Bill BRUFORD


Feels Good To Me

(1977)



1. Beelzebub 3'22
(Bill Bruford)
2. Back To The Beginning 7'25
(Bill Bruford)
3. Seems Like A Lifetime Ago
(Part One) 2'32
(Bill Bruford)
4. Seems Like A Lifetime Ago
(Part Two) 4'29
(Bill Bruford)
5. Sample And Hold 5'13
(Bill Bruford / Dave Stewart)
6. Feels Good To Me 3'53
(Bill Bruford)
7. Either End Of August 5'24
(Bill Bruford)
8. If You Can't Stand The Heat 3'27
(Bill Bruford / Dave Stewart)
9. Springtime In Siberia 2'45
(Bill Bruford / Dave Stewart)
10. Adios A La Pasada (Say Goodbye To The Past) 8'41
(Bill Bruford / Annette Peacock)

Total Time: 47:11


  • Bill Bruford - Tuned and Untuned Percussion, Kit Drums, Tunes and Final Say
  • Dave Stewart - Keyboards, Reasonably Advanced Harmonic Advice
  • Allan Holdsworth - Guitar
  • John Goodsall - Additional Guitar (6)
  • Jeff Berlin - Bass
  • Kenny Wheeler - Flugelhorn
  • Annette Peacock - Vocals

    Robin Lumley - Producer
    Bill Bruford - Producer
    Steve W. Tayler - Engineer
    John Brand - Tape Operators
    Colin Green - Tape Operators
    Stephen Short - Tape Operators
    Pete Revill - Equipment
    Mick Rossi - Equipment
    Gered Mankowitz - Sleeve Photography
    Dick Wallis - Inner Sleeve Photography
    Jacquie Deegan - Inner Sleeve Photography
    CREAM - Sleeve Design

    With Thanks To:
    John Goodsall - Additional Guitar on "Feels Good To Me"
    Neil Murray - a bass player when I needed one
    Val Joseph - Polymoog Consultant
    Apparently Jeff Berlin Uses Leo Quan "BAD ASS" Musical Products

    The music on this album was Written between January and June 1977 rehearsed for three weeks and Recorded and Mixed at TRIDENT STUDIOS in London, August 1977

    It's also a present for Carolyn and Alex.





    1. Beelzebub

      (instrumental)

    2. Back To The Beginning

      Come and get it
      Rise and shine
      This prison door is fabric
      All in the mind
      Nature, who made the lock
      Always knows where to find the key
      No use in running
      Wounded and lame
      Shotgun ready
      Load, and take aim
      Whatever the TV said
      Forget it
      Or better just think about
      A way to grow old
      Racing engine
      Temperature high
      Temptation fills you
      When you know you can fly
      I'd fight addictions grip
      But I'm losing the will to try
      Don't know who's winning
      Don't know who cares
      Come back and ask me
      In seventy years
      Imagine, one simple step, oblivion!
      Consider - the devil
      Or the deep blue
    *
    Slavery's a state of mind
    Got little to do with chains
    It creeps up close
    And lies in wait
    To anaesthetize your brains
    No use making the same mistakes
    For ever and ever amen
      But were caught in a circle We can't stop spinning Back to the beginning again
      Early morning, crack of dawn
      One moment's peace
      Before the gathering storm
      No man can rest assured
      When his dreaming is cracked and torn
      Time slips
      Leaves fall
      Death comes
      Stand tall
      Delivered or so you think
      But angels stand watching
      While devils come close for the kill
      Devils sing quotations
      From eve to early morn
      Demons use statistics
      To juggie from horn to horn
      So don't quote me examples
      Of your progress through the years
      When you're caught in a circle
      And you can't stop spinning
      Back to the beginning again
    * *
    No use making the same mistakes
    For ever and ever amen
    Caught in a circle
    And you can't stop spinning
    Back to the beginning again

    (* * Repeat)
    (* Repeat)
    (* * Repeat)

    3. Seems Like A Lifetime Ago (Part One)

      Now that summer light is gone

      Memories grow dim
      Slide out of sight
      Seems like a lifetime
      Since that April day
      Innocent sin
      Adolescent delight
    *
    Time in its cold hearted way
    Leaves us bleeding
    But hears our helpless cry
    Then with a tear for impression
    I urge you back to my side
    Maybe somehow you'll need me
    But you'll never know why
    Love came to melt the winter snow
    But it seems like a lifetime ago

    (* Repeat)

    4. Seems Like A Lifetime Ago (Part Two)

      There used to be dreams for dreamers
      But it seems like a lifetime ago

    5. Sample And Hold

      (Instrumental)

    6. Feels Good To Me

      (Instrumental)

    7. Either End Of August

      (Instrumental)

    8. If You Can't Stand The Heat

      (Instrumental)

    9. Springtime In Siberia

      (Instrumental)

    10. Adios A La Pasada (Say Goodbye To The Past)

      What a complex thing it is to live
      To trust enough to continue giving
      Or believing in love
      When passion is not tempered by logic
      And ambition is not balanced by gratitude
      The truth is obscured
      In this age of instantly cured
      Which values nothing of value
      And puts a price on what it is
      Which is priceless
    *
    What it is, is this
    Is what it is
    You and I exist
    Therefore we are becoming
    Here we are in this precisely now
      How amazing is this life

      Say goodbye to the killed
      Leave the past behind
      Leave the pain with the past
      Lighten up the cross
      It's a long journey ahead
      You are innocent victims
      Of circumstance and coincidence
      Be gentle with yourselves
      Forgive yourselves
      Release yourselves from the past
    (* Repeat)
      Wow
      What a wonder is this life
      Here we are in this precisely now
      What a wonder is this life