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Cat Stevens: New Masters

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Decca Records
Released: 1967.06.30
Time:
 53:49
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Mike Hurst
Rating: ****...... (4/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.catstevens.com and www.yusufislam.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2001.10.06
Price in €: 6,99



 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Kitty (C.Stevens) - 2:23
[2] I'm So Sleepy (C.Stevens) - 2:24
[3] Northern Wind (C.Stevens) - 2:51
[4] The Laughing Apple (C.Stevens) - 2:39
[5] Smash Your Heart (C.Stevens) - 3:02
[6] Moonstone (C.Stevens) - 2:18
[7] The First Cut Is the Deepest (C.Stevens) - 3:03
[8] I'm Gonna Be King (C.Stevens) - 2:30
[9] Ceylon City (C.Stevens) - 2:29
[10] Blackness of the Night (C.Stevens) - 2:31
[11] Come on Baby (Shift That Log) (C.Stevens) - 3:52
[12] I Love Them All (C.Stevens) - 2:12
[13] Image of Hell (C.Stevens) - 3:08
[14] Lovely City (C.Stevens) - 2:43
[15] The View from the Top (C.Stevens) - 3:36
[16] Here Comes My Wife (C.Stevens) - 3:00
[17] It's a Super (Dupa) Life (C.Stevens) - 2:54
[18] Where Are You (C.Stevens) - 3:03
[19] A Bad Night (C.Stevens) - 3:11

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


CAT STEVENS - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer

MIKE HURST - Arranger
NOEL WALKER - Reissue Producer
MIKE VICKERS - Music Direction
PHIL DENNYS - Music Direction
DAVID WHITA KER - Music Direction
ALAN TEW -Music Direction
ARTHUR GREENSLADE - Music Direction
IVOR RAYMONDE - Music Direction
LEW WARBURTON - Music Direction
ANTHONY HAWKINS - Remastering
JOHN TRACY - Liner Notes, Coordination, Compilation, Research
JULIE THOMPSON - Assistant Coordinator

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1968 LP Deram DES-18010
1989 CD Deram 820 767
1990 CD Deram 820767



Liner Notes

With three British hit singles, "I Love My Dog (Song)" (No. 28), "Matthew & Son (Song) (Album)" (2) and "I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun (Song)" (6), plus "Matthew & Son" the LP (7) to his credit, along with successful covers of the self-penned "Here Comes My Baby (Song)" and "The First Cut Is The Deepest (Song) (Album)" from "The Tremeloes" and "P.P. Arnold" respectively by mid-1967, it could be fairly stated that Cat Stevens (Bio) had 'arrived' in triumphant style.

That little bundle of goodies had taken barely eight months to accumulate. Stevens was touring quite heavily in support of his vinyl outpourings, but naturally time was set aside to ensure the maestro could begin commiting his next batch of songs to posterity. As the "Matthew & Son" album was descending the best-sellers ladder, our former Stephen Demetri Georgiou was whisked into Deram's London studios to imprint his fourth 45. On July 3rd "A Bad Night," "The Laughing Apple (Song)," and "Moonstone (Song)" were left on an oxide strips the former brace of which would be coupled together as DM 140 and rush-released at home on the 28th of the month. August 2nd witnessed its entry into the British charts to initiate an 8 weeks run destined to peak at 20. Although they had not yet gained any action on Billboard's Hot 100 with Stevens' product, sister company Deram (London) Records U.S.A. reciprocated with an identical coupling under order number 45-85015. Sadly, it didn't break the duck. Whereas thus far Alan Tew (Bio) had been Musical Director on all Cat's sessions, Arthur Greenslade waved the baton on "A Bad Night" and a whole selection of M.D.'s would be utilized during the remainder of Stevens' time with Deram. Phil Dennys stepped into the breach for a one track date on September 24th as "Come on Baby (Shift That Log)" was attempted, but nobody was happy with the result and the master was scrapped. An agreeable rendition occured on October 4th, although a second number, "SING!," was wiped and never re-cut for us.

The following day "I Love Them All (Song)" and "The First Cut Is the Deepest" were popped into the vaults, to be complemented shortly afterwards on uncertain dates by "Kitty (Song)/I'm So Sleepy (Song)" and thence "Ceylon City (Song)."

