Flickering Flame
- The Solo Years, Volume 1
Roger
Waters compilation album
Asia, Australia-release: April 1, 2002
European-release: April 29, 2002
The CD will not be released in the US and it will likely be discontinued after December 2002 -and not released again!
This 'best of' compilation contains some of the best songs from the solo career of Roger Waters (1984-2002). The CD is produced by Roger Waters and long time Pink Floyd producer James Guthrie.
The CD features songs from The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Radio KAOS, Amused To Death as well as a few rarities:
- The song Towers of Faith from the film-soundtrack When The Wind Blows.
- The never-before released demo for Lost Boys Calling. The song was composed for the film The Legend of 1900.
- A coverversion of 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door'. Roger Waters recorded the old Bob Dylan song for the film The Dybbuk of The Holy Apple Field.
- The title song Flickering Flame is a new song by Roger Waters first performed on the first gig of the current tour.
Tracklist:
- Knockin' On Heaven's Door
- Too Much Rope
- The Tide Is Turning (After Live Aid)
- Perfect Sense (Part I) (recording from In The Flesh)
- Perfect Sense (Part II) (recording from In The Flesh)
- Three Wishes
- 5:06am (every Strangers Eyes)
- Who Needs Information
- Each Small Candle
- Flickering Flame (new demo)
- Towers Of Faith
- Radio Waves
- Lost Boys Calling (original demo)
CD cover design: 4i Group
Photographs: Jimmy Ienner Jr, Neal Preston, Jonathan Park
Special thanks: Todd Horn, Columbia Records
Management: Mark Fenwick, MFM Limited
Album compiled by James Guthrie &
Roger Waters
Assisted by Joel Plante
Lost Boys Calling (original demo)
Vocal: Roger Waters
Orchestration: Rick Wentworth
Mixed by Nick Griffiths
Flickering Flame
Roger Waters 2001
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A Roger Waters song probably for the forthcoming album. The song has been rehearsed by Roger Waters and band prior to the 2002 world tour. It was first played in front of an audience in Cape Town, South Africa on February 27th, 2002. The first version officially released is a studio demo on the compilation album Flickering Flame - The Solo Years, Volume 1.
The song was earlier known as 'Flicker and Flame' and has also been referred to as 'I Shall Be Free'. The lyrics differ a bit from live performances and printed versions. The lyrics below are the version sung on Flickering Flame
Vocal & acoustic guitar: Roger Waters
Keyboards: Jon Carin
Guitar: Doyle Bramhall II
Produced by Roger Waters and Nick Griffiths
When my neurons conspire
To distract my thoughts
Away from divorce
And competitive sports
Back to the place
Where all rivers run to the sea
Then I
I shall be free
Yes, I shall be free
On a seesaw
In a strange land
The jackdaw sat
On the Cardinals hand
And the fiddlers played
And the planners planned
What would be
On a back seat
In a court room
Sat Molly Malone with Leopold Bloom
'Til the police came down
With a new broom
And swept them clean
Like Geronimo
Like Quinn the Eskimo
Like the Blackfoot
And like the Arapaho
Like Crazy Horse
I'll be the last one
To lay down my gun
On the open road
In a bar room
A pick up band plays a new tune
When the coloured girl sings
I feel my heart bloom
When a new song
Hits the right note
When a clearing sky
Saves an old boat
When an insight
Strikes the mote
From mine own eye
Like Geronimo
Like Quinn the Eskimo
Like the Blackfoot
And like the Arapaho
Like Crazy Horse
I'll be the last one
To lay down my gun
Just out of sight
Beyond the next range
I feel the heat
Of a flickering flame
On an African Plain
By a thorn tree
My old friend Philippe
Is waiting for me
Que cera cera
What ever will be
Will be
When a friend dies
And the tears rise
From that deep well
That never runs dry
And the women break their bracelets
And the men take their whisky outside
In a petit theatre
On the Rue St Denis
The red velvet curtain
Draws back to reveal
The place where the dark side
Meets the angel and me
The angel in me
When my synapses pause
In my quest for applause
When my ego lets go
Of my end of the bone
To focus instead
On the love that is precious to me
Then I
Shall be free
I shall be free
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Bob Dylan
Music: Dylan
Lyrics: Dylan
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This coverversion of 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door' was recorded by Roger Waters for the film The Dybbuk of The Holy Apple Field.
Vocals: Roger Waters
Keyboards: Simon Chamberlain
Electric/acoustic guitar: Clem Clempson
Backing vocals: Katie Kissoon and Doreen
Chanter
Produced by Nick Griffiths
Mama, take this badge off me
'cos I can't use it anymore
It's gettin' dark, too dark to see
I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Mama, put my guns in the ground
'cos I can't shoot them anymore
That long dark cloud is comin' down
I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door