now it seems to me, some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can’t get

Desperado, oh, you ain’t gettin’ no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they’re drivin’ you home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that’s just some people talkin’
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don’t your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won’t snow and the sun won’t shine
It’s hard to tell the night time from the day
You’re loosin’ all your highs and lows
Ain’t it funny how the feeling goes away?

Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin’, but there’s a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, before it’s too late

In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on highway 9,
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected
and steppin’ out over the line
Baby this town rips the bones from your back
It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap
We gotta get out while we’re young
`Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run

Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend
I want to guard your dreams and visions
Just wrap your legs ’round these velvet rims
and strap your hands across my engines
Together we could break this trap
We’ll run till we drop, baby we’ll never go back
Will you walk with me out on the wire
`Cause baby I’m just a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta find out how it feels
I want to know if love is wild
girl I want to know if love is real

Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard
The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors
And the boys try to look so hard
The amusement park rises bold and stark
Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist
I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight
In an everlasting kiss

The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybody’s out on the run tonight
but there’s no place left to hide
Together Wendy we’ll live with the sadness
I’ll love you with all the madness in my soul
Someday girl I don’t know when
we’re gonna get to that place
Where we really want to go
and we’ll walk in the sun
But till then tramps like us
baby we were born to run

Here I am sitting at the airport
Waiting on a plane
Taking me to New York
Choking on my coffee
As a girl goes past
Only funny things seem to make me laugh

When I came I didn’t know that I’d be
Still here a week next Friday
The plane was late
Cause it’s raining outside
Someone stole the engines
And were going to have to glide

But I can’t sit here forever
Cause I want to go hom
Never have I felt so bad
Maybe I’ll just take a cab
Cause I think I’m going mad
Went to the bar to buy myself a beer
Met up with a guy
Who’d arrived last year
Bought myself a whisky
And lit a cigarette
Said the more you seem to drink
Well the easier it gets

So I guess I’m trying to tell you
That if you’re going to fly
Get a set of wings
And kiss your ass goodbye
When you pack your case
Better pack yourself a bed
Cause if you had a wish
You’d be wishing you were dead

La la la la !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Infos générales

Album Live enregistré sur la tournée Storyteller en 2001

Sorti en décembre 2001

Seb

3/5

Je n’ai jamais vraiment pris le temps de bien écouter cet album, mais j’en garde un souvenir agréable. Je préfère me contenter des versions live des chansons de ce disque, qui sont toutes excellentes. L’énorme tube (qui aurait du vraiment être un tube) est là : Another Day.

Tracklist

No confusion in my mind
I should be with you
So many pieces, too much frustration
No one to blame
Don’t make a fool out of me
Don’t have me wish my life away
Don’t make a fool out of me
Don’t have me wish my life away
No No No No………
No confusion in my mind
I should be with you
So many pieces, too
Much frustration
Don’t make a fool out of me
Don’t have me wish my life away
Don’t make a fool out of me
Don’t have me wish my life away
Don’t have me wish my life away
Don’t have me wish my life away
Don’t have me wish my life away
Don’t have me wish my life away
Don’t have me wish my life away (To End) 

Sarah, sweet Sarah, hold me so close to you
Reach out, no reason needed
You’re the one for me, Sarah
You’re the one for me
Like a dream come true, so beautiful
I will be with you forever
And if the nights grow cold, I’ll be there for you
Please don’t make me wait
People surround me, offers of sympathy
I just want to be left alone
Sarah, sweet Sarah, hold me so close to you
Take in all I say, listen carefully
Words I want you to remember
And if the nights grow cold, I’ll be there for you
Please don’t make me wait
People don’t make me wait
People surround me, offers of sympathy
I just want to be left alone
Sarah, I’ll miss you
I don’t regret all that we shared together
Everything I need, given to me

