Brian May & Kerry Ellis 'The Candlelight
Concerts'
Live At Montreux 2013
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Released on 31 March 2014. Length 87 minutes.
1. I Who Have Nothing
2. Dust In The Wind
3. Born Free
4. Somebody To Love
5. Nothing Really Has
Changed
6. Life Is Real
7. The Way We Were
8. '39
9. Something
10. Last Horizon
11. Love Of My Life
12. The Kissing Me Song
13. Tie Your Mother Down
14. We Will Rock You
15. No-One
But You (Only The Good Die Young)
16. Crazy Little Thing
Called Love
Bonus Video:
Nothing
Really Has Changed (live in Shamwari Game Reserve)
All tracks performed by Brian May (vocals,
acoustic and electric guitar), Kerry Ellis (vocals, except 'Last
Horizon'), and Jeff Leach (keyboards, except 'I Who Have
Nothing', and percussion on '39' and 'We Will Rock You').
Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival at the Stravinski
Auditorium, Montreux, Switzerland, on 19 July 2013.
Directed by Julian Nicole-Kay
Executive producers Geoff Kempin, Terry Shand and Jim Beach
Sound recorded by Justin Shirley-Smith and Jerome Blôndel in Le
Voyageur I
Music mix produced by Justin Shirley-Smith and Kris Fredriksson
Audio mastering by Tim Young at Metropolis Studios
Guitar technician Pete Malandrone
Special thanks to David Richards and Zemfira
Cover photography by Francyne Carr
Cover design by Brian May and Richard Gray
'Nothing Really Has Changed' bonus video:
Directed by Mike Slee, produced by Mike and Georgina Slee
Photography by Paul Williams, sound by Richard Sprawson, edited
by Robbie Morrison
This release features the complete concert performed at the
Montreux Jazz Festival in 2013, and was available as a DVD and CD
set, a Blu-ray and CD set, and digitally.
During the concert, various footage is shown on a videoscreen,
including the promo videos during 'Born Free' and 'The Kissing Me
Song', wildlife footage during 'Nothing Really Has Changed',
photographs of Brian and Kerry's childhood during 'The Way We
Were', skies, trees, rivers and horses during 'Something',
planets and space travel during '39', and stars during 'Last
Horizon'. 'No-One But You' features footage of Montreux,
Freddie's statue, and paintings of Icarus (who, in Greek
mythology, flew too close to the sun).
The physical releases include two main titles; title 1 is the
entire concert, lasting 1:27:33 on the Blu-ray and 1:27:28 on the
DVD, both divided into 18 chapters. Title 2 is a bonus video of
Brian and Kerry performing 'Nothing Really Has Changed' as a
surprise for Viriginia McKenna. It was recorded at the Shamwari
Game Reserve, South Africa, in early 2012, during the filming of
the 'Born Free' video.
The menus have simple options to play the entire concert, select
a song, play the bonus feature, or change audio options (LPCM
stereo or DTS-HD master audio). The DVD features a main menu, and
sub-menus for song selection (split over two menus) and audio
options. The Blu-ray also features a main menu, with pop-up menus
for these two options; when accessed while the concert is
playing, it is shown as a bar across the screen. All menus
feature audience noise, rather than song excerpts.
Both DVD and Blu-ray releases include the 2013 live album 'Acoustic By
Candlelight'. The releases feature eleven of the same tracks,
with the DVD/Blu-ray adding four Queen tracks and one Brian solo
track, while the CD adds three tracks from the 'Anthems' album,
and one cover version. Both discs in the DVD set have a glossier
finish and slightly richer colours than the Blu-ray equivalents,
as well as different catalogue numbers and logos.
I Who Have Nothing
Chapter 2. Length 2:59.
This track is performed by Brian and Kerry alone, without Jeff
Leach.
Details of this cover version can be found on the 'Golden
Days' album page.
