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Label info: VIRGIN RECORDS CDV 2471, 7243 8 47071 2 5 , UK: CDV 2876 Date: March 29, 1999 Type: CD Copyright: Virgin Records Ltd. ℗ 1999 Virgin Records Ltd. © 1999 Virgin Records Ltd.
Release info:: VIRGIN RECORDS, CDV 2471(CD) (P)(C)1987 VIRGIN RECORDS LTD., UK RELEASED: MARCH 29, 1999, UK J-ISSUED: TOSHIBA-EMI LTD., VJCP-68012(CD) RELEASED: APRIL 9, 1999, JAPAN
Last solo album on the Virgin label

'With immense love, gratitude and humility I offer this work at the feet of my beloved Amma' (Mata Amritanandamayi).

Comes in a standard jewel case with sixteen page foldout booklet.

Produced by David Sylvian
Mixed by David Sylvian with Dave Kent
Engineered by Dave Kent / Additional engineering: David Sylvian
Assistant engineers: Jacquie Turner, Matt Curry, Scott Crane
Studio maintenance: Dave Kent
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, Maine
Recorded at Right Track Studios, ny, Real World Studios, box, Sound House Studio, seattle, Atma Sound, mpls, Seedy Underbelly, mpls, Synergy Studio, napa

All songs written by David Sylvian, except

"Dobro #1" written by David Sylvian and Bill Frisell,
"Midnight Sun" written by David Sylvian, Johnny Moore, Charles Brown, Eddie Williams,
"Praise" traditional, music by Shree Maa, arranged by David Sylvian,
"Darkest Dreaming" written by David Sylvian, Djivan Gasparyan

Art direction: David Sylvian and Yuka Fujii / Artwork co-ordinator: Yuka Fujii
Drawings: Shinya Fujiwara / Photography: Anton Corbijn
Inlay portrait by Ingrid Chavez / Design: Russell Mills (shed)
Design assistance: Michael Webster (storm)

Bill Frisell appears courtesy of Nonesuch Records
Kenny Wheeler appears courtesy of ECM Records
Marc Ribot appears courtesy of Atlantic Records
Ryuichi Sakamoto appears courtesy of Sony Records
Talvin Singh appears courtesy of Island Records Ltd (a PolyGram company)

Track 1 contains a sample from 'You Know You Know' performed by The Mahavishnu Orchestra, licensed courtesy of Columbia.
Track 3 contains elements from 'Drifting Blues' written by Johnny Moore, Charles Brown and Eddie Williams and published by EMI UNArt Catalog Inc., used by permission. All rights reserved.
Track 3 contains samples from 'I'm Wanderin'' performed by John Lee Hooker, licensed courtesy of Fantasy Inc.
Track 10 contains a sample from John Cage's 'Sonata V' from 'Sonatas and Interludes'. Edition Peter's No. 6755 © 1960 by Henmar Press Inc., New York. Licensed on behalf of the publishers by Peter's Edition Ltd., London. Licensed courtesy of Etcetera Record Company B.V.
Track 14 contains a sample from the recording 'Mother Of Mine' by Djivan Gasparyan, licensed courtesy of All Saints Records.

All songs published by Opium (Arts) Ltd. except:
track 2 Opium (Arts) Ltd / Friz-Tone Music Ltd.
track 3 Opium (Arts) Ltd / EMI United Partnership Ltd. O/B/O EMI UNArt Catalogue Inc.
track 14 Opium (Arts) Ltd / Real World Works Ltd. / EMI Virgin Music Ltd.

