Identity

ZEE was a shortlived band with Richard Wright from Pink Floyd and Dave Harris from Fashion. The album Identity was released: April 9, 1984.

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1. Confusion
2. Voices
3. Private Person
4. Strange Rhythm
5. Cuts Like A Diamond
6. By Touching
7. How Do You Do It?
8. Seems We Were Dreaming

9. Eyes Of A Gipsy (on cassette version only)

The rare album was re-released in 2018 on CD, vinyl and as a CD box set.

2018 Box set content:

Disc: 1
1. Confusion
2. Voices
3. Private Person
4. Strange Rhythm
5. Cuts Like a Diamond
6. By Touching
7. How Do You Do It
8. Seems We Were Dreaming
9. Confusion (7" Single)
10. Eyes of a Gypsy (7" Single)
11. Confusion (12" Single)
12. Eyes of a Gypsy (12" Single)

Disc: 2
1. Cuts Like a Diamond (1984 Rough Mix)
2. Private Person (1984 Rough Mix)
3. Strange Rhythm (1984 Rough Mix)
4. Voices (1984 Rough Mix)
5. Confusion (1984 Rough Mix)

ZEE:
Richard Wright - keyboards, backing vocals, percussion, Fairlight
Dave Harris - guitars, vocals, keyboards, percussion, Fairlight

Produced by Richard Wright & Dave Harris
Co-producer and engineer: Tim Palmer

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CONFUSION

ZEE 1984

Music: Wright, Harris
Lyrics: Harris

Album releases:
Identity
Confusion (single, 1984)

[Transcription:]

You know I stand in disbelief
I find strange consolation in your leaving
Life's so supernatural
Cannot survive forever without breathing

You can't live without disguise
And understand your mind
You can look me in the eyes
The only thing you'll find is your confusion

The stories that you tell to me
Are fragments of your own imagination
People you pretend to be
Will you behold in fascination

Until you stop to realize
That life is not for fun
When a thoughtless story dies
And standing there alone in your confusion
And where do you go from there?
It's your confusion

Alone inside your fantasy
You're afraid to leave your plastic situation
but still you find it hard to see
that this was meant to beyour destination

For you can live without disguise
And understand your mind
For you can look me in the eyes
The only thing you'll find is your confusion
And where do you go from there?
It's your confusion

Until you stop to realize
That life is not for fun
When a thoughtless story dies
And standing there alone in your confusion
Your confusion

Where do you go - from there?
- Nowhere!
- Confusion!

Confusion


VOICES

ZEE 1984

Music: Wright, Harris
Lyrics: Harris

Album releases:
Identity

[Transcription:]

Voices - that call you
Through feelings inside you
Within your soul
You feel them burning
They take control in you

Voices - that call you
Through feelings inside you
Inside you

Voices - insisting
Reminding, resisting
The way you feel
All though you have to play
You find parity by listening to

Voices - inside you
They reason, they guide you
If you believe in what you want to be
You'll find your destiny by listening to
Voices

Voices - that call you
Through feelings inside you
Inside you

Voices - insisting
Reminding, resisting
The way you feel
All though you have to play
You find parity by listening to

Voices - inside you
They reason, they guide you
If you believe in what you want to be
You'll find your destiny by listening to
Voices

Voices - that call you
Through feelings inside you



PRIVATE PERSON

ZEE 1984

Music: Wright, Harris
Lyrics: Harris

Album releases:
Identity

[Transcription]

We may talk, but you don't listen
You twist a tale, you'll loose the comprehension
Seems communication is missing
In everything I say

Don't you think you're missing something
Thinking what you're missing

You seem to draw your own conclusions
On what you need, and what you think and feel
Understanding your illusion
I feel nothing

We all need something
That's private
We all need something
That's private

You seem to draw your own conclusions
On what you need, and what you think and feel
Understanding your illusion
I feel nothing

Don't you think you're missing something
Thinking what you're missing

Don't you think you're missing something
Thinking what you're missing

We may talk, but you don't listen
You twist a tale and loose the comprehension
Seems communication is missing
In everything I say

We all need something
That's private
We all need something
That's private

Someday...


STRANGE RHYTHM

ZEE 1984

Music: Wright, Harris
Lyrics: Harris

Album releases:
Identity

[Transcription:]

Strange rhythm running through my vein
I try to stop my feet but I've got strange rhythm
Got strange rhythm

Strange feeling seem to take me
Strange feeling seems to, seems to make me miss
Seems to make me miss a beat

Strange feeling deep within my soul
I try to understand, but I've got strange feeling
Got strange feeling

Strange rhythm seems to take me
Strange rhythm, it seems, it seems to make me
It makes me miss a beat

Strange
But I can't help the feeling
Strange
I feel, I feel, I feel
Strange
Maybe, maybe you can hear a
Strange rhythm
Strange

