MARILLION

Happiness Is The Road
Volume 2: The Hard Shoulder

(2008)

1. Thunder Fly 6'19
(Steve Hogarth / Steve Rothery / Mark Kelly / Pete Trewavas / Ian Mosley)
2. The Man From The Planet Marzipan 7'51
(Steve Hogarth / Steve Rothery / Mark Kelly / Pete Trewavas / Ian Mosley)
3. Asylum Satellite #1 9'27
(Steve Hogarth / Steve Rothery / Mark Kelly / Pete Trewavas / Ian Mosley)
4. Older Than Me 3'08
(Steve Hogarth / Steve Rothery / Mark Kelly / Pete Trewavas / Ian Mosley)
5. Throw Me Out 3'57
(Steve Hogarth / Steve Rothery / Mark Kelly / Pete Trewavas / Ian Mosley)
6. Half The World 5'04
(Steve Hogarth / Steve Rothery / Mark Kelly / Pete Trewavas / Ian Mosley)
7. Whatever Is Wrong With You 4'12
(Steve Hogarth / Steve Rothery / Mark Kelly / Pete Trewavas / Ian Mosley)
8. Especially True 4'33
(Steve Hogarth / Steve Rothery / Mark Kelly / Pete Trewavas / Ian Mosley)
9. Real Tears For Sale 7'33
(Steve Hogarth / Steve Rothery / Mark Kelly / Pete Trewavas / Ian Mosley)

Total Time: 52:04

All Music Written by MARILLION, who are:

  • Steve (h) Hogarth - Singer, Backing Vocals, CP70, Piano, Kurzweil, Glockenspiel, Percussion
  • Mark Kelly - Keyboards, Piano, Harmonium, Backing Vocals
  • Ian Mosley - Drums, Backing Vocals
  • Steve Rothery - Electric Guitars, Acoustic Guitars, Baritone Guitar, Backing Vocals
  • Pete Trewavas - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals, Occasional Electric Guitars
  • Oh and I blew into a Clarinet once (on "Throw Me Out")

    Additional Contributions:

  • Sam Morris - French Horn on "Real Tears For Sale"
  • S. Claydon - Arco Bass
  • S. Audiey - Dulcimer
  • P. Bisset - Additional Tuned Percussion
  • Jon Hotten - Overworked Tambourine

    Additional Backing Vocals:

  • Nial, Sofi, Lucy, Stephanie, Linette, Vicki,
  • Georgina, Deborah, Erik, Shaz, Col

    Produced by Michael Hunter & Marillion
    Recorded & Mixed by Michael Hunter
    Assistant Engineers: Roderick Brunton, Jon Cameron
    Mastered by Simon Heyworth at     SUPER AUDIO MASTERING
    Artwork & Photography by Antonio Seijas /     www.antonioseijas.com
    Graphic Design & Layout by Carl Glover for     alephstudio.co.uk
    Management / Bookings:     info@knowmoremanagement.com
    Representation: Lucy Jordache

    All Songs by Hogarth / Rothery / Kelly / Trewavas / Mosley

    All Words by h

    Thanks To Dr. Gisbert, Eckhart and L for the happiness
    Published by     KNOWMOREPUBLISHING

    Written, Recorded and Mixed at The RACKET CLUB, Buckinghamshire during 2007 / 2008

    Lots of things were struck, plucked, bowed, or blown - and not just out of a box.

    The Band would like to Thank our team:

    Lucy J, Erik Nielsen, Rich "Frenchie" Lee, Stephanie Bradley, Jon Cameron, Colin Price

    Also:

    Roderick Brunton, Yens Nyholm, and alt our Web teams world-wide.

    Thanks Also To:

    Antonio Seijas for tireless creativity; Ken Nelson for lending us studio gear for ages for no money; Tina and Bob at Zildjian UK; Simon Fraser Clarke at Laney; Christian Hatstatt at Blade; Roger at Cort; Andy Rigler at Bose UK; Anthony Short at Shure Distribution; Peter Janis & Rez at Radiat Engineering; Dan Steinhardt at thegigrig.com; John Littler at Headway Electronics; Mike at analogman.com; Bryan Borcherds at Arbiter; Dave Spiers at GForce Software Ltd; Big Dave and Geordie at Oxford Guitar Gallery; Gary Good at The Music Box; PMT Oxford; Steve Bell and all at First Easy; Richard Pettifer; Matthew, Richard, Martin, Rob, and all at WebOffice Systems for making marillion.com work

    h would like to Thank:

    Linette, Sofi, Ntai, Our Sue and Our Gill for being warm rocks in a choppy sea; Emil for being: David Smith for the flit, badger-damage-limitation, mechanical and spiritual repairs; Stephanie Ringuet; Mark Bredius; Sonni og Lissi (undskyld, jeg smadrede jeres bil x)

    Steve would like to Thank:

    Jo, Jennie, and Michael for all their iove and support

    Mark would like to Thank:

    Angie, Freya, Kai, Tatlulah, Delilah, Jude and one future grandchild for all their love and support

    Pete Thanks:

    Fiona, Callum, and Luke for their love and continued support

    Ian would like to Thank:

    Michael, Lindsay, Ben, Jerry, Brian, Simon, Blacky, Vicky, George, Mildred, and Jed for their love and support

    Mike would like to Thank:

    his lovely girlfriend Sarah, and Chops the dog. And Danny Sperling at CSV for the Everton DVDs.