Some things disappear inside, should I try to run away
If I could I would escape you
I won’t argue anymore, I have lost the will to be
Hope you don’t think I’m ungrateful
Why, why are you laughing
Is it something that I said
I don’t like this place at all, makes me wonder what I’m here for
Someone take this pain away
Dying to see another day
Close the curtains lock the door, left my note upon the stair
In hope you wouldn’t read it
Fake emotions in my head, everything I’ve seen and read
Can’t begin to find a reason
Why, why are you laughing
Is it something that I said
I don’t like this place at all, makes me wonder what I’m here for
Someone take this pain away
Dying to see another day
And I don’t want to be your friend, or pretend I can fit into
I’m incensed, I’m blown away
Dying to see another day
I don’t like this place at all, makes me wonder what I’m here for
Someone take this pain away
Dying to see another day
And I don’t want to be your friend, or pretend I can fit into
I’m incensed I’m blown away
Dying to see another day

ey, hey the pain won’t go away
It looks like your worst nightmare’s here and here to stay
Uh huh, year, yeah
O God the son you were so proud of
Wastes away until there’s nothing left to think of
Uh huh, yeah, yeah
Cannot trust in you, cannot hold on to you now
Crying out don’t you touch me, I wish you would go
I’m fine now don’t you touch me, I need to be alone
So cold young man feeling old
Look me in the eye I’m losing all control
Uh huh, yeah, yeah
Cannot trust in you, cannot hold on to you now
Crying out don’t you touch me, I wish you would go
I’m fine now don’t touch me, I need to be alone
I’m dying now don’t touch me, I don’t need you here
For Christsake don’t you touch me, yeah, yeah, yeah
I can’t sleep I’ve fallen in too deep
Time to think about the drug that tastes so sweet
I lay low, it’s best if they don’t know
Pretending nothing’s there just watch your garden grow
You a friend don’t make me laugh, what we had was in the past
I can’t live for yesterday
When I needed you the most flesh and blood became the ghost
Give so much to take away
Reaching out to touch your soul, don’t feel young and look so old
Just a number on the wall, lowest number of them all
Every day seems like the last, finding strength to touch your thoughts
Need to feel my every word
Going on and on and on
On and on and on

From inside there was nothing and from the outside looking in it was worse
Words that meant nothing to no-one echoed across
And the light never shines on the real thing
And the hope is that nothing has changed
For a moment I almost believed him
For a moment I almost believed him
Money couldn’t buy it
Your money didn’t make it work
Millionairhead! Millionairhead!
It was always a short-term thing, the foundations to be built on wee flawed
But it doesn’t really matter, not to us
And the light never shines on the real thing
And the hope is that nothing has changed
For a moment I almost believed him
Foe a moment I almost believed him
Money couldn’t buy it
Your money didn’t make it work
Millionairhead! Millionairhead! Millionairhead!
I almost believed you
Money couldn’t buy it
Your money didn’t make it work
Millionairhead! Millionairhead! Millionairhead! Millionairhead! Millionairhead! Millionairhead! Millionairhead! Millionairhead!

It’s you to blame again, it seems like anger is your only friend
And as the darkness falls in tonight
You watch the shadows crawl across the window to your door
It doesn’t open anymore
Like some indictment on your life
You’re never wrong, but never right
Do you know what you fear, does the morning make it clear
Does it make you feel better when you’re walking away
Will anybody listen to a word
As you lie looking at the ceiling
It’s that old sentimental feeling
Starting over again, starting over again
Just like travelling the wrong way on a one way street
You’ll never be quite sure, whose promises you’ll meet
Falling up the wrong road, falling up the wrong road
Do you know what you feel, does the morning make it clear
Does it make you feel better when you’re walking away
Will anybody listen to a word
Soot the moon, shoot the moon
This must be part of someone else’s plan
Someone show me the answer
Just take me off of this winding road, winding road
Shoot the moon, shoot the moon, shoot the moon,
Do you know what you feel
Will the morning make it clear
Does it make you feel better when you’re walking away
Will anybody listen to a word

