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composers
Lyrics: Kerr
Music: Coad, Burchill
publisher
℗ JKMC-Bucks Music Group Ltd / Copyright Control / Hornall Music (2005 - 2017)
℗ BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd / Bucks Music Group Ltd (2018 - )
background
This song was demoed for Black And White 050505 as
Immigrants.
"A song that could have come out of any of the sessions for
Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call, and yet here and now it cries out to be
the opening track of this new album." - Jim
It was inspired by the book The Blinding Absence Of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun, a true
story where political prisoners held for ten years or more in underground cells, survived by inventing fantasy worlds.
lyrics
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The road opens wide,
And there is space here for two of us.
If I could slip under the wire,
We'd wait here, just stay here, a while.
Slumped.
My body's tired,
And this fear,
It never lets me sleep.
In your smile,
This trial elates.
And in your eyes,
I see mother's open gates.
If fortune would smile,
There'd be room here for two of us.
And I would burn myself through the wires.
With this hate, concentrated, unearthed, disparate,
All of this in time...
Once in a while,
If peace held for two of us,
Or if we could show mercy awhile,
With patience, transcending, this coldness, neverending, through time.
Because if home still matters,
And if these bones were not so battered,
What state then?
I'm so desparate,
Stuck within a hollow shell,
In some forgotten state...
Come tear the dirt from my eyes!
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discography
Snippet (2:04)
Produced by Jez Coad and Simple Minds
Arranged by Jez Coad and Simple Minds
Programmed by Jez Coad
Engineered by Arjen Mensinga and Michiel Hoogenboesem
Mixed by Bob Clearmountain
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Guitar Intro Edit (3:28)
Produced by Jez Coad and Simple Minds
Arranged by Jez Coad and Simple Minds
Programmed by Jez Coad
Engineered by Arjen Mensinga and Michiel Hoogenboesem
Mixed by Bob Clearmountain
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Piano Intro Edit (3:44)
Produced by Jez Coad and Simple Minds
Arranged by Jez Coad and Simple Minds
Programmed by Jez Coad
Engineered by Arjen Mensinga and Michiel Hoogenboesem
Mixed by Bob Clearmountain
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Edit (3:56)
Produced by Jez Coad and Simple Minds
Arranged by Jez Coad and Simple Minds
Programmed by Jez Coad
Engineered by Arjen Mensinga and Michiel Hoogenboesem
Mixed by Bob Clearmountain
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Album Version (5:17)
Produced by Jez Coad and Simple Minds
Arranged by Jez Coad and Simple Minds
Programmed by Jez Coad
Engineered by Arjen Mensinga and Michiel Hoogenboesem
Mixed by Bob Clearmountain
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Live Version (7th February 2014) (5:34)
Recorded: Stadthalle, Bremerhaven, Germany
Mixed By Bleecker Street
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Live Version (8th February 2014) (5:33)
Recorded: Sparkassen Arena, Aurich, Germany
Mixed By Bleecker Street
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Live Version (9th February 2014) (5:30)
Recorded: Ringlokschuppen, Bielefeld, Germany
Mixed By Bleecker Street
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Live Version (11th February 2014) (5:32)
Recorded: Tollhaus, Karlsruhe, Germany
Mixed By Bleecker Street
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Live Version (12th February 2014) (5:31)
Recorded: Europahalle, Trier, Germany
Mixed By Bleecker Street
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Live Version (14th February 2014) (5:35)
Recorded: Palladium, Köln, Germany
Mixed By Bleecker Street
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Live Version (15th February 2014) (5:31)
Recorded: Konzerthalle, Olsberg, Germany
Mixed By Bleecker Street
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Live Version (16th February 2014) (5:34)
Recorded: Capitol, Hannover, Germany
Mixed By Bleecker Street
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Live Version (February-May 2015) (5:11)
Recorded: Big Music Tour 2015
Recorded By: Olivier Gerard
Mixed By: Olivier Gerard at Jet Studios
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downloads
Live Version (16th Feb 2006) (5:21)
Recorded: Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Recording Engineer: Patrick Demoustier
Mixed By Jez Coad, Charlie Burchill and Andy Gillespie
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Live Version (8th July 2006) (4:56)
Recorded: Werchter Classic 8, Werchter, Belgium
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Live Version (7th February 2014) (5:34)
Recorded: Stadthalle, Bremerhaven, Germany
Mixed By Bleecker Street
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Live Version (8th February 2014) (5:33)
Recorded: Sparkassen Arena, Aurich, Germany
Mixed By Bleecker Street
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Live Version (9th February 2014) (5:30)
Recorded: Ringlokschuppen, Bielefeld, Germany
Mixed By Bleecker Street
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Live Version (11th February 2014) (5:32)
Recorded: Tollhaus, Karlsruhe, Germany
Mixed By Bleecker Street
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Live Version (12th February 2014) (5:31)
Recorded: Europahalle, Trier, Germany
Mixed By Bleecker Street
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Live Version (14th February 2014) (5:35)
Recorded: Palladium, Köln, Germany
Mixed By Bleecker Street
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Live Version (15th February 2014) (5:31)
Recorded: Konzerthalle, Olsberg, Germany
Mixed By Bleecker Street
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Live Version (16th February 2014) (5:34)
Recorded: Capitol, Hannover, Germany
Mixed By Bleecker Street
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