JON & VANGELIS


The Best Of ...

(1984)



1. Italian Song * 2'54
(Jon Anderson / Vangelis)
2. I'll Find My Way Home
* 4'29
(Jon Anderson / Vangelis)
3. State Of Independence
º 4'23
(Jon Anderson / Vangelis)
4. Love Is, One More Time
6'15
(Jon Anderson / Vangelis)
5. A Play Within A Play
7'01
(Jon Anderson / Vangelis)
6. The Friends Of Mr. Cairo
º 11'50
(Jon Anderson / Vangelis)
7. Outside Of This (Inside Of That)
º 5'03
(Jon Anderson / Vangelis)
8. He Is Sailing
º 4'12
(Jon Anderson / Vangelis)
9. I Hear You Now
4'49
(Jon Anderson / Vangelis)

Total Time: 50:56


  • Jon Anderson - Vocals
  • Vangelis - All Instruments
  • Dick Morrisey - Flute (3)
  • Carol Kenyon - Background Vocals (3)

    Arranged and Produced by Vangelis
    Engineered by Raphael Preston
    ºEngineered by Raine Shine
    Sleeve by Vangelis and Alwyn Clayden
    Creative Assistance: GREEN INK
    John Mazzocco - Design

    Music and Lyrics by Jon and Vangelis

    A SPHERIC PRODUCTION

    This Compilation ©1984 SPHERIC ĀV





    1. Italian Song

      Oh ma la oh oh me giova oh,
      Pe dolae gia po va po;
      E sha me co oh me gioma ah,
      Pae du le pa tus dac.
      E la fongo oh te de van,
      Pe a su mon ah tu na.

      Oh de salai tu ghe,
      Mani tunai oh ye.

      Oh nia pa eh eh pade pa nar,
      Oh da ne pe se do oh;
      E cha la co na cha me pa de,
      Sar male giac ef ma.
    interlude
      E ma pa co oh te do la ah,
      Cas do le pa ta..
      .. Pa

    2. I'll Find My Way Home


      You ask me where to begin
      Am I so lost in my sin
      You ask me where did I fall
      I'll say I can't tell you when
      But if my spirit is lost
      How will I find what is near
      Don't question I'm not alone
      Somehow I'll find my way home

      My sun shall rise in the east
      So shall my heart be at peace
      And if you're asking me when
      I'll say it starts at the end
      You know your will to be free
      Is matched with secretly
      And talk will alter your prayer
      Somehow you'll find you are there.

      Your friend is close by your side
      And speaks in far ancient tongue
      A seasons wish will come true
      All seasons begin with you
      A world we all come from
      A world we melt into one
      Just hold my hand and we're there
      Somehow we're going somewhere
      Somehow we're going somewhere
    (Instrumental break)
      You ask me where to begin
      Am I so lost in my sin
      You ask me where did I fall
      I'll say I can't tell you when
      But if my spirit is strong
      I know it can't be long
      No questions I'm not alone

      Sometime I'll find my way home,
      Someow I'll find my way home
      Sometime I'll find my way home,
      Someow I'll find my way home
      Sometime I'll find my way home,
      Someow I'll find my way home

    3. State Of Independence

      State of independance

      State of life-may I live-may I love
      Coming out the sky, I name me a name

      Coming out-silver word-what it is
      It is the very nature of the sound the game
      Siamese, Indionese. To Tibet treat the life
      As a game, if you please

      Coming up-Carabi-this sense of freedom
      Derives from a medative State

      Movin' on, 'believe' that's it, call it magic
      Third world, it is, I only guessed it

      Shablam idi Shablam ida
      Shablam idi Shablam ida
      Shablam idi Shablam ida

      Shot to the soul-the flame of Oroladin

      The essence of the word
      The 'State Of Independance'

      Sounds like a signal from you
      Bring me to meet your sound
      And I will bring to you my heart

      Love like a signal you call
      Touching my body my soul
      Bring to me, you to meet me here

      Home be the temple of your heart
      Home be the body of your love
      Just like Holy water to my lips

      Yes I do know how I survive
      (Yes I do know) know why I'm alive
      To love and be with you
      Day by day by day by day

      Say-Aye yaya oh

      'Be the sound of higher love' today

      Time, time again, it is said
      We will hear, we will see
      See it all-in his wisdom-hear
      His truth will abound the land
      This truth will abound the land
      This State of independance shall be
      This State of independance shall be

    4. Love Is, One More Time

      I will be here with you
      To find love is
      For your love
      I'll carry on, to know
      That love, it is
      Love is, it is, love is, it is

      All now is all
      The sound is
      So in love this way
      Together, once more together

      Although the future, seems so uncertain
      Take heart my good friend,
      Your time is waiting
      No thoughts of sadness
      All thoughts need someone, too.

