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Rating: Sometimes dreams come true and this reality can also be called "Flowermouth".
Tim Bowness, his voice and his lips touch the delicacy and humble beauty of this simple bouquet, Steven Wilson aka Porcupine Tree, his is always a true dedication to the instrumental part, and for this wonderful dream that has become reality, No-Man take on an "epic" orchestral magnitude with masterful performances thanks to Richard Barbieri, Ian Carr, Ben Coleman, Mel Collins, Robert Fripp, Lisa Gerard, Steve Jansen, Chris Maitland, Silas Maitland.
Each individual artist, with their wealth of experience and style, is in the search for the perfect Album, a mélange of trumpet, violin, cello, clarinet, saxophone, guitar, piano, percussion, keyboard, personal melodies and sounds and ... Tim's voice, what can be said of such a rare voice, without taking anything away from Lisa's alternative voice, all key components for a refined blend. Every single song is of intelligent accessibility, one just needs to listen to understand its meaning and provide their own interpretation. Every single track expands and transforms to maximize scope and structure, there are abstract duets, overlapping instruments to voices that take shape, delicate whispering guitar and organ melodies over unrestricted synth dialogues.
Nine tracks and two bonus tracks, one of which is a dark and unsettling conclusion "Born Simple" where anxiety persists in a measured twelve-minute and 09° heartbeat, while the opening track "Angel Gets Caught in the Beauty Trap" violin, double bass, trumpet, clarinet, piano, sax, and guitar are the locomotive of a ten-minute and 33° journey that slowly flows along the tracks of life, without a goal, without a destination, it's a journey against time with a thousand surprises and adversities, a journey to a place where music slowly dissolves, "You Grow More Beautiful" an overseas journey, "Simple" Robert, Tim, and Lisa are chilling in a mix of romance, "Things Change" a sweet kiss and ... Robert omnipresent, "Angeldust" sax, synthesizers to scream, a "space" journey.
I would say it is nice to lock oneself in a small dark room, listen to each track letting oneself go, waiting for the environment to become so saturated with sounds and images that penetrate the mind and heart until it can bear no more, for that constant pain called "feeling".
An excellent Album dedicated to those interested in crossing new experimental unions between "ancient" and ultra-modern in a musical field that, from the start, given the presence of certain guests, becomes very fascinating and quite curious as well as extremely relaxing.
Tracklist and Lyrics
02 You Grow More Beautiful (05:27)
I don't know what you want from me,
I don't know what you want me to be.
In my dreams it's so easy to see,
in my dreams it's so clear.
(chorus:)
I look for my face in the patterns on the wall,
I look for my shape in the way the flowers fall.
I look for my faith in you -
you grow more beautiful
as I fade away.
I don't know what you want me to say,
I don't know if you want me to stay.
in my dreams I find a way -
in my dreams I seize the day.
(chorus)
you grow more beautiful...
(chorus)
I look for my faith in you -
you grow more beautiful
as I fade away.
I look for my faith in you -
you grow more beautiful
as I fade away.
03 Animal Ghost (06:11)
it's too late to go now
it's too late to know
there's food on the table
there's dust on your soul
and the fire in your breath
and the fire in your head
turning inside
chorus:
animal ghost - silence your eyes
animal ghost - sleepwalk in the light.
it's too hard to dream here
it's too hard to think
there's growth in the garden
there's dirt in the sink
and the love in your mouth
and the love in your heart
drifting away
(chorus)
and the fire in your breath
and the fire in your head
turning inside
and the love in your mouth
and the love in your heart
drifting away
(chorus)
05 Shell of a Fighter (07:50)
I dream of changes.
I change my dreams.
I feel so restless,
sometimes I get so mean.
why should I bother
finding the will,
when every movement I make
just seems like I'm standing still?
chorus:
the shell of a fighter,
the shell of a man,
the weight of a lifetime -
waiting for your healing hands.
and still I rise,
and still I dream,
and still I feel,
and I wait.
(chorus 1 repeat)
chorus 2:
why don't you hold me
when I need you to?
why don't you touch me
when I reach for you?
chorus 3:
why don't you hurt for me
like I do for you?
why don't you dream of me -
dream like I'm dreaming of you?
(chorus 1 repeat x 2)
the shell of a fighter
and still I rise,
and still I dream,
and still I feel,
and I wait.
the shell of a fighter
07 Watching Over Me (04:47)
I look at your face,
you take me to the place
where I don't know anything,
anything at all.
you flutter and dance,
I ramble and rant.
I don't know anything
but I feel that if I fall
you'll be
watching over me,
watching over me,
watching over me.
I feel that if I fall
you'll be
watching over me,
watching over me,
watching over me,
singing angel songs to right my wrongs.
the world leaves no trace
on my stainless face,
my days are clearer now
my nights are right.
I can never retreat.
I can never repeat
this hope for all the things
I know I'll never know.
I feel you
watching over me
watching over me
watching over me
and I can dream of love again
I feel you
watching over me
watching over me
watching over me.
08 Simple (07:02)
with the sun
on your lips,
you turn around
and spit.
you spit the moon right out of your mouth
for me,
you touch the sky and start to shout
removing all my doubts
chorus:
I could really love you,
I could give my heart away.
I could really love you,
it's so simple,
it's so simple.
I picture
my ideal.
how it looks,
and how it feels.
no more dreams turning to armchairs
again.
no more plans turning to blank stares,
as long as you are there.
(chorus)
it's so simple, simple, simple...
I could really love you,
it's so simple.
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