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Gary Green: chitarra elettrica, chitarra acustica, chitarra a 12 corde, flauto dolce contralto, flauto dolce discanto, voce, percussioni
Kerry Minnear: tastiere, violoncello, vibrafono, flauto dolce tenore, voce, percussioni
Derek Shulman: voce, sax contralto, flauto dolce discanto, basso, percussioni
Ray Shulman: basso, violino, chitarra acustica, flauto dolce discanto, tromba, voce, percussioni
John Weathers: batteria, vibrafono, tamburo, voce, percussioni

Lista canzoni

Il vinile e il Cd della Castle hanno il seguente elenco di canzoni:
Just The Same / Proclamation (11:13)
On Reflection (6:24)
Excerpts From Octopus (15:35)
Funny Ways (8:35)
The Runaway / Experience (9:31)
So Sincere (10:22)
Free Hand (7:40)
Breakdown In Brussells [a.k.a., Sweet Georgia Brown] (1:15) [omesso dalla Castle nel Cd]
Peel The Paint / I Lost My Head (7:35)
Il Cd della Terrapin Trucking ha la stessa musica ma suddivisa in più tracce:
Introduction [non appare su nessun album]
Just The Same
Proclamation
Valedictory
On Reflection [riarrangiata]
The Boys In The Band
Raconteur Troubadour [strumentale per chitarra acustica]
Acquiring The Taste [riarrangiata per chitarra acustica]
Knots
Organ bridge [non appare su nessun album]
The Advent Of Panurge, part 1
The famous recorder quartet [non appare su nessun album]
The Advent Of Panurge, part 2
Funny Ways
The Runaway
Experience
So Sincere
Drum and percussion bash [non appare su nessun album]
Free Hand
Sweet Georgia Brown [non appare su nessun album]
Peel The Paint
I Lost My Head
Testi

INTRODUCTION
JUST THE SAME

See me, what I am, what I was, what I'll be,
Hear me, understand, that I'm not, what you see,
Take this, take the man, middle term, common me,
Don't you see that, I'm just doing what I want to do
  nothing more and nothing less than you
  read no thoughts I didn't think myself, just the same as anybody else.
Make me, someone else, put me up, on a stand.
Something, that I don't, really want, on my hands,
Use me, idolise, all you can, understand.
Don't you see that, I'm just doing what I want to do
  nothing more and nothing less than you
  read no thoughts I didn't think myself, just the same as anybody else.
See me, what I am, what I was, what I'll be,
Hear me, understand, that I'm not, what you see,
Take this, take the man, middle term, common me,
Don't you see that, I'm just doing what I want to do
  nothing more and nothing less than you
  read no thoughts I didn't think myself, just the same as anybody else.

PROCLAMATION / VALEDICTORY

1. You may not have all you want or you need
  all that you have has been due to my hand,
  it can change, it can stay the same,
  who can say, who can make their claim.
  Hail... Hail... Hail... Hail! Hail! [la seconda strofa viene saltata]
3. Unity's strength and all must be as one
  confidence in you hope will reflect in me
  I think everyone not as my nation for
  you are my people, and there must be no change
  It can change, it can stay the same,
  Who can say, who can make that claim
  Hail... Hail... Hail... Hail! Hail!
  Hail to Power and to Glory's way Hail to Power and to Glory's way
  Hail to Power and to Glory's way Hail to Power and to Glory's way
  Hail to Power and to Glory's way Hail to Power and to
And though the hard times are really due to me,
it still is in me, to wave all this unrest,
Things must stay there must be no change,
anyway, time to rearrange. Hail!