    Special Thanks To:

    Tino Braband, Brian Chalmers, Michael Cote, Jorg Huntemann, Mark Kilminster, Joanne Matulis, Jason Purnell, Wayne Richards, Steven Steniund, inguss Vircavs, Neil Hodgkinson

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    1. Thunder Fly

      The little corn flies are messing with my nerve endings
      Just like you
      My little corn fly
      She comes with the sunlight and the perfect summer days
      And she never stays
      Just like you
      My corn fly

      The little corn flies are messing with my nerve endings
      Just like you
      My little corn fly
      Into my clothes and under my picture frames
      Before it rains
      Just like you
      My little thunder fly

      Ooh
      She comes with the sunlight and the perfect summer days
      She comes with the sunlight and the perfect summer days
      Ooh

      She belongs in the great outdoors
      Kickin off her shoes in a field of corn
      Even though she's only very small
      She'll leave you in no doubt at all

      The little corn flies are messing with my happy endings
      The little corn flies are messing with my happy endings
      The little corn flies are messing with my..
      The little corn flies are messing with my..

      And I feel her in the sweat at the back of my neck
      I feel her in the sweat in the back of my neck
      Feel her in the sweat in the back of my neck

      Ooh

      She belongs in the great outdoors
      Kickin off her shoes in a field of corn
      When the winter rains bring you down
      Thunderin' around you
      She'll take you where she found you
      In sunshine..
      Sunshine
      Sunshine

    2. The Man From The Planet Marzipan

      I am the man from the planet Marzipan
      Good to see you
      My eyes are screwed up tight, unaccustomed to the light
      And all my arms and all my legs are much too long
      Much too long

      My head is in a state, unaccustomed to the weight
      I wear this mild expression, I'm an alien to aggression
      Music only does me in my skins so thin

      There’s so much that I can’t take in
      There’s so much that I can’t take in
      There's so much that I daren't take in

      Can you feel through my skin to me?
      Can you feel through my skin to me?

      Throw a tarpaulin over me
      I look like a rotary washing line
      I am the face of 2069
      I have trouble with my breathing
      My net-curtain lungs
      And the thoughtlessness of other people's careless tongues

      The air's so thin
      Oh my skin
      The air's so thin
      Oh my skin

      I am the man from the planet Marzipan
      My eyes are screwed up tight, unaccustomed to the light
      I wear this mild expression, I'm an alien to aggression

      The air's so thin
      Oh my skin
      Oh my skin..

      I'm so close..
      I'm so close to a breakdown
      A constant crisis in the heart

      What the hell is going on here?
      Earth creatures. Amazing, beautiful and mad.
      Monkeys trying to be stars
      Monkeys carrying their Gods around
      Lies and murder in the name of heaven
      Seen it all before in the kindergartens of the Universe
      It would be quaint if it wasn't so damned scary

      I can’t listen and I can’t watch
      I can see inside the machine
      I can see the join! I can see the join.

      Can you feel through my skin to me?
      Can you see through my skin?
      It's all here in my skin, you see
      It's all here in my skin,
      Here in my skin!

      If you really look
      It's a nursery book.

    3. Asylum Satellite #1

      It said in the paper that 90% of the universe went missing this morning
      Tonight I lost 90% of what was left..

      They send us up here to get us out of the way
      We worry, and they don't like what we say
      Seems obvious to us what's right and what is wrong
      But it seems that our opinions don't belong

      La la la

      So we're all up here together on Asylum Satellite 1
      We're looking down together from Asylum Satellite 1

      I can remember, back in '22
      They changed the law - came knocking on the door
      In that same moment, the broadband seemed to go..
      Phones all dead. Gone dizzy in the head..

      La la la

      Next thing y'know
      They put us on a transport to the stars
      So we're orbitting the earth together
      And, right now, slightly to the left of Mars
      It's all so clear
      We can see the madness perfectly from here.

