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Richard Ashcroft: Human Conditions

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s

Artist: Richard Ashcroft
Title: Human Conditions
Released: 2002.10.21
Label: Virgin Records Ltd.
Time: 54:51
Producer(s): Chris Potter, Richard Ashcroft
Appears with: The Verve
Category: Pop/Rock
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2002.10.25
Price in €: 16,25
Web address: www.richardashcroft.com

 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Check the Meaning (R.Ashcroft) - 8:04
[2] Buy It in Bottles (R.Ashcroft) - 4:39
[3] Bright Lights (R.Ashcroft) - 5:15
[4] Paradise (R.Ashcroft) - 5:37
[5] God in the Numbers (R.Ashcroft) - 6:58
[6] Science of Silence (R.Ashcroft) - 4:15
[7] Man on a Mission (R.Ashcroft) - 5:29
[8] Running Away (R.Ashcroft) - 4:16
[9] Lord I've Been Trying (R.Ashcroft) - 5:23
[10] Nature Is the Law (R.Ashcroft) - 4:55

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


RICHARD ASHCROFT - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Piano, Percussion, Wurlitzer, Art Direction

BRIAN WILSON - Vocals, Arrangement
PETE SALISBURY - Drums
MARTYN CAMPBELL - Bass
KATE RADLEY - Keyboards
TALVYN SINGH - Duggi Tarang, Shruti Box, Madal, Tablas, Beats & Drones
CHUCK LEAVELL - Piano, Hammond B3 Organ
RICHARD ROBSON - Programming
STEVE SYDELNIK - Drum Programming
CRAIG WAAGSTAFF - Percussion
JIM HUNT - Flute, Saxophone
MATT CLIFFORD - Wurlitzer

LONDON SESSION ORCHESTRA - Strings
GAVIN WRIGHT - Lead String
LONDON COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR - Choir
WIL MALONE - Orchestral Arrangement & Conductor

CHRIS POTTER - Engineer, Mixing
DOM MORELY - Assistant Engineer
RICO PETRILLO - Assistant Engineer
MATT LAWRENCE - Assistant Engineer
DAMON IDDINS - Assistant Engineer
PAUL GRADY - Assistant Engineer
PHILLIPE ROSE - Assistant Engineer
TONY COUSINS - Mastering
JUAN CORTÉS - Illustration
NADAV CANDER - Photography
MAX DODSON - Photography
MARC MAROT - Photography 

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


2002 CD Virgin 13383



Human Conditions demonstrates that Richard Ashcroft hasn't lost his drive to tackle big topics. The titles tell their own story: "Check the Meaning," "Paradise," "God in the Numbers," "Man on a Mission"--more songs about God, life, and passion. For better or worse, few rock stars have engaged in such an intense, irony-free existential quest. Human Conditions continues the wide-eyed spiritual odyssey instigated by 2000's Alone with Everybody. Ashcroft's persuasive, expressive voice carries the fluent opener "Check the Meaning," while the Spiritualized-like "Buy It in Bottles" will likely prove to be a concert favorite. "Science of Silence and Man on a Mission" find the ex-Verve frontman seeking truth in an insecure world, and the wracked, confessional "Lord I've Been Trying" scales new heights of grandeur. There are weighty splendors aplenty here. For Richard Ashcroft, the quest continues.

Ian Gittins - Amazon.com



Das zweite Soloalbum von Ex-Verve-Chef Richard Ashcroft Human Conditions lässt nichts zu wünschen übrig. Der englische Sänger und Komponist umgeht geschickt alle modischen Fallen und schafft eine weitläufige Klanglandschaft von durchgehend hohem Niveau.

Ohne die Melodien seiner Songs aus den Augen zu verlieren, arrangiert er sie zu kleinen Sinfonien, mal elegisch wie das paranoide "Check The Meaning", dann wieder im romantischen Country-Gewand wie auf der Ballade "Buy It In Bottles" oder "Paradise". Bis auf den wilden Punk-Ausreißer "Bright Lights" ist die Stimmung verhangen melancholisch und von amerikanischen Folk-Größen wie James Taylor geprägt ("Lord I've Been Trying"). Höhepunkt ist unbestritten das melodramatische "Nature Is The Law", eine kongeniale Zusammenarbeit mit Brian Wilson von den Beach Boys. Zum cinemascope-breiten Gospelchor pendelt sich der Gesang zwischen gereiftem Elvis Presley und Brad Roberts von den Crash Test Dummies ein. Zeitlos schön und für Novembernebeltage der ideale Hintergrund.

