Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)

DAYS ARE NUMBERS (THE TRAVELLER)
(The Alan Parsons Project)

The traveller is always leaving town
He never has the time to run around
And if the road he’s taken isn’t leading anywhere
He seems to be completely unaware

The traveller is always leaving home
The only kind of life he’s ever known
When every moment seems to be
A race agains the time
There’s always one more mountain left to climb

Days are numbers
Watch the stars
We can only see so far
Someday, you’ll know where you are
Remember
Days are numbers
Count the stars
We can only go so far
One day, you’ll know where you are

The traveller awaits the morning tide
He doesn’t know what’s on the other side
But something deep inside of him
Keeps telling him to go
He hasn’t found a reason to say no

The traveller is only passing through
He cannot understand your point of view
Abandoning reality, unsure of what he’ll find
The traveller in me is close behind

Days are numbers
Watch the stars
We can only see so far
Someday, you’ll know where you are
Remember
Days are numbers
Count the stars
We can only go so far
One day, you’ll know where you are

Catatan :

Album : Vulture Culture, 1984
Lead vocal : Chris Rainbow
Bass : David Paton
Drums and percussion : Stuart Elliot
Guitars : Ian Bairnson
Pianos : Eric Woolfson
Synthesizers and saxophone : Richard Cottle
Fairlight programming : Alan Parsons
Oral rendition : Mr. Laser Beam

Crystal Gazing

CRYSTAL GAZING
(Mike Oldfield)

Watching for a spark, it’s a moonlight show
Reaching through the dark. Do you have to go?
Try to put a message through to your sweetheart
Won’t you like to know the secrets of the heart?

[Chorus]

Crystal gazing, crystal gazing
What you gonna find in crystal gazing?
Crystal gazing, crystal gazing
What you gonna find in crystal gazing?

Voices in the dark and the lights burn low
Teach yourself the art that you never know
Try to put a message through to your sweetheart
Won’t you like to know the secrets of the heart?

[Repeat Chorus]

Pictures from the night, would you be my guide?
What you talk about on the other side
Carry you a message through from your sweetheart
Won’t you like to know the secrets of the heart?

[Repeat Chorus]

Watching for a spark, it’s a moonlight show
Reaching through the dark. Do you have to go?
Try to put a message through to your sweetheart
Won’t you like to know the secrets of the heart?

Watching for a spark, it’s a moonlight show
Reaching through the dark. Do you have to go?

Catatan :

Album : Discovery and The Lake, 1984
Vocals : Maggie Reilly
All instruments : Mike Oldfield
Drums and percussion : Simon Philips

Midnight Sun

MIDNIGHT SUN
(Asia)

As far as the eye could see
From the horizon to infinity
Static forces down the line
Connecting voices talking rhymes

Can’t decode nor can define
The signal’s perfect indicates a sign

Midnight sun
Guiding light
Take the eye
Go skimming
Across the sky

(Chorus)

As far as the eye could see
Communications were all down
Connecting voices in the air
New formations moving sound

Then came what I could nor explain
I felt a hand, turned ‘round and saw a face

Midnight sun
Guiding light
Take the eye
Go skimming
Across the sky

(Chorus)

Midnight sun…

Catatan :
Album : Alpha
Music and lyrics : Wetton/Downes
Bass guitar and vocals : John Wetton
Keyboards : Geoffrey Downes
Guitars : Steve Howe
Drums and percussion : Carl Palmer

Living A Lie

LIVING A LIE
(Babe Ruth)

Here the last, what do you see
There only even know, how way feel
Ooo, so many times, I feel like
She comes by ooo…
You know I’m living a lie
Oo, when you see me
Wish to, ignore me
She’s feelin’ there are him
Deep inside
Just can not be enough

The way you touch me
Ooo, where are too rough me, woman
Just can not be discry
What simple thought with me
Ooo, got she one to love me don’t you baby
Ooo, don’t you play with
Don’t you play with
The way that I feel

That she’s my lady
My who’s station lady
She, she make me feel so real
Ooo, so very real
So now, you know
How my love goes
Now you gone away
I’m living a lie
Now you can see
Ooo, don’t help my…
I know you why, you know why
I’m living a lie