No time to break the fall, we run before we crawl
No pill will ease your mind
Just a little bit would make a difference
No words can describe just how much, does it take
To make sense of it, before the young ones grow old
And all wave goodbye
They’ve taken down the wall, so the young ones can taste freedom
And the others have a reason to live
You kill me with your lies
Just a little bit would make a difference
No words can describe just how much, does it take
To make sense of it, before the young ones grow old
And all wave goodbye, all wave goodbye
There’s no where to run to, I can’t get inside
Your tortured mind
Is wasting away
Just a little bit, just a little bit would make a difference
No words can describe just how much, does it take
To make sense of it, before the young ones grow old
And all wave goodbye, all wave goodbye, all wave goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
All wave goodbye, goodbye

You walk out on me, don’t expect me to come running
I won’t disagree if you’d like to take the blame
I won’t be there for you, I just don’t feel the need
You leave me empty
Stay young, live for a reason
There’s no place for a loser here
Your naked remark means nothing to me now
All faith in yourself seems it’s gone to find a friend
I won’t be there for you, I just don’t feel the need
You leave me empty
Stay young live for a reason
There’s no place for a loser here
The same song, sung with no feeling at all
And all the losers gather round
Watch the world come crashing down around them
There’s no place for the chosen few
Who know it all but rarely do astound me, surround me
And al the losers gather round
Watch the world come crashing down around them
They see things in different ways
Watch them spend their final days surrounded, astounded

Ground control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Ground control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown engines on
Check ignition and may God’s love be with you
This is ground control to Major Tom, you’ve really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare
This is Major Tom to ground control, I’m stepping through the door
And I’m floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here am I sitting in my tin can
Far across the world
Planet earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do
Though I’ve crossed one hundred thousand miles
I’m feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows
Ground control to Major Tom, your circuit’s dead
Something’s wrong
Can you hear me Major Tom
Can you hear me Major Tom
Can you hear me Major Tom
Can you hear, am I floating on my tin can
Far above the moon
Planet earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do

Watch your friends all pass you by
You’ve got 25 reasons to live, every one is a lie
Now you’re looking everywhere for comfort
The worse it gets, the harder you try
I hear you calling me again, it’s alright, it’s alright
Like a brother or a friend, you’re depending on
As you’re screaming in your sleep, is the needle in too deep
It’s alright, it’s not alright
You’re a stranger in your home
A good for nothing, know it all
Don’t you know we’ve seen it all before
The sadness of it all, you are the cure
I hear you calling me again, it’s alright, it’s alright
Like a brother or a friend, you’re depending on
As you’re screaming in your sleep
Is the needle in too deep
It’s alright, it’s not alright
Now you’re looking everywhere for comfort
The worse it gets the harder you try
I hear you calling me again, it’s alright, it’s alright
Like a brother or a friend you’re depending on
As you’re screaming in your sleep, is the needle in too deep
It’s alright, it’s not alright
It’s alright, it’s not alright

God is my witness I can feel you
There! Before my very eyes, a vision to me
Don’t put out this fire
It’s burning for me, burning for you
Stand within the sunlight, press against me
Take me back to other times, different days
Love I do surrender, it belongs to
Belongs to me, belongs to me
Lay down on me, naked gypsy
Watching you bathe in water
False childhood lies, fear in your eyes
Give me a son and daughter
There is nothing I can’t see in my mind
A picture of you painted, so vividly
Blood runs through my fingers
And in through
Through my light, through my darkness
Lay down on me, naked gypsy
Watching you bathe in water
False childhood lies, fear in your eyes
Give me a son and daughter
Wish I could, wish I could see you
Lay down on me, naked gypsy
Watching you bathe in water
False childhood lies, fear in your eyes
Give me a son and daughter
Lay down on me, naked gypsy
Watching you bathe in water
False childhood lies, fear in your eyes
Give me a son and daughter
Son and daughter

I’m a young man on the edge, with his head held in his hands
A look of desperation touching the fingers he hides behind
I lost my head and made a mess, showing signs of faithlessness
Having other people laughing at you is hard to take
You have all I have to give
You break me into many pieces
I was just beginning to forget
In my mind I’ve tried, can’t make sense of what it is
Wishing one day you could understand
Everything takes time
The thoughts I have, won’t leave me
You say you’ve heard it all before
You sit there like a wall I have to break through
Some drug I didn’t take to
You have all I have to give
You break me into many pieces
I was just beginning to forget
Should I feel anger, should I be patient
Do I belong here, do you have the answers
How long can I hold on
Do I belong, where do I belong
You have all I have to give
You break me into many pieces
I was just beginning to forget
Don’t laugh
Don’t make me
I was just beginning to forget
You have all I have to give
You break me into many pieces
I was just beginning to forget