Ingeborg Schober - Amazon.de



Richard Ashcroft has always been driven to tackle big topics in music, and Human Conditions finds him earnestly rolling the world into a question one more time. Even the titles tell their own story: "Check the Meaning", "Paradise", "God in the Numbers", "Man on a Mission"--more songs about God, life and passion, then. For better or worse, no contemporary rock star has engaged in such an intense, irony-free existential quest since Jim Morrison.

Human Conditions continues the wide-eyed spiritual odyssey instigated by 2000's Alone With Everybody which is very good. Ashcroft is in persuasive, expressive voice on the fluent opener "Check the Meaning", while the spiritualised "Buy It in Bottles" will increase sales of disposable cigarette lighters in arenas around the globe. "Science of Silence and Man on a Mission" find the ex-Verve vocalist seeking, as ever, truth in an insecure world and the wracked, shoulder-heaving "Lord I've Been Trying" scales new heights of confessional grandeur. There are weighty splendours aplenty here: for Richard Ashcroft, it's clear the quest for catharsis through rock continues.

Ian Gittins - Amazon.co.uk



Two years after his solo debut, ex-Verve lynchpin Richard Ashcroft returns with Human Conditions, a ten-track album of serious intent that is, first and foremost, an ode to the power of song. And while several tracks here check in around the six-minute mark, this man’s uncompromising style can be forgiven, for his substance is palpable.

Opener 'Check The Meaning' mixes twinned baritone and tenor vocal lines with a sparkling guitar riff and brass parping. Lush orchestration, a Verve trademark, completes an understated anthem. But unchecked lyrical pomposity sometimes threatens to mar his instrumentation. “Can you hear what I’m sayin’ / Got my mind meditatin’ on love,” he drawls, telling us to “check the meaning” repeatedly as if he’s saying something that’s never been said. Eight minutes of this is nothing if not self-indulgent.

Yet he can hardly be criticised for trying to get to grips with Important Things – God, love, the meaning of life, where we’re from and where we’re going to all figure at some point as 'Human Conditions' shambles on in a wash of strings and laid-back beats. 'Lord I’ve Been Trying' – big themes obviously don’t scare him at all – shows that when it comes to melancholia, few do it better. Some lovely lyrics top off a single-worthy melody: “Lord I’ve been trying / Trying to keep myself from crying.” When he was recording this song, he knew he was on to a winner, and it shows.

Elsewhere, 'Paradise' features the ubiquitous strings, layered vocals, brass and bells, and an overwhelming lyrical melancholy remind most of 'Lucky Man' from 'Urban Hymns'. But tracks such as these are somewhat interchangeable and don’t really indicate any progression in Ashcroft’s musical élan, but are nonetheless easy on the ear.

It’s 'Man On A Mission' that might well be the song title that sums up Ashcroft best, and it’s a memorable slice of melodious music with lyrical intent. On this song Ashcroft’s vocals hit perfection. Musically it’s not a million miles away from The Eagles, with a laid-back charm belying its meaty subject matter. It has obvious single potential. “I heard you caught the blues,” he muses - not a surprising outcome for anyone listening to this album.

The most incongruous moment comes with 'Bright Lights' and the appearance of Mercury-winning tabla master Talvin Singh. The tempo is raised, and that comes as a welcome relief, but this song seems distinctly out on a limb within this album.

Its antithesis is the startling effort that is 'Running Away', a song that recalls Spiritualized’s finer, chilled moments. Guitars and bass – both played by Ashcroft – underpin eerie tambourine and drum beats which combine to woozy and repetitive effect.

