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Playing The Fool - Gentle Giant - 1977 - @ 320 kbps


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YA ERA HORA DEL GIGANTE GENTIL, Y SE MANIFIESTA APOYANDO EL FORO DE ROCK PROGRESIVO O DE VANGUARDIA
OSEA LA BUENA MUSICA


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"PLAYING THE FOOL"

@ 320 kbps

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) [omitted from the Castle CD release)
Peel The Paint / I Lost My Head (7:35)

Gary Green - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar, alto recorder, descant recorder, vocals, percussion
Kerry Minnear - keyboards, cello, vibes, tenor recorder, vocals, percussion
Derek Shulman - vocals, alto sax, descant recorder, bass, percussion
Ray Shulman - bass, violin, acoustic guitar, descant recorder, trumpet, vocals, percussion
John Weathers - drums, vibes, tambour, vocals, percussion


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
(There seems to be a cut here between recordings at about 15 seconds into Proclamation.)

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!

(original verse 2 skipped)

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
(ch ch)
(Kerry: 1 2 3 4 5 6)

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

(yay, wooh)
(We're, uh, Gentle Giant...)

Excerpts From Octopus
Laughter, coinspin

The Boys In The Band
(one, two, one two three four...)

Raconteur Troubadour
(plink plunk)

Acquiring the Taste
(wooh)

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
(hoots and hollers)

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
(yeah)

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.

(There seems to be a cut just before the last chord(!?))

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.

(yoo hoo)

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
Derek: This album was called uh, In a Glass (wahhhhhhhh) House! (Yeahhhhh)

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.
(yay)

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
(bang bang)

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
(one more)

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
(uh) 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
.




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