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Rating: Simple minds draw from the hat an incredible masterpiece: "Black & White 050505".
The album is preceded by the single "Home", a beautiful track, but it doesn't convey the grandeur of this record. But when you take the CD out of its case and insert it into the player, "Stay Visible" starts and a shiver runs down your spine: an eerie keyboard intro and then an explosion of rhythm and guitar with a divinely singing Kerr. They move as fast as a train through the already mentioned "Home" (with an essential rhythm section that pulses excitingly in the pit of the stomach), "Stranger" and "Different World" (with a formidable synth backdrop), the ballad "Underneath The Ice" (where the instruments act as a backdrop to a very sensual Kerr), "The Jeweller Part II" (the remake of "Jeweller To The Stars", contained in the unpublished "Our Secrets Are The Same"), "A Life Shot In Black & White" (with a keyboard intro and with electric guitar gradually taking over in the background), "Kiss The Ground" and finally the superb "Dolphins" with strongly orchestral and captivating nuances.
The rhythm section is once again excellent, and one must not only congratulate Mel Gaynor, as his skill is known to everyone, but also Eddy Duffy, really a great discovery after the appetizer offered in Our Secrets Are The Same.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Stay Visible (05:19)
The road opens wide
And there is space here for two of us
If I could slip under the wire
We’d wait here
Just stay here while
Slumped, my body’s tired and this fear
It never lets me sleep
In your smile
This trial elates
And in your eyes
I see mothers open gates
If fortune could smile
there’d be room here for two of us
And I would burn myself through the wires
With this hate
Concentrated
Unearthed
Disparate
All of this time
Once in a while
If peace held for two of us
Or if we could show mercy awhile
White patience
Transcending
This coldness, never ending, thru time
Because if home still matters
And if these bones,
were not so battered
What state then
I’m so desperate,
Stuck within a hollow shell, in some forgotten state
Come tear the dirt from my eyes
02 Home (04:23)
God gave me travelling shoes
God gave me the wanderer’s eye
God gave a few gold coins to help me to the other side
Looked around and said - be careful how the small things grow
God gives me travelling shoes
And I knew that it was time to go.
He then sent in the ship at night
To take me to the hidden port
Found me the key at last
To open up the prison door
Brought down blackbirds wings
Gifted me with beggars eyes
Sent in the jackals
To tell me I should say bye, bye, bye
I’m home
Home
Home, Home, Home
And I’m home
Home
Home, Home, Home
But I'm miles and miles and miles and miles and miles away
Oh where can I hide ?
God gave me one last chance
Gave me one last reprieve
He then gave me hunger
Gave me the air to breath
Gave one suit case
Gave one last goodbye
Gave me travelling shoes
And without them I would surely die, die ,die
Home
Home
Home, Home, Home
Home
Home
Home, Home, Home
Miles and miles and miles and miles and miles away
Miles and miles and miles and miles and miles away
Oh where do I go ?
Oh where can I hide ?
Home
Home
Home, Home, Home
And I’m home
Home
Home, Home, Home
And I'm miles away
Miles away
Im running far away
03 Stranger (04:08)
Tell me why.
Do you know what were looking for?
Any truth in the rumours I ignore?
Tell me why, I still deny?
Anytime secrets, in every sound.
I can keep my feet up off the ground.
I'm in the air, reeling everywhere.
There's something new and I must say.
It makes me feel so super real. Just look and you'll find.
We are drifting through space and time.
Stranger, beautiful stranger,
Come tell me if you are, the silent star, Explain!
Stranger, beautiful stranger,
I wonder if you are the silent star,
Explain.
Tell me why, do you know what we're looking for?
Any truth in the rumours I ignore?
Then tell me why I still deny?
Summertime,
Winter,
Moonlight,
And the Sun.
I get the feeling this has just begun,
And yet it feels so super real.
Look and you'll find,
We are moving through space and time.
Tell me who you are.
Tell me who you are.
09 Dolphins (05:56)
Dolphins
When they say that
Say it's wise
They say that
Now is the only time
To reach for what remains
To look o'er what's the same
Dolphins swim around
Dolphins drag me down
drag me down
Say that, it's the truth
There's an oceans
right in front of you
Dolphins, hit the sound
And when dolphins circle around
If it seems so
Like the world juts in
Those dolphins, drag me down
drag me down
(machtig tussenstuk)
Say that, say its wise
Say that it' the only vice
Yet you say so what remains?
And look so uncertain
And dolphins look around
And then dolphins drag me down
And when it looks through
the world juts in
Dolphins drag me down
Drag me down
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By Giordyboy
Sometimes suddenly, without any specific reason, you find your way again.
The 9th track Dolphins is simply stunning, it goes straight to your heart and leaves you breathless and speechless.