I, I who have nothing
I, I who have no-one
Adore you and want you so
I'm just a no-one, with nothing to give you but oh
I love you
He, he buys you diamonds
Bright and sparkling diamonds
But believe me, dear, when I say
That he can give you the world
But he'll never love you the way
I love you
He can take you any place he wants
From fancy clubs and restaurants
But I can only watch you with
My nose pressed up against the window pane
I, I who have nothing
I, I who have no-one
Must watch you, go dancing by
Lost in the arms of somebody else
When darling it's I
Who loves you
I love you
Brian: Thank you, bonsoir, and guten abend, and buonasera, and
um, buenos tardes, and um, thank you for being here in this
beautiful, beautiful Stravinski Auditorium, um, I would like to
introduce you straight away if I may to the favolosa Miss Kerry
Ellis
Kerry: Thank you so much, thank you, it is such a pleasure to be
here, it's my first time in Montreux, and I'm just honoured to be
here so thank you for being here and supporting us. And I would
like to introduce to you, well there is only one, the legend that
is Doctor Brian May
Brian: Thank you very much. We'd like to do a song for you which
is part of my history really, because in the old days I used to
tour a lot all around the world with a group called Queen and um,
and we played in a lot of beautiful places, met a lot of
beautiful people, and we played with some wonderful musicians,
one of those musicians was in a band called Kansas, and, yeah,
great band, and um, he wrote this song, kind of prophetically
really, because it's all about dust, which is kind of what I'm
concerned about, dust is something (audience applauds), yeah. I
don't have to tell you, dust is in all of us. I'm gonna introduce
to you, ladies and gentlemen, a wonderful musician, Mr Jeff
Leach. Flown in from England at enormous expense, and um, there's
nobody quite like Mr Leach. So, we're gonna do this song, and
it's, um, it's called 'Dust In The Wind'
Dust In The Wind
Chapter 3. Length 3:53.
Details of this cover version can be found on the Live
Only Songs page.
I close my eyes
Only for a moment, then the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes a curiosity
Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind
Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Don't hang on
Nothin' lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
All your money won't another minute buy
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Kerry: Thank you so much. So, Brian and I have been on our 'Born
Free' tour around the UK and Europe, and we recorded our own
version of the song last year for the charity, which is headed by
Virginia McKenna, we actually went out to South Africa at the
beginning of last year, and did some work for her and the
charity, and we made a video, which I hope you are going to
enjoy, this is our version of 'Born Free'
Born Free
Chapter 4. Length 3:02.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Golden Days' album
page.
Born free, as free as the wind blows
As free as the grass grows
Born free to follow your heart
Live free and beauty surrounds you
The world still astounds you
Each time you look at a star
Stay free, where no walls divide you
You're free as a roaring tide
So there's no need to hide
Born free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
When you are free
Oooh, oooh
No man should choose your life for you
No man has the right to say you'll live or die today
Born free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
When you are free
Born free
Brian: Thank you. Now this is a very, very, very beautiful place,
and er, our hope, our desire is that it will seem smaller and
smaller and smaller as the evening goes on, and we would like you
to all feel that we are inside your house, OK, so this will
require you loosening up and maybe singing a little, a little bit
of, little singing with us, man, you know. The best thing we find
to get people singing, sometimes, is a Queen song. So we will be
listening, OK. And we like to do things a little differently, so
I'm gonna say to Jeff, please just take it away any way you fancy
doing this, maybe like a little minuet or something, you know?
Somebody To Love
Chapter 5. Length 5:03.
This track features a slow piano and guitar introduction, lasting
around 41 seconds, which is not included in the above time.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'A
Day At The Races' album page.