Infos générales

Sorti en mars 1999

Ray Wilson (Chant et guitare)
Steve Wilson (Guitare)
Paul Holmes (Claviers)
John Haimes (Basse).
Nir Zydkiahu (Batterie)

Chansons écrites par Ray Wilson sauf :
“Shoot The Moon” par Steve Wilson
“I Hear You Calling” par Ray et Steve Wilson
“Space Oddity” par David Bowie


Single : Another Day / I hear you calling / Adolescent Breakdown

0/5

Seb

Je n’ai pas cet album. Cependant il n’est pas trop dur d’en parler. D’abord parce que c’est l’album qui a fait connaître Ray, avant Genesis, grâce au tube mondial, LE tube de la carrière de Ray : Inside, repris pour une marque de Jeans. C’est le dernier album de Ray avant Calling All Stations. Par ailleurs, Ray reprend souvent sur scène les morceaux de ce disque : Footsteps, Rest in peace, l’excellent Sunshine and butterflies, et évidemment Inside. Ces 4 là suffisent à conseiller cet album.

Tracklist

Swing low in a dark glass hour
You turn and cower
See it turn to dust
 
Move on a stone dark night
We take to flight
Snowfall turns to rust

Seam in a fusing mine
Like a nursing rhyme
Fat man starts to fall

Year in a hostile place
I hear your face
Start to call

And if you think that I’ve been losing my way
That’s because I’m slightly blinded
And if you think that I don’t make too much sense
That’s because I’m broken minded
Don’t keep it…
Inside
If you believe it
Don’t keep it all inside

Strong words in a Ganges sky
I have to lie
Shadows move in pairs
 
Ring out from a bruised postcard
In the shooting yard
Looking through the tears
 
Out of the black slate time
We move in line
But never reach an end
 
Fall in a long stray town
As the ice comes down
Rivers start to bend

And if you think that I’ve been losing my way
That’s because I’m slightly blinded
And if you think that I don’t make too much sense
That’s because I’m broken minded
Don’t keep it…
Inside
If you believe it
Don’t keep it all inside

Into a room
Old curtains broken chairs
I walk in through
Dust on the wooden stairs

Stone by the trees
Lost days and faded names
Pain in my throat
No river stays the same

They won’t be here anymore
They won’t be here anymore

When time was new
Long days and laughing eyes
Walk through the fields
Sunshine and butterflies

A fragile place
Nothing ever stays for long
A foreign land
Take right and make it wrong

They won’t be here anymore
They won’t be here anymore
It’s all lost to the wind
They won’t be here anymore

Into a room
Old curtains broken chairs
I walk in through
Dust on the wooden stairs

They won’t be here anymore
They won’t be here anymore

Each night I taste the silence
Of the words in my throat
Each day we hide in laughter
When they turn round and float

Do you lie back and think of England
As they shout in your face
Stand up and give them flowers
Mary full of grace

Temper’s out of control again
There’s an itch in my soul again
If I scratch it I will rest in peace

Each day I’m in the future
Of a net curtained past
Each day I’m out of pocket
Time didn’t last

Each night I wake up smoking
And my eyes start to sting
Wish I could keep them open
When the trees start to sing

Temper’s out of control again
There’s an itch in my soul again
If I scratch it I will rest in peace

Each night I taste the silence
Of the words in my throat
Each day we hide in laughter
When they turn around and float

Temper’s out of control again
There’s an itch in my soul again
If I scratch it I will rest in peace d’accordéon

You take him places I can’t go
You tell him things I don’t know
And even when the bonds hold fast
You make me hate the past

Walking in your footsteps
I used to walk by your side
How could you leave me
On the very edge of suicide
Suicide…

He leaves you traces I can see
He takes the things you gave to me
And even in the coldest place
I’m just an empty space