And with 'Nature Is The Law', a big musical theme tops a record of big lyrical themes. It’s a song which closes the album in a similar style to its opening – namely overblown and self-indulgent, yet easy to listen to for all that.

And when an artist tackles big themes with melodies as sweet as anything you’ll hear all year, it’s possible to forgive a very human condition.

Michael Hubbard
Copyright © 1996-2002 OMH. All rights reserved.



Richard Ashcroft To Reveal 'Human Conditions' in October

Richard Ashcroft has revealed the title of his upcoming second solo album: Human Conditions, tentatively set for release in October.

The former singer of the Verve follows up his 2000 solo bow, Alone With Everybody, once again working with producer Chris Potter, who co-helmed the first solo album and the Verve's Urban Hymns. The sessions took place at Barge Studios on the River Thames in London.

The forthcoming album includes guests spots from Brian Wilson, Talvin Singh, and DJ Shadow. Ashcroft premiered one of the album's new songs, "Buy It In Bottles" back in February, during a Teenage Cancer Benefit concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. He's so pleased with the new work that he's already thinking about his third solo album, with a release date of late next year in mind.

Ashcroft most recently made a guest appearance on "The Test," a track on the Chemical Brothers' album, Come With Us. He'll perform September 14-15 as a special guest of Oasis, when the band plays its hometown of Manchester, England, at the Lancashire County Cricket Club.

LONDON, UK - 2002-07-10
Daily Telegraph



Richard Ashcroft ist ja nun nicht irgendwer. Er war der Frontmann und Songwriter einer der erfolgreichsten britischen Bands der Neunziger: The Verve. Noel Gallagher, Kopf von Oasis und Berufsgrossmaul, zählte sie zu den zwei Bands auf dieser Welt, die er "nicht scheisse" fand. Quasi ein Ritterschlag. Als Ashcroft im Video zu Bitter Sweet Symphony stoisch eine Straße hinunter schritt, brannte er sich in das kollektive Pop-Gedächtnis einer ganzen Generation. Nicht wenige rutschten in eine mittelschwere Krise, als die Band 1998 das Zeitliche segnete. Also lebte man vor sich hin und vertrieb sich die Zeit mit mittelmäßiger Musik, wissend, dass irgendwo in diesem komischen England ein Mensch saß, der das Potential hatte mit einer Platte alles wieder gut zu machen.

Dieser Mann war Herr Ashcroft, er hatte ein Einsehen und brachte vor zwei Jahren ein fantastisches Soloalbum heraus. Nach etwas Ruhe, einem Gastauftritt auf der letzten Platte der Chemical Brothers und einem Umzug in ein Landhaus im englischen Niemandsland veröffentlichte er am 21. Oktober sein neues Werk "Human Conditions". Ashcroft konnte illustre Namen für die Mitarbeit an diesem Album gewinnn: den Beach Boys’ Gründer Brian Wilson Nature, den ehemaligen Verve Drummer Pete Salisbury und Chuck Leavell, ein Keyboarder der bereits mit Aretha Franklin und den Rolling Stones arbeitete. Wäre der Mann nicht gerade mal 31 könnte man die Platte auch ein Alterswerk nennen. Aber letztlich geht Richard Ashcroft nur konsequent den Weg weiter, den er mit seinem ersten Soloalbum eingeschlagen hatte. Imposanter Rock, gesetzt und aufwendig instrumentiert; dazu breite Streichereinsätze, ausufernde Melodien und laaaaaange Songs. Eine solche Beschreibung klingt eigentlich nach einer Platte, die ein überladenes Ego-Ding ist: Langweilig und übertrieben. Aber der Gedanke täuscht.

Dieser ganze Aufwand ist schließlich kein Selbstzweck. Als einer der ambitioniertesten Songwriter Englands weiss Ashcroft, wie er diesen Mitteln arbeiten kann, ohne dass sie wie Füllstoff wirken. Heraus kam ein wirklich "großes" Stück Musik. Perfekter, fast schon komponierter Rock - kein drei Minuten Fast-Food. Kein Wunder das er seine Platte im Herbst veröffentlicht, wie auch einst "Urban Hyms" - die Überplatte seiner einstigen Band The Verve. Die Zeit verregneter Abende kann man gebrauchen. Wer Ashcrofts Arbeit schon immer geschätzt hat, wird auch bei "Human Conditions" bedenkenlos zugreifen können. Alle Anderen können zuerst einen Blick auf sein neues Video werfen ... und dann überzeugt sein.