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Tracklist

	#		Songs
1	1	I Surrender I opened up the pathway of the heart The flowers died embittered from the start That night I crossed the bridge of sighs and I surrendered I looked back and glimpsed the outline of a boy His life of sorrows now collapsing into joy And tonight the stars are all aligned and I surrender My mother cries beneath a southern sky and I surrender Recording angels and the poets of the night Bring back the trophies of the battles that we fight Searchlights fill the open skies and I surrender Outrageous cries of love have called me back Derailed the trains of thought, demolished wayward tracks You tell me I've no need to wonder why I just surrender I stand too close to see the sleight of hand How she found this child inside the frightened man Tonight I'm learning how to fly and I surrender I've travelled all this way for your embrace Enraptured by the recognition on your face Hold me now while my old life dies tonight and I surrender My mother cries beneath the open skies and I surrender An ancient evening just before the fall The light in your eyes, the meaning of it all Birds fly and fill the summer skies and I surrender She throws the burning books into the sea "Come find the meaning of the word inside of me" It's alright the stars are all aligned and I surrender My mother cries beneath the moonlit skies and I surrender My body turns to ashes in her hands The disappearing world of footprints in the sand Tell me now that this love will never die and I'll surrender My mother cries beneath the open skies and I surrender	I Surrender	I Surrender Full version from Dead Bees On A Cake
1	2	Dobro #1 I stole a life With braids of fire And it rained on my house All summer There never was any freedom here All I feared the most came back around And it rain on my house And it rained on my house all summer	Dobro #1
1	3	Midnight Sun Transcribed by Andrew (sakurahigh@frenziedsilence.com) They've stolen the moon The magic is gone And there in its place A black midnight sun The darkness is frightening And love is denied They've stolen the moon God only knows why The stars have lost their daughter The devil's thieves have won And there in her place A black midnight sun They've stolen the moon The magic is gone And there in its place A black midnight sun The darkness is frightening And love is denied They've stolen the moon God only knows why The stars have lost their daughter The devil's thieves have won And there in her place A black midnight sun They've stolen the moon The magic has gone And there in this place A black midnight sun The darkness is frightening And love is denied They've stolen the moon God only knows why The stars have lost their daughter The devil's thieves have won And there in her place A black midnight sun	Midnight Sun
1	4	Thalheim Couldn't leave you if I tried Couldn't weather this alone And through the darkness you still provide The sweetest love I've ever known Take the shadow from the road I walk upon Be my sunshine, sunshine And in the emptiness You look and find someone The damage is undone And love has made you strong And Heaven gave me mine, Thalheim The saddest words have come undone Changing the very air I breathe And miracles have just begun In which only you and I believe Take the shadow from the road I walk upon Be my sunshine, sunshine And in the weightlessness You look and find someone The damage is undone And love has made you strong Heaven gave me mine, Thalheim When I'm all at sea You never let me down I'll just keep coming back to you 'Til I walk on solid ground From the foothills to the mountains On the waters of the Rhine Face to face in Shahbagh gardens In communion, out of time Thalheim, Thalheim From the lilies of the valley To the grapes upon the vine The well of speculation Is it his or hers or mine? Thalheim, Thalheim In the everything and nothing In disharmony and rhyme In the sound of shot and echo Who's the victim, what's the crime? What's the crime? Be my, be my sunshine In the keening cries of evening Unforgotten, underlined We slipped into the water Out of focus, out of time.	Thalheim
1	5	Godman Welcome to Sun State The language of light The energy's impulse The loud, dark, iron The purpose of history The Eurasian Steppes From treshold to treshold Astonishment. You've misunderstood the place where you stand Godman. From different maps Dead bees on a cake You're sweeping the forest Man, it's getting late The milkweed is growing Through cotton grass You borrowed the car But you didn't ask. You've misunderstood the place where you stand Godman. The everything's dark You're wrapped up Born into brightness You've misunderstood the place where you stand	Godman	Godman Single version
1	6	Alphabet Angel It's later than I thought it was The shadows long and lost Circle through the room Swear as I met your mother there In new orleans The sun was slipping into blue The longest day is over The longest day My alphabet angels come out to play Yeah	Alphabet Angel	Alphabet Angel Wonderful...
1	7	Krishna Blue She's here in the snowfall At dead of night The mood is of courtship The final fight She's all that I need All that I am The voice of compassion inside the man If you open the gates The madness begins I'll follow you down I'll follow you back in She's here in the lifelines In every curve Suspended in silence Between each word It's all in the way that she moves The grace and the light that will see me through It's coming true She's prising the rope from my hands The fear and the hopes that I held onto It's coming true Colour the river I swim back to you Krishna blue Waist deep in water She starts to sing The voice is familiar And draws me in She's lighting the fires I dowsed by hand Erasing the figure drawn in sand You open the gates The madness begins I follow you down I follow you back in And here in the darkness The boundary gone The flame is alive And burning strong It's all in the way that she moves The grace and the light that will see me through It's coming true Colour the river I swim back to you Krishna blue In the softest belly And the warmest heart In your open hands I lay my head In the never ending I fall apart In the silent forest And the brilliant red And through the stream of words There comes a sound And I listen Child like To her voice Spellbound It's all in the way that she moves The grace and the light that will see me through It's coming true She's prising the rope from my hands The fear and the hopes that I held onto It's coming true Colour the river I swim back to you Krishna blue	Krishna Blue	Krishna Blue From the Dead Bees On A Cake album