Walking in your footsteps
I used to walk by your side
How could you leave me
On the very edge of suicide
I’m lost without you
But well I know you go on your own way
You never needed me no matter what you say

Walking in your footsteps
I used to walk by your side
How could you leave me
On the very edge of suicide
Suicide… d’accordéon

A matter of empty gestures
A question of circumstance
But only fools turn
You gave without a question
You spoke without conceit
I had too much to learn

We’ll be together
We’ll be together
We’ll be together when my ship comes in

I meant to take it further
I meant to hide your fears
I’m down with all the lice
I want to make it better
I want to sink your pain

Every beggar is Christ

Chorus

Every beggar is Christ

Chorus

I hear you in the darkness
Deep heat from your tears
I don’t want to be divided

I wish I could lose myself
I wish I could un-meet you
I don’t want to be divided

Chorus d’accordéon

See me shed my mind as I leave to find the circles
When the gilded tongue of the eldest son I ask her
And I inch a smile as I take a mile from their longings
And they form a chain in the fleeting rain as I leave them

I don’t want to be responsible

Look at me now in my real skin
Made a vow in my real skin
Shed it now keep coming in
Here for now in my real ski

I saw a picture frame tied to a horse
I saw the crystal night out on the concourse
And the ancient trees of the bended knees will fracture
And we double take at an empty wake and leave them

I don’t want to be responsible

Chorus

Round and round and round and round
Round and round and round and round

I don’t want to be responsible
I don’t want to be responsible

Look at me now
Look at me now

Chorus d’accordéon

ContenuI guess I could if I wanted
I guess I could if I wanted
I guess I could if I wanted

I don’t mind if it’s all an illusion
Nothing really there
I don’t mind if it’s all lost in sandstone
Or riding on the air

In the night I know that it’s true
In the night I know that it’s true
In the day I get confused
But in the night I know that it’s true

I guess I could if I wanted
I guess I could if I wanted
I guess I could if I wanted

I don’t mind if I lose all you gave me
You’d never know
I don’t mind if you stay on the outside
Nothing here to show

Chorusd’accordéon

Contenu I see your voice
You’re scared of a ghost
Take what you had
From pillar to post
I stand beside you
And look in your eyes
And if you’re dead its no surprise

I hear you
I hear you
Words don’t be afraid
Words don’t be afraid
Don’t be afraid

They live your life
Through the core of the tune
Under advice
You take it too soon
They steal your name
Turn in your grave
Their armies march there’s nothing to save

Now your ideas
Are rolling in dust
And all you fought
For those who won’t trust
Take your inversion
And turn it around
Paint your perversion and hide it in sound

I hear you
I hear you
Words don’t be afraid
Words don’t be afraid
Don’t be afraid
Don’t be afraid anymore when they turn out the night
Don’t be afraid in the dark and the light
Don’t be afraid anymore at the sound of the sea
Don’t be afraid

Chorus repeat

I’ve been shouting in my sleep
Watch my goats turn into sheep

And if you find some way
To change your mind
Change your mind for me
And if you find yourself
Stuck on the line
Turn around to me
And if you find some time
To be alone
You can find some time for me
Open up your bleeding arms
And take it out to sea
Out to sea

Those who loose without a trace
Those who stare out into space

If you find some time… d’accordéon

(note de seb : supposé instrumental vu que je ne trouve pas les paroles et que je n’ai pas le disque) d’accordéon

You’ve got to run to me
You’ve got to hide from me
You’ve got to look to me
You’ve got to close your ears

You’ve got to be like me
You’ve got to change from me
You’ve got to smile to me
You’ve got to cry your tears

Rhyme America
Rhyme America
Rhyme America
America is me (I’m in America)
America is me (I’m in America)

You’ve got to see through me
You’ve got to feel for me
You’ve got to kill for me
You’ve got to save my life

You’ve got to sell to me
You’ve got to buy from me
You’ve got to watch with me
You’ve got to hide your eyes

Chorus d’accordéon

Infos générales

Sorti en 1994

Seb

0/5

Je n’ai pas cet album. Cependant, j’ai un véritable faible pour la chanson “Airport Song”. Par ailleurs, les extraits de ce disque disponible sur le site officiel de Ray laisse présager de l’excellence de la totalité.

