George HARRISON


Cloud Nine

(1987)



1. Cloud 9 3'16
2. That's What It Takes 4'01
3. Fish On The Sand 3'24
4. Just For Today 4'06
5. This Is Love 3'49
6. When We Was Fab 3'58
7. Devil's Radio 3'54
8. Someplace Else 3'52
9. Wreck Of The Hesperus 3'34
10. Breath Away From Heaven 3'36
11. Got My Mind Set On You 3'50

Total Time: 41:20


  • George Harrison - Guitars, Keyboards
  • Jeff Lynne - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards
  • Eric Clapton - Guitar
  • Elton John - Piano
  • Gary Wright - Piano
  • Ringo Starr - Drums
  • Jim Keltner - Drums
  • Ray Cooper - Percussion and Drums
  • Jim Horn - Baritone and Tenor Sax
  • Bobby Kok - Cello

    Produced by Jeff Lynne and George Harrison
    Engineer - Richard Dodd
    Mastered by Brian Gardner at
    BERNIE GRUNDMAN MASTERING, L.A.
    Photography - Gered Mankowitz
    Art Direction - David Costa

    Special Thanks To:
    Oilivia Trinidad, Dominic Taylor, Alan Rogan and Bill Harrison, Kevin Townsend, Eddie Veale, David Kearney, Rachel Wickens, Phil Hatton, Denis O'Brien, Herbie Blash, Drarthna & Dhani, Gordon Murrey, Bob Dylan, James Burton, Duanne Eddy, Steve and Darlene, Garnet, Bill Bottrell, John, Paul & Ringo

    Recorded at F.P.S.H.O.T., England

    Publishing by: (G.B. Only) 1, 3, 4, 6-10 - COPS PUBLISHING Ltd,
    2, 5 -
    SBK SONGS,
    11 -
    CARLIN MUSIC CORP.

    Gary Wright appear Ñourtesy of CYPRESS RECORDS Eric Clapton appear Courtesy of WARNER BROS. RECORDS Inc. Elton John appear Courtesy of The ROCKET RECORD Co. Ltd / PHONOGRAM Ltd.

    © 1987 GANGA DISTRIBUTORS, B.V.





    1. Cloud 9

      Have my love
      It fits you like a glove
      Join my dream, tell me yes
      Bail out should there be a mess
      The pieces you don't need are mine

      Take my time
      I'll show you cloud nine
      Take my smile and my heart
      They were yours from the start
      The pieces to omit are mine

      Have my love
      Use it while it does you good
      Share my highs but the times
      That it hurts pay no mind
      The pieces you don't need are mine

      I'll see you there on cloud nine

      Take my hope
      Maybe even share a joke
      If there's good to be shown
      You may make it all your own
      And if you want to quit that's fine
      While you're out looking for cloud nine

    2. That's What It Takes

      And now it begins to shine
      And you found the eyes to see
      Each little drop at dawn of ev'ry day

      Your smile, it comes back to me
      And whatever you may say
      Don't let it stop, never fade away

      As we got to get out in this world together, oh
      Doesn't really matter if we start to make some changes, oh

      If that's what it takes (that's what it takes)
      Then I've got to be strong (that's what it takes)
      Don't want to be wrong
      If that's what it takes

      The closer I get (that's what it takes)
      Into that open door (what it takes)
      I've got to be sure
      If that's what it takes

      And now that it's shining through
      And you can see all this world
      Don't let it stop, never fade away

      If we got to be in this life forever, oh-oh
      Then we'd better be taking all the chances, oh oh

      If that's what it takes (that's what it takes)
      Then I've got to be strong (that's what it takes)
      Don't want to be wrong
      If that's what it takes

      The closer I get (that's what it takes)
      Into that open door (what it takes)
      I've got to be sure
      If that's what it takes

      That's what it takes, that's what it takes
      That's what it takes, that's what it takes
      (That's) what it takes, that's what it takes
      That's what it takes, (that's) what it takes
      That's what it takes, oh, that's what it takes

      (repeat and fade:)
      Oh, that's what it takes

    3. Fish On The Sand

      I know you're in the sun
      I know you're close to ev'ryone
      At times it's like you don't have a hold on me

      I see you in the love
      I see you in the moon above
      But I want to know that you're not lost inside of me

      You know I need you
      You know I love you
      If I'm not with you
      I'm not so much of a man
      I'm like a fish on the sand

      You call me in the night (you call me in the night)
      And hide behind the daylight
      You're blowing like a wind, you don't let me see