Strange rhythm
I feel, I feel, I feel
Strange rhythm
I try to understand but I've got
I've got Strange feeling
Strange, but I can't help the feeling
Strange
I feel, I feel
Strange
Maybe you can hear
Strange


CUTS LIKE A DIAMOND

ZEE 1984

Music: Wright, Harris
Lyrics: Harris

Album releases:
Identity

[Transcription:]

Awake in the night
With head on your pillow
Touching your hair
Clutching your soul

A shape in the light
A glow in the mirror
No goodbye is leaving you cold
She takes a life
A flip knife
She cuts like a diamond

The look in your eyes
The way that you are feeling
The more that you try
The more that you show
You are losing control of all you were dreaming
She's breaking you down by letting you know
She takes a life
A flip knife
She cuts like a diamond

Awake in the night
With head on your pillow
Deep like a diamond
Touches your hair
Clutches your soul
Deep like a diamond
A shape in the light
A glow in the mirror
Deep like a diamond
She takes a life
She takes a flat knife
She cuts like a diamond


BY TOUCHING

ZEE 1984

Music: Wright, Harris
Lyrics: Harris

Album releases:
Identity

[Transcription:]

By touching, they'll illuminate it, in the box, with the light-thing

Used to be glad
I heard her through your feelings
Seemed the perfect situation
Feeling different
Seems they're moving in
Circumstantial complication

Don't you need it
Don't you miss the closeness
Don't you feel it
Something's come between us

By surviving
Revitalising
We'll stop the fighting

Don't you need it
Don't you miss the closeness
Don't you feel it
Something's come between us

A new direction
A different understanding
An electric education
While the system
Program-close your eyes in
You forgot our desperation

Don't you need it
Don't you miss the closeness
Don't you feel it
Something's come between us

By surviving
Revitalising
We'll stop the fighting

By touching

Used to be glad
I heard her through your feelings
Seemed the perfect situation
Feeling different
Seems they're moving in
Circumstantial complication

A new direction
A different understanding
An electric education
While the system
Program-close your eyes in
You forgot our desperation

By touching



HOW DO YOU DO IT?

ZEE 1984

Music: Wright, Harris
Lyrics: Harris

Album releases:
Identity

[Transcription:]

She is elusive
You watch her moving
Leaves destruction
Leaves you bleeding
Makes your feelings
Your concentration
Loose control
Loose the meaning

Mystifying
Strange attraction
Snaps her finger
Sees you crawling
Condescending
She knows the answer
Cuts the string
Stops you falling

How do you do it?
Maybe you don't know
How you do it -when you do it
How do you do it?
Maybe if you show me
Maybe you don't

Explanation
Untold reactions
She sees the change
Sees you turning
Sympathizing
She keeps her distance
You feel the flame
You feel it burning

How do you do it?
Maybe you don't know
How you do it -when you do it
How do you do it?
Maybe if you show me
Maybe you don't

She's elusive
You watch her moving
Leaves destruction
Leaves you bleeding
Makes your feelings
Your concentration
Loose control
Loose the meaning

How do you do it?
Maybe you don't know
How you do it -when you do it
How do you do it?
Maybe if you show me
Maybe you don't


SEEMS WE WERE DREAMING

ZEE 1984

Music: Wright, Harris
Lyrics: Harris

Album releases:
Identity

[Transcription:]

When you go to sleep
Your life is a picture
Pictures you're dreaming
Seems we were dreaming

Secrets you've been keeping
Sleeping on your mind
Let me close my eyes
To see what I'm feeling
Feel what I needed

When you go to sleep
In my head is a picture
Pictures we're dreaming
Seems we were dreaming
Pictures

Let me close my eyes
To see what I'm feeling
Feel what I'm needing
Seems we were dreaming
Pictures

Secrets you've been keeping
Sleeping on your mind

When you go to sleep
In your head is a picture
Pictures you're dreaming
Go to sleep
Go to sleep
Feel what I'm feeling


EYES OF A GIPSY

ZEE 1984

Music: Harris
Lyrics: Harris

Album releases:
Identity (cassette version only)
Confusion (single, 1984)

[Transcription:]

Ooh gipsy
She knows the meaning of life
Knows what the future will hold
Secrets inside the eyes of a gipsy

Stories that play with your mind
Reasons with no explanation
Things that you find
Through the eyes of a gipsy

Seems that she knows
Everything shows
Plays with your soul
She is taking control

She knows the meaning of life
Knows what the future is holding
Secrets inside the eyes of a gipsy

Maybe a gipsy will do what she says
Maybe a gipsy with serious ways
And see what you're feeling by reaching inside
Your secret emotions
Controlling your mind

Seems that she knows
Everything shows
Plays with your soul
She is taking control

Stories that play with your mind
Reasons with no explanation
Things that you find through the eyes of a gipsy

Seems that she knows
Everything shows
Plays with your soul
She is taking control

Maybe a gipsy will do what she says
Maybe a gipsy with serious ways
And see what you're feeling by reaching inside
Your secret emotions
Controlling your mind