Catatan :
Album :(?)
Jennie Haan : vocal power
Dave Hewitt : bass guitar
Alan Shacklock : all guitars, vocals, organ, synthesizer, keyboards
Dick Powell : drums and percussion
Dave Dushon : electric and acoustic piano

Too Close To The Sun

TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN
(Alan Parsons)

There must be a thousand ways
Holding us within this maze
Every path we take leads us astray
Comfort me my only son
‘Till the day my work is done
There’s no earthly reason we should stay

And when the wind gets under these wings
You will feel what freedom brings
Stay right by me, walk don’t run
I don’t want you flying too close to the Sun

Turn your eyes towards the light
Steal away in silent flight
The skies are calling out to you and me
Over sea and over land
God protect us with your hand
Bring us safely to our destiny

And now the wind is under our wings
We can taste what freedom brings
Stay right by me, walk don’t run
I don’t want you flying too close to the Sun

God forgive his fall from grace
The sea conceals his resting place
Can we learn to stay behind the line
If we have the means to fly
Some of us will surely die
Being reckless was his only crime

And now the wind is under our wings
We can taste what freedom brings
Stay right by me, walk don’t run
I don’t want you flying too close to the Sun

Catatan :
Music and lyrics : Parsons, Bairnson, Elliot
Album : On Air, 1996
Vocal : Neil Lockwood
Guitars : Ian Bairnson
Drums and percussion : Stuart Elliot
Bass : John Giblin
Keyboards : : Gary Sanctuary, Richard Cottle, Alan Parsons
Saxophone : Richard Cottle

The Last To Know

THE LAST TO KNOW
(Asia)

Standing alone in solitude
Holding your head in your hands
Tears play like rain on your fingertips
Who but yourself is to blame?
How could I offer sympathy?
When all I feel is pure rejection

I was the first one to really know your name
And you were the first one for me
But everyone knew but me
You were the first one ever let me down
And I was just the last to know

I was the fool who trusted you
No evil thoughts in my mind
When I saw you going out with him
Who could I blame, for this deception?

Catatan :
Album : Alpha, 1983
Lyrics : Wetton and Downes
Keyboards : Geoffrey Downes
Bass guitars and vocals : John Wetton
Guitar : Steve Howe
Drums and percussion : Carl Palmer

Where Are You?

WHERE ARE YOU?
(Jon Lord)

Waking from a dream
Thinking of what you’ve said
Reaching out to touch you
And finding an empty bed
But that's…much to cruel
For a lonely fool
Where are you?

Falling into dreams
Fears and fantasy
Windows full of rain
And room full of memories
But I wake and find, dreams
Had made me blind
Where are you?
Where are you, my friend?

Lonely there and hits me leased me down
I just can’t carried alone
Alone nobody’s with me
I see it’s just another town, along the road
Along the road

Reff.:
Mirror on the wall, show me
A whiskey smile
Pack my bag and fall
Fall down the next town mile
In a land of fools
When the mad man rules
Where are you?
Where are you, my friend?

Catatan :
Album : Before I Forget
Vocals : Elmer Gantry
Keyboards : Jon Lord

Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part I and II)

SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND
(Part One)
Pink Floyd

Remember when you were young
You shone like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond
Now there’s a look in your eyes
Like black holes in the sky
Shine on you crazy diamond
You were caught on the cross fire of childhood and stardom
Blown on the steel breeze
Come on you target for faraway laughter
Come on you stranger
You legend you martyr and shine!

You reached for the street too soon
You cried for the moon
Shine on you crazy diamond
Threatened by shadows at night
And exposed in the light
Shine on you crazy diamond
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
Rode on the steel breeze
Come on you raver, you seer of visions
Come on you painter
You piper you prisoner and shine!

SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND
(Part Two)
Pink Floyd

Nobody knows where you are
How near or how far
Shine on you crazy diamond
Pile on many more layers
And I’ll be joining you there
Shine on you crazy diamond
And we’ll bask in the shadow of yesterday’s triumph
And sail on the steel breeze
Come on you boy child
You winner or loser
Come on you miner for truth and delusion
And shine!