      You know I feel a pain (you know I feel a pain)
      I'm tired of playing games with you
      Though there's nothing else I want that would set me free

      You know I love you
      You know I need you
      If I can't be with you
      I'm not so much of a man
      I'm a fish on the sand

      No use to no one else, they've all dried up
      Watching all our lives go by
      I can't believe you'd want to see me crying

      I hold you in my heart (hold you in my heart)
      I know that you're a part of me
      But it's a must to know that you love me too

      I look you in the eye (look you in the eye)
      You're swimming by my teardrops
      But I want to know for sure that you'll let me see

      You know I want you
      You know I need you
      If I'm not with you
      I'm not so much of a man
      I'm like a fish on the sand

      You know I need you
      You know I love you
      If I'm not with you
      I'm not so much of a man
      I'm a fish on the sand

      Not so much of a man
      More a fish on the sand

    4. Just For Today

      Just for today
      I could try to live through this day only
      Not deal with all life's problems
      Just for today

      If just for one night
      I could feel not sad and lonely
      Not be my own life's problem
      Just for one night

      If just (for) today
      I could try to live through this day only
      Not deal with all life's problems
      Just for today

      If just for one night
      I could feel not sad and lonely
      Not be my own life's problem
      Just for one night

      Just for today
      I could try to live through this day only
      Not deal with all life's problems
      Just for today

      Just for today

    5. This Is Love

      Precious words drift away from their meaning
      And the sun melts the chill from our lives
      Helping us all to remember what we came here for
      This is love, this is la la la-la love
      This is love, this is la la la-la love

      Little things that will change you forever
      May appear from way out of the blue
      Making fools of ev'rybody who don't understand
      This is love, this is la la la-la love
      This is love, this is la la la-la love

      This is love, this is love
      This is love, this is la la la-la love

      Since our problems have been our own creation
      They also can be overcome
      When we use the power provided free to everyone
      This is love, this is la la la-la love
      This is love, this is la la la-la love

      This is love, this is la la la-la love
      This is love, this is la la la-la love
      Oh, this is love, this is la la la-la love
      This is love, this is la la la-la love
    ( repeat and fade )

    6. When We Was Fab

      Back then long time ago when grass was green
      Woke up in a daze
      Arrived like stangers in the night
      Fab - long time ago when we was fab
      Fab - back when income tax was all we had

      Caresses fleeced you in the morning light
      Casualties at dawn
      And we did it all
      Fab - long time ago when we was fab
      Fab - you are my world you are my only love

      And while you're in this world
      The fuzz gonna come and claim you
      But you mo better wise
      When the buzz gonna come and take you away
      Take you away
      Take you away

      The microscopes that magnified the tears
      Studied warts and all
      Still the life flows on and on
      Fab - long time ago when we was fab
      Fab - but It's All Over Now Baby Blue
      Fab - long time ago when we was fab
      Fab - like this pullover you sent to me

      Fab
      And You've Really Got A Hold Me
      fab - long time ago when we was fab

    7. Devil's Radio

      Gossip, gossip
      Gossip, gossip

      I heard it in the night
      Words that thoughtless speak
      Like vultures swooping down below
      On the devil's radio

      I hear it through the day
      Airwaves gettin' filled
      With gossip broadcast to and fro
      On the devil's radio

      Oh yeah, gossip
      Gossip, oh yeah

      He's in the clubs and bars
      And never turns it down
      Talking about what he don't know
      On the devil's radio

      He's in your TV set
      Won't give it a rest
      That soul betraying so and so
      The devil's radio

      Gossip, gossip
      Gossip, gossip
      ( Oh yeah ) gossip, ( gossip ) oh yeah
      (Gossip) oh yeah, ( oh yeah ) gossip

      It's white and black like industrial waste
      Pollution of the highest degree
      You wonder why I don't hang out much
      I wonder how you can't see

      He's in the films and songs
      And on all your magazines
      It's everywhere that you may go
      The devil's radio

      Oh yeah, gossip
      Gossip, oh yeah

      Runs thick and fast, no one really sees
      Quite what bad it can do
      As it shapes you into something cold
      Like an Eskimo igloo

      It's all across our lives
      Like a weed it's spread
      'till nothing else has space to grow
      The devil's radio

      Can creep up in the dark
      Make us hide behind shades
      And buzzing like a dynamo
      The devil's radio

      ( Gossip ) oh yeah, ( gossip ) oh yeah
      ( Gossip ) gossip, ( gossip ) gossip
      Oh yeah, gossip I heard you on the secret wireless
      Gossip, oh yeah You know the devil's radio, child
      Gossip, gossip
      Gossip, gossip