November 3rd yielded "Northern Wind (Song)," "Blackness Of The Night (Song)," and another track for which the tape was erased and the performance never repeated, "My Motorbike." With the execution of two further opus's, "Smash Your Heart (Song)" and "I'm Gonna Be King (Song)," possibly both cut some time earlier at an outside location but not delivered to Deram until that November, the contents of an album were intact.

"Kitty/Blackness of the Night" were coupled as a taster of things to come, U.K. issue as DM 156 being set for December 1st, but after nudging into our Top 50 on the 20th at number 47, unfortunately it promptly dissappeared. Uncle Sam's similar venture, 45-7518, failed to trouble American chart compilers.

Undaunted by the relative impotence of the single however, Cat's second long-player, christened "New Masters (Album)," slipped into the racks over the Christmas period in Blighty (DML (MONO)/SML (Stereo) 1018), while stateside the temptation to once again amend a track listing was this time resisted by our cousins. Across the water ordering DE 16010 (Mono) or DES 18010 (Stereo) aquired any purchaser an exact replica of the British LP. Regretably there was no place for the disc on sales barometers either side of the big pond way back when, although in 1971, following this son of a restauranteur's worldwide breakthrough with later sets, a double album package of the "Matthew & Son/New Masters" collections notched 12 weeks on the U.S. Top 200 for a high of 173. January '72 would see a new compilation, titled "Very Young And Early Songs (Album)" (DES 18061), compound the victory as it headed northward to 94 during a 10 weeks stop over. Just thought you might like to know...

For Compact Disc purposes the original 12-track vinyl outing has been suffixed with a bonus seven titles, thereby offering Cat's entire Deram output recorded between the first session that concerns us here, July 3rd 1967, and the expiry of his contract In 1969. With the "Matthew & Son" CD issued In 1988 (820 560-2), this makes available on five inch silver metal Cat Stevens entire catalogue for Deram. But to return to 1967...

The year's end saw him become Britain's 7th best-selling male singles artist, and early in the new campaign readers of a well known pop music paper voted Cat "The Brightest Hope For 1968..." He slipped into our microphoned portals for another two track liaison which resulted in "Lovely City (When Do You Laugh?)/Image Of Hell (Song)," although regretably once more the exact date of this endeavour is uncertain. Unveiled as DM 178 on February 23rd '68, the record failed to click and America decided against alloting machinery and manpower to it. An excellent couple of songs, they were perhaps rather too complex to make headway in the instant and ultracommercial singles market.

Far more important than this minor hiccup though was a downward turn in Stevens health. He contracted tuberculosis and was virtualty sidelined from the industry for almost two years. On September 9th he managed to cut three titles: "The View From The Top (Song) (Album)," "Here Comes My Wife (Song)," and the ironically appellated "It's a Super (Dupa) Life," the latter duo etched back-to-back as DM 211 on October 18th (U.K. only). With little promotion and their protagonist unable to make personal appearances, it inevitably flopped.

March 14th, 1969 gave rise to another ultimately abortive get together, as a third title he would not repeat, "Younger Generation (Song)," and a first crack at "Where Are You (Song)" were both rejected. A few weeks later Cat re-worked just "Where Are You" and with its completion ended his Deram association. This was released, with "The View From The Top" for company, on June 13th 1969 (DM 260, U.K. Only). It was his last official release prior to various later re-packages, and sadly sank without trace. Completists may be pleased to know that in the early Seventies, to coincide with their revived album activity, Deram U.S.A. effected a seven incher of "Where Are You/Kitty" as 45-85079. Although failing to chart, its intended function as a viable sampler was certainly achieved.

Confined to a nursing home for some time, Stevens worked on a new set of songs with a radically different sound - he had been trying to add a more 'classical' element to his scribblings of late - and the results formed "Mona Bone Jakon (Album)" (1970). Once recovered he recorded his recent handiwork and secured a deal with Island Records (US: A&M), beginning a phase which would make him one of the Seventies most significant singer/songwriters. The unusual themes he'd always preferred, like his voice, matured and became even more imaginative. His lyrics more incisive. A stream of yellow metal-awarded albums accured, including "Tea For The Tillerman (Song) (Album)" (1970), "Teaser And The Firecat (Book) (Album)" (71), "Catch Bull at Four (Album)" (72), "Foreigner (Album)" (73) and "Buddah and the Chocolate Box" (74), glided by singles successes such as the haunting "Lady D'Arbanville (Song)" (1970), "Morning Has Broken (Song) (Album)" (71), "Can't Keep It In (Song)" (72) and "Another Saturday Night (Song)" (74). He even found time to score a film, Paramount's Bud Cort (Bio) and Ruth Gordon (Bio) starring black comedy, "Harold And Maude (Video) (Album)" (1971).