Each morning I get up I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
Take a look in the mirror and cry
Lord what you doing to me
Well I've spent all my years in believing you
But I just can't get no relief, Lord
Brian: I'm listening
Somebody (somebody), somebody (somebody)
Can anybody find me
Audience: Somebody to love
Alright
I work hard (he works hard) every day of my life
I work till I ache my bones
At the end of the day
I take home my broken heart all on my own
I go down on my knees
And I start to pray
Till the tears run down from my eyes (oooh, oooh, oooh)
Lord
Somebody (Audience: somebody)
Somebody (Audience: somebody)
Can anybody find me
Audience: Somebody to love
Brian: Yeah, that's very nice
Wooh, I, I, I, I, I, yeah
He works hard
Everyday (everyday)
Oh I try and I try and I try
But everybody wants to put me down (oooooh)
They say I'm going crazy (oooooh)
They say I got a lot of water on my brain
I got no common sense
Got nobody left to believe in
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Kerry: Mr Jeff Leach
Oooh, oooh, oooh, Lord
Somebody (Audience: somebody)
Somebody (Audience: somebody)
Can anybody find me
Audience: Somebody to love
Brian: Yeah
Kerry: Beautiful
Got no feel, I've got no rhythm
I just keep losing my beat
I'm OK, oh I'm alright
'Cos I ain't gonna face no defeat
I just gotta get out of this prison cell
Someday I'm gonna be free, Lord!
Audience: Find me somebody to love, find me somebody to love
(Audience: Find me) somebody to love, find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love, find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love, find me somebody to love
Somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody
Somebody find me somebody to love
Can anybody find me
Audience: Somebody to love
Brian: You're very good. Magnifique. Three, four
Find me somebody (Audience: to) love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me (oh yeah) somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Brian: Thank you. Beautifully sung, beautifully sung. That's
beautiful, thank you so much. You guys are great singers, it must
be the festival atmosphere I think, very, very good singing.
We're gonna sing you um, perform for you a little song which
really gave rise to this whole thing, because we did some very
small concerts in Africa in the jungle, very intimate, and we
thought well how interesting it would be to take this kind of
intimate approach, very simple approach, back into Europe. This
song was written by the aforesaid Virginia McKenna, the most
amazing, inspiring woman whose philosophy is that no animal
should be caged, every animal should be born free, and should
-ing stay free, so. We're gonna show you a little video with this
song just to remind you that we too have wild animals all around
us, which perhaps need a little respect.
Nothing Really Has
Changed
Chapter 6. Length 3:37.
Brian plays electric guitar on this track. It was released as a
single in October 2013, to raise funds for the Badger Vaccination
Fund, with the video available on Youtube. It features additional
text at the end of the track about the badger cull, accompanied
by wildlife noises and gunshots, which extend the track to 4:26.
It includes Brian's introduction at the end of the previous track
from 'we're gonna show you a little video' onwards, and includes
both Brian and Kerry's 'thank you' at the end.
Details of this cover version can be found on the Live
Only Songs page.
Nothing really has changed
I still feel the warmth of the sun
Nothing really has changed
The spiders spin and the children still run
Everything's really the same
The waves still break on the shore
But to me the world
Is a different place
Now you are here
No more
I can't get used to the day now
I miss the sound of your foot on the stair
I can't get used to the night now
I put out my hand and forget you're not there
Beside me to hold me
And tell me that you want me
And love me and need me
I can't get used to my life now
Now you are here
No more
Nothing really has changed
The rose still smells sweet and fair
Nothing really has changed
I feel the grey rain and the wind in my hair
Everything's really the same
My friends still knock at my door
But to me the world is a different place
Now you are here
No more
Now you are here
No more
Brian: Thank you
Kerry: Thank you
Brian: Ladies and gentlemen, Pete
Kerry: So, this next song was written by Freddie, (audience
applauds) absolutely, and, um, Freddie actually wrote this song
and dedicated it to John Lennon from The Beatles, but tonight
we'd like to dedicate it to Freddie, so this is our version of
'Life Is Real'
Life Is Real
Chapter 7. Length 3:56.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Hot
Space' album page.