    8. Someplace Else

      ( Someplace else )

      You got into my life
      I don't know how you found me, but you did
      It stopped me heading someplace else

      Took me a while to say
      Wish you belong to me
      But now I'm saddened like I've never been
      Regretting that we'll leave

      And for a while you could comfort me
      And hold me for some time
      I need you now to be beside me
      While all my world is so untidy

      Loneliness (oh-o-oh)
      Empty faces (oh-o-oh)
      Wish I could leave them all (o-oh)
      In someplace else

      ( Someplace else )

      I hope you won't let go
      Maybe you'll let me know
      That you'll be saddened like you've never been
      Regretting that we'll leave

      And for a while I could comfort you
      And hold you in my mind
      I need you now to be beside me
      While all my world is sad and crazy

      Loneliness (oh-o-oh)
      Empty faces (oh-o-oh)
      Wish I could leave them all (o-oh)
      In someplace else

      And for a while you could comfort me
      And hold me for some time
      I need you now to be beside me
      While all my world is so untidy

      Loneliness (oh-o-oh)
      Empty faces (oh-o-oh)
      Wish I could leave them all (o-oh)
      In someplace else

      Loneliness (oh-o-oh)
      Empty faces (oh-o-oh)
      Wish I could leave them all (o-oh)
      In someplace else

      ( Someplace else )

      I think I'm gonna leave them all
      In someplace else

      ( Someplace else )

    9. Wreck Of The Hesperus

      I'm not the wreck of the Hesperus
      Feel more like the Wall of China
      Getting old as Methuselah
      Feel tall as the Eiffel Tower

      I'm not a power of attorney
      But I can rock as good as Gibraltar
      Ain't no more no spring chicken
      Been plucked but I'm still kicking
      But it's alright, it's alright

      Poison penmen sneak, have no nerve to speak
      Make up lies then they leak 'm out
      Behind a pseudonym, the rottenness in them
      Reaching out trying to touch me

      Met some Oscars and Tonys
      I slipped on a pavement oyster
      Met a snake climbing ladders
      Got out of the line of fire
      ( But it's alright )

      Brainless writers gossip nonsenses
      To others heads as dense as they is
      It's the same old malady
      What they see is faulty

      I'm not the wreck of the Hesperus
      Feel more like Big Bill Broonzy
      Getting old as my mother
      But I tell you I got some company
      ( But it's alright )

      But it's alright, it's alright
      But it's alright, it's alright
      It's alright, alright
      It's alright

    10. Breath Away From Heaven

      In another life
      I woke up dreaming with a sigh
      As the morning light
      Was painting whispers of a joy

      And I was in the candlelit bedroom
      Enchanting beauty shimmering magically
      Like an irridescent cloud
      Being blown by a westerly wind

      She can move your soul without you knowing
      She can take your breath away from heaven

      And I was captured by her loneliness
      A wounded tiger on a willowy path
      Like an opalescent moon all alone
      In the sky of a foreign land

      She can take your breath away from heaven
      She can move your soul without you knowing
      She can take your breath away from heaven
      She is like an everlasting blossom
      She can take your breath away from heaven

    11. Got My Mind Set On You

      I got my mind set on you
      I got my mind set on you
      I got my mind set on you
      I got my mind set on you

      But it's gonna take money
      A whole lotta spending money
      It's gonne take plenty of money
      To do it right child

      It's gonna take time
      A whole lot of precious time
      It's gonna take patience and time, ummm
      To do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it,
      To do it right child

      I got my mind set on you
      I got my mind set on you
      I got my mind set on you
      I got my mind set on you

      And this time I know it's for real
      The feelings that I feel
      I know if I put my mind to it
      I know that I really can do it

      I got my mind set on you
      Set on you
      I got my mind set on you
      Set on you

      But it's gonna take money
      A whole lotta spending money
      It's gonna take plenty of money
      To do it right child

      It's gonna take time
      A whole lot of precious time
      It's gonna take patience and time, ummm
      To do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it,
      To do it right child

      I got my mind set on you
      I got my mind set on you
      I got my mind set on you
      I got my mind set on you

      And this time I know it's for real
      The feelings that I feel
      I know if I put my mind to it
      I know that I really can do it

      But it's gonna take money
      A whole lotta spending money
      It's gonna take plenty of money
      To do it right child

      It's gonna take time
      A whole lot of precious time
      It's gonna take patience and time, ummm
      To do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it,
      To do it right

      Set on you
      Set on you
    ( Repeat )