Attracted even more towards eastern mysticism his music gained in complexity, and for a while he became a tax exile in Brazil, opting to give away large quantities of his earnings to charities, including U.N.E.S.C.O., rather than donate it to the government of Britain. Of special interest to him was the welfare of children, and he initiated a trust named "Hermes" to help youngsters in need.

Yet for all he could, and did, give to others, Stevens own life was somehow a vacuum. In the Eighties he recalled events which had changed his entire outlook as the previous decade closed for journalist Mark Palmer: "In my career I suppose I had done everything I wanted to do. I began looking for something better and so started seeking by reading books and really looking for my religious identity." He found the peace he sought by adopting the Muslim faith in 1979, and changing his name once more, this time to Yusuf Islam (Bio).

In no time he'd disposed of all his material personal possesions, musical instruments included, and during 1983 founded the "Islamia Primary School" in a former triple story family house in Kilburn, London. Physically, wearing grey robes and sandles, he is almost unrecognizable now as the one time idol of millions around the globe, instead he has the respect of those who know him and the depths of his beliefs. Amazingly, for an institution whose benefactor and overseer made his name with synchopation, there is no harmonic tuition for its pupils beyond the singing of nasheeds - Islamic nursery rhymes.

Has Yusuf Islam any regrets about the passing of Cat Stevens? Apparently not: "I don't look back with any sense of loss. Art and music aren't the essence of life. They are ornamental, but people need this ornament when something substantial is missing from their lives. When you are satisfied with your life and your faith, these things diminish in importance and that's really what happened to me. Today people need some kind of prop to boost their emotions and their feelings because they are frustrated by a modern lifestyle and its pressures. Whatever I did, I did it to the best of my ability with as much honesty as I could. I tried to be honest, but it wasn't always possible in the music business. You had to keep the records selling." Selling records was something Stevens did very well, and his legacy continues to do so today. One of the most observent of all artists, his often fragile, delicate arrangements, tuneful melodies and pointed lyrics still bring tears to the eyes or smiles to the faces of many who are unable to express similarly felt emotions with such clarity. This package goes back to re-discover once more the formative creation of a great musical talent. Then his name was Cat Stevens.

John Tracey



Cat Stevens' first career proved short-lived as this, his second album, failed to chart in the U.K. when it was released at the end of 1967. The album contained Stevens' fifth—and lowest—charting single, "Kitty" (#47), but in retrospect is best remembered for "The First Cut Is The Deepest," a #18 U.K. hit for P.P. Arnold prior to the album's release and since then a hit for Rod Stewart.

William Ruhlmann - All Music Guide
© 1992 - 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



New Masters shows a young Cat Stevens evolving.

