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composers
Lyrics: Kerr
Music: Coad


background
This song was demoed for Black And White 050505 as Immigrants.

"A song that could have come out of any of the sessions for Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call, and yet here and now it cries out to be the opening track of this new album." - Jim

It was inspired by the book The Blinding Absence Of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun, a true story where political prisoners held for ten years or more in underground cells, survived by inventing fantasy worlds.




lyrics
The road opens wide,
And there is space here for two of us.
If I could slip under the wire,
We'd wait here, just stay here, a while.

Slumped.
My body's tired,
And this fear,
It never lets me sleep.
In your smile,
This trial elates.
And in your eyes,
I see mother's open gates.

If fortune would smile,
There'd be room here for two of us.
And I would burn myself through the wires.
With this hate, concentrated, unearthed, disparate,
All of this in time...

Once in a while,
If peace held for two of us,
Or if we could show mercy awhile,
With patience, transcending, this coldness, neverending, through time.

Because if home still matters,
And if these bones were not so battered,
What state then?
I'm so desparate,
Stuck within a hollow shell,
In some forgotten state...
Come tear the dirt from my eyes!



discography
Edit (3:56)
Produced by Jez Coad and Simple Minds
Arranged by Jez Coad and Simple Minds
Programmed by Jez Coad
Engineered by Arjen Mensinga and Michiel Hoogenboesem
Mixed by Bob Clearmountain

Stay Visible Promo CD

Album Version (5:17)
Produced by Jez Coad and Simple Minds
Arranged by Jez Coad and Simple Minds
Programmed by Jez Coad
Engineered by Arjen Mensinga and Michiel Hoogenboesem
Mixed by Bob Clearmountain

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downloads
Live Version (16th Feb 2006) (5:21)
Recorded: Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Recording Engineer: Patrick Demoustier
Mixed By Jez Coad, Charlie Burchill and Andy Gillespie

Black And White Live Bundle #1




live history
Intimate Tour: 2005
Black And White Tour: 2006