Barry Adamson - Civilization (Official Audio)

BARRY ADAMSON has announced details of Memento Mori (Anthology 1978-2018), a 40th-anniversary release charting the artist’s writing and recording career, along with two very special live shows in October at Manchester's RNCM Theatre and London's Union Chapel.

MEMENTO MORI (ANTHOLOGY 1978-2018)

The Man With The Golden Arm (Moss Side Story, 1988)
Jazz Devil (As Above, So Below, 1998)
Civilization (Back To The Cat, 2008)
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Pelvis (Oedipus Schmoedipus, 1996)*
The Snowball Effect (The Negro Inside Me, 1993)
The Sun And The Sea (I Will Set You Free, 2012)
The Big Bamboozle (Oedipus Schmoedipus, 1996)
I Got Clothes – ACR:MCR Rework (Love Sick Dick Remix EP, 2017)
Come Hell Or High Water (As Above, So Below, 1998)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Oedipus Schmoedipus, 1996)
The Long Way Back Again (Single Version, 2006)
Up In The Air (Single Version, 2016)
007, A Fantasy Bond Theme (Soul Murder, 1992)
Sweet Misery (Love Sick Dick, 2017)
The Hummingbird (Memento Mori, 2018)
Parade – Magazine (Real Life, 1978)
From Her To Eternity – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (From Her To Eternity, 1984)

*with Jarvis Cocker

[Bodragon]

Barry Adamson - Civilization

Lyrics
(As far as I could make out)

I'm up above the city
And I'm down beneath the stars
I must have broke the heartstrings
Of a thousand bass guitars
I've wandered through a wasteland
That was passing for a glimpse of Heaven's Door

I must have met a million
Full of human in disguise
Now they aim a loaded pistol
Right between the eyes
And I count the cost of freedom
And I realise that Heaven is no more

Bring me Civilization
Treble on the once-some
Would destroy a very nation
That turn me into what I am
An effigy of the beautiful, and then…

I'll show, no hesitation
To bring before a darkened world
A squeamish revelation
Skip a hundred light years
As I hurry home to meet my baby's needs

And I'm gonna walk,
I live in the city,
Today I strolled into the town
Everyone's so pretty
And as shots rang out and I hit the ground
'afore they came and took my piece away

They beat me and I said:
*_Enough! OK! I'll do the time_*
It's easy and it's obvious
What's yours just isn't mine
Now I should have won the last
Still wondering how I got here all the same

Bring me Civilization
To take away the pain and hurt
And anger and frustration
That falls like rotten apples from the trees
Where once I danced upon the leaves

I'll show no remonstration
Whatever you decide my fate
To be no indignation
As long as I can beat the rush
And make it home to meet my baby's needs

What is a man
If he ain't got a soul?
I'll do all I can
Yeah I'll make a-this a-house a-home

I'm above the city
And I'm down beneath the stars
My always sister's known parole
Behind these prison bars
The dirty thing captured a story
That I killed a man who wanted me to die

A single pack of cigarettes
Is all you need to breathe
You get so goddamn used to it
You'll find it hard to leave
But I'm without, stick with the gang
Yourself will reveal, the raucous time to be

Bring me Civilization
Cos now I am the one
Who could destroy the very nation
And turn me into what I am
An effigy of the beautiful and damned

They say that, I'll show no hesitation
To make the world a darker place
Without a reservation
When all I simply try to do is
Hurry home and meet my baby's needs


I love you Barry.
I hope I got this right...

[kovchue]

la voz de Barry Adamson es del mismísimo Jazz Devil.