ON REFLECTION

In my way did I use you, do you think I really abused you
On reflection now it doesn't matter
How can you say I made you need me more than anyone else
Who can say it right now it's finished over
It's my act, it's my calling, I explained exactly the falling
Different ways of life can never even
Be the same when you saw me could you always take me the
same way as I came and went I tried to remember you;
  Still you stay Tied in your way
  Changing times Watching the signs.
How: could you see in me what you thought about all you want me to be
Now: On reflection why should I have changed my ways for you
All around all around All around all around All around all around All around all around
Cry my sympathy's with you, but I never lied to you all in all
it seems it's just an experience
Placed my cards on the table told of everything I was able
Understanding still not anything different
Find another to lean on, start again for I should have long
gone, on reflection now it's just an experience
soon the pain will have ended, together never intended, as I
come and go I'll try to remember you.
  Still you stay Tied in your way Changing times Watching the signs. How:
All around all around All around all around All around all around All around all around
All around all around All around all around All around all around All around all around
All around all around All around all around All around all around All around all around
All around all around All around all around All around all around All around all around

EXCERPTS FROM OCTOPUS
THE BOYS IN THE BAND
RACONTEUR TROUBADOUR
ACQUIRING THE TASTE
KNOTS

All in all each man in all men all men in each man.
He can see she can't, she can see she can see whatever, whatever.
You may know what I don't know,
but not that I don't know it and I can't tell you so you will.
To tell me all man in all men all men in each man.
He can see she can't, she can see she can see whatever, whatever.
You may know what I don't know,
but not that I don't know it and I can't tell you so you will have to tell me all.
It hurts him to think that she is hurting her by him being hurt to think
that she thinks he is hurt by making her
feel guilty at hurting him by her thinking
she wants him to want her. He wants her to want him
to get him to want him to get him to want her she pretends.
He tries to make her afraid by not being afraid.
He tries to make her afraid by not being afraid.
He tries to make her afraid by not being afraid.
He tries to make her afraid by not be
ing afraid ing afraid ing afraid ing afraid ing afraid ing afraid ing afraid ing af

ORGAN BRIDGE
THE ADVENT OF PANURGE

There coming over Charaton Bridge
Look do you see the man who is poor but rich
What do you wish; and where do you go;
who are you; where are you from;
will you tell me your name?
Rest awhile; call me your friend.
Please stay with me I'd like to help.
Then he said, How can I speak when I'm dry and my throat is burning.
So bring me aid and I'll answer your doubts.
Friend in need I'd like your help.
Please take me home I'll stay with you.
Then said he fair Pantagruel.
My name is Panurge and I have come from Hell.
Look at my friend Look around now friend
Look at my friend Look all around you
Look at my friend Take all around you
Look at my friend Look all around you
Hey, Friend. Look at my friend. Hey.

THE FAMOUS RECORD QUARTET
THE ADVENT OF PANURGE (CONTINUED)

So brotherhood was made as their bond.
Carried him home and provide for his needs and his shelter.
This day was done as no other the like.
Faithfully their vow was made and from that day they were as one.
Then said he fair Pantagruel.
My name is Panurge and I have come from Hell.

FUNNY WAYS

Sorry to have been so much of a bore
But in my own funny ways I find I learn much more.
I realised what you think from your eyes
But in your own funnys way I find I learn much more.
My ways are strange they'll never change They stay, strange ways.
Sorry to have been so close from the start,
but for all that I care we could be miles apart.
I understood that you never would
Understand a way of life I never could.
My ways are strange they'll never change they stay, strange ways.
Go your own way or wait for me Go your own way or wait for me
Go your own way or wait for me Go your own way or wait for me
And so you see what happened to me
Since the time when I judged my life in nights and days
I realised that my life was lies
So you see what I mean with all my funny ways
Sorry to have been so much of a bore
But in my own funny ways I find I learn much more
Funny ways, Funny ways, Funny ways, Funny ways

THE RUNAWAY

He is the runaway, lie low the wanted man
Mask his elusive face, soon he will get away and free is his
future no more aimless time to spend and evading, he's escaping
four dirty walls and a bed in a cage his home no more
Run in the underwood, Cover and hide the trail
Senses like sharpened swords, Guards for the shadow on his tail.
And yet all his joy is empty and sad.

