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glitterball


composer
Written by: Kerr / Burchill


publisher
© EMI Music Publishing: (1998 - 2007)
© JKMC-Bucks Music Group Ltd / Hornall Music: (2008 - 2014)
© BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd: (2015 -)


background
"Consumed by romantic myth - for both of them it's the real death of glamour.... therefore making their worldly exist entwinded. And dizzily circling the small black wooden floor while the solitary mirrored globe revolves."

"Symbolic of another planet; another desination - somewhere void of the feeling of futility that is omnipresent. LEAVING WITH STYLE as the drug kicks in - propelling them softly on their fantsatic voyage... the glitterball radiates all around like some guiding light." - Jim, e-mail, 11th March 1998




lyrics
Full of doubt, took the easy way out.
Always said they couldn't find their place.
Among some real dark stuff, they got to thinking enough.
Remember Halcyon Days.
We'll spend our time with a bottle of wine,
And a love that knows no human state.
Never got to wake up early,
Never got to feel so poorly,
As the great unloved go dancing all the way.

Glitterball, radiate round the hall.
Lifts me up, then leaves me to fall.
Glitterball, radiate round the hall,
As the great unloved go dancing all the way.

One step, two step, three step, four.
Drag me to the middle, then you pulled me to the floor.
Glitterball, radiate round the hall,
As the great unloved go dancing all the way.

And I've been captured by imagination.
I feel the faint vibration in the air.
Been taken hostage by the one creation.
Anticipate the night that's in your hair.

Glitterball, radiate round the hall.
Lifts me up, then leaves me to fall.
Glitterball, radiate round the hall.
As the great unloved go dancing all the way.

Glitterball, radiate round the hall.
Lifts me up, then leaves me to fall.
Glitterball, radiate round the hall.
As the great unloved go dancing all the way.

One step, two step, three step, four.
Drag me to the middle, then you pulled me to the floor.
Glitterball, radiate round the hall.
As the great unloved go dancing all the way.

One final day,
As the great unloved go dancing all the way.
Don't make me wait,
As the great unloved go dancing all the way.
Don't make me wait,
As the great unloved go dancing all the way.



discography
Edit (4:25)
Produced by: Charlie Burchill and Pete Walsh
Engineeed by: Pete Walsh
Mixed by: Simple Minds and Pete Walsh

Glitterball CD Promo Glitterball CD Promo Glitterball MC Glitterball CD Glitterball Italian 12" Glitterball Candian CD Promo Glitterball French CD Promo Glitterball Japanese CD Promo The Best Of Simple Minds CD2 Promo The Best Of US Promo The Best Of The Best Of SACD The Best Of Night Of The Proms Special Remastered Edition Gift Pack CD Limited Edition Gift Pack DVD Limited Edition The Best Of Donna Moderna cover CD Celebrate: The Greatest Hits + Promo CD Celebrate: The Greatest Hits + Promo CD Celebrate: The Greatest Hits + 2CD Celebrate: The Greatest Hits + 3CD Celebrate: The Greatest Hits + Australian Promo 2CD Celebrate: The Greatest Hits + US CD Celebrate: The Greatest Hits + Canadian CD

Album Version (4:55)
Produced by: Charlie Burchill and Pete Walsh
Engineeed by: Pete Walsh
Mixed by: Simple Minds and Pete Walsh

Glitterball CD Glitterball European CD Glitterball Japanese CD Promo Neapolis Promo CD Neapolis Promo CD Neapolis Promo Box Set Neapolis MC Neapolis CD Neapolis Limited Edition eCD Neapolis Japanese Promo CD Neapolis Remaster Promo CD Neapolis Remaster Limited Edition CD Neapolis Remaster CD The Platinum Collection CD The Music Of Simple Minds




videography
Edit (4:25)
Produced by: Charlie Burchill and Pete Walsh
Engineeed by: Pete Walsh
Mixed by: Simple Minds and Pete Walsh

Glitterball promo video Seen The Lights - A Visual History Promo DVD Seen The Lights - A Visual History DVD




live history
Festival Tour: 1997
Neapolis Tour: 1998