Guilt stains on my pillow
Blood on my terraces
Torsos in my closet
Shadows from my past
Life is real
Life is real
Life is real, so real
Sleeping is my leisure
Waking up in a minefield
Dreaming's just a pleasure dome
Love is a roulette wheel
Life is real
Life is real
Life is real, oh yeah
Success is my breathing space
I bought it on myself
I will price it
I will cash it
I will take it or leave it
Loneliness is my hiding place
Breastfeeding myself
What more can I say
I have swallowed a bitter pill
I will taste it, I will taste it
Life is real
Life is real
Life is real
Music will be my mistress
Loving like a whore
Freddie is a genius
Living in every pore
Life is real
Life is real
Life is real, so real
Life is cruel
Life is a bitch
Life is real - so real
Life is real
Life is real
Oooh, life is real
Life is real
Kerry: Thank you very much
Brian: Thank you. Thank you, thank you, you're very kind (speaks
in French), thank you so much. Um, that's a little piece of rock
'n' roll history I suppose, but this next song is a piece of
history from somewhere completely different, and um, I guess when
I was a kid I got this idea in my head that rock 'n' roll was the
only kind of music in the world, which of course it is, right?
But, you get to my age, you know, you start to grow up, I haven't
quite made it yet, but um, but this song comes from just some
place completely different. This is called 'The Way We Were'
The Way We Were
Chapter 8. Length 2:54.
Kerry later recorded this track for her solo album 'Kerry Ellis',
with Brian on guitar, and details can be found on the 'Anthems' songs
page.
Memories
Light the corners of my mind
Misty water coloured memories
Of the way we were
Scattered pictures
Of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another
Of the way we were
Can it be that it was all so simple then?
Or has time re-written every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we?
Could we?
Memories
May be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget
So, it's the laughter
We will remember
Whenever we remember
The way we were
Ooooh
The way we were
Kerry: Thank you so much
Brian: You know, we were gonna play you 'Smoke On The Water' at
this point but in the circumstances it didn't seem like such a
good idea, so we thought of something else that we might play for
you that maybe you wanma sing along to, it's a kind of science
fiction song, and um, it's a long journey out to the edges of the
cosmos, and I don't even know if we're gonna get back here but,
it's a little dangerous but life has to be dangerous, OK? You
wanna sing?
'39
Chapter 9. Length 3:32.
Jeff Leach plays tambourine on this track, in addition to
keyboards.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'A Night At
The Opera' album page.
Brian: Yeah, clapping is good, yeah
In the year of '39 assembled here the volunteers
In the days when lands were few
And the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn
The sweetest sight ever seen
And the night followed day
And the story tellers say
The score brave souls inside
For many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas
Never looked back, never feared, never cried
Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew
Brian: OK, here we go
(Various 'oooh's by Kerry and Brian)
Brian: Yeah, we're home
In the year of '39 came a ship in from the blue
The volunteers came home that day
And they bring good news of a world so newly born
Though their hearts so heavenly weigh
For the earth is old and grey, little darling we'll away
But my love this cannot be
For many years have gone though I'm older but a year
Your mothers eyes from your eyes cry to me
Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew
Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write all your letters in the sand
Cannot heal me like your hand
For our lives still ahead
We'll be here in beautiful Montreux
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Brian: Thank you, OK. (A member of the audience shouts out
'Defying Gravity'). You'll be lucky. Um, anybody here like The
Beatles? Well, see, I don't like The Beatles, I love The Beatles,
OK, and um, we decided that we love this song. I have to tell
you, this is not the regular Lennon and McCartney blockbuster,
you know, they wrote all those massive hits, this song was
written in the later years, by the youngest boy of the band, a
guy called George, George Harrison wrote this, and God bless him.
It's called 'Something', just beautiful
Something
Chapter 10. Length 3:43.
Details of this cover version can be found on the Live
Only Songs page.
Brian: One, two, three, four
Something in the way he moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way he woos me
I don't want to leave him now
You know I believe and how
Somewhere in his smile he knows
That I don't need no other lover
Something in his style that shows me
I don't want to leave him now
You know I believe and how
You're asking me will my love grow
I don't know, I don't know
You stick around now, it may show
I don't know, I don't know
You're asking me will my love grow
I don't know, I don't know
You stick around now, it may show
I don't know, I don't know
Something in the way he knows
And all I have to do is think of him
Somewhere in the things he shows me
I don't want to leave him now
You know I believe and how
Ooooh
Yeah, yeah
Brian: Yeah, thank you
Kerry: Thank you very much, thank you. So I'm gonna leave you for
a couple of moments in the very, very, very capable hands of
Doctor Brian May
Brian: Ahh, I always, thank you, I always think it's a mistake to
be unplugged for too long, you know what I mean? So um, let's see
what kinda noise we can make with this little baby, OK?