Tracklist

What is this world coming to
I heard the old man say
You work every hour that God sends
It get harder every day
Look around you
You will find
Everybody looking for a good time
It’s just not like the good old days at all

 You might think that I’m getting old
And you might not really care
But if I could be given half a chance
I’d take you back there

They don’t make songs like they used to
They don’t make songs like they used to do
They don’t make songs quite like they used to
No they don’t write the good songs anymore

What is this world coming to
I heard my mother say
Even the songs on the radio
Don’t sound like the good old days
I like songs with a melody
So every one can sing along
Give me back my 45’s anyday

Good night, sleep tight
I hope everything turns out all right
Hang on, be strong
The good times are coming along
Dream on, sleep well
Toss a coin down a wishing well
Be good to yourself
Live a little longer

The good times are coming around
Coming around

Don’t look so sad
These are the best days we’ve ever had
Don’t live in the past
Think of all the good times
Dream on sleep well
Toss a coin down a wishing well
Be good to yourself
Live a little linger

At first she was a dream to me
I’d never been in love before
I gave her all I had
She wanted more
And now I have surrendered
Our love’s buried underground
But I’ll be back again my girl
The good times are coming around

Good night sleep tight
I hope everything turns out all right
Hang on be strong
The good times are coming along
Don’t look so sad
These are the best days we’ve ever had
Don’t live in the past
Think of all the good times

Hallelujah good times

You took your time to walk into my life
An now you’re here beside me
Every hour of every day
My mind echoes with the thought of you

Your smile draws me towards you
And then pulls me away from here
Will you be there in the morning
That’s the question that I always fear 

You’re burning up my heart
Every hour that were apart
You’re tearing at my soul
When you’re not there to hold
Oh baby can’t you see
What you’re doing to me
You’re burning up my heart
Burning up my heart
Burning up my heart

When you’re not there to comfort and hold
My mind echoes with the thought of you
You just reach out and pull us together
And love will pull us together

Our love can only get higher
Like the mountains reaching up from the sea
Whose going to put out the fire
That’s the question for you and for me

Your smile draws me towards to you
And then pulls me away from here
Will you be there in the morning
That’s the question that I always fear

Listening to the words of a well known song
Got me thinking about you
Having to spend another night on my own
Got me thinking about living without you
Trying to forget every single regret
Each mistake I was making
Holding on tight
Making love every night
Just to stop my whole body from shaking

I never tried to hide
The way I feel for you
And if I lied to you
The reasons I can now reveal
You deserve the best of everything

Looking at your face
In the picture frame
Just doesn’t seem easy
I could open my heart
And make a fresh start
But I’d only be scared that you’d leave me
Trying to pretend
We could stay good friends
Our whole life through
Knowing too well
That in time you could tell
That I wish I never had left you

Do you know
That I’m missing you
Does it show
In everything I do
Did you go
Because I told you too
Do you know
That I’m in love with you

I woke up just the other day
To a phone call from a friend of mine
To say I’ve lost my girl to some other guy

Do you think there’s something wrong with me
Cause I ain’t as young as I used to be
I’ve always tried my best
To be equal to the rest
You know I’ve tried
But I’m so broken up inside

Even the best guys lose their girls
End up alone in this mixed up world
Think about me before you fall in love
Cause even the best guys
Loose their girl

I remember all of those times
She’d swear to me
That she would always be mine
You know I nearly did believe
That maybe she would stay with me
Do you think that it was something I said
That made her take another lover to bed
Well I guess I’ll never know
But I’m going to have to let her go
You know I’ve tried
I’m so broken up inside

You know I’ve tried
But I’m so broken up inside

Even the best guys lose their girls
End up alone in this mixed up world
Think about me before you fall in love
Cause even the best guys, even the best guys
Even the best guys lose their girls