1	8	The Shining Of Things Take My word for it This never should have happened What in the world d'ya think Got into me We fire at will And as we watch the pieces shatter We find were closer Than we've ever been She calls my name and I come running I have lost the voice I listened too And in the blindness As my world stops turning Theres a sadness like I never knew But I still see the shining of things As the morning breaks It hardly seems to matter I hear a shallowness In everything I say We've played the night out In all too familiar fashion To wear the heart-ache Through another day She calls my name and I come running I have lost the voice I listened too And there's a stillness now The rain's stopped falling Theres a sadness like I never knew But I see the shining of things	The Shining Of Things
1	9	Café Europe hey fired off the first shot So we're on our feet and running We're re-writing all the textbooks In the process of becomming There's so much to live for If we stop putting up a fight There's a place for every story And this one starts with us tonight Let me take you down To Cafe Europa There's so much to be found So much to discover Let me take you down To Cafe Europa There's so much to be found I won't let you dowm We're travelling by moonlight From London to the Highlands We lose ourselves in inner cities In the hope of re-defining The space that surrounds us What an emptiness within It's all in the papers The boy's in love again Always arriving Headlights lit up from coast to coast Empty days full to bursting With the names of the people and places We miss the most I'm taking the last train Flying the last flight I'm calling on the angels And letting in the sunlight Let me take you down To Cafe Europa There's so much to be found So much to discover Let me take you down To Cafe Europa There's so much to be found I won't let you dowm I won't let you down Let me take you down To Cafe Europa To Cafe Europa Theres so much to be found So much to discover Let me take you down Cafe Europa Cafe Europa It's the heart that has been broken Finds the truth in what is spoken Cafe Europa Cafe Europa Let me take you down	Café Europe	Café Europe From the Dead Bees On A Cake album
1	10	Pollen Path welcome me father on the North shores of Lapland welcome me father who knows no name welcome me mother the earth here is yawning my body is shaking for want of a flame down here got to laugh the kickback is ligtening drowning got to laugh this whole mess is frightening a follower of the pollen path the pollen path welcome me father the lava is rising welcome me mother and give me your name we've drunk from this wellspring too too long dividing the hours to measure the time we've lived with this heartache too too long numbering what's yours what's mine we've harbored this sadness so long nursing a voice just sing us our songs raising a voice to sing our songs	Pollen Path	Pollen Path From the Dead Bees On A Cake album
1	11		All Of My Mother's Names	All Of My Mother's Names Experimental instrumental piece.
1	12	Wanderlust Help me I feel like I'm weightless Floating right out of your hands And there's only so much I aspire to Taking one day at a time And deliverance has many faces But grace is an aquaintance of mine Tell me how could it have happened You know that we're not the marrying kind. Travel light, don't think twice We're leaving the shadows behind. It's given us, yeah This wonderful wanderlust. It's given us this wonderful wanderlust It's given us this wonderful wanderlust I don't doubt it, I feel it, yeah Wanderlust Wanderlust Help me, this waterboys wasted Falling right out of your sky And there's nothing that could do without you Loving the state that I'm in Between no longer and not yet On the threshold of some bright affair The match was struck and I was fired The embers of a drowning man Tell me why won't I listen Or acknowledge that I don't understand Losing light, a selfish kind And we're out on the road again. It's given us, yeah This wonderful wonderlust. It's given us this wonderful wanderlust It's given us this wonderful wanderlust I don't doubt it, I feel it, yeah Turn the headlights on full I want to take in it all And let it wash over me The bridge looks so high From the ledge that we climbed But we climbed them so that we could be free Give me no dreams of what the future brings I need to know when I have gone too far, oh Repeated lightening strikes Up and down the spine They search us out wherever we go In a world full of lies That tug at the truth I'm taking no sides Now I recognise you. Wanderlust Wanderlust It's given us, given us This wonderful wanderlust Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Wander---lust I don't doubt it No	Wanderlust
1	13		Praise (Pratah Smarami)	Praise (Pratah Smarami) Text is traditional. Music by Shree Maa, arranged by David Sylvian.
1	14	Darkest Dreaming 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	Darkest Dreaming	Darkest Dreaming This track was featured at the end of a 90 minute CSI episode.

Booklet

The booklet is in fact a folded sheet with 8 pictures on each side. It takes some practice to find everything because of it's unlogical folding

Original Dead Bees on a Cake inlay sheet front

Original Dead Bees on a Cake inlay sheet back

Personnel

David Sylvian	:	vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, sample, drum programing, percussion programming
Ryuichi Sakamoto	:	rhodes, sampled bansuri, guitar loop, insects
Tommy Barbarella	:	rhodes
Marc Ribot	:	guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar
Bill Frisell	:	acoustic guitar, dobro
Lawrence Feldman	:	flute
Kenny Wheeler	:	flugelhorn
John Giblin	:	bass
Chris Minh Doky	:	double bass
Ged Lynch	:	drums
Scooter Warner	:	drums
Steve Jansen	:	percussion, cymbals
Talvin Singh	:	tabla, percussion
Deepak Ram	:	bansuri
Steve Tibbetts	:	gong
Ingrid Chavez	:	vocal
Shree Maa	:	vocal