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Chris Rea: Water Signs

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Magnet Records
Released: 1993
Time:
 55:33
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Chris Rea, Dave Richards
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.chrisrea.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2002.08.09
Price in €: 2,99



 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Nothing's Happening by the Sea (Ch.Rea) - 4:18
[2] Deep Water (Ch.Rea) - 4:10
[3] Candles (Ch.Rea) - 4:44
[4] Love's Strange Ways (Ch.Rea) - 3:39
[5] Texas (Ch.Rea) - 4:01
[6] Let It Loose (Ch.Rea) - 3:38
[7] I Can Hear Your Heartbeat (Ch.Rea) - 3:30
[8] Midnight Blue (Ch.Rea) - 4:53
[9] Hey You (Ch.Rea) - 4:02
[10] Out of the Darkness (Ch.Rea) - 3:29

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


CHRIS REA - Synthesizer, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals

CLAUDE NOBBS - Harmonica Solo on [1]
IAN HAWKINS - Bass on [2], Guitar on [2]
KEVIN LEECH - Saxophone Solo on [2]
DAVE RICHARDS - Percussion on [6], Drums on [6], Horn on [5], Sequencing

ROBERT AHWRY - Guitar
ADRIAN REA - Vocals
MARTIN DITCHAM - Percussion
DAVE MATTACKS - Drums
MAX MIDDLETON - Keyboards
EOGHAN O'NEILL - Bass

FINN COSTELLO - Photography
DANNY KLEINMAN - Hand Tinting
SHOT THAT TIGER - Design

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1983 LP Magnet 5084
1983 LP Teldec 25533
1998 CD Wea International 42372


There is an extremely interesting history to this album: When Rea approached the record company with his demo's for his latest album project - 'Watersign' - they showed very little interest at all... Eventually, the record company agreed to release it AS IS, and didn't promote the album at all. Rea actually said in interviews that after this album he considered packing the whole thing in and going to work in the family ice cream business! What you are hearing on this album is a rare 'peek' into Rea's music BEFORE the studio producers got to it. There is a reason why Chris gets the credits as main musician on this album: It's a DEMO album, recorded by him! For pure interest value alone, it's a worthy addition to your Rea catalogue. However, that's not to say that the music on this album ISN'T worth listening to-it most certainly is. The oh-so-beautiful Nothings Happening By Sea - gorgeous in it's laid back simplicity... Simply brilliant stuff... The record company are probably kicking themselves!!!
 

 L y r i c s


NOTHING'S HAPPENING BY THE SEA

Salty river
Falls asleep in the bay
Always gets there
Never early, never late

Nothing's happening
Nothing's happening by the sea

White waves tumble down
And gently roll back into blue
On wooden seats outside the bar
The couples make their rendezvous

Nothing's happening
Nothing's happening by the sea

The trouble has been found
There's too far ups and too many downs
I found a level that feels just right
There's no mistaking where I'm going tonight

Nothing's happening
Nothing's happening by the sea


DEEP WATER

All change on then merry go line
Everybody looking for a sign
Jumping up and down when the switch goes on
Nobody knows where it's coming from

I'm here watching, keeping well away
Oh I'm gonna live it in my own way
Singing no mister, not me
I'm staying here with guys on free
In deep water

I see a captain on a distant shore
He's got a dream, he wants to make it law
He's got my number, he's got a plan
He try to get you any way he can
Wants to own everything he sees
While I'm here, well he ain't with me
Singing no mister, no way
I got my own deep water
Deep, deep water


CANDLES

Faith for reasons still unknown
Like 'Bleak House fog' seems everywhere
The truth has frozen into stone
And hope lies freezing in the midnight air
Though dark our days may seem
This is a different dream
Their freedom light don't shine at all

So I will light a candle for you
Keep it burning in the night
And pray that you are all right
I will light a candle for you
Little candle burning bright

When school yard heroes disappeared
The little girl, she stands alone
Oh I believe you if you say
A prayer can help to get her home

So I will light a candle for you
Keep it burning in the night
And pray that you are all right
I will light a candle for you
Little candle burning bright


LOVE'S STRANGE WAYS

When passion shines her blinding light on you
You know my friend there's nothing that you can really do
Just follow on behind her veil of deepest purple haze
Down, to love's strange ways

Drowning in a laughter as you go
Intoxicating laughter that spins you high and low
Dangerous times are these, but oh so wonderfully new
Laugh along you fool, can't you they're laughing at you
Lost in the haze
Of love's strange ways