I’ve been travelling all around Europe
Seems like I’ve been gone for years
I’ve been playing guitar in hundreds of bars
Met so many people out here
My companion he plays the piano
And he sings me the nicest of songs
And he’ll tell me just how much he’s missing his girl
And how much he’s missing his son
But somehow he fees his life has just begun

Well tomorrow were heading for Denmark
Then on Friday we go to Berlin
And we’ll spend the weekend maybe making
New friends
And playing that “Loving Feeling”
I just can’t stop thinking about my family
And Lord I wonder what their doing now
And if only you knew just how much I miss you
But that’s one thing my thoughts won’t allow
How I wish that you were here with me now

Could you send me my Dad in a letter
Could you make sure my girl is alright
Could you give my regards to my Mum
And my Brother
I wish I was at home tonight

So another night draws to an end
And a brand new day has begun
So I lay down my head
On this cheap hotel bed
And sleep once my thoughts have all gone
I just can’t stop thinking about my family
And Lord I wonder what their doing now
And if only you knew just how much I miss you
Well that’s on thing my thoughts won’t allow
How I wish that you were here with me now 

Another Saturday night
I’m sitting here at home
Ain’t got nobody
I’m all alone
Sometimes it seems
Like there’s no-one to love me
No more
Oh oh oh

So I put on some jeans
And I head off down town
To look for some fun
But there’s none to be found
Sometimes it seems
Like there’s no one to party
No more
Oh oh oh

Maybe I’m getting old
But I’m not getting grey
Brighten up your life
In that old familiar way
(What you going to do)

You’ve got to swing your bag
(Swing your bag baby)
Let your hair hang down
(Swing it swing it)
Always look behind
Before touching your toes
You’ve got to swing your bag
(Swing your bag baby)
Right around your head
(Swing it swing it)
Whenever your life
Is becoming a drag
Swing you bag

So if watching the box
Becomes top of the bill
Get some insurance
Maybe make out your will
You only live once
But it’s never too late
You can even swing your bag
Up at those pearly gates

Maybe I’m getting old
But I’m not going grey
Brighten up your life
In that old familiar way
(What you going to do)

So many days go by
Spend too many nights alone
It’s just a matter of time
Till I quit being on my own

I’ve started counting the days
Before I see you again
But every day that goes by
Just brings a need to pretend

I’m steppin out
Ain’t going to be on my own no more
I’ve done my time
Loving down the telephone line
I’m steppin out
I’m going back to the early days
Cause after all that I’ve been through
I’ve had it with you

You know that every weekend
Takes too long coming around
So what’s the use in pretending
That our destiny’s been found
You just take all that you can
Don’t give me nothing in return
But I won’t give any more
Cause now the table’s been turned

You’ve just been staying out late
Knowing too well I won’t
Interrogate you d’accordéon

It started off
A bitter tale
And ended up as reason beyond all doubt
The ship had taken sail
When the tide was out

So we try to look for reasons
But the case became more complicated
Our love is not out of season
In any case
I can’t show face around here anymore

And if time was on our side
If time was on our side
Would you leave here tomorrow
If time was on our side
I remember how you told me
The expression on your face
Just said it all
Will you reach out and hold me
Or just watch me fall
Right through it all

There are something’s that will never change
But will you ever come back home
Because all that now remains
Is a single stone
And no ring
From a disconnected telephone d’accordéon

You’ve got riches by the score
You’ve got lovers knocking down your door
But you’ve been lonely for so long
To me you will always be
My sad eyed girl

Sad eyed girl
Don’t walk away
Sad eyed girl
You know what they’ll say
You’re just my sad eyed girl
And I need you here tonight
Sad eyed girl
I want you here to stay

You filled oceans with your tears
Eclipse the sunshine with your fear
Leave behind you all that’s in the past
And then you’ll see
My sad eyed girl

Walk with me for a while
Share the secrets of your smile
Start a new life
Lets start it today
There’s only one thing
I’ve got to say d’accordéon

remember singing lips on Mars
Before the were turned into ice-cream bars
As Mr Ben disappeared behind his curtain
Back then lady luck was on everybody’s side
And every day was taken in my stride
And all I knew well I was never quite certain