Last Horizon
Chapter 11. Length 8:50.
This track is performed by Brian and Jeff Leach. Obviously, it is
much longer than normal, due to a lengthy guitar intro and a solo
in the middle of the track.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Back
To The Light' album page.
Brian: OK, just one more opportunity to sing, OK, if you fancy a
little sing. After all that noise, you probably need to sing.
I've decided singing is very good for you, you know, it's very
good for your fingernails, it's very good for you hair, you know,
singing makes everything grow
Love Of My Life
Chapter 12. Length 4:09.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'A
Night At The Opera' album page.
Mmm, love of my life - you've hurt me
You've broken my heart and now you leave me
Audience: Love of my life, can't you see
Bring it back, bring it back
Don't take it away from me, because you don't know
What it means to me
Love of my life - don't leave me
You've stolen my heart and now desert me
Love of my life, can't you see
Bring it back, bring it back
Don't take it away from me, because you don't know
What it means to me
You will remember
When this is blown over
And everything's all by the way
When I grow older
I will be there at your side to remind you
How I still love you - I still love you
Hurry back, hurry back
Don't take it away from me, because you don't know
What it means to me
Love of my life
Love of my life
Oooh-ooh, yeah
Brian: OK
Kerry: So along our travels, Brian and I have written this little
song, and we'd like to sing it for you, this is called 'The
Kissing Me Song'
The Kissing Me Song
Chapter 13. Length 3:57.
Brian plays electric guitar on this track.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Golden Days'
album page.
Brian: Loud is good
It was a stone cold night
And when the snow flakes fell
We had to hold on tight
Before our last farewell
And then the darkness took you from me
As you walked into the night
You said you'd never change
You'd never change your mind
And then I looked away
And I could see you kissing me, kissing me, kissing me, kissing
me, kissing me
I could see you
I could see you
I could see you kissing me, kissing me, kissing me
I could see you
I could see you
I could see you kissing me, kissing me, kissing me, kissing me,
kissing me
Alright?
It was a lonely night
When I was watching the TV
Lo and behold on tight
There you were singing about me
It was a lonely summer freedom
How you had to fly away
You said you'd never change
You'd never change your mind
And then I closed my eyes
And I could see you kissing me, kissing me, kissing me, kissing
me, kissing me
I could see you
I could see you
I could see you kissing me, kissing me, kissing me
I could see you
I could see you
I could see you kissing me, kissing me, kissing me, kissing me,
kissing me
Now as the years go by
I still dream the same dream
But I still wonder why
Things are not what they seem
But I still hear you saying baby
You will never stay the night
I guess you'll never change
You'll never change your mind
And then I closed my eyes
And I could see you kissing me, kissing me, kissing me, kissing
me, kissing me, kissing me, kissing me, kissing me, kissing me,
kissing me
I could see you
I could see you
I could see you kissing me, kissing me, kissing me
I could see you
I could see you
I could see you kissing me, kissing me, kissing me, kissing me,
kissing me
Brian: One, two, three, four
I could see you
I could see you
I could see you kissing me, kissing me, kissing me
I could see you
I could see you
I could see you kissing me, kissing me, kissing me
I could see you
I could see you
I could see you kissing me, kissing me, kissing me, kissing me,
kissing me, yeah
Yeah, yeah, ow
Kerry: Thank you. Thank you
Brian: Yeah, I think we might just have time for a little
hillbilly song now, OK, a little hillbilly, you wanna give me a
little yee-haa?
Audience: Yee-haa
Brian: A little bigger, little bigger, little bigger, yeee-haaaa
Audience: Yeee-haaaa
Brian: That's good, it goes like this, it's pretty good that,
this is Switzerland as well, you know, come on, not a lot of
cowboys here
Tie Your Mother Down
Chapter 14. Length 7:07.