Catatan :
Album : Wish You Were Here, 1975
Musician : Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright
Additional musician : Dick Parry, sax
Backing vocals : Venetta Fields, Carlena Williams

The Post War Dream

THE POST WAR DREAM
(Pink Floyd)

Tell me true
Tell me why, was Jesus crusified
Is it for this that daddy died?
Was it for you, was it me?

Did I watch too much TV?
Is that a hint of accusation in your eyes
If it wasn’t for the nips
Being so good at building ships

The yards would still be open on the clyde
And it can’t be much fun for them
Beneath the rising sun
With all their kids committing suicide
What have we done Maggie
What have we done
What have we done to England

Should we should, should we scream
“What happened to the post war dream?”
Oh Maggie, Maggie, what have we done?

Catatan :
Album : The Final Cut, 1983
Roger Waters : Bass guitar and vocals
David Gilmour : Lead Guitars
Nick Mason : Drums and percussion
Michael Kamen : Piano Harmonium
Andy Brown : Hammond Organ
Ray Cooper : Percussion
Raphael Ravenscroft : Tenor Sax

Poison Arrows

POISON ARROWS
(Mike Oldfield)

Silence in the air, is anybody there
Searching every sound, walking on quiet ground
Somebody is out to catch you
Hiding in shadows, poison arrows
Somebody is out to break you
Hiding in narrows, poison arrows

When you gonna break
Watching every move you make
And everything you do
Evil eyes will be on you

Don’t come in, don’t come any longer, no Sir
Keep running, running in closer (closer), no Sir
What you’re gonna do
Time is running out on you
Anywhere you choose
Anywhere you’re gonna loose

Somebody is out to catch you

Catatan :
Album : Discoveries and The Lake, 1984
Vocals : Maggie Railly
Drums : Simon Phillips
All other instruments : Mike Oldfield

Every Day

EVERY DAY
(Steve Hackett)

Can you light a fire in Winter’s face
Or say why a life has gone to waste
Pleasure Island was an overcrowded place

Cleopatra’s Needle conquered fear
One more nail in your coffin dear
Endless torture for at least two thousand years
(Every Day)

What’s the use of friendship, who am I
Hell bent on destruction, how I tried
You became a ghost to me long before you died

Catatan :
Album : Steve Hackett, Spectral Mornings, 1979.
Pete Hicks – vocals
John Shearer – drums, percussion
Dik Cadburry – bass, voacals
Nick Magnus – keyboards
Steve Hackett – guitars, vocals

Saved by A Bell

SAVED BY A BELL
(Mike Oldfield)

Won’t you like to look through my telescope
The milky way is a fine sight to see

All around the universe
We try so hard to view what’s new
Make a trip down to Sagitarius
And take a spin by some nebula
I hope the sky stays clear for us
The night goes on so far in the stars

Saved by a bell, so the minute helped
But you were too blind to see
Saved by a bell, so the minute helped
And you make me through so well

Shining like bright diamonds the galaxies
Jupiter and Saturn spin by
Passing by companions
They all go drifting by, they fly
Carry me down to see Aquarius
We’re hoping to meet the shooting star
I can see there’s gonna be our message from above
How close we are

Catatan :
Album : Discoveries and The Lake, 1984
Vocal : Barry Palmer
Drums : Simon Phillips
All other instruments : Mike Oldfield

Time

TIME
(The Alan Parsons Project)

Time, flowing like a river
Time, beckoning me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river
To the sea

Goodbye my love
Maybe for forever
Goodbye my love
The tide waits for me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river (on and on)
To the sea, to the sea

Till it’s gone forever
Gone forever
Gone forevermore

Goodbye my friends
Maybe forever
Goodbye my friends
The stars wait for me
Who knows where we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river (on and on)
To the sea, to the sea

Till it’s gone forever
Gone forever
Gone forevermore

Catatan :
Groups : The Alan Parsons Project
Album : The Turn of A Friendly Card, 1979
Music and lyrics : Alan Parsons dan Eric Woolfson
Lead Vocals : Eric Woolfson
Guitars : Ian Bairnson
Bass : David Paton
Drums & percussion : Stuart Elliot
Keyboards : Eric Woolfson
Fairlight programming : Alan Parsons
Sax : Mel Collins