    4. Older Than Me

      She's older than me
      I don't care about them talking
      Why can't they see
      I've got all that I need

      All the pretty young things
      Seem suddenly boring
      When I look in her eyes
      All the world is behind

      Every line on her on her face
      Is a place and a memory
      When our fingers touch
      All the years fall away

      Mistakes that she made
      Hard lessons she carries
      And still she's prepared
      To tell me she'll stay

      She's older than me
      She's shown me a heaven
      And we're gonna be
      Over the hill
      And far away
      Far away
      Far away

    5. Throw Me Out

      In our house
      Two’s a crowd
      You threw me out
      Of my own life
      You seem want to be a friend

      In our house
      Two’s a crowd
      No more trouble
      No more strife
      You seem to be at your wits end
      I tore apart my oldest friend

      How my heart jumped
      And may head thumped
      As this hard earth
      Came up and bumped
      As I was dumped

      And you threw me out
      And you threw me out

      Stood at the boundary
      Without a clue
      Unrequired
      Losing you..
      Testing your patience
      Every day
      Opening drawers
      Getting in the way

      And making a mess
      While you’re trying to clean
      I guess that’s my function..
      Know what I mean..

      Throw me out
      Don’t worry babe
      I’m recyclable
      I’ll biodegrade
      I’ll biodegrade

      I’m recyclable
      I’m recyclable

    6. Half The World

      When you’re driving through the city
      I hope all your lights are green
      And the boy you choose to live with
      Well, I hope he’s never mean

      When you stop a while to think
      I hope your thoughts don’t drag you down
      When you’ve had too much to drink
      I hope the room don’t spin around

      You’re a girl half the world could fall in love with

      Doo doo doo..

      I hope you never get insomnia
      And all your dreams are sweet
      And that everybody smiles at you
      When they see you on the street

      I hope you think about me sometimes
      But not enough to cause you pain
      And someday that we can say we’re friends again

      You’re a girl half the world could fall in love with
      You’re a girl half the world could fall in love
      Could fall in love with

      Doo doo doo..

      You’re a girl half the world could fall in love with
      Half the world could fall in love
      You’re a girl half the world could fall in love with

    7. Whatever Is Wrong With You

      We need to talk.. about the way you've been behaving
      We need to talk.. about the christmas lights in your clothes
      We need to talk.. about the stranger in the kitchen
      We need to talk.. about the scissors and the silver foil
      I thank God..
      You're so fabulously..
      Odd

      Whatever is wrong with you
      Whatever is wrong with you
      Whatever is wrong with you
      Is so right for me
      So right for me

      We need to talk.. about the wedding cake, and the wet-suit
      We need to talk.. about the policeman down the hall
      You're truly strange
      But it wouldn't do for us all to be the same

      Whatever is wrong with you
      Whatever is wrong with you
      Whatever is wrong with you
      Is so right for me
      Just right for me

      Whatever is wrong with you
      Whatever is wrong with you
      Whatever is wrong with you
      Is so right for me
      So right

      Whatever is wrong with you
      Is so right for me.

    8. Especially True

      I gazed upon you from the bleachers
      A creature so foreign to me
      With the stars and the stripes wrapped around you
      Well how could I know there was England below?
      I gazed upon you and I wondered
      Cheerleader with hair of red flame
      But that was first glance - I saw only the dance
      And the distance from New York to Yorkshire

      Truth's always stranger than fiction
      And here it's especially true
      Here in the home of Miss USA
      What's a wide-eyed English boy going to do?

      I never knew much about baseball
      But I was quick with the US cliche
      The crowd gave a roar and I don't know what for
      The Major League rules get me so confused

      Truth's always stranger than fiction
      The cheerleader showed me around
      You with the heart of the USA
      And me with the spite of a small English town

      Central Park after dark, is safe these days
      Depending on the game you play..

      America. House of Blues
      What do you know?
      Gimme the news.

      America. Shock and awe.
      Not any more.

      America I'm ready for you
      Tell me what to do
      Tell me what to do
      Tell me what to do.

    9. Real Tears For Sale

      Such a pretty girl - the anger didn't hide it ..did it?
      You shaved you head, pulled a face
      Dressed yourself up without grace
      It didn't hide a lifetime's damage
      It didn't hide a lifetime's fears

      Against your better judgement
      'Put your whole self up for sale
      The horror show when you were young
      We couldn't wait to hear about it

      But even whores don't kiss with tongues
      Nonetheless I do believe you cried real tears

      Real tears for sale!
      Real tears for sale
      Real tears for sale
      Real tears, real tears for sale!

      The wrong side of a lifetime's drinking
      Is where it seems I'm coming from
      I took my demons by the hand
      Bent them, twisted them until they scanned and rhymed
      And I took your love and all the hurt inside
      Laid it out on the market stall
      Agony at a knock-down price
      "Reduced to clear!" is what I cried

      The wrong side of a lifetime's wishful thinking
      Drove me here to pills and ale
      Come and listen, come and listen to my tale

      Come and get it. Come and get it.

      Real tears for sale
      Real tears for sale
      Real tears for sale
      Real tears for sale

      All the hurt, All the secrets, All the damage, All the shame,
      All the dirty cuts and bruises, All the rage, All the rage
      All the rage.
      Boo hoo.