CityWeb.de



RICHARD ASHCROFT has named his new album 'HUMAN CONDITIONS' and it will be one of TWO new albums, NME.COM can reveal.

Speaking exclusively to this website the day before he put the finishing touches to the first one, he declared: "The creative process ain’t going to stop now, so I’m aiming to release this album in early October and then, in 11 or 12 months time, the next one will come out.

"I think there’s been quite a few times in the past where I‘ve felt like a star player dogged by injury. I’d love it if there was a more realistic creative approach to making music rather than feeling that every record is some kind of comeback, or another chance. Another chance at what? I’ve already succeeded! I’ve got nothing to lose."

NME.COM heard three tracks off the first as-yet-untitled album, recorded at London’s Metropolis studios with producer Chris Potter. ‘Buy It In Bottles’, premiered at February’s Teenage Cancer Benefit at The Royal Albert Hall, is steeped in country melancholy, while the stringed ballad ‘Lord I’ve Been Trying’ builds on the orchestral blueprint of ‘Alone With Everybody’, a classic Ashcroft vocal that sees him singing "gotta get rid of these blues".

More unusual is the powerful soul-tinged orchestral blast of ‘Check The Meaning’‘. "It’s like a prayer from an agnostic who’s caught in the crossfire," is how Ashcroft explains it. "Until the fantasy of the World Cup started, I thought we were staring down the barrel of World War Three. People may want to call me crass for saying ‘my mind’s meditating on love’ but I don’t give a fuck".

NME.com



Ruhig und besinnlich

Kann man bei HUMAN CONDITIONS schon von einem Alterswerk sprechen? Jedenfalls ist „Mad Richard" ruhiger geworden. Das hörte man schon beim Solo-Debüt ALONE WITH EVERYBODY und setzt sich mit der aktuellen CD fort. Alles sehr balladesk, nur ein schnellerer Song („Bright Lights" und der ist ein echter Knaller!) hat sich offensichtlich in das Tracklisting verirrt. Ansonsten ist alles wie gehabt: viele Streicher-Arrangements, leicht überproduziert und die Songs sind stets ein bisschen zu lang. Trotzdem eine sehr schöne CD - ideal geeignet für Herbst- und Winterabende. Bei den Songs „Paradise", „Lord I've been trying", „Nature is the Law" wird einem ganz warm ums Herz. Wer allerdings die Dynamik der The Verve-CD URBAN HYMNS sucht, wird ein wenig enttäuscht sein. Denn die erste Single „Check the Meaning" erweckt hinsichtlich des Tempos der CD einen falschen Eindruck. Fazit: Trotz aller Kritik ein Album mit Tiefe. Deshalb empfehle ich ein genaues "Ohrenmerk" auf die Texte!

Rezensentin/Rezensent aus leinfelden-echterdingen Deutschland, 27. September 2002



Melancholisch schöne Herbstmusik

Es gibt wenige "Rock" Platten, die ich unbedingt in meiner Sammlung benötige, dazu gehörten allerdings The Verves "Urban Hymns", nach der Trennung der Band veröffentlichte Richard Ashcroft sein Debüt "Alone with everybody", dies ist die gelungene Fortsetzung davon. Er besitzt diese besondere Gabe, dieses ausgesprochen seltene Talent, Melodien für die Ewigkeit zu komponieren, "Check the meaning" ist einfach traumhaft. Fantastisch arrangiert, komponiert, gibts auf der Platte keine Füllsel, alles bleibt auf dem selben hohen Level und passt wunderbar in die "ruhige" Jahreszeit. Bei dem ganzen Müll der heute wöchentlich erscheint, ist dies ein einzelner, strahlender Juwel, den ich nur empfehlen kann! Wunderschön.

andreas schmitz aus hankcgn@aol.com, 2. Oktober 2002



MENSCHLICHE BEDINGUNGEN !

