U.K.
U.K.
(1978)
1. In The Dead Of Night 5'34 (Eddie Jobson / John Wetton)
2. By The Light Of Day 4'27
3. Presto Vivace And Reprise 3'08
4. Thirty Years 8'08
5. Alaska 4'40
6. Time To Kill 4'57
7. Nevermore 8'12
8. Mental Medication 7'24
Total Time: 46:30
Engineered by Stephen W. Tayler
Management by Alex Scott
Sleeve Design by Nicholas De Ville
Photographic Assistance by Martin Durrant
The CS80 Polyphonic Synthesizer is by YAMAHA
All Songs Published by E.G. MUSIC Ltd.
Recorded and Mixed at TRIDENT STUDIOS, Soho, London
December 1977 and January 1978
1. In The Dead Of Night
Are you one of mine who can sleep with one eye open wide?
Agonizing psychotic solitary hours to decide
Reaching for the light at the slightest noise from the floor
Palms of hands perspire
(Now your hands perspire)
heart goes leaping at a knock from the door
In the dead of night
In the dead of night
Rich and powerful ascend complicated bends to be free
To indulge in what they will
(Indulge in what they will)
and jaded thrill or fanstasy
Shuttered windows that belie all stifled cries from within
(All the stifled cries from within)
And prying eyes are blind to proceedings of the kind that begin
In the dead of night
In the dead of night
2. By The Light Of Day
Black clouds moving gray sky to thunder
Kinetic sunrise fever and flood
Fire and water element anger
Horizon melting to blood
By the light of day
By the light of day
Silent wheel advancing years
Power and agony growing fears
(Power and glory growing fears)
Love's a dream some pretend
(Love's a dream that some pretend)
Accelerates an early end
(Accelerates at an early end)
By the light of day
By the light of day
Don't tell me that the wages of sin are for real
The writing's on the wall
(Writing on the wall)
(What's) the score what's the deal?
Don't wonder we can't see
(No wonder we can't see)
(thru) the wood for the trees
{(thru) the wood thru the trees}
No perfume we design can ever veil the sickness on the breeze
By the light of day
In the dead of night
3. Presto Vivace And Reprise
(instrumental)
4. Thirty Years
Chasing rainbows for a lifetime
then left you girl (left to go)
Like shadows from the sun,
Run into traces
Of faces you thought you saw
But never seemed to mean much more
(But never seemed to me much more)
than echoes of a day gone by
(echoes of a day gone by)
When someone else would have to try
To light the stars
......In your sky
(Your dark sky)
All the things you planned
Just sand castles washed away
On tidal waves of tears, fears overpowering
Your complex dreams just slither down drowning in rocky pools,
Or smashed and dashed
On peril's course, divorcing prematurely thoughts
(On peril's course, forcing prematurely)
Of lasting love
...... In your life
Sometime when you've time to spare
(Sometime we need time to spare)
Feeling of missed opportunity
Spare a tear and douse your bridge...
burning 30 years and on the ledge....
learning
All the things you planned (baby)
30 years in bed
5. Alaska
(instrumental)
6. Time To Kill
Rip the sheets off cold ice again
Wolf at the door
Can I stand
A dog's life here for one day more
Close my eyes imagine somewhere
So far away
Silver sand
And azure Caribbean Sea
Sick of solitary holidays
Cause I never get away from here
I listen to the water drip down
In to the cell
Run amok
If I survive this living hell.
Holding up this cold calaboose
C A P T I V I T Y
Even takes
My lucid thoughts away from me
Time to kill
going nowhere
Killing time
staying where there's......
7. Nevermore
Nevermore
The sight
Black Forest
Cool moonlight
Blue shadows
Reflect
In windows
In direct
Oh to go
Down to Soho
There bold spirits don't sink so low
Gold amber
Of lights
Beer glasses
Misty nights
Oh to go
Down to Soho
Black tie night out or hobo outright
Singles bars
Cruising shark cars
Soho neon glow
When day is dawning
You wipe the sleep slowly from your eyes
And you remember Soho's neon disguise
Eyes reflect in windows direct Soho neon glow ......
8. Mental Medication
Mental medication
Sweet music's conversation
Play for all creation here
Melody fair
Lost in contemplation
Drown'd in medication
(Drown'd in meditation) (!)
Need your inspiration near
When I'm alone I remember
Your truth is lasting
(Truth is lasting)
With the sun in your eyes
And a simple disguise
You fooled me
Strange how your calling is clear
From the sound of your voice
You don't give me no choice
You move me
(You prove me)
Deep lies desire for your quick'ning fire
It's a hell of a ride
(Well it's a hell of a ride)
When your courage inside
Deserts you
Clear though the calling may be......
