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Mike Oldfield: Five Miles Out

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Virgin Records
Released: 1982.03.01
Time:
 50:03
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Mike Oldfield; Tom Newman
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.mikeoldfield.org
Appears with:
Purchase date: 1997.09.06
Price in €: 10,99



 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Taurus II (Mike Oldfield) - 24:49
[2] Family Man (Tim Cross) - 3:45
[3] Orabidoo (Tim Cross) - 3:03
[4] Mount Teidi (Mike Oldfield) - 4:10
[5] Five Miles Out (Mike Oldfield) - 4:17

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


MIKE OLDFIELD - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Vocals

MAGGIE REILLY - Vocals
MORRIS PERT - Percussion, Keyboards, String Arrangement on [5]
TIM CROSS - Keyboards
RICK FENN - Guitars
MIKE FRYE - Percussion
CARL PALMER - Percussion on [4]
PADDY MOLONEY - Uillean Pipes on [1]
GRAHAM BROAD - Drums on [5]
MARTYN FORD - Conductor on [5]

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


LP: 1982 UK (Virgin V 2222)
LP: 1982 US (Virgin/Epic ARE 37983)
CD: 1983 UK (Virgin CDV 2222)
CD: 1983 OZ (Axis 432 068-2/CDVAX 701632)

Mike had gained his pilot's licence in 1979, and a flying incident a year later provided the inspiration for the title song. In August 1980, Mike was piloting a twin-engined Piper Navajo over the Pyrenees mountain range in Spain when the aircraft was caught in a thunderstorm. "We were tossed about like a pancake and there was ice collecting on the propellers and rain on the windscreen and everybody was going aaargh!" he told an interviewer.

In the song "Orabidoo", you can hear the spoken words "Don't come in again like that". This is recorded from the Hitchcock filme "Young and Innocent". The full line, incidentally, is "Don't come again like that -- it isn't funny and I pay someone else to make the orchestration."



"To write lyrics you've got to have something to write about. Well, this time I had something to write about: my airplane theme. That's what the album's all about. Every time I go up in a small plane something terrible happens. One engine stops, we go into a thunderstorm or snowstorm, or we're surrounded by fog."

Mike Oldfield about this album



Oldfield was back into the extended-composition game with this album, continuing the "Taurus" series with the mammoth "Taurus II" an entertaining enough romp with references to Irish music, brass bands and Oldfield's beloved Morris. The true standout, though, was the title track, a paean to flying in bad weather that could easily double for Oldfield's feelings about the sort of monumental critical drubbing he was accustomed to receiving. "Family Man" became a huge worldwide hit for Hall Oates.

Steven McDonald, All-Music Guide
 

 L y r i c s


TAURUS II

Hush now baby made a start,
There's a jewel in your heart
And a star that shines for you,
Watching everything you do.
Don't you cry though it may seem
You were born into a dream.
There's another race to run,
You were not the only one.
Standing in the morning sun,
Waiting though it had begun,
May you never run aground
Or fall into the deep, deep sound.
Stormy weather turns to blue:
Here's a song to take with you


FAMILY MAN

She had a sulky smile,
She took a standard pose as she presented herself.
She had sultry eyes,
She made it perfectly plain that she was his for a price.

But he said, "Leave me alone, I'm a family man,
And my bark is much worse than my bite!"
He said, "Leave me alone, I'm a family man.
If you push me too far, I just might...."

She wore hurt surprise
As she re-checked her make-up to protect herself.
She showed less than pride,
She made it totally clear that she was his for a price.

But he said, "Leave me alone, I'm a family man,
And my bark is much worse than my bite!
Please just leave me alone, I'm a family man.
If you push me too far, I just might...."

She gave him her look
That would have worked on any other man in sight.
He could not mistake,
She wanted to go back with him and spend the night.

But he said, "Leave me alone, I'm a family man,
And my bark is much worse than my bite!
Please just leave me alone, I'm a family man.
If you push me too far, I just might...."

She turned, tossed her head and then
She started to make her final exit line.
She showed real disdain,
As if explaining again she could be his for a price.