New Masters will give a whole new perspective to those fans of Cat Stevens who have never before listened to material of his pre A&M releases. Following the highly successful Mathew and Son released in 1967, New Masters represents an artist whose musical direction was being disuaded somewhat by those who sought to keep in tradidtion with the commercial success of Mathew and Son. The opening track of New Masters, Kitty, lends somewhat to the rantings of I'm gonna get Me a Gun with its vengeful I told you so attitude. Though similar in meaning to the almost cartoonish spitefulness of I'm gonna get Me a Gun, Kitty presents a darker aspect and culminates more dramatically. I'm so Sleepy could well be a song that one could sing to their child. Definately a lullaby with its music box-like instrumentation and gentle chordal arrangement. Nothern Wind is a haunting tale with passages that swell like the waves on which these troubled seafarers ride. It has a Celtic quality about it and is really a very interesting piece. Two of the songs on New Masters could have well been written for the sole purpose of capturing that silly wonderment of childhood in all its make believe and imaginary friends. The Laughing Apple is a prime example of Cat's ability to foster to the workings of a softer means-The song however, being almost too cheesy for its own good remains somewhat obscure. Moonstone is a fun little tale in all its adventuresome wanderings but also seems to come up short. Smash Your Heart is somewhat Beatlesque in stature. A fine song by standard it replicates the sentiments of a man whose heart for its namesake has been broken. Cat's own rendition of the hit The first Cut is the Deepest appears on this album testifying to his prowess as a songwriter. His vocal take on The first Cut is very powerful and moving. The musical score has a soulful movement which captures your ears and puts the rhythm down. I'm gonna be King has a Sinatra-sort of ring to it. Again, one of the lesser known Cat Stevens songs. Ceylon City is a happy-go-lucky tune which joyfully parades down the main streets of a young mans home town. It has a catchy get up and go that makes you feel almost too care free. More of a folk song than anything else on New Masters, Blackness of the Night has a Whiter Shade of Pale sound to it with its driving organ and tightly configured drumbeats. The song makes more of a political statement. It's a great song. Come on Baby (Shift that Log) is somewhat of a rave-up and contains a chanting monk-like rhythm which eventually blows up into this massive barrage of stripteased fanfare. This song has a nice string arrangement as do many early works by Cat Stevens. I Love them All could well be the anthem to someones highschool reunion. It contains more spirited energy than you could shake a pom pom at If your into that peppy sort of thing. What really compliments the New Masters album though is the addition of seven tracks not issued on the original vinyl. Supplemented for this CD and combined with the Mathew and Son CD, this represents all of Cat Stevens' recordings issued under Deram between 1966 and 1969. Songs like Lovely City, It's a Super (Dupa) Life and Here Comes my Wife seem to cast a shadow over the pop-like entrapments of his beginnings with Deram. Image of Hell is a simple heartfelt blues number with simple lyrics. It glides beautifully over a piano and lands hard upon the floor all in three minutes and three seconds. The View from the Top is an introspective number which I believe sums up all the frustration and pain which Stevens was dealing with at the time. It's a wonderful song with a big wide open arrangement and an ending which climaxes in fevered guitar soloing which eventually fades into what seems to be the past. Where are You represents the last song Stevens recorded for Deram. It ends his contract with the company and leaves him to forge a new. A beautiful song with Spanish influenced chording. It leaves you destined to tears and hopeful all the same. A track from 1967 ends the New Masters album. A Bad Night downplays the sort of seriousness conveyed in some of the other songs and brings the album to a catchy end. All in all I would have to rate this album 4 stars due simply to the fact that it contains not only the original track listing but because it includes the seven extra tracks which clearly show Cat evolving. It shows a young Stevens about to disappear and re-emerge as one of the worlds most gifted and successful artists of all time.

rodarte
 

 L y r i c s


KITTY

I work in the mornin', I work in the night
the men on the block, they just laugh at me
I work in the mornin', I work in the night
the men on the block, they just laugh at me

But when they're wiping their silver spoons
palming the men for some bread,
I'll be laughing
Way, way out of my head!

When my little kitty gets out,
there's gonna be a party, a party no doubt
When my little kitty gets out
there's gonna be a party

And if my mind isn't coming so fast
the men on the block say I'm on the brink
And if my mind isn't coming so fast
and I aint so dumb as some people think

'Cause when they're wiping their silver spoons
palming the men for some bread
I'll be laughing, way way out of my head


I'M SO SLEEPY

I'm so sleepy, yeah
I'm so sleepy, yeah
I could lay my head on a piece of lead
and imagine it was a springy bed
'cause I'm sleepy, sleepy

soon I'm gonna slip away
in the night I feel it creeping, creeping, creeping

I'm so sleepy yeah
I'm so sleepy yeah
I could lay my head on a piece of lead
and imagine it was a springy bed
'cause i'm sleepy, sleepy

I can't keep my mind away from my dreams,
I hear them calling, calling, calling
Soon I'm gonna slip away
Soon I'm gonna slip away
Soon I'm gonna slip away
in the night I'm gonna slip away
I wont fight it, I'll just ride it

I'm so sleepy yeah
I'm so sleepy yeah
I could lay my head on a piece of lead
and imagine it was a springy bed
'cause I'm sleepy, sleepy
yeah


NORTHERN WIND

There is a wind, my Billy, and it's awful strong
Come for you, and anyone who's helped you along.

