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He's back, ours, yours, mine, slow-hand Eric Clapton with "Back Home".
Eric is in great shape... the years pass but his fingers and his guitar touch remain the same, his distinctive voice is as unique as ever, delivering fresh, captivating, and engaging melodies like the opening track So Tired (8) (so tired, but you wouldn't say). With Say what you will (7.5) Eric takes a leap to Jamaica and offers us this reggae-tinged song with a slow, Marley-like rhythm (let us use this adjective): those horns in the background transport us to a Jamaican beach... With I'm Going Left (8) the energy continues, the guitar riffs (essential as needed) are a trademark, and the choruses catapult us into the disco music period of the golden years. Love atmospheres with Love Don't Love Nobody (7) where in some parts it feels like listening to River Of Tears. More reggae with Revolution (6.5): a song that doesn't fascinate me much. It picks up again with Love Comes To Everyone (7.5), a great melody where the choruses once more play an important role in the arrangement.
You have to wait for track #7 to hear the blackest of white bluesmen Eric returns to his roots with this 12/8 blues Lost And Found (8.5). Piece of My Heart (7.5) speaks for itself, a ballad with splendid hints of Hammond. An electric piano starts off One Day followed by a magical Hammond backdrop that paves the way for Clapton's voice, clear, simple, and pure with beautiful harmonic opening and choirs, also decisive here (8). One Track Mind maintains the album rating with an engaging rhythm and an almost whispered text (7.5). Run Home To Me (8.5), a song to dance with your loved one, 6.18 intense minutes for a classic 12/8. Praises to the Hammond are unnecessary, which in the second part of the album certainly plays a starring role. The album closes with the title-track Back Home (7.5) with almost country-style guitar arpeggios; beautiful melancholic horns in the chorus.
My advice? Buy this album as soon as possible, you certainly won't regret it!
Tracklist Lyrics and Samples
01 So Tired (04:47)
Get up in the morning already yawning and I'm so tired
I Ain't had a wink of sleep seems like all week
We're So tired
The Baby's only feeding and one of them is teething
They're So tired
They get up before the dawn I don't know how we carry on
We're so tired
Thank God their mama is a natural
She knows exactly what to do
And as for me I think I'd go insane
I just wouldn't have a clue
You know we try to do our best
Just don't get no rest
We're so tired
Would do it all again you can bet your life my friend
But I'm So tired
Bomp ba da da da da da
We're So tired So Tired
Bomp ba da da da da da
So tired So tired
Just can't wait til the sun goes down and all the kids have gone to bed
Trying to sleep you know but sleep won't come
With all the stuff goin through my head
Well its play group on thursday Music class on Friday, I'm so tired
And Now Mamas getting snappy
Daddy won't change no NAPPY*
And I'm so tired
Bomp ba da da da da da
So tired
Bomp ba da da da da da
So tired
Sometime I think I'll just go on to bed
I must have better things to do
When Its time to get my good night kiss
My dreams have all come true
Bomp ba da da da da da
So Tired
Bomp ba da da da da da
So Tired
So Tired So Tired
So Tired So tired
So tired So tired
So tired So Tired
02 Say What You Will (04:35)
Say what you will
Good love is hard to find
I've had my fill of the hurtin' kind
Take alot of money
To buy up all the pain
Take alot of honey
To fill me up and put me back
on my feet again
You've seen the worst
Still you find the best of me
My love was cursed
Loosin' destiny
Take alot of livin'
To dry up all the tears
Take alot of grinnin'
To cheer me up and put me back
on my feet again
You know I needed a friend
I could tell my troubles to
And you have been my friend
So I will give my love to you
Good love from me to you
Here it comes again
I feel I'm not good enough
Can't remember when
it ever felt so tough
Take alot huggin'
Drive away the fear
Take alot of lovin'
To pick me up and put me back
on my feet again
You know I needed a friend
I could tell my troubles to
And you have been my friend
So I will give my love to you
Good love from me to you
I know you needed a friend
You could tell your troubles to
And I'll be your friend
And I will give my love to you
Good love from me to you
Good love
Good love
Good love from me to you
Good love
05 Revolution (05:00)
I told you once, I told you twice
You never listen to my advice
Good kind treatment, I'm threw with you
Won't get to heaven, I don't care what you do
I seen you changin from day to day
Nothin never gets in your way
Don't feel nothin for no one else
Take what you want, jus help yo self
(chorus)
(say you wanna, say you wanna)
Now you want a Revolution
(Want a revolution)
A revolution now
(Say you wanna, say you wanna)
Say you wanna a revolution
(Wanna revolution)
A revolution now
(Told you once) I told you twice
(Ya never listen) To my advice
(Now your out there) Your on your own
Ain't got no friends, ain't got no home
(Getting mad)
I'm gettin mad at you (Mad at you)
Just don't like the way you do
Don't know where you think you been
But your goin to wind up back there again
(Chorus)
(say you wanna, say you wanna)
Now you want a Revolution
(Want a revolution)
A revolution now
(Say you wanna, say you wanna)
You wanna a revolution
(Wanna revolution)
A revolution now
Say wanna revolution
(Say you wanna, say you wanna)
Do you wanna revolution now?
(Revolution, a Revolution now)
(Time has come) and it won't be long
For you to see where you come from
(You can't go back) Can't go back, can't stay the same
No one but yourself to blame
(Chorus)
(say you wanna, say you wanna)
Now you want a Revolution
(Want a revolution)
A revolution now
(Say you wanna, say you wanna)
You wanna a revolution
(Wanna revolution)
A revolution now
(Say you wanna, say you wanna)
Do you wanna revolution now?
(Revolution, a Revolution now)
repeat
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