Wo soll ich anfangen? Er ist wieder da! Nein,nicht der,sondern der Richard Ashcroft.Ja,genau der! Nachdem er mit seinem ersten Solo-Album Alone with everybody ein Debut hinlegte,nein,ich muß sagen hinzauberte wie es bisher mit Sicherheit noch kein zweiter tat(wer liefert schon mit Band das Album eines Jahrzehnts Urban Hymns und kurz danach als Alleingänger das Album des nächsten Jahrzehnts Alone with everybody)ist er nun wieder da mit Human Conditions,seiner offiziellen Fortsetzung zu Alone with everybody. Da man als Musikhörer mit Ohren bei einer solchen Bewertung Alone with everybody 6 Sterne geben muß, fällt es auch nicht schwer Human Conditions 5 Sterne zu geben. Es gibt halt immer nur DAß Album des Jahrzehnts und nicht irgendeins! Ein Musiker der es schafft zwei Alben des Jahrzehnts zu erschaffen müßte da schon Gott in seiner reinsten Form sein, und daß ist Ashcroft nun auch wieder nicht(aber vielleicht ist er der auferstandene Jesus der den Menschen durch seine Musik helfen will!?!) buy it in bottles und man on a mission sind die höhepunkte eines Albums das eine Hommage an das Musikgenie Brian Wilson ( na, schon vergessen? ja,genau der der 1967 mit den Beach Boys die Mona Lisa der Pop-Musik Pet Sounds erschuf)sein soll.

TOBIAS GROTELOH aus HAMBURG, Deutschland, 23. Oktober 2002



Wo sind die Hits?

Richard Ashcroft, ehemals Sänger bei The Verve und nun mit dem zweiten Solo-Album "Human Conditions" unterwegs, ist immer schon ein etwas einfältiger Visionär gewesen. Er sprach zu Gott, hat das Paradies gesehen, den Himmel begangen und nun wimmelt es nur so vor Songs wie "God Is In The Numbers", "Paradise" oder - oh Schreck! - "Man On A Mission". Für Ashcrofts Texte braucht man also starke Nerven, während die musikalische Seite von "Human Conditions", die etwas abgespeckter und organischer als noch auf "Alone With Everybody" (2000) daherkommt, zwar überzeugen, nicht aber berühren kann. Was fehlt, sind glasklare Hits wie "Crazy World" oder "A Song For The Lovers", die man von dem Mann, der "Sonnet" und "Lucky Man" geschrieben hat, eigentlich erwarten darf. So besteht Ashcrofts größte Leistung diesmal im Kleinen: Brian Wilson darf im hübschen Schlussstück den Chor übernehmen. Titel ? "Nature Is The Law". Dann ist ja alles klar.

Rezensentin/Rezensent, 21. Oktober 2002

 L y r i c s


CHECK THE MEANING

Check the meaning

When I'm low, and I'm weak, and I'm lost
I don't know who I can trust
Paranoia, the destroyer, comes knocking on my door
You know the pain drifts to days, turns to nights
But it slowly will subside
And when it does, I take a step, I take a breath
And wonder what I'll find

Can you hear what I'm saying?
Got my mind meditating on love, love
Feel what I'm saying
Got my mind meditating on love, love

The human condition, the human condition

Too much blood, too much hate, turn off the set
There's got to be something more
When Mohammed, Allah, Buddah, Jesus Christ
Are knocking down my door
I'm agnostic getting God, but man
She takes a female form
There's no time, no space, no law
We're out here on our own

Can you hear what I'm saying?
Got my mind meditating on love, love
Feel what I'm saying
Got my mind meditating on love, love

Check the meaning
(The human condition)
Check the feeling
(The human condition)

Guess it's life, doing it's thing
Making you cry, making you think
Yeah life, dealing it's hand
Making you cry and you don't understand
Life, doing it's thing
Making you cry now, making you think of
Pain, doing it's thing
Making you cry yeah, making you sing

