Official German EMI 2 CD-R promo for A Victim Of Stars 1982-2012
German EMI promo on two CD-R's, packed in 1 PVC sleeve (UK version have 2 seperate sleeves and artwork). Also different with the UK version is the printing on the discs. Full tracklist as on original.
A Victim Of Stars, 1982-2012 (2CDR DE promo) front inlay sheet
A Victim Of Stars, 1982-2012 (2CDR DE promo) disc 1
A Victim Of Stars, 1982-2012 (2CDR DE promo) disc 2
A Victim Of Stars, 1982-2012 (2CDR DE promo) back inlay sheet
A Victim Of Stars, 1982-2012 (2CDR DE promo) unfolded sheet
Tracklist
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Songs
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Ghosts (Japan)
Ghosts David Sylvian Everything and Nothing Tour '01
G#m D#m When the room is quiet G#m D#m E The daylight almost gone C#m(IV) D#m G#m D#m It seems there's something I should know G#m D#m Well, I ought to leave G#m D#m E But the rain it never stops C#m(IV) D#m G#m D#m | G#m | D#m | And I've no particular place to go
C#m(IX) C#m7 B C#m(IX) C#m7 Just when I think I'm winning B When I've broken every door F#m G#m The ghosts of my life A F#m G#m Blow wilder than before C#m(IX) C#m7 B C#m(IX) C#m7 Just when I thought I could not be stopped B When my chance came to be king F#m G#m The ghosts of my life A F#m E Blew wilder than the wind
G#m | D#m | G#m | D#m |
G#m D#m Well, I'm feeling nervous G#m D#m E Now I find myself alone C#m(IV) D#m G#m D#m The simple life's no longer there G#m D#m G#m Once I was so sure D#m E Now the doubt inside my mind C#m(IV) D#m G#m D#m | G#m | D#m | Comes and goes but leads nowhere
C#m(IX) C#m7 B C#m(IX) C#m7 Just when I think I'm winning B When I've broken every door F#m G#m The ghosts of my life A F#m G#m Blow wilder than before C#m(IX) C#m7 B C#m(IX) C#m7 Just when I thought I could not be stopped B When my chance came to be king F#m G#m The ghosts of my life A F#m E | G#m | D#m | Blew wilder than the wind
G#m | D#m | E | C#m(IV) D#m |
G#m | D#m | G#m | D#m |
C#m(IX) C#m7 B C#m(IX) C#m7 Just when I think I'm winning B When I've broken every door F#m G#m The ghosts of my life A F#m G#m Blow wilder than before C#m(IX) C#m7 B C#m(IX) C#m7 Just when I thought I could not be stopped B When my chance came to be king F#m G#m The ghosts of my life A F#m E | G#m | D#m | Blew wilder than the wind G#m D#m | G#m | D#m | G#m || Than the wind
When the room is quiet The daylight almost gone It seems there's something I should know Well, I ought to leave But the rain it never stops And I've no particular place to go
Just when I think I'm winning When I've broken every door The ghosts of my life Blow wilder than before Just when I thought I could not be stopped When my chance came to be king The ghosts of my life Blew wilder than the wind
Well, I'm feeling nervous Now I find myself alone The simple life's no longer there Once I was so sure Now the doubt inside my mind Comes and goes, but leads nowhere
This track is included because David himself said that Ghosts was the first track that indicated the new direction of his compositions after the Japan period.
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Bamboo Houses
Sore de mo, hitobito no seikatsu wa tsuzuite iru
All the buildings I have loved Are barely standing All the children too young and thin Sing bamboo music
The wounds on your hands never seem to heal I thought all I needed was to believe
Here am I, a lifetime away from you The blood of Christ, or the beat of my heart My love wears forbidden colours My life believes
Senseless years thunder by Millions are willing to give their lives for you Does nothing live on?
Learning to cope with feelings aroused in me My hands in the soil, buried in side of myself My love wears forbidden colours My life believes in you once again
I'll go walking in circles While doubting the very ground beneath me Trying to show unquestioning faith in everything Here am I, a lifetime away from you The blood of Christ, or a change of heart
My love wears forbidden colours My life believes My love wears forbidden colours My life believes in you once again
The lights of the ashes smoulder through hills and vales Nostalgia burns in the hearts of the strongest Picasso is painting the ships in the harbour The wind and sails These are years with a genius for living
The rope is cut, the rabbit is loose (Fire at will in this open season) The blood of a poet, the ink in the well (It's all written down in this age of reason)
The animals run through harvested fields of fire The bitterness shown on the face of the homeless Picasso is painting the flames from the houses The sudden rain These are years with a genius for living
The rope has been cut, the rabbit is loose (Fire at will in this open season) The blood of a poet, the ink in the well (It's all written down in this age of reason)
If heaven watches over me Sowing seeds back in the soil With eyes that see, hands that feel Why am I the last to know
Sheltered lives spent partially breathing Are gathered together under new religion
Pulling punches, moving, sleeping on our feet Pulling punches, I needed someone to comfort me Raised in summer days of splendour Who would've dreamed of love never ending?