In a terrible way
You continue to say
You need me
Show me the way through your dark red door
Mental Medication
Music's Conversation
Need Your Inspiration
Near Melody Fair
Agonizing psychotic solitary hours to decide
Reaching for the light at the slightest noise from the floor
Palms of hands perspire
(Now your hands perspire)
heart goes leaping at a knock from the door
In the dead of night
In the dead of night
Rich and powerful ascend complicated bends to be free
To indulge in what they will
(Indulge in what they will)
and jaded thrill or fanstasy
Shuttered windows that belie all stifled cries from within
(All the stifled cries from within)
And prying eyes are blind to proceedings of the kind that begin
In the dead of night
In the dead of night
2. By The Light Of Day
Black clouds moving gray sky to thunder
Kinetic sunrise fever and flood
Fire and water element anger
Horizon melting to blood
By the light of day
By the light of day
Silent wheel advancing years
Power and agony growing fears
(Power and glory growing fears)
Love's a dream some pretend
(Love's a dream that some pretend)
Accelerates an early end
(Accelerates at an early end)
By the light of day
By the light of day
Don't tell me that the wages of sin are for real
The writing's on the wall
(Writing on the wall)
(What's) the score what's the deal?
Don't wonder we can't see
(No wonder we can't see)
(thru) the wood for the trees
{(thru) the wood thru the trees}
No perfume we design can ever veil the sickness on the breeze
By the light of day
In the dead of night
3. Presto Vivace And Reprise
(instrumental)
4. Thirty Years
Chasing rainbows for a lifetime
then left you girl (left to go)
Like shadows from the sun,
Run into traces
Of faces you thought you saw
But never seemed to mean much more
(But never seemed to me much more)
than echoes of a day gone by
(echoes of a day gone by)
When someone else would have to try
To light the stars
......In your sky
(Your dark sky)
All the things you planned
Just sand castles washed away
On tidal waves of tears, fears overpowering
Your complex dreams just slither down drowning in rocky pools,
Or smashed and dashed
On peril's course, divorcing prematurely thoughts
(On peril's course, forcing prematurely)
Of lasting love
...... In your life
Sometime when you've time to spare
(Sometime we need time to spare)
Feeling of missed opportunity
Spare a tear and douse your bridge...
burning 30 years and on the ledge....
learning
All the things you planned (baby)
30 years in bed
5. Alaska
(instrumental)
6. Time To Kill
Rip the sheets off cold ice again
Wolf at the door
Can I stand
A dog's life here for one day more
Close my eyes imagine somewhere
So far away
Silver sand
And azure Caribbean Sea
Sick of solitary holidays
Cause I never get away from here
I listen to the water drip down
In to the cell
Run amok
If I survive this living hell.
Holding up this cold calaboose
C A P T I V I T Y
Even takes
My lucid thoughts away from me
Time to kill
going nowhere
Killing time
staying where there's......
7. Nevermore
Nevermore
The sight
Black Forest
Cool moonlight
Blue shadows
Reflect
In windows
In direct
Oh to go
Down to Soho
There bold spirits don't sink so low
Gold amber
Of lights
Beer glasses
Misty nights
Oh to go
Down to Soho
Black tie night out or hobo outright
Singles bars
Cruising shark cars
Soho neon glow
When day is dawning
You wipe the sleep slowly from your eyes
And you remember Soho's neon disguise
Eyes reflect in windows direct Soho neon glow ......
8. Mental Medication
Mental medication
Sweet music's conversation
Play for all creation here
Melody fair
Lost in contemplation
Drown'd in medication
(Drown'd in meditation) (!)
Need your inspiration near
When I'm alone I remember
Your truth is lasting
(Truth is lasting)
With the sun in your eyes
And a simple disguise
You fooled me
Strange how your calling is clear
From the sound of your voice
You don't give me no choice
You move me
(You prove me)
Deep lies desire for your quick'ning fire
It's a hell of a ride
(Well it's a hell of a ride)
When your courage inside
Deserts you
Clear though the calling may be......
In a terrible way
You continue to say
You need me
Show me the way through your dark red door
Mental Medication
Music's Conversation
Need Your Inspiration
Near Melody Fair
Kinetic sunrise fever and flood
Fire and water element anger
Horizon melting to blood
By the light of day
By the light of day
Silent wheel advancing years
Power and agony growing fears
(Power and glory growing fears)
Love's a dream some pretend
(Love's a dream that some pretend)
Accelerates an early end
(Accelerates at an early end)
By the light of day
By the light of day
Don't tell me that the wages of sin are for real
The writing's on the wall
(Writing on the wall)
(What's) the score what's the deal?
