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Spice - Sleeptalking 1996
 
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Featuring haunting flute, violin and intricate vocal arrangements Sleeptalking captured most of what was "spice".

Contents

  1. What I Said
  2. Sleeptalking
  3. Warning
  4. What You Look for
  5. Days Roll On
  6. Lightning Strikes Twice
  7. Waking from a Dream

Credits

Phil Monsour-Guitar, Vocals; Sue Ferrers-Violin, Vocals; Cate Turner-Flute, Sax, Vocals; Afonso Corte Real-Bass; Paul Burke-Drums, Percussion; Geoff Wilson-Guitar, Percussion

Engineered by Rob Merlini. Recorded at Springbrook Studio and by P Surplice at WEM

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What I said

Don’t words say anything?
Don’t words have meaning?
Is language lost in cutting?
In this unpleasant dreaming

What I said wasn’t what I said
Is there more in silence
Is there more in hiding
Am I walking up the hill or
Am I just back sliding.

What I said wasn’t what I said
Has the clock stopped ticking?
Is the line left hanging?
So many questions I am asking

What I said wasn’t what I said.

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Sleeptalking

I’m going to build a bridge
I’m going to cross the river
I’m going to send a stick
Floating on the water.

Sleeptalking

I’m going to make a road
I’m going to draw a line
I’m going to make a crossing
Make the lights change all the time

Sleeptalking

I’m going to make a candle
I’m going to watch it burn
I’m going to dance in it shadows
Flickering in the wind

Warning

This is a warning to the world
Don’t push me I am on the edge
Step lightly leave no stone unturned
And make your fire make no smoke

I am dreaming
I am learning
I am searching
I am turning

This is a warning to the world
Let me be or feel my pain
Stay close now you are my sanctuary
Cover your eyes don’t turn your back

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What you look for is the hardest thing to see

I left I walked out the door
I didn’t look back I ain’t going to turn to salt no more
I tell you this between you and me
What you look for is the hardest thing to see.

I cleaned the tables for the makers of the law
I picked their rubbish right up off the floor
I smiled back when they said to me
What you look for is the hardest thing to see

If there is mercy in the shadows of regret
I bite the apples in the bucket of contempt
I ride the roller coaster crashing back to earth
I tell a little white lie I was not the first.

I never claimed redemption in a passing strangers glance
I never broke the bread I never had the chance
If it was something it was the winter of our discontent
I asked the question but I left before the answer was said

When it was time to rally around the flag
I stole the flowers from the Unknown Soldier grave
I felt the tears dribble down my cheek
I also felt them evaporate in the searing heat

Days Roll On

The days are long and the sun is shining
And the voice on the radio get up and do it again

And you are living a lie and your vision is fading
And the voice on the radio get up and do it again

Bury me in this monotony and let the days roll on
Comfort me in simplicity and let the days roll on

Let the days roll on
Let the days roll on
Let the days roll on

Now how would you be if you could wear somebody else’s shoes?
And who would you be, if it was your right to choose

Let the days roll on

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Lightning strikes twice

There is something happening
There is something in the air tonight
Can’t you feel the tension?
That dry silent heat before the storm

I walked out to finally face the music
I walked out to face the guilty verdict

The night was hot
The air was thick with tension
The heat came down
Pushed you into the floor

I walked out to finally face the music
I walked out to face the guilty verdict

Raining down on me
Raining down on me
Lighting strikes twice

There is something happening there is something in the air tonight

Raining down me

 
 

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