A better world lies in front of me A sketch of life in the books I read Then as I walk where heaven leads Why am I the last to know?
Simple lives spent partially breathing Are gathered together under new religion
Pulling punches, moving, sleeping on our feet Pulling punches, I needed someone to comfort me Raised in summer days of splendour Who would've dreamed of love never ending?
Nature feeds this nausea Deep inside the heart of me
In dresses white, all set for sail A little girl dreams of taking the veil In dresses white, all set for sail A little girl dreams of taking the veil On beaches clean of sand and shell A little girl dreams of taking the veil All lightning bright and thunder loud A little girl dreams safe and sound
Out upon the open fields The rain is pouring down We're pulling up the sheets again Against the passing tides of love Every doubt that holds you here Will find their own way out
I will build a shelter if you call Just take my hand and walk Over mountains high and wide Bridging rivers deep inside With a will to guide you on Your heart will need no one Those days are gone
Baby, I can tell you there's no easy way out Lost inside of dreams that guide you on Baby, I can tell you there's no easy way out Soon the guiding moonlight will be gone
I'm waiting on the empty docks Watching the ships come in I'm waiting for the agony to stop Oh, let the happiness in I'm watching as the gulls all settle down Upon the empty vessels The faded whites of their wedding gowns The songs of hopeless selflessness
The cold December Sun A cold that blisters The hands of a working man Wasted
I'm waiting on the empty docks Watching the ships roll in I'm longing for the agony to stop Oh, let the happiness in
Oh, let the happiness in
Listen to the waves against the rocks I don't know where they've been I'm waiting for the skies to open up And let the happiness in
Standing firm on this stony ground The wind blows hard Pulls these clothes around I harbour all the same worries as most The temptations to leave or to give up the ghost I wrestle with an outlook on life That shifts between darkness and shadowy light I struggle with words for fear that they'll hear But Orpheus sleeps on his back still dead to the world
Sunlight falls, my wings open wide There's a beauty here I cannot deny And bottles that tumble and crash on the stairs Are just so many people I knew never cared Down below on the wreck of the ship Are a stronghold of pleasures I couldn't regret But the baggage is swallowed up by the tide As Orpheus keeps to his promise and stays by my side
Tell me, I've still a lot to learn Understand, these fires never stop Believe me, when this joke is tired of laughing I will hear the promise of my Orpheus sing
Sleepers sleep as we row the boat Just you the weather and I gave up hope But all of the hurdles that fell in our laps Were fuel for the fire and straw for our backs Still the voices have stories to tell Of the power struggles in heaven and hell But we feel secure against such mighty dreams As Orpheus sings of the promise tomorrow may bring
Tell me, I've still a lot to learn Understand, these fires never stop Please believe, when this joke is tired of laughing I will hear the promise of my Orpheus sing
On the banks of a sunset beach Messages scratched in sand Beneath a roaming home of stars Young boys try their hand A spanish harbouring of sorts In Catalonian bars They were pulled from a sinking ship And saved for last
On the waterfront the rain Is pouring in my heart Here the memories come in waves Raking in the lost and found of years And though I'd like to laugh At all the things that led me on Somehow the stigma still remains
Watch the train steam full ahead As it takes the bend Empty carriages lose their tracks And tumble to their end So the world shrinks drop by drop As the wine goes to your head Swollen angels point and laugh "This time your god is dead"
On the waterfront the rain Is pouring in my heart Here the memories come in waves Raking in the lost and found of years And though I'd like to laugh At all the things that led me on Somehow the stigma still remains
Behind the iron gates The shifts were worked in silence Each weekend beckoned like Ulysses' Sirens And as the words were few We'd listen to the radio It was loud and irritated me so
I'll tell you I love you I'll tell you I love you Like my favourite pop song
These promises won't keep Though every road begins and ends with you The fall still hurts, the bruise still blue I'll paint you pictures of bright tomorrows But the money goes and the time goes too
I'll tell you I love you I'll tell you I love you Like my favourite pop song I'll tell you I love you Like the stars above you Like my favourite pop song Favourite pop song
Wild, unwise, trivialised, untrue
We squander these gifts Like another Sunday supplement They're just so much cash In the hands of the government
I'll tell you I love you I'll tell you I love you Like my favourite pop song Favourite pop song
I hold you in A sea of silence On the borderline of truth Open violence I see no sign I see no place I've loved Depending on the signs To fine the road
Blackwater take me with you To the place that I have spoken Come lead me through the darkness To the light that I long to see again
I walk with you But sleep beside her The summer came and went It passes us over
I see her cry I see the face I have loved Depending on the blind To find the road
Blackwater take me with you To the place that I have spoken Come lead me through the morning For the land that I long to see again
I see the lines in the palm of its hand now I listen hard but no words spring to mind And it sounds so sweet, listen to its heartbeat And I'm drowning in its sea Falling at its feet Listen to my heartbeat baby
And the blood sail leaves tonight Fated in its blindness And it won't be long before help is at hand And the darkness sleeps Cushioning the heartbeat And I killed the captain, sank the fleet To liberate the heartbeat baby And it sounds so sweet And it sounds so sweet Listen to our hearts beat
And the darkness sleeps Cushioning the heartbeat And I'm drowning in its sea Falling at its feet Listen to my heartbeat baby
It speaks to ghosts and souls alike Springs to life, and doesn't think twice Wrapped in the blood sail Bathed in snow Nailed to the source and it won't let go Fed on the bible, grown from trees It opened the mind and the heart was free A home in the silence, safe from sound Where trouble sleeps and the light is found
Stay tonight We'll watch the full moon rising Hold on tight The sky is breaking I don't ever want to be alone With all my darkest dreaming Hold me close The sky is breaking
I don't ever want to be alone With all my darkest dreaming Hold me close The sky is breaking
This track was featured
at the end of a 90 minute CSI episode.