EXPERIENCE

Once I was a boy, and innocent to life and my role in it,
This world played my game, and anyone a clown or foil for myself.
Oh unseeing youth, how can it be so shallow and shortsighted.
These years passed me by, to realise the folly of these unripe years.
Oh unseeing youth, how can it be so shallow and shortsighted.
These years passed me by, to realise the folly of these unripe years.
I master inner voices, I make any choices. I master inner voices, I make any choices.
I master inner voices, I make any choices. I master inner voices, I make any choices.

SO SINCERE

Hear, he'll do it all for you, you will see it,
wise, and knowing what to do, what to be, and every word is...
Lies, he only tells the truth, for he means it,
means, not anything he says, eyes unseen, and every word is...
Yes, that is to say no, understanding
wrong, he makes his promise right, with your hand and every word is...
Yes, that is to say no, understanding
wrong, he makes his promise right, with your hand you'll never know why.

DRUM AND PERCUSSION BASH
FREE HAND

Who would believe me now that my hands are free that my hands are free
I never thought it would ever come to me, ever come to me
Now that my life's my own, I leave you behind, leaving you behind.
What ever made you think that I'd change my mind, that I'd change my mind.
It wasn't hard to run break away from you break away from you
after all you'd done what was I to do what was I to do
Who's gonna take my place in the games you play in the games you play
Nobody's listening now to the things you say, all the things you say.
Now my hands are free from the ties from the ties
Now I look forward to the future where it lies
And with you, feeling low, looking black,
here, now my head is clear, why should I look back
When it was over did you have regrets did you have regrets
Or did you really think it was over yet, it was over yet
Now that my life's my own, I leave you behind, leaving you behind
What ever made you think that I'd change my mind,
That I'd change my mind That I'd change my mind That I'd change my mind
Who would believe me now that my hands are free that my hands are free
Who would believe me now that my hands are free that my hands are free
Who would believe me now that my hands are free that my hands are free
who would believe me now now my hands are
hands are free hands are free hands are free hands are free hands are free
When it was over did you have regrets did you have regrets
Or did you really think it was over yet, it was over yet
Now that my life's my own I leave you behind, leaving you behind
What ever made you think that I'd change my, that I'd change my mind?

SWEET GEORGIA BROWN
PEEL THE PAINT / I LOST MY HEAD

I peel the paint look underneath
You'll see the same, the same old savage beast
Strip the coats the coats of time
And find mad eyes and see those sharpened teeth
Nothings been learned - no nothing at all.
Don't be fooled, get up before you fall.
A carnal grave crawling smooth
The open flesh and you must let them in
The glass reflects of what you are
It shows the face the evil face of sin.
Nothings been learned - No nothing at all
Don't be fooled, get up before you fall.
I lost my head forget what I said
what's the use to try to deny it.
I didn't think it would ever happen again
wondering why, once bitten twice shy
never thought again would I try it
and even though may- be soon it would end
Wanting to stop but had to go on,
give a little part of my person,
and don't reflect don't remember what I said
I was afraid and I stayed away
making sure of my independence
isn't it true that I lost my head
Took my time and I didn't rush into anything
Showed my face just forgetting myself oh everything
Everythings true but everything lies
It's so hard to try to explain it
It doesn't matter it happened anyway.
and for the time while someone is mine
I'll go on won't try to contain it
and even though it could finish any day
I lost my head so glad that I made
right or wrong, I made the decision
to take my chances give out something of me
how will I feel tomorrow? not real
trying to avoid a collision I lost my head,
but today I can see. Took my time
and I didn't rush into anything
Showed my face just forgetting myself oh everything
I lost my head I lost my head
forget what I said What's the use to try to deny it
I didn't think it would ever happen again
Wondering why once bitten twice shy
never thought again would I try it
and even though may- be soon it would end.