The first part of this track is a slow, country version, with
Brian on acoustic guitar, while the second is a fast, rock
version, with Brian on electric guitar.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'A
Day At The Races' album page.
Brian: There are now. Yeah, wooh
Ooh, get your party gown
Get your party gown
Get your pigtail down, baby
I got my timing right
I've got my act all tight
It's gotta be tonight my little schoolbabe
Mamma says you don't
Daddy says you don't
And I'm boiling up inside
No way I'm gonna lose out this time, oh no
Brian: You've gotta sing it with us
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Lock your daddy out of doors
I don't need him nosing around
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Give me all your love tonight
Kerry: OK, give me another yeee-haaa. Yeah
Go get out of my house
You're such a dirty louse
That's all I ever get from your
You know our family ties, in fact I don't think I ever heard
A single little word from those guys
Oh, I don't give a light
I'm gonna make out all right
I've got a sweetheart hand
To put a stop to all that
Sniping and grousing
All night
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down yeah
Take your little brother swimming
With a brick, that's all right
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
'Cos you ain't no friend of mine
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Come on
Ooh, ooh, yeah
Oww, oww, yeah
Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah
Ooooh, yeah
Oooh, your mumma and your daddy gonna
Plague me till I die
They can't understand
I'm a peace loving gal
Ooooh, yeah
Let me hear you Montreux
Audience: Tie your mother down
Audience: Tie your mother down
Lock your big, big, big, big, big, big daddy out of doors
Audience: Tie your mother down
Audience: Tie your mother down
Give me all your love tonight, yeah
All your love tonight
All your love tonight
All your love tonight
All your love tonight
All your love tonight
All your love tonight
All your love tonight
All your love tonight
Tonight, yeah
Ooh, oooh, oooh, oh-oh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, yeah
Brian: Thank you. You're very kind, you make a beautiful noise
here in the Stravinski Hall, I think this is the best noise I
ever heard in the Stravinski Hall. I wanna discover something, do
you have something to stamp on, what happens if you stamp, a
little stamp a little here, do you have a little... nice, we,
yeah, you see this is a good place, a little more stamping, a
little more, more, more stamping. Up here too, you stamping up
here? Ooh, that's pretty good, now we're gonna do something, if
we can make this work this, this could be little magic, you know,
if you could go like bom bom... stamp stamp... you never know
what might happen. Shall we do it?
We Will Rock You
Chapter 15. Length 2:18.
Brian plays electric guitar on this track, while Jeff Leach
provides percussion using a keyboard.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'News
Of The World' album page.
Brian: Very nice
Buddy you're a boy make a big noise
Playing in the street gonna be a big man some day
You got mud on your face
You big disgrace
Kicking your can all over the place
Singing
(Audience: We will, we will, rock you) yeah, everybody
Audience: We will, we will, rock you
Brian: Beautiful
Hey, buddy you're a young man, hard man
Fighting in the street gonna take on the world some day
You got blood on your face
You big disgrace
Waving that banner all over the place, singing
(Audience: We will, we will, rock you) you sing good
Audience: We will, we will, rock you
Buddy you're an old man, poor man
Pleading with your eyes gonna make you some peace some day
You got blood on your face
You big disgrace
Somebody better put you back into your place, singing
(Audience: We will, we will, rock you) yes, everybody
(Audience: We will, we will, rock you) I know you can sing this
louder
(Audience: We will, we will, rock you) one more time
Audience: We will, we will, rock you
No-One
But You
(Only The Good Die Young)
Chapter 16. Length 4:51.
The first six verses are performed by Kerry and Jeff Leach, with
Brian joining them on electric guitar from the seventh verse
onwards. It features a lengthy piano introduction, lasting
approximately 1:50, which is not included in the above time.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'Anthems'
album page.
A hand above the water
An angel reaching for the sky
Is it raining in heaven
Do you want us to cry?
And everywhere the broken hearted
On every lonely avenue
No-one could reach them
No-one but you
One by one
Only the good die young
They're only flying too close to the sun
And life goes on
Without you
Another tricky situation
I get to drowning in the blues
And I find myself thinking
Well, what would you do?