Don't wonder we can't see
(No wonder we can't see)
(thru) the wood for the trees
{(thru) the wood thru the trees}
No perfume we design can ever veil the sickness on the breeze
By the light of day
In the dead of night
3. Presto Vivace And Reprise
(instrumental)
4. Thirty Years
Chasing rainbows for a lifetime
then left you girl (left to go)
Like shadows from the sun,
Run into traces
Of faces you thought you saw
But never seemed to mean much more
(But never seemed to me much more)
than echoes of a day gone by
(echoes of a day gone by)
When someone else would have to try
To light the stars
......In your sky
(Your dark sky)
All the things you planned
Just sand castles washed away
On tidal waves of tears, fears overpowering
Your complex dreams just slither down drowning in rocky pools,
Or smashed and dashed
On peril's course, divorcing prematurely thoughts
(On peril's course, forcing prematurely)
Of lasting love
...... In your life
Sometime when you've time to spare
(Sometime we need time to spare)
Feeling of missed opportunity
Spare a tear and douse your bridge...
burning 30 years and on the ledge....
learning
All the things you planned (baby)
30 years in bed
5. Alaska
(instrumental)
6. Time To Kill
Rip the sheets off cold ice again
Wolf at the door
Can I stand
A dog's life here for one day more
Close my eyes imagine somewhere
So far away
Silver sand
And azure Caribbean Sea
Sick of solitary holidays
Cause I never get away from here
I listen to the water drip down
In to the cell
Run amok
If I survive this living hell.
Holding up this cold calaboose
C A P T I V I T Y
Even takes
My lucid thoughts away from me
Time to kill
going nowhere
Killing time
staying where there's......
7. Nevermore
Nevermore
The sight
Black Forest
Cool moonlight
Blue shadows
Reflect
In windows
In direct
Oh to go
Down to Soho
There bold spirits don't sink so low
Gold amber
Of lights
Beer glasses
Misty nights
Oh to go
Down to Soho
Black tie night out or hobo outright
Singles bars
Cruising shark cars
Soho neon glow
When day is dawning
You wipe the sleep slowly from your eyes
And you remember Soho's neon disguise
Eyes reflect in windows direct Soho neon glow ......
8. Mental Medication
Mental medication
Sweet music's conversation
Play for all creation here
Melody fair
Lost in contemplation
Drown'd in medication
(Drown'd in meditation) (!)
Need your inspiration near
When I'm alone I remember
Your truth is lasting
(Truth is lasting)
With the sun in your eyes
And a simple disguise
You fooled me
Strange how your calling is clear
From the sound of your voice
You don't give me no choice
You move me
(You prove me)
Deep lies desire for your quick'ning fire
It's a hell of a ride
(Well it's a hell of a ride)
When your courage inside
Deserts you
Clear though the calling may be......
In a terrible way
You continue to say
You need me
Show me the way through your dark red door
Mental Medication
Music's Conversation
Need Your Inspiration
Near Melody Fair
4. Thirty Years
Chasing rainbows for a lifetime
then left you girl (left to go)
Like shadows from the sun,
Run into traces
Of faces you thought you saw
But never seemed to mean much more
(But never seemed to me much more)
than echoes of a day gone by
(echoes of a day gone by)
When someone else would have to try
To light the stars
......In your sky
(Your dark sky)
All the things you planned
Just sand castles washed away
On tidal waves of tears, fears overpowering
Your complex dreams just slither down drowning in rocky pools,
Or smashed and dashed
On peril's course, divorcing prematurely thoughts
(On peril's course, forcing prematurely)
Of lasting love
...... In your life
Sometime when you've time to spare
(Sometime we need time to spare)
Feeling of missed opportunity
Spare a tear and douse your bridge...
burning 30 years and on the ledge....
learning
All the things you planned (baby)
30 years in bed
5. Alaska
(instrumental)
6. Time To Kill
Rip the sheets off cold ice again
Wolf at the door
Can I stand
A dog's life here for one day more
Close my eyes imagine somewhere
So far away
Silver sand
And azure Caribbean Sea
Sick of solitary holidays
Cause I never get away from here
I listen to the water drip down
In to the cell
Run amok
If I survive this living hell.
Holding up this cold calaboose
C A P T I V I T Y
Even takes
My lucid thoughts away from me
Time to kill
going nowhere
Killing time
staying where there's......