      Of all the feelings
      There's one that matters
      The gift of loving
      The gift of love is calling you
      O heart of mine be true, be true,

      I know we're ready, like ships asailing
      Let all nights be like this
      Forever I could hold you-come to me
      "Then we come to love."

      One More Time

      Out in the woods we play our songs
      And travel through the woodlands together
      In the light of heaven
      And the silence of the world.

      Keeping in touch with the sun
      Keeping it for everyone

      Latter day dreams that come your way
      Will gather in the light

      Everything about today just mellows
      In the ligght: in your eyes.

      I think about silent list
      Drowned this summer, travel light
      All the deeds and the candlelight
      But there is no explaining it
      Let the weary come around-one more time-

      One more time
      Let the weary come one more time around.

      I should have guessed that things
      Were getting out of hand, the other day
      When you told me that you'd gone and left
      Your father's ways behind
      And you thought that you, couldn't understand him
      Well, he didn't really answer the dreams
      That you'd planned
      So you chased around, all those times,
      That come between you, yourself and yourself,
      One more time, one more time, one more time
      Did you have to think about it, one more time

      Put yourself under pressure one more time,
      One more time.

      Things are looking better now
      I heard you say the other day that you knew
      So many times I've tried to understand,
      We go through

      Then again it's the morning light
      That can catch my heart aflame
      Just the thought of your sweet face

      Over and over again
      Over and over again
      Over and over again

      Over and over and over and over and over again.

    5. A Play Within A Play

      You me, me you, when will we be,
      Love goes on, no hurry, tell me,
      That I know whatever has to be.

      Since dreams have their reasons anyway
      All the good love stories, have their glory
      Yours the winds flowing on and on and on and on
      And on and on

      Let the winter winds of old
      Take the water to the sea
      As the maan turned into light
      Like the forest of the west
      They were caarrying the fire
      Like the boats that sail the waves
      In the gardens of belief
      Meditate us turn the ky

      For if trouble shares your tears
      Rereturning once again and again and again and again
      Rereturning once again and again and again and again
      For the many to be sure
      That's why children seem to know the reason why
      True knowledge of believing is believing
      I'll find a truth and then believe it to the end
      It seems so easy as my life and I begin to know why

      Are we to everything a play within a play ...

    6. The Friends Of Mr. Cairo

      She came, as in the book, Mickey Spillane
      That Saturday night dark masquerade
      Had filled his friend with lead, the same, sweetheart

      But then, as nothing happens quite the same
      Investigation is the game
      He had to check her story right away-he dead
      Sam Space his buddy Archer first to go he got it
      She spelt it out, how could they know the 'Fatman' got it
      -he dead
      Her sister didn't really live at all-confusion-he dead

      His chase led to the Fatman, to face the friends of
      Mr. Cairo

      That night, the double crosser got it right
      Pretending he was really dim
      He slipped to Sam a double gin (Mickey Finn)

      He woke, the boys had gone, but not his gun
      They'd left a note to lead him on
      The chase to find the Maltese Falcon-you bet-

      Early thirties gangster movies
      Set to spellbind population

      From Chicago to Hong Kong
      Via Istanbul the Talking Tong

      Dirty rats thru' prohibition
      Money flowed thru gangsterism

      Acting out his fantasy
      In Hollywoods vicinity

      The best part for the best rendition
      Al Capone he sent to prison

      Citizen Kane came fast and quickly
      Conquerin ol' New York City

      Poking fun at superstition
      Media became television

      Give me Cagney anyday
      Or Jimmy Stewart for President

      Or Edward 'G' and all those guys
      Who always shoot between the eyes
      Between the eyes
      Between the eyes

      Father love do you work, do you work for Mother

      Chances could call, and accept that, be no other
      Science as it might, disappear correspond with colour
      Chance is the fruit, will outlive, what is now the brother
      Call for total wealth to distribute like a picture
      In black and white, give it joy, give it, let it hit you
      Spoil our existence by extreme gift to population
      Father love do you work, do you work for Mother
      Tell me straight be the Godfather be no other
      Media Kings give us now give us total movie
      Now being here, being now, being here believing