But I want to live, live, live and let the stars shine bright
yes, I want to live, live, live and let it on alright

And when that bird sings from over that silver wall
I don't want to fight it, Billy, 'cause i want to go

There's a Northern wind, Billy, blowin' up a southern change
and a Northern wind really makin' me feel kinda strange
there's a Northern wind, Billy, blowin' up a southern change
and a Northern wind really makin' me feel kinda strange

And with this gun goes everything I want to say
Not for you, but for anyone who takes it away
Let it fill his life, life, life until there's nothing left
Let it kill his wife, wife, wife until he goes to bed

And when that bird sings from over that silver wall
I don't want to fight it, Billy, 'cause I want to go

There's a Northern wind, Billy, blowin' up a southern change
and a Northern wind really makin' me feel kinda strange
there's a Northern wind, Billy, blowin' up a southern change
and a Northern wind really makin' me feel kinda strange


THE LAUGHING APPLE

Slowly let me tell you a story of a tree
an apple tree,

Once in a summertime garden lived a little apple tree
and the man who owned it wanted it to be picked
so he sent forth to hire me

Well, I've travelled the mountains, and I've travelled the sea
but a never in my travelling days
have I ever seen a little apple smile at me!

Laugh, oh laugh a little apple
Autumn is waitin', you'd better be careful,
For it will bring you down
if it ever sees you wearing a frown

so laugh, laugh a little apple

Well all the apples were hidin'
Frightened that they might be plucked
and everytime that somebody passed
all except that one little apple ducked

Well, I've travelled the mountains, and i've travelled the sea
but a never in my travelling days
have I ever seen a little apple smile at me!

Laugh, oh laugh a little apple
Autumn is waitin', you'd better be careful,
For it will bring you down
if it ever sees you wearing a frown

so laugh, laugh a little apple


SMASH YOUR HEART

You cut me deep,
but now i'm gonna see you weep, yeah
this broken man
is gonna do the best he can, yeah

I'll see you pay, before I give you my heart
baby I'll do without
There'll come a day
when I'll smash your heart
and then turn away

You played with me like a toy
and a little baby
After I broke
you just didn't want to know, yeah

I'll see you pay, before I give you my heart
baby I'll do without
There'll come a day
when I'll smash your heart
and then turn away

My time will come,
and you'll know when it's begun, yeah

You'll know because
you're gonna be just where i was, yeah

I'll see you pay, before I give you my heart
baby I'll do without
There'll come a day
when I'll smash your heart
and then turn away


MOONSTONE

Well, first I have to tell you that I'm not insane
and that once I was a famous archaeologist {named}
{who ran} a recent expedition in a distant land
I just happened to passin' my hand in the sand

and then I stopped, looked, and then I was hooked

I saw a flash, then a sparkle from a moonstone
then the mist started, started to clear
I saw a face, a face in the moonstone
then it started to disappear

well, I walked and walked and never talked
for many days
and without a friend the desert is a lonely place
I was just about to turn around and make way home
when something told me that i had to see it again

Avuray....etc.


THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST

I would have given you all of my heart
but there's someone who's torn it apart
and she's taking almost all that I've got
but if you want, I'll try to love again
baby I'll try to love again but I know

The first cut is the deepest, baby I know
The first cut is the deepest
'cause when it comes to being lucky she's cursed
when it comes to lovin' me she's worst
but when it comes to being loved she's first
that's how I know

The first cut is the deepest, baby I know
The first cut is the deepest

I still want you by my side
just to help me dry the tears that I've cried
cause I'm sure gonna give you a try
and if you want, I'll try to love again
but baby, I'll try to love again, but I know

The first cut is the deepest, baby I know
The first cut is the deepest

'Cause when it comes to being lucky she's cursed
when it comes to lovin' me she's worst
but when it comes to being loved she's first
that's how I know

The first cut is the deepest, baby I know
The first cut is the deepest


I'M GONNA BE KING

I've been pushed around
made to look a clown
but now, now I know
it is time for me to start to grow

I'm gonna be king
I'm gonna see things right
I'm gonna be king
and you will be my bride