Yes, it was such an operation
Forever paying every due
You made a sensation
Ohh, you found a way through
One by one
Only the good die young
They're only flying too close to the sun
And we'll remember
Forever
And now the party must be over
I guess we'll never understand
The sense of your leaving
Was it the way it was planned?
And so we grace another table
And raise our glasses one more time
Oh, there's a face at the window
And I ain't never ever saying goodbye
Oh, one by one
Only the good die young
They're only flying too close to the sun
Crying for nothing
Crying for no-one
No-one but you
You
Kerry: One more?
Brian: We'd love to dedicate this one to er, a certain gentleman,
a very dear friend of ours called Claude Nobs, sadly no longer
with us, but boy, he was a crazy little thing
Crazy Little
Thing Called Love
Chapter 17. Length 3:13.
Brian plays acoustic guitar for the first part of the track, and
electric guitar for the second. He dedicates it to Claude Nobs,
who founded the Montreux Jazz Festival and died earlier in the
year.
Details of the original version can be found on the 'The
Game' album page.
A-this thing called love oh I just I can't handle it
This thing called love oh I must get around to it
I ain't ready
(Audience: Crazy little thing called love) yeah
A this thing called love
It cries
In a cradle all night
It swings
It jives
Ooh, it shakes all over like a jelly fish
I kinda like it, sing it
(Audience: Crazy little thing called love) yeah
A there goes my baby
He knows how to rock 'n' roll
He drives me crazy
He leaves me hot cold fever
He leaves me in a cool, cool sweat
Mmm, mm, mm, ha, ha
I've gotta be cool, a relax, a get hip
And get on my tracks
Take a back seat, a hitch hike
Ooh, and take a long ride on my motorbike
Until I'm ready
Crazy (Audience: little thing called love) OK, your turn
I've gotta be cool
(Audience: Relax, get hip)
(Audience: Get on my tracks)
(Audience: Take a back seat, hitch hike)
Ooh, and take a long ride on my motorbike
Until I'm ready (Audience: ready Freddie)
(Audience: Crazy little thing called love) yeah
This thing a called love oh I just I can't handle it
This thing a called love oh I must, I just gotta get round to it
I ain't ready
Crazy little thing called love
Crazy little thing called love
Ooh, crazy little thing called love
Yeah, crazy little thing called love
Ooh, crazy little thing called love
Yeah, crazy little thing called love
Ooh, crazy little thing called love, alright
Kerry: Thank you so much, Montreux, you've been amazing, thank
you very much
Nothing Really Has Changed
(live in Shamwari Game Reserve)
Bonus Track. Track length 4:00, song length 3:20.
This track was recorded at the Shamwari Game Reserve, Eastern
Cape, South Africa, in early 2012. It was performed by Brian and
Kerry as a surprise for Virginia McKenna, during the filming of
the 'Born Free' promo video.
Details of this cover version can be found on the Live
Only Songs page.
Brian: You alright?
Kerry: A-ha
Nothing really has changed
I still feel the warmth of the sun
Nothing really has changed
The spiders spin and the children still run
Everything's really the same
The waves still break on the shore
But to me the world
Is a different place
Now you are here
No more
I can't get used to the day now
I miss the sound of your foot on the stair
I can't get used to the night now
I put out my hand and forget you're not there
Beside me to hold me
And tell me that you want me
And love me and need me
I can't get used to my life now
Now you are here
No more
Nothing really has changed
The rose still smells sweet and fair
Nothing really has changed
I feel the grey rain and the wind in my hair
Everything's really the same
My friends still knock at my door
But to me the world is a different place
Now you are here
No more
Now you are here
No more
Viriginia: Oh dear, just so beautifully done, thank you so much,
what a gift. Oh, what a -
Brian: I hope it wasn't -
Virginia: You are naughty -
Kerry: I hope it wasn't -
Brian: I hope it wasn't the wrong thing to -
Kerry: Too much
Virginia: Oh, bless you. Goodness me
