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David Bowie - Conversation Piece - Cygnet Committee (2019 mix)
Conversation Piece
Disc 1
01. April’s Tooth of Gold (home demo)
02. The Reverend Raymond Brown (Attends the Garden Fête on Thatchwick Green) (home demo)
03. When I’m Five (home demo)
04. Mother Grey (home demo)
05. In the Heat of the Morning (home demo)
06. Goodbye 3d (Threepenny) Joe (home demo)
07. Love All Around (home demo)
08. London Bye, Ta‐Ta (home demo)
09. Angel, Angel, Grubby Face (home demo version 1)
10. Angel, Angel, Grubby Face (home demo version 2)
11. Animal Farm (home demo)
12. Space Oddity (solo home demo fragment)
13. Space Oddity (home demo version 1)
14. Space Oddity (home demo version 2)
15. Space Oddity (home demo version 3)
16. Lover to the Dawn (home demo)
17. Ching‐A‐Ling (home demo)
18. An Occasional Dream (home demo)
19. Let Me Sleep Beside You (home demo)
20. Life Is a Circus (home demo)
21. Conversation Piece (home demo)
22. Jerusalem (home demo)
23. Hole in the Ground (home demo)
Disc 2
01. Space Oddity (‘Mercury’ demo)
02. Janine (‘Mercury’ demo)
03. An Occasional Dream (‘Mercury’ demo)
04. Conversation Piece (‘Mercury’ demo)
05. Ching‐A‐Ling (‘Mercury’ demo)
06. I’m Not Quite (aka Letter to Hermione) (‘Mercury’ demo)
07. Lover to the Dawn (‘Mercury’ demo)
08. Love Song (‘Mercury’ demo)
09. When I’m Five (‘Mercury’ demo)
10. Life Is a Circus (‘Mercury’ demo)
Disc 3
01. In the Heat of the Morning (Decca mono version)
02. London Bye, Ta‐Ta (Decca alternative version)
03. In the Heat of the Morning (John Peel – Top Gear, recorded 13.5.68)
04. London Bye, Ta‐Ta (John Peel – Top Gear, recorded 13.5.68)
05. Karma Man (John Peel – Top Gear, recorded 13.5.68)
06. When I’m Five (John Peel – Top Gear, recorded 13.5.68)
07. Silly Boy Blue (John Peel – Top Gear, recorded 13.5.68)
08. Ching‐A‐ling (mono)
09. Space Oddity (Morgan Studios, alternative take)
10. Space Oddity (UK mono single edit)
11. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (mono, single B‐side)
12. Janine (mono version)
13. Conversation Piece (mono version)
14. Let Me Sleep Beside You (BBC Radio session D.L.T. Show)
15. Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (BBC Radio session D.L.T. Show)
16. Janine (BBC Radio session D.L.T. Show)
Disc 4
01. Space Oddity
02. Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (inc. Don’t Sit Down)
03. Letter to Hermione
04. Cygnet Committee
05. Janine
06. An Occasional Dream
07. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
08. God Knows I’m Good
09. Memory of a Free Festival
10. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single B‐side stereo mix)
11. Letter to Hermione (early mix)
12. Janine (early mix)
13. An Occasional Dream (early mix)
14. Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola
Disc 5
01. Space Oddity (2019 mix)
02. Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (2019 mix)
03. Letter to Hermione (2019 mix)
04. Cygnet Committee (2019 mix)
05. Janine (2019 mix)
06. An Occasional Dream (2019 mix)
07. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (2019 mix)
08. Conversation Piece (2019 mix)
09. God Knows I’m Good (2019 mix)
10. Memory of a Free Festival (2019 mix)
11. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single version, 2019 mix)
12. Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola (2019 mix)
I bless you madly,
Sadly as I tie my shoes
I love you badly,
Just in time, at times, I guess
Because of you I need to rest
Because it's you
That sets the test
So much has gone
And little is new
And as the sparrow sings
Dawn chorus for
Someone else to hear
The Thinker sits alone growing older
And so bitter
"I gave Them life
I gave Them all
They drained my very soul
...Dry
I crushed my heart
To ease their pains
No thought for me remains there
Nothing can they spare
What of me?
Who praised their efforts
To be free?
Words of strength and care
And sympathy
I opened doors
That would have blocked their way
I braved their cause to guide,
For little pay
I ravaged at my finance just for those
Those whose claims were steeped in peace, tranquility
Those who said a new world, new ways ever free
Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me"
I bless you madly,
Sadly as I tie my shoes
I love you badly, just in time,
At times, I guess
Because of you I need to rest, oh yes
Because it's you
That sets the test
So much has gone
And little is new
And as the sunrise stream
Flickers on me,
My friends talk
Of glory, untold dream, where all is God and God is just a word
"We had a friend, a talking man
Who spoke of many powers that he had
Not of the best of men, but ours
We used him
We let him use his powers
We let him fill our needs
Now we are strong
And the road is coming to its end
Now the damned have no time to make amends
No purse of token fortune stands in our way
The silent guns of love
Will blast the sky
We broke the ruptured structure built of age
Our weapons were the tongues of crying rage
Where money stood
We planted seeds of rebirth
And stabbed the backs of fathers
Sons of dirt
Infiltrated business cesspools
Hating through our sleeves
Yea, and we slit the Catholic throat
Stoned the poor
On slogans such as
'Wish You Could Hear'
'Love Is All We Need'
'Kick Out The Jams'
'Kick Out Your Mother'
'Cut Up Your Friend'
'Screw Up Your Brother or He'll Get You In the End'
And we know the flag of love is from above
And we can force you to be free
And we can force you to believe"
And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain
For I once read a book in which the lovers were slain
For they knew not the words of the Free States' refrain
It said:
"I believe in the power of good
I believe in the state of love
I will fight for the right to be right
I will kill for the good of the fight for the right to be right"
And I open my eyes to look around
And I see a child laid slain
On the ground
As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows
Plowing down man, woman, listening to its command
But not hearing anymore
Not hearing anymore
Just the shrieks from the old rich
And I want to believe
In the madness that calls 'Now'
And I want to believe
That a light's shining through
Somehow
And I want to believe
And you want to believe
And we want to believe
And we want to live
Oh, we want to live
We want to live
We want to live
We want to live
We want to live
We want to live
I want to live
I want to live
I want to live
I want to live
I want to live
I want to live
Live
Live
Live