Don't say it, don't say it's too late
Don't, don't say it's too late (It's never too late, it's never too late)
Don't, don't say it's too late (It's never too late)
Don't, don't say it's too late

The human condition, the big decisions
The human condition, the big decisions

I'm like a fish with legs, I fell from the tree
I made a rocket (check the meaning), I made a wheel
I made a rocket (check the feeling), I swam the ocean (check the meaning)
I saw the moon (say a prayer), I seen the universe (and beyond)
I see you (check the feeling), I see me (check the meaning)
That's my reality
And while the city sleeps we go walking

It's a beautiful world
And when the city sleeps we go walking
We find a hole in the sky and then we start talking
And then we say "Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ
Buy us some time, buy us some time"
Hear what I'm saying
Can you hear what I'm saying?
Can you hear what I'm saying?
Can you hear what I'm saying?

It's gonna be alright


BUY IT IN BOTTLES

Baby come on, come on down
And love please don't make a sound
Let nature strike a chord
'Cos nature is the Lord that I depend

When you learn to cut it loose
All the things that've been drowning you
Let 'em slide from your hands
The foolish demands from the people round you

I know you can buy it in bottles and
I know you may find it with prayer
I know it all so very well

Until I get there then
I'll be looking for the sense
You can meet me where I am
And here I stand, and here I stay

I know you can buy it in bottles and
I know you may find it with pills
I know it all so very well

Stuck in this life where nothing changes
I'm born of man, I'm born of ages

I know you can buy it in bottles and
I know you may find it with prayer
I know it all so very well

I know you can buy it in bottles and
I know you may find it with pills I know it all so very well
Until I get there then
Until I get there then
Until I get there then
Until I get there then


BRIGHT LIGHTS

The bright lights of the big city
They taught us how to think, they taught us how to steal
Come on and steal me, steal me
You took your razor tongue to my lovin' eyes
You said "A time to live, now's the time to die"
Come on now die with me, die with me
Can't you see there must be more for me
You know you're livin' a lie
And so am I
You know I'd have a breakdown
But I don't have the time

I get up straight, I take my pill
I swallow it whole, I don't feel ill
It ain't a crime to live, it ain't a crime to die
It ain't a crime to walk in this big, big sky
Come on now walk with me, walk with me
Can't you see there must be more for me
You know you're livin' a lie
And so am I
I know you'd have a breakdown
But you don't have the time
And you're all messed up
Waiting for a sign
You want me to paint it
I haven't got the time

Take a ride with me

It ain't no crime to walk, it ain't no crime to fly
It ain't no crime to die, it ain't no crime to take a walk in
the big sky

The bright lights of the big city
They taught us how to think, they taught us how to see can you
(Twenty, twenty-first century breakdown)
Can't you see there must be more for me
You know you're livin' a lie
And so am I
I know you'd have a breakdown
But you don't have the time
And you're all messed up
Waiting for a sign
You want me to paint it
I haven't got the time
And it's making me crazy
I don't know where I fit
I guess in the end
We're all sick

Come on now ride with me, come on now ride with me
Come on now ride with me, come on now ride with me
Come on now ride with me, just take a ride with me
Twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty-first
Twenty twenty twenty twenty-first
Twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty
(The bright lights of the big city)
Twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty sound
(The bright lights of the big city)
Twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty vision
(The bright lights of the big city)
Come on now ride with me
Come on now ride with me


PARADISE

You're just like I was
So full of love, so full of love
I feel you're taking me back
To all those feelings of yesterday
Dark and dusty tracks

How long can I stay here?
How long can I pray here?

You know we meet in another space
You turn around and I see your face
Oh what a fruit, what a tree you shall be
You'll be fed by the mountains, fed by the streams

(Set a sail) Set a sail for paradise (We'll leave in the morning)
(Set a sail) Set a sail to paradise (We'll leave in the morning)

I know when I'm losing control
I play I am the cosmos
And let the feelings roll

How long can I stay here?
How long can I pray here?