Ain't it funny how it turns
When it's all over, nothing's learned
Just a passion and a fool
And a memory that burns
And that's what you get
When you play with love's strange ways


TEXAS

Catch a sight of long lost summers
Catch a dream inside your hands
Take me where that lady comes from
Take me to that far off distant land
Rain comes pouring past my window
Turns my sky from blue to grey
I ain't never been to Texas
But I sure gonna meet that lady
One fine day

When Texas smiles around my bedroom
Who could ever turn her down
Tears of joy roll down my pillow
While cold north winds are blowing all around me
But I don't care, my dream is westbound
Far across that sky so grey

I ain't never been to Texas
But I sure gonna meet that lady
One fine day

She's my little Texas
My little Texas


LET IT LOOSE

There's no sense in waiting
So lets make a start
I got a poisoned finger
On a broken heart
Don't have time for reasons
Or feel inclined to quiz
The past is over
That's just the way it is

Start it up
Start it up
And let it loose on me
Let it loose on me

We could sit forever
Or we could take all night
Of the whys and where fores
Of the wrongs and rights
Crazy situation, anyhow
Turning on frustration
So tell me why not now

Let it loose on me

Start it up
Start it up
And let it loose on me
Let it loose on me


I CAN HEAR YOUR HEARTBEAT

In the silence of the side street
In the whisper of the night
From the darkness of the empty hours
To the early morning light
From the hustle down on main street
With all it's lights so bright
To the trucker on the highway
Pressing through the night

I can hear you heartbeat
I can hear you heartbeat
Girl, the sound of you is so sweet

I'm in a European disco
And it's thumping up the beat
There's a jukebox in a cafe‚
Where the younger ones can meet
We got freezing Coca-Cola
We got anything you want
I'm moving on that back beat
Girl, but it's you that sings the song

'Cos I can hear you heartbeat
I can hear you heartbeat
The sound of you is so sweet

And I'm sailing on your wind song
Oh, I can feel the summer breeze
You've got me walking on my tiptoes
You've got me standing on my knees
From the mills way down in Pittsburgh
To the clubs of gay Paris
No matter where I roam, girl,
You can always get to me

And I still hear your heartbeat
Yea I still hear your heartbeat
Girl, the sound of you is so sweet,
to me

And I still hear your heartbeat
Yea I still hear your heartbeat
Girl, the sound of you is so sweet,
to me


MIDNIGHT BLUE

I got my money
I got it here in my hand
OK let me tell you
This is how we stand
I've waited so long
Good things, never too late
So don't take no chances
Leave nothing to faith

I wanna walk tall in midnight blue
Look good, oh so good
Step out in midnight blue
Midnight blue

I watch the razors with their class and their style
Dressed to kill, man
Their lives is just one great big smile
And oh I wanna be there
When they dish that stuff out
Cool and collected
Man that's what it's all about

So gimme, gimme, gimme
I want midnight blue
I love midnight blue
I'm gonna step out in midnight blue
So gimme, gimme, gimme midnight blue
Midnight blue
I walk tall in midnight blue
Look good, oh so good
In midnight blue


HEY YOU

I'm stood out with my brother
On a tree lined avenue
I see the sweetest little creature
Coming into my view
And I say to myself, I say man I'm gonna get me some
Of that bright little angel
That shines like the morning sun
Well my brother steps in, faster that light
And he sweet talks this angel, clean out of sight

I say hey you, you with that look in your eye
Hey you, you with that look in your eye

Well she moves like a river
From her head down to her toes
It's less a way of walking
More a total flow
And I say to myself, I wonder
I wonder if she knows
What she's doing to me and my brother
From our heads down to our toes
Well he's up there on the corner now
He's playing up that Romeo like only he know how

I say hey you, you with that look in your eye
Hey you, you with that look in your eye
Hey you, you that make the stars shine
Hey you, you with that look in your eye


OUT OF THE DARKNESS

There's an empty street in an empty town
There's an old boutique selling ageing gowns
Some words on the walls that were written
By the light of the moon so bright

Can you hear me, can you her me tonight
Take me out of this darkness and in to the morning light

The rain that falls doesn't make me cry
And the wind that blows cannot hurt my eyes
But the things that I see when I turn on TV
Make me wanna lie down and die

Can you hear me, can you her me tonight
Take me out of this darkness and in to the morning light
Can you hear me
Take me out of this darkness and in to the morning light
 

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