Give me a song that goes sha la la la
With the story of a broken heart
I don’t want house
You’ll only rap on my door
I need a song that goes sho be do wap
With the story of a girl whose life’s been broken
Up into pieces of Rock ‘n’ Roll

Songs brought to us via radio shows
We would listen to critics
With their views about pros
But the sing along songs
Were written again and again
Through the years came the genius
And the business high flyer
And the few basic cords
To give us Mull of Kintyre
The simplest remedies go to the top of our
Chart as if by magic

Goodbye Mister
Thanks for the time
I’d like to say that the pleasures been all mine
And would you like a cigar sir
He said I’m sorry Mister Musician
I’m sorry Mister high risk alien
But its more than my job for what its worth
But there’s no use telling me that I’m wrong
Because whatever you say
I’m going to keep on singing you
The same old song

Rock ‘n’ Roll
Sho be do wap
Sha la la la
Sho be do wap
Rock ‘n’ Roll d’accordéon

Johnny was a religious man
A wife and kid right by his side
He had a home he could call his own
Down by the riverside

Johnny met some other girl
She’d been a friend of the family
And when his love began to stray
His wife just walked away

He said understand why it’s all so wrong
One day love’s here the next it’s gone
He thought God would understand
Johnny was a religious man

Pray tonight for yourself
It’s too easy to blame somebody else
Pray tonight for yourself
It’ never too late

Johnny was a broken man
A wife and kids in some other place
His life was empty, his love had gone
A tear ran down his face

But Johnny was a peaceful man
To close his eyes was the easy part
His wife had married another man
And he died of a broken heart
Johnny died of a broken heart  d’accordéon

The initial kiss
To a single tear
The good and the bad times from so many years
Send the kids to school
Of course they didn’t hear them leave
They were too busy arguing
About where he’d been all night

They loosely called it love

Take a walk to work
Right across regents park
He’s leaving all his worries behind
To return after dark
Can you picture the scene
You read it in every magazine
They were too busy arguing
Don’t it make you want to scream

And they can’t find time
To say I’m sorry
And to say that I love you
Wouldn’t be too easy for me

Didn’t find it so easy
After their wedding day
All the freedom was gone
But nobody took it away
The kids come home from school
Of course they didn’t hear the door
They were too busy arguing
I can’t take it any more

d’accordéon

Listening to the words of a well known song
Got me thinking about you
Having to spend another night on my own
Got me thinking about living without you
Trying to forget every single regret
Each mistake I was making
Holding on tight
Making love every night
Just to stop my whole body from shaking

I never tried to hide
The way I feel for you
And if I lied to you
The reason I can now reveal
You deserve the best of everything

Looking at your face
In the picture frame
Just doesn’t seem easy
I could open my heart
And make a fresh start
But I’d only be scared that You’d leave me
Trying to pretend
We could stay good friends
Our whole life through
Knowing too well
That in time you could tell
That I wish I had never left you

Do you know
That I’m missing you
Does it show
In everything I do
Did you go
Because I told you too
Do you know
That I’m in love with you d’accordéon

Here I am sitting at the airport
Waiting on a plane
Taking me to New York
Choking on my coffee
As a girl goes past
Only funny things seem to make me laugh

When I came I didn’t know that I’d be
Still here a week next Friday
The plane was late
Cause it’s raining outside
Someone stole the engines
And were going to have to glide

But I can’t sit here forever
Cause I want to go home
Never have I felt so bad
Maybe I’ll just take a cab
Cause I think I’m going mad

Went to the bar to buy myself a beer
Met up with a guy
Who’d arrived last year
Bought myself a whisky
And lit a cigarette
Said the more you seem to drink
Well the easier it gets

So I guess I’m trying to tell you
That if you’re going to fly
Get a set of wings
And kiss your ass goodbye
When you pack your case
Better pack yourself a bed
Cause if you had a wish
You’d be wishing you were dead

But I can’t sit here forever
Cause I want to go home
Never have I felt so bad
Maybe I’ll just take a cab
Cause I think I’m going mad
Went to the bar to buy myself a beer

La la la la !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! d’accordéon

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