You know we meet in another place
You turn around and I see your face
Oh and what a fruit, what a tree you shall be
You'll be fed by the mountains, the crystal streams
Then we go for a walk
We hold hands and start to talk
Oh what a fruit, what a tree this love will be
You'll be fed by the mountains, fed by me

Set a sail for paradise (Leave in the morning)
Set a sail for paradise (Leave in the morning)
Set a sail for paradise
Leave in the morning
We can leave in the morning

Leave in the morning (Set a sail)
Leave in the morning
Leave in the morning (Set a sail)


GOD IN THE NUMBERS

Sometimes you hold the world in your hands
Sometimes the world it baffles you with plans
Some days you drift oh so easy and free
Some nights you sleep in blissful harmony

How do we leave the wreakage of our lives?
How do you leave the past out in the night?
Don't throw away the pictures that give you a smile
Don't throw away the memories that make you cry

I saw God in the numbers
I saw God in the numbers
I saw God in the numbers
I saw God in the numbers

I know that I could learn a little harder
There's so much that I want to read and know
But maybe I'm a little lazy
Maybe I don't really want to know

I saw God in the numbers
I saw God in the numbers (I saw God in the numbers)
I saw God in the numbers
I saw God in the numbers (I saw God in the numbers)
I saw God in the numbers
I saw God in the numbers (I saw God in the numbers)
I saw God in the numbers
I saw God in the numbers (I saw God in the numbers)

The more I learn of history the more I hate it
'Cos we're repeating things we did a thousand years ago
We're building palaces of fortune in the sky
There's an underclass dying whilst we smile

I saw God in the numbers (I saw God in the numbers)
I saw God in the numbers (I saw God in the numbers)
I saw God in the numbers (I saw God in the numbers)
I saw God in the numbers (I saw God in the numbers)
I saw God in the numbers (I saw God in the numbers)
I saw God in the numbers (I saw God in the numbers)
God in the numbers (I saw God in the numbers)
I saw God in the numbers (I saw God in the numbers)

(I don't wanna
I don't wanna
I don't wanna)


SCIENCE OF SILENCE

We are on a rock, spinning silently
But I'm safe when you're here with me
These questions I'm asking, they've been haunting me
I need some security, can't you see?
Her love was like a fountain rushing and pouring down
The darkness is putting out the light in me
She's a well to be dug, she's a university
A cosmic library - wait and see

We are on a rock, spinning silently
Won't you get close to me
We are on a rock, spinning in infinity
Won't you get close to me

Is it my genes that have made me?
Is it the things I took, is it the things I said
Does karma rule?
Well if there's a God well can you hear me now?
I am crying out, hoping you know
And in my baby's arms I need no faith
I need no words to define myself
And when I'm holding you, light rushing through
I wanna make it now, safe and straight

We are on a rock, spinning silently
Baby get a hold of me
We are on a rock, spinning in infinity
Baby consoling me

Oh I don't know when the fear's going to end
I don't know if my prayers are received - the ones I send
(We are on a rock, spinning silently)
I can't live in pain and fear
(We are on a rock, spinning in infinity)
Oh I see so much joy and it makes me scared
(We are on a rock, spinning silently)
Oh I don't know if my prayers are received, until the end
(We are on a rock, spinning in infinity)
Oh I guess it ain't offet for you to pray for peace
Oh baby I don't know where I'm going
All I know is that I need you as a friend


MAN ON A MISSION

Hey, I heard you'd run away
But where you gonna run?
You got such a pretty face, and the world's a small, small place
'Cos when you're running on your own
You know you ain't like a rolling stone
Because a stone will find it's place
And when you hear this space
Just crawl and never run
And when you're work is done
Then you'll see the sun

So sing what you want I'm a man on a mission
No time to love, no time to be wasting
I wanna know if you feel above him
All the things you do that just make yourself feel undone, feel
undone

Blues, I heard you caught the blues
And what was it they said
Have you got out of bed, have you got out of that?
I know a headspace that you don't
I will - you cannot and you don't
A fortune has been made on all the illness they made
And then we've got to pay for the drugs to take it away
And then you're going to find there's nothing in your mind
That you don't already know, that you ain't already seen
Do you live in a dream?

