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calling your name
composers
Composers: Kerr / Burchill / MacNeil / Forbes / McGee
Authors: Kerr
(Earlier sleeves simply state:- Lyrics: Kerr: Music: Simple Minds)
Written by: Burchill / Forbes / Kerr / MacNeil / McGee (Post 2012 credit)
publisher
© EMI Music Publishing Limited: (1979 - 2007)
© JKMC-Bucks Music Group Ltd / Hornall Music / EMI Music Publishing Ltd: (2008 - 2014)
© BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd / EMI Music Publishing Ltd: (2015 -)
background
Calling Your Name first appeared during the Life In A Day tour - but
set-lists from that tour are so scarce that it's impossible to determine when it was actually written. The version played at
the Fforde Green Hotel, Leeds on the 29th July 1979 was mostly an extended instrumental with only minimal lyrics -
it felt like Jim was still finding his way with the song. The
chorus ("Calling, calling your name") was present but the sporadic, and largely empty, verses had different lyrics.
It was rearranged and trimmed down for the final recording at Rockfield a couple of months later, where
Jim wrote a new set of lyrics for the verses. Two takes were recorded: one on the 2nd September 1979 and
the second on the 3rd. It became the penultimate track on
the more conventional second side of Real To Real Cacophony.
It became a regular part of their early set-lists, often being the second or third track of the show. But it was eventually
dropped after the recording of Sons And Fascination, forced out by the arrival
of the new songs in the set.
It was one of the obvious choices from Real To Real Cacophony to resurrect
for the 5X5 Tour of 2012. A live recording from Birmingham was immortalized on
5X5 Live where Jim recalled
playing the song at their first gig in the city. This version followed the album's arrangement with a slightly changed
guitar solo. It survived until the Festival Tour later that year.
lyrics
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Private world,
Moving fast.
I see your face in the distant past.
Time passes slowly.
Time passes slowly.
Time passes slowly.
Echoes of an empty room,
Assassin at the window below.
The concrete jungle sleeps at night.
Story ends.
Leave him alone.
Calling,
Calling your name.
All that you say goes in vain.
I would like to find you,
On a voyage,
That could find itself true.
Centre of a scene,
Where a man lies dying in the sun.
The concrete jungle sleeps at night.
Story ends.
Can't leave him alone.
Calling,
Calling your name.
All that you say goes in vain.
I would like to find you,
On a voyage,
That could find itself true.
Private world,
Moving fast,
I see your face in the distant past.
Time passes slowly.
Time passes slowly.
Time passes slowly.
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discography
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