But he said, "Leave me alone, I'm a family man,
And my bark is much worse than my bite!"
He said, "Leave me alone, I'm a family man.
If you push me too far, I just might...."

But he said, "Leave me alone, I'm a family man,
And my bark is much worse than my bite!"
He said, "Leave me alone, I'm a family man.
If you push me too far, I just might...."

But he said, "Leave me alone, I'm a family man,
And my bark is much worse than my bite!"
He said, "Leave me alone, I'm a family man.
If you push me too far, I just might...."

He said, "Leave me alone, I'm a family man,
And my bark is much worse than my bite!"
He said, "Leave me alone, I'm a family man.
If you push me too far, I just might!"


ORABIDOO

Watch the skys dawning on you,
Soaring over country land.
Message comes from Kathmandu:
Sky is blue and clear.
Program your outing.
Gaze at clouds in this window pane.
Where is your wish going?
The wind to control you at night.

[ Chorus ]

O
Orabibi
Orabibiba
Orabibi
Orabibaba
Orabibibabi

[ Repeat Chorus ]

Lazing in the sun, we glide.
Soon you come from watch.
Touched, you save me just in time,
Storm is out to catch.
Program your chartering.
Gaze at clouds in this window pane.
Stay patched through onto me.
Crawling into trouble, that's plain!

[ Repeat Chorus ]

[ Repeat Chorus ]

Watch out! Storms in Kathmandu.
Calling from country land.
Message comes from Kathmandu:
Sky is blue and clear.
Program your outing.
Watching now your system for rains.
Clouds: forty storeys!

(Don't come in again like that, it isn't funny,
And I pay someone else to make the orchestration!)

Oh, island of the soul,
Valleys hushed and white with snow.
Ireland's eye...
You'll linger with me 'til the day I die.
Oh, how it hurts to go.

The waters ebb and flow.
The changing seasons come and go.
Ireland's eye...
Forever reaching up into the sky,
Oh, how I'll miss you so.

The sunlight dancing on your rocky shores,
The moonlight playing upon the water.
Your memory will stay with me forever more,
Wherever I may roam.

Stay with my dreams, I will see you!
Safe in my heart I will keep you.


MOUNT TEIDI

Instrumental


FIVE MILES OUT

What do you do when your falling,
You've got 30 degrees and you're stalling out?
And it's 24 miles to your beacon;
There's a crack in the sky and the warning's out.

Don't take that dive again!
Push through that band of rain!

Five miles out,
Just hold your heading true.
Got to get your finest out.
You're Number 1, anticipating you.

Climbing out.
Just hold your heading true.
Got to get your finest out.
You're Number 1, anticipating you.

Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!
Calling all stations!
This is Golf-Mike-Oscar-Victor-Juliet
IMC CU.NIMB...icing,
In great difficulty, over.

The traffic controller is calling,
"Victor-Juliet, your identity.
I have you lost in the violent storm!
Communicate or squawk 'Emergency'!"

Don't take that dive again!
Push through that band of rain!

Lost in static, 18,
And the storm is closing in now.
Automatic, 18!
(Got to push through!) Trapped in living hell!

Your a prisoner of the dark sky,
The propeller blades are still!
And the evil eye of the hurricane's
Coming in now for the kill.

Our hope's with you,
Rider in the blue.
Welcome's waiting, we're anticipating
You'll be celebrating, when you're down and braking.

Climbing out.
(Climbing, climbing)
Five miles out.
(Climbing, climbing)

Five miles out,
Just hold your heading true.
Got to get your finest out....
(Climbing, climbing)

Five miles out,
Just hold your heading true.
Got to get your finest out....
(Climbing, climbing)

Climbing out.
Just hold your heading true.
Got to get your finest out....
(Climbing, climbing)

Five miles out,
Just hold your heading true.
Got to get your finest out....
(Climbing, climbing)

Climbing out.
Just hold your heading true.
Got to get your finest out....
(Climbing, climbing)

Climbing out.
Just hold your heading true.
Got to get your finest out....

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