Sing your song, and don't you cause trouble
Man on a mission there's a man in a bubble but
I wanna know if you feel above him
All the things you do that just make yourself feel undone, feel
undone

Sing your song, and don't you cause trouble
Man on a mission there's a man in a bubble and
Play your cards, throw your dice
You get a piece of land and a piece of advice

No time to be wasting there's no time to be wasted
No time to be wasting there's no time to get wasted
No time to be wasting always time to get wasted
No time to be wasting there's no time to get wasted

There's always time to get wasted (There's no time to waste)
There's always time to get wasted (There's no time to waste)
There's always time to get wasted (There's no time to waste)
There's always time to get wasted (There's no time to waste)
There's always time to get wasted (No time to waste)
There's always time to get wasted (No time to waste)
They've got me wasting time (No time to waste)
Got me wasting time (No time to waste)
They got me wasting time (No time to waste)
Got me wasting time (No time to waste)


RUNNING AWAY

Don't drink me I'm like turpentine
Make you blind, burn your insides
If I don't know me then I don't know you
Can't figure out what I'm supposed to do

I ain't running away from my mind this time
I ain't running away from my mind this time

There's a killer in me and a killer in you
A little talent but a lot would do
If I don't know me then I don't know you
I don't know why I do the things I do

I ain't running away from my mind this time
I ain't running away from my mind this time
I ain't running away from my mind this time
I ain't running away from my mind this time

Too stressed to eat, too tired to sleep
Alien to all you meet

It's the season of the witch, it's the season of the spin
And nobody knows what state we're in
It's the season of the witch, it's the season of the spin
And nobody knows the trouble we're in
It's the season of the witch, it's the season of the spin


LORD, I'VE BEEN TRYING

Lord, I've been trying
Trying to keep myself from crying
And it gets hard, there's no use denying
There's been some nights when I did a little lying

Sure feels like I've been here before
Yes it sure feels like I've been here before

Captain tell me where I've been,
Are there waves left there for me?
Is there something left to see?
Is there something left to be?
Oh I know that I'm holding on but I've got time to grow
Alright, alright, alright
Said it's alright, now

Days that I've been spending
And all these blues - they're never ending
And it gets hard, and life will go on again
Gonna shake off these blues, I'm leaving them now

Sure feels like I've been here before
Yes it sure feels like I've been here before

Captain tell me where I've been,
Are there waves left there for me?
Can you see the warning sign
Flashing there in my mind?
My mind is free and I'm talking up to you - I say
"Alright, alright, alright"

(I've been trying)
It feels good, it feels good, it feels good, it feels good, it feels good
(To keep my soul from crying)
My love is alright now,
(I've been trying)
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it feels right
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it
feels right


NATURE IS THE LAW

Old river and your
Restless wonder and your
Graceful leisure rolling to the sea
How many men have stood like I am
Gazing out and wishing for someone
Some are living and
Some are dead and
Some are hiding, waiting for the sun

Nature is the law, baby
Nature is the law, now baby now
Nature is the law, baby
Nature is the law, now baby now

The old river with your
Restless swagger and your
Graceful wonder flowing to the sea
I am begging you to hold me and throw me in and
Tell me when I will find my peace
Some are dead endings
Some are living and then
Some are waiting for the sun

Nature is the law, baby
Nature is the law, now baby now
Nature is the law, baby
Nature is the law, now baby now
Nature is the law, baby
Nature is the law, now baby now
Restless wonder roll into the sea
Nature is the law, baby
Nature is the law, now baby now
Restless wonder flow into the sea

Nature is the law, baby
Nature is the law, now baby now
Nature is the law, baby
Nature is the law, now baby now

Nature is the law, baby
Nature is the law, now baby now
Restless wonder roll into the sea
Nature is the law, baby
Nature is the law, now baby now
Restless wonder roll into the sea

Nature is the law, baby
Nature is the law, now baby now
Restless wonder flow into the sea
(Some are dead)
Nature is the law, baby
(Some are buried)
Nature is the law, now baby now
(Some are waiting)
Restless wonder roll into the sea

Nature is the law, baby
Nature is the law, now baby now
Restless wonder roll into the sea

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