7. Nevermore
Nevermore
The sight
Black Forest
Cool moonlight
Blue shadows
Reflect
In windows
In direct
Oh to go
Down to Soho
There bold spirits don't sink so low
Gold amber
Of lights
Beer glasses
Misty nights
Oh to go
Down to Soho
Black tie night out or hobo outright
Singles bars
Cruising shark cars
Soho neon glow
When day is dawning
You wipe the sleep slowly from your eyes
And you remember Soho's neon disguise
Eyes reflect in windows direct Soho neon glow ......
8. Mental Medication
Mental medication
Sweet music's conversation
Play for all creation here
Melody fair
Lost in contemplation
Drown'd in medication
(Drown'd in meditation) (!)
Need your inspiration near
When I'm alone I remember
Your truth is lasting
(Truth is lasting)
With the sun in your eyes
And a simple disguise
You fooled me
Strange how your calling is clear
From the sound of your voice
You don't give me no choice
You move me
(You prove me)
Deep lies desire for your quick'ning fire
It's a hell of a ride
(Well it's a hell of a ride)
When your courage inside
Deserts you
Clear though the calling may be......
In a terrible way
You continue to say
You need me
Show me the way through your dark red door
Mental Medication
Music's Conversation
Need Your Inspiration
Near Melody Fair
then left you girl (left to go)
Like shadows from the sun,
Run into traces
Of faces you thought you saw
But never seemed to mean much more
(But never seemed to me much more)
than echoes of a day gone by
(echoes of a day gone by)
When someone else would have to try
To light the stars
......In your sky (Your dark sky)
All the things you planned
Just sand castles washed away
On tidal waves of tears, fears overpowering
Your complex dreams just slither down drowning in rocky pools,
Or smashed and dashed
On peril's course, divorcing prematurely thoughts
(On peril's course, forcing prematurely)
Of lasting love
...... In your life
Sometime when you've time to spare
(Sometime we need time to spare)
Feeling of missed opportunity
Spare a tear and douse your bridge...
burning 30 years and on the ledge....
learning
All the things you planned (baby)
30 years in bed
5. Alaska
(instrumental)
6. Time To Kill
Rip the sheets off cold ice again
Wolf at the door
Can I stand
A dog's life here for one day more
Close my eyes imagine somewhere
So far away
Silver sand
And azure Caribbean Sea
Sick of solitary holidays
Cause I never get away from here
I listen to the water drip down
In to the cell
Run amok
If I survive this living hell.
Holding up this cold calaboose
C A P T I V I T Y
Even takes
My lucid thoughts away from me
Time to kill
going nowhere
Killing time
staying where there's......
7. Nevermore
Nevermore
The sight
Black Forest
Cool moonlight
Blue shadows
Reflect
In windows
In direct
Oh to go
Down to Soho
There bold spirits don't sink so low
Gold amber
Of lights
Beer glasses
Misty nights
Oh to go
Down to Soho
Black tie night out or hobo outright
Singles bars
Cruising shark cars
Soho neon glow
When day is dawning
You wipe the sleep slowly from your eyes
And you remember Soho's neon disguise
Eyes reflect in windows direct Soho neon glow ......
8. Mental Medication
Mental medication
Sweet music's conversation
Play for all creation here
Melody fair
Lost in contemplation
Drown'd in medication
(Drown'd in meditation) (!)
Need your inspiration near
When I'm alone I remember
Your truth is lasting
(Truth is lasting)
With the sun in your eyes
And a simple disguise
You fooled me
Strange how your calling is clear
From the sound of your voice
You don't give me no choice
You move me
(You prove me)
Deep lies desire for your quick'ning fire
It's a hell of a ride
(Well it's a hell of a ride)
When your courage inside
Deserts you
Clear though the calling may be......
In a terrible way
You continue to say
You need me
Show me the way through your dark red door
Mental Medication
Music's Conversation
Need Your Inspiration
Near Melody Fair
6. Time To Kill
Rip the sheets off cold ice again
Wolf at the door
Can I stand
A dog's life here for one day more
Close my eyes imagine somewhere
So far away
Silver sand
And azure Caribbean Sea
Sick of solitary holidays
Cause I never get away from here
I listen to the water drip down
In to the cell
Run amok
If I survive this living hell.
Holding up this cold calaboose
C A P T I V I T Y
Even takes
My lucid thoughts away from me
Time to kill
going nowhere
Killing time
staying where there's......
7. Nevermore
Nevermore
The sight
Black Forest
Cool moonlight
Blue shadows
Reflect
In windows
In direct
Oh to go
Down to Soho
There bold spirits don't sink so low
Gold amber
Of lights
Beer glasses
Misty nights
Oh to go
Down to Soho
Black tie night out or hobo outright
Singles bars
Cruising shark cars
Soho neon glow
When day is dawning
You wipe the sleep slowly from your eyes
And you remember Soho's neon disguise
Eyes reflect in windows direct Soho neon glow ......