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A Fire In The Forest
There is always sunshine Above the grey sky I will try to find it Yes, I will try
My mind has been wandering I hardly noticed It's running on its own steam I let it go Oh here comes my childhood A penny for your secrets It's standing in the window Not out here where it belongs
There's a fire in the forest It's taking down some trees When things are overwhelming I let them be I would like to see you It's lovely to see you Come and take me somewhere Come take me out
There is always sunshine Far above the grey sky I know that I will find it Yes, I will try
She was, she was A friend of mine Do us a favour, your one and only warning Please be gone by morning
She was, she was A friend of mine
Inconsistencies Words on paper The track still warm I came to hate her
Smitten no longer Me, the only daughter Render the vow It's my home now
This, your one and only warning Please be gone by morning
And if the ending is clean The quirk, the fuss, the vaseline She won't even see it coming Roll them over, roll them over, roll them over Me, the only daughter
She was, she was a friend of mine
Smitten no longer Me, the only daughter Render the vow It's my home now
The penny's dropped The room's in order I masked the spot Me, the only daughter
Do us a favour, your one and only warning Please be gone by morning
To many people it looks like the recording on the CD suffers from
skipping etc. This i not a faulty CD but the recording is intended to
sound liket that!
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Late Night Shopping
Ask me I might go Why not take me with you? Ask me I might go Late night shopping
We can take the car No one will be watching We can lose ourselves Late night shopping
Tell me what we need Write a list or something We don't need to need a thing Late night shopping
It’s a wonderful world And you take and you give And the sun fills the sky In the space where you live
It’s a day full of dreams It’s a dream of a day And the joy that it brings Nearly sweeps her away
It’s a wonderful world As the buildings fall down And you quicken your step ‘til your feet leave the ground And you’re soaring above All the sorrow below And you’re falling in love With those you don’t know
And your heart feels so wide And your heart fills so strong It was never a place That you felt you belonged
It’s a wonderful world Full of wonderful things And the people fall down And abandon their dreams
(I hear him, he’s talking out loud Sometimes he whistles while walking How could he know any better? I weep for him, I weep for him now)
It’s a wonderful world It’s a real crying shame Cos she’s hurting herself In a violent way And there’s people she knows That won’t even try And they’re trapped in their lives Feeling terrified And it’s in times like these That she promised to call But the scale of our love Is diminished and small
It’s a wonderful world And she doesn’t know why She wakes up each day And continues to cry
(He’s sleeping his troubles away He’s finding it too hard to bear I’m with him every step of the way I weep for him, I weep for him now)
It’s a wonderful world And you take and you give And the sun fills the sky In the space where you live
Here come the darkest birds To burst the bubble End of a perfect day Head full of trouble
Here come the darkest birds All tar and feathers Why did none of them dream of trying To make things better?
Those are the mimicking kind They are, they are I number myself among them The furthest star
And this is the road I walked on When I shot you down All words of forgiveness useless They won’t help me now And I should’ve been there for you When you called my name I promise to tread more lightly Though what’s gone is gone It’s such a shame
Here come the darkest birds They’ve got their reasons All their pretty colours are gone Washed out of season
Those are the soaring kind They are, they are I number yourself among them The brightest star
And this is the road I walked on When I shot you down All words of forgiveness useless They won’t serve me now And I should’ve been there for you When you called my name I promise to tread more lightly Though what’s done is done It’s such a shame
Featuring Michael Moser and Keith Rowe. Listen also to the full version.
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Small Metal Gods
It's the farthest place I've ever been
It's a new frontier for me
And you balance things
Like you wouldn't believe
When you should just let things be
Yes, you juggle things
Cause you can't lose sight
Of the wretched story-line
It's the narrative that must go on
Until the end of time
And you're guilty of some self neglect
And the mind unravels for days
I've told you once
Yes, a thousand times
I'm better off this way
I'm better off this way
Where's my queen of hearts
My royal flush
I have cleaned and scrubbed her decks
My suicide, my better days
There's nothing I regret
I've placed the Gods
In a zip-lok bag
I've put them in a drawer
They've refused my prayers
For the umpteenth time
So I'm evening up the score
Small metal Gods
From a casting line
From a factory in Mumbai
Some manual labourer's bread and butter
And a single-minded lie
Small metal Gods
Cheap souvenirs
You've abandoned me for sure
I'm dumping you, my childish things
I'm evening up the score.