      One on one to talk to you
      Like film stars they get close to you
      You've mirrored his appeal
      He wants you so, he wants to be beside you
      Then you pass by giving him the other side of you
      Like the mystics do
      So that every time he moves, he moves for you

      Soul and light can always see
      The metting of true love and she
      This silent night and I,
      I guess a lonely mind might see

      I've seen love on the screen
      I've seen a screen goddesss and me-oh
      How often this, how often, this the power of you

      And so, I must confess
      Whatever I see
      I'm meant to be there with you
      With you with you With you, with you

      Silent golden movies, talkies, technicolour, long ago
      My younger ways stand clearer, clearer than
      my footprints
      Stardom greats I've followed closely
      Closer than the nearest heartbeat
      Longer that expected-ther were great-
      Oh love oh love just to see them
      Acting on the silver screen, oh my
      Clark Gable, Fairbanks, Maureen O'Sullivan

      Fantasy would fill my life and I
      Love fantasy so much
      Did you see in the morning light
      I really talked, yes I did, to Gods early dawning light
      And I was privileged to be as I am to this day
      To be with you. To be with you

    7. Outside Of This (Inside Of That)

      Outside of this inside of that
      The memory lingers so right
      Completely as that
      We've loved a long time, be my friend, I need you

      Inside of this and outside of that
      There's so much more to finding out
      How we forever simply feel the way the wayward-winds
      that hide the storms at night
      Like the winter came, it changed our lives
      We were very merry to be there
      Our love, get used to being this way
      Our love, once again a story really true creates a sound

      so good-That it's true

      Outside of this
      Inside of that
      There are words that come with time
      Like love songs they seem self written
      So true, they seem so true
      I work a moments time
      And feel this is one of lifes mysteries
      Bringing a smile
      'Cos I know wot it does to you
      So I'm trying to pass it thru
      Trying for you

      Countless variations of the memory the state
      The mere emotion of getting round
      Crazy understandings of the way we tilt the light

      But it shines when we make the sound
      Don't live by mistakes
      We can dance to your tune
      But there's this whole understanding
      And it's coming I guess-I know-
      I hope that you can get into this
      To this
      I was there and then and then
      You were there and then and then
      We were there the beginning of time

      I was there and then and then
      You were there and then and then
      We were there the beginning of time

    8. He Is Sailing

      Out of the mist into tropical splendour
      With garlands of flowers
      In Majestical fusion we see tonight

      On to this sacred reunion of pleasure
      They row as a rhythm, ten thousands of millions
      They touch the Light

      King is sailing they say
      King is sailing we hear
      King is sailing they say
      King is sailing this day of days of days
      Cocasaya Tay Toca

    (Printed lyrics show the following which is left out entirely in recording)

    [ The wings bring the Angels
    [ They singing of Truth that this day has come

    [ Older than oldest religions have promised
    [ A promise is kept on this Golden Reflection
    [ His Kingdom Come
      King is coming they sing
      King is coming they know
      King is coming we sing
      King is coming we know Kotao Kotao Kotao

      All the souls he to touch
      All the souls he to touch
      All the souls he to touch
      All the millions of souls he to touch, he to touch
      Cocasaya Kotao Kotao

      Heaven set sail in His ship full of light

      He trancends all our love
      To caress all our fears
      In a moment Divine

      Weakest and Strongest will dance in delight
      All illuminous our Saviour they bringing him forth
      All will sing to the Night

      Our true Kingdom come
      Our true Kingdom come
      Our true Kingdom come
      Our true Kingdom come
      Higher, Than Higher, Than Higher, Than Higher, Than Higher

      Ahhs...
    Foreign language chant
    (repeated lots of times to the fade out)

    9. I Hear You Now

      After the first embrace from you my senses knew
      The look of love was in your eyes
      And after we first make love our senses tingle to
      Thetouch oh how we hypnotize

      Oh, to get the feeling on and on
      Oh, just to get the feeling

      Holding you closer in my arms we drift to heaven
      Bringing in the morning light
      And after all is said and done there's only us
      We can make it right

      So, our love will carry on and on
      Now our love will be free, be free.

      And when we play, love don't delay, I hear you now

      For what was then, is what is now, anyhow
      As I became a guest of love's tune hear again
      We'll carry on together like today.

      After the first embrace from you I want you too
      After the first embrace from you I want you too