I'll show everyone
that my time will come
If you wait for me
I will show the world what I can be

I'm gonna be king
I'm gonna see things right
I'm gonna be king
and you will be my bride

Love does funny things
and to me it brings
strength to carry through
and to make my name a pride to use

I'm gonna be king
I'm gonna see things right
I'm gonna be king
and you will be my bride


CEYLON CITY

I'm going home to the town where I was born
where little children laughed as they sang
a happy song
in the little town of Ceylon,
Ceylon city, Ceylon city

I've got a boat , I hope it's still afloat
with rusty sails, and an old wooden oar
It goes along, in the little town of Ceylon

Ceylon City.....

My daddy will be waiting there
My sister will be combing down her silver hair
My mamma will be waiting there
serving lunch to my brother, but he's nowhere

Ceylon City....


BLACKNESS OF THE NIGHT

In the blackness of the night
I seem to wander endlessly
with a hope burning out deep inside
I'm a fugitive, community has driven me out
For this bad, bad world I'm beginning to doubt
I'm alone and there is no one by my side

In the blackness of the night
I see a shadow passing by
from the heels of an old soldier boy.
There's no comprimising
and his eyes are black as the sky
For this bad, bad world he is going to die.
He's alone and there is no one by his side

In the blackness of the night
I see a sparkle of a star
from the sweet silver tear of a child
and she's clutching at a photograph of long, long ago
When her parents were happy she was too young to know
she's alone and there is no one by her side

I'm alone and there is no one by my side

In the blackness of the night
I seem to wander endlessly
with a hope burning out deep inside
I'm a fugitive, community has driven me out
For this bad, bad world I'm beginning to doubt
I'm alone, and there is no one by my side


COME ON BABY (SHIFT THAT LOG)

Why don't you come over?
It's lonely at the wooden lodge
Why don't you come and see our baby?
You haven't seen her for so long

Come on baby, shift that log
Come on baby, wash that dog
Give me all the love you've got, to me
Come on baby, shift that log
Come on baby, wash that dog
Give me all the love you've got, to me

There in the back woods
we had our little piece of land
but everything wasn't so groovy
Not when you had to dirty your hands

Come on baby, shift that log
Come on baby, wash that dog
Give me all the love you've got, to me
Come on baby, shift that log
Come on baby, wash that dog
Give me all the love you've got, to me

It's lonely at the wooden lodge
So why don't you share my bed

Come on baby, shift that log
Come on baby, wash that dog
Give me all the love you've got, to me
Come on baby, shift that log
Come on baby, wash that dog
Give me all the love you've got, to me


I LOVE THEM ALL

While lookin' into my drawer only yesterday
you know, the things that I saw made me cry
I saw the pictures and letters,
I should have known better
than to try to deny

I love them all
I love them all
and if they came again
I'd do the same again
'cause I'm that kind of a guy

And as I walked through the park where we used to play
you know, the bench and the tree are still there
And the pictures that you did,
why am I so stupid?
They wont ever disappear

I love them all
I love them all
and if they came again
I'd do the same again
'cause I'm that kind of a guy


IMAGE OF HELL

You left me wearing nothing but a shell
You left me wearing nothing but a shell
This feeling you've left me,
is the image of hell

I thought that you loved me
Ah, but then I never could tell
I thought that you loved me
but then I never could tell
This feeling you left me
is the image of hell

If you loved me like you said that you did
Oh, then darling you couldn't have done the things
that you did
You walk by my door, but you don't ring my bell
You walk by my door, but you don't ring my bell
This feeling you've left me, is the image of hell


LOVELY CITY (WHEN DO YOU LAUGH)

Lovely city, when do you laugh?
Stoney people, what do you have?

Well, you ride around on a bright shiny cloud
and you think that you've found true happiness
there's no method in your mind
and your tempers are kind
is it too much to ask to give it a rest?

Lovely city, when do you laugh?
Stoney people , what do you have?

I'm a part of you, you don't wanna be
I'm an unexpected visitor who's dropped in for tea
but I'm not so low you don't even know that I'm here
You can't even see

Lovely city, when do you laugh?
Stoney people, what do you have?