8. Mental Medication
Mental medication
Sweet music's conversation
Play for all creation here
Melody fair
Lost in contemplation
Drown'd in medication
(Drown'd in meditation) (!)
Need your inspiration near
When I'm alone I remember
Your truth is lasting
(Truth is lasting)
With the sun in your eyes
And a simple disguise
You fooled me
Strange how your calling is clear
From the sound of your voice
You don't give me no choice
You move me
(You prove me)
Deep lies desire for your quick'ning fire
It's a hell of a ride
(Well it's a hell of a ride)
When your courage inside
Deserts you
Clear though the calling may be......
In a terrible way
You continue to say
You need me
Show me the way through your dark red door
Mental Medication
Music's Conversation
Need Your Inspiration
Near Melody Fair
Wolf at the door
Can I stand
A dog's life here for one day more
Close my eyes imagine somewhere
So far away
Silver sand
And azure Caribbean Sea
Sick of solitary holidays
Cause I never get away from here
I listen to the water drip down
In to the cell
Run amok
If I survive this living hell.
Holding up this cold calaboose
C A P T I V I T Y
Even takes
My lucid thoughts away from me
Time to kill
going nowhere
Killing time
staying where there's......
7. Nevermore
Nevermore
The sight
Black Forest
Cool moonlight
Blue shadows
Reflect
In windows
In direct
Oh to go
Down to Soho
There bold spirits don't sink so low
Gold amber
Of lights
Beer glasses
Misty nights
Oh to go
Down to Soho
Black tie night out or hobo outright
Singles bars
Cruising shark cars
Soho neon glow
When day is dawning
You wipe the sleep slowly from your eyes
And you remember Soho's neon disguise
Eyes reflect in windows direct Soho neon glow ......
8. Mental Medication
Mental medication
Sweet music's conversation
Play for all creation here
Melody fair
Lost in contemplation
Drown'd in medication
(Drown'd in meditation) (!)
Need your inspiration near
When I'm alone I remember
Your truth is lasting
(Truth is lasting)
With the sun in your eyes
And a simple disguise
You fooled me
Strange how your calling is clear
From the sound of your voice
You don't give me no choice
You move me
(You prove me)
Deep lies desire for your quick'ning fire
It's a hell of a ride
(Well it's a hell of a ride)
When your courage inside
Deserts you
Clear though the calling may be......
In a terrible way
You continue to say
You need me
Show me the way through your dark red door
Mental Medication
Music's Conversation
Need Your Inspiration
Near Melody Fair
The sight
Black Forest
Cool moonlight
Blue shadows
Reflect
In windows
In direct
Oh to go
Down to Soho
There bold spirits don't sink so low
Gold amber
Of lights
Beer glasses
Misty nights
Oh to go
Down to Soho
Black tie night out or hobo outright
Singles bars
Cruising shark cars
Soho neon glow
When day is dawning
You wipe the sleep slowly from your eyes
And you remember Soho's neon disguise
Eyes reflect in windows direct Soho neon glow ......
8. Mental Medication
Mental medication
Sweet music's conversation
Play for all creation here
Melody fair
Lost in contemplation
Drown'd in medication
(Drown'd in meditation) (!)
Need your inspiration near
When I'm alone I remember
Your truth is lasting
(Truth is lasting)
With the sun in your eyes
And a simple disguise
You fooled me
Strange how your calling is clear
From the sound of your voice
You don't give me no choice
You move me
(You prove me)
Deep lies desire for your quick'ning fire
It's a hell of a ride
(Well it's a hell of a ride)
When your courage inside
Deserts you
Clear though the calling may be......
In a terrible way
You continue to say
You need me
Show me the way through your dark red door
Mental Medication
Music's Conversation
Need Your Inspiration
Near Melody Fair
Sweet music's conversation
Play for all creation here
Melody fair
Lost in contemplation
Drown'd in medication
(Drown'd in meditation) (!)
Need your inspiration near
When I'm alone I remember
Your truth is lasting
(Truth is lasting)
With the sun in your eyes
And a simple disguise
You fooled me
Strange how your calling is clear
From the sound of your voice
You don't give me no choice
You move me
(You prove me)
Deep lies desire for your quick'ning fire
It's a hell of a ride
(Well it's a hell of a ride)
When your courage inside
Deserts you
Clear though the calling may be......
In a terrible way
You continue to say
You need me
Show me the way through your dark red door
Mental Medication
Music's Conversation
Need Your Inspiration
Near Melody Fair