Till We Have Faces (1984)


Tracks
  1. Duel (4:50)
  2. Matilda Smith-Williams Home For The Aged (8:03) *
  3. Let Me Count The Ways (6:05)
  4. A Doll That's Made In Japan (3:58)
  5. Myopia (2:55) *
  6. What's My Name (7:05) *
  7. The Rio Connection (3:19)
  8. Taking The Easy Way Out (3:49)
  9. When You Wish Upon A Star (0:51) +

Credits
Steve Hackett: guitars, guitar synth, koto, rainstick, Etruscan guitar, marimba, percussion, harmonica, vocals.
Nick Magnus: keyboards, percussion, Yamaha DX 7, Jupiter 6, Juno 60, Moog source.
Ian Mosley: drums, percussion.
Rui Motta: drums, Simmons drums.
Serginho (Roupa Nova): drums.
Waldemar Falcao: flute, percussion.
Fernand Moura: Rhodes.
Ronaldo Diamante: bass.
Clive Stevens: wind synthesizer.
Kim Poor: Japanese voice on "Doll".
Sidinho Moreira, Junior, Jaburu, Peninha, Zizinho, Baca: the Brazillian percussionists.

Written by Steve Hackett except
* Written by Steve Hackett and Nick Magnus.
+ Written by Harina/Washington.
Produced by Steve Hackett.
Co-produced by John Acock, Nick Magnus and Waldemar Falcao.
Recorded during 1984 in Rio de Janeiro and London.

Original releases
UK September 1984, Lamborghini LMGLP4000 vinyl, ZCLMG4000 cassette. Back of vinyl has lyrics.

Re-issues
UK 1987, Start STL11 vinyl, SMC11 cassette, SCD11 compact disc.
Germany 1990, Castle Legends compact disc.
France 1992, Baillemont Productions compact disc.
UK May 1994, Kudos/Permanent PERMCDL20 compact disc. Includes extra tracks, new cover art and extra sleeve notes.


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Duel (Hackett)

Based on the film of the same name by Steven Speilberg.


There's a ten ton truck
Coming down the road
No matter how fast I drive
No matter where I go

Don't turn back
It keeps coming near
Don't turn back
Don't let it come near

Just when you think you're safe
And you're in control
You see an open road
Not another soul

Don't turn back
It keeps coming near
Don't turn back
It keeps coming near

Can't stop shaking and your blood runs cold
Fuel injection that runs way too slow
Will this killer win and run you off the road

Don't turn back
It keeps coming near
Don't turn back
It keeps coming near


Maltilda Smith-Williams Home For The Aged (Hackett/Magnus)


Maltilda Smith-Williams Home For The Aged
Bingo and buggy rides
Wheelchairs and early night
Maltilda Smith-Williams Home For The Aged
And if you smuggle in
Another drop of gin
We'll take your hearing aid
They never hear what you say

Maltilda Smith-Williams Home For The Aged
A second childhood
But only if you're good
I hear Maltilda passed away
Her spirit's still with us today
She watches over us
And those who make a fuss
You've never had it so good
They'd run away if they could


Let Me Count The Ways (Hackett)

For Uncle Charlie.


Let me count the ways I love you babe
You don't know what you do
I'm a mess without your love baby blue

You were the only one I ever loved
You know I owe you every time
You were the first one to believe in me
And that's before I had a dime
I'm a mess without your love baby blue

As I walk by along the waterfront
With all my clothes soaked wet through
Let me count the ways I love you babe
You don't know what you do
I'm a mess without your love baby blue


A Doll That's Made In Japan (Hackett)


An honourable man picks a slender orchid
And crushed it between his hands
The sacred knife of a Samurai
Serves up Sushi in a sandwich bar

A doll that's made in Japan
Is made for every man
A doll that's made in Japan
Is made for every man
Tigerlily with eyes of jade
Takes you to a carnival of toy balloons

See a kite floating by with the face of a Chinese mandarin
It's such a different world it's hard to remember
Which land you're in
I seem to recall a milk white hand
Painted with blood red fingernails

A doll that's made in Japan
Is made for every man
A doll that's made in Japan
Is made for every man
A tiny girl with empty hands
Walks the streets of Tokyo

A doll that's made in Japan
Is made for every man
A doll that's made in Japan
Is made for every man
As you fly through a city of empty souls
You feel that the wind is whispering


Myopia (Hackett/Magnus)


I can't see, I can't sleep
I can't swim, I can't talk
Can't write, I can't count
I can't fly, can't play today

Take your things and run away
Grab yourself a holiday
Fix your nose and change your name
Thyroid eyes they diagnose

Myopia...

A red light, stomach ache
Relax but don't be late
It's too loud I've disappeared
I can't drink, I can't tell the time

Epic hero Gilgamesh
Battling with a lioness
One man war against the odds
Spectacles that break because

Myopia...

I don't think I can afford ya
You make me ugly anyhow
I think I see a car before me
Or maybe I've just hit a cow

I don't think I can afford ya
You make me ugly anyhow
I think I see a car before me
Or maybe I've just hit a cow

Myopia...


What's My Name (Hackett/Magnus)


Stone mirror mountain rises from a low stream
The scent of flowers like an ocean of weeds
I take a boat formed like a long handled sword
The Heavens are vast and the sea is broad

What's my name...

We find the great cave of burning clouds
The water horses come flickering down
A gap in consciousness, a picture takes shape
I hear a thundering
A tidal wave breaks

What's my name...


Taking The Easy Way Out (Hackett)


Another night I've drunk my fill
Perhaps it's time to dim the light
And while the hours the sandman comes
Stumbling round like a bowery bum
Maybe I'll dream an Egyptian scene

Taking the easy way out
Taking the easy way out again

Maybe we'll meet in paradise
Where far beyond the shores of trust
A boat on sea can travel the land
We set sail for a castle of sand

The desert wind
Can darken your skin

Taking the easy way out
Taking the easy way out again

Taking the easy way out
I'm taking the easy way out again