THE VIEW FROM THE TOP

The view from the top can be oh so very lonely
and you can be missing such a lot that could be yours

Why can't I stop forgetting myself?
Why am I always trying to be like somebody else
Why can't I love you?
Why bother flying high above you
I know where you are

The view from the top can be oh so very lonely
and you can be missin' such a lot that could be yours

And who's going to miss me?
there'll only be myself to blame
you know I'd love to hold you tight
and love you all the night
but I don't even know ...my name

La la la da la ....

Why can't I stop forgetting myself?
Why am I always trying to be like somebody else?
Why can't I love you?
Why bother flying high above you
I know where you are

The view from the top can be oh so very lonely
and you can be missin' such a lot that could be yours


HERE COMES MY WIFE

Well here comes my wife
and that's the story of my life
she haunts me though she don't want me
She follows badly in disguise
but it's not hard to recognize her 'cause she's cryin'
She looks like dyin' on me

Her father's rich, I think a millionaire
but money doesn't make him better
it just makes him better to be there
So, you can tell him that its quite alright with me
no no, it's quite alright with me

Well here comes my wife
and that's the story of my life
she haunts me though she don't want me
She follows badly in disguise
but it's not hard to recognize her 'cause she's cryin'
she looks like dyin' on me

See that shadow dancin' on the floor
She's coming up behind me
How I'd love to tell her she's a bore,
but I tell her that it's quite alright, no no, it's quite alright with me

Well here comes my wife
and that's the story of my life
she haunts me though she don't want me
She follows badly in disguise
but it's not hard to recognize her 'cause she's cryin'
she looks like dyin' on me.....
oooh oohh


IT'S A SUPER (DUPA) LIFE

See the funny little people running 'round in circles
throwing bombs as they do
See the funny side of it
they're heading straight for you

See the funny little holes they're making
looking like craters on the moon
See the funny side of it
we'll be living in them soon

But it's a super life, a super dupa dupa life we live
yes it's a super life, a super dupa dupa life we live
but it's getting pretty near the end
cause with a super life you will borrow everything you lend
so there's never anything to spend
you're broke, you dope you

See the funny little flying saucers we found
painted up just for you
see the funny man inside
his color matches too

See the silly little camera he loves
shooting pictures with all day
see the funny side of it
his friends are on their way

But it's a super life, a super dupa dupa life we live
yes it's a super life, a super dupa dupa life we live
but it's getting pretty near the end
cause with a super life you will borrow everything you lend
so there's never anything to spend
you're broke, you dope you

Baby it's a super life, a super dupa dupa life we live
Yes it's a super life, a super dupa dupa life we live


WHERE ARE YOU

I know I think a lot
but somehow it just doesn't help
it only makes it worse

The more I think
The more I know
the more it hurts

With only solitude to meet me like a friend
oh, where are you?
where are you ? where are you?

Maybe she sits alone
beyond the storm
across the raging torrent of the sea
she knows I want her
and she knows I'll always be...
How can I live without the love I cannot see
Oh where are you?
where are you ?
where are you?

oooooooohhhh

I know there's someone there
I hear her breathe
behind the silence of the dark
but I know that I wont see
'til we open up our eyes together
She'll look at me
What a moment that moment will be!

And she looks so light
I could fly her through the night

oooh

I know I think a lot
but somehow it just doesn't help
it only goes to show
that what you never miss
you never know
but I have loved you from the moment that we knew
oh, I love you
I love you
but where are you?


A BAD NIGHT

Baby, you're cool
And even though you've never been to school
I know you're fine
but then you change your mind
Then you start on driftin'
and fall on behind

You've been my girl
You've been mine
all of the time

A bad night
its gonna be
A bad night
I guarantee
tonight I'll have
A bad night
I know I shall

ah, 'cause you left me waiting in the corner
and i know you're never gonna come back for me
and though you said you loved me
and said you needed all of my love
a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad night
its gonna be

A bad night
it's gonna be
A bad night
I guarantee
tonight I'll have
A bad night
I know I shall

Maybe if the weather was just a little better
it might not have happened that way
but the situation was gettin' pretty bad, bad
A bad bad bad bad bad night it's gonna be

A bad night
it's gonna be
A bad night
I guarantee
tonight I'll have
A bad night
I know I shall
I know I shall

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