Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/07/89)
Really-From: Yary Richard Phillip Hluchan <yh0a+@andrew.cmu.edu> I suppose you know Kate & Peter Gabrial sung that as a duet in concert many years ago.
pi@engineering.cambridge.ac.UK (Pablo Iglesias) (04/22/91)
HI Folks! I recently acquired the KaTe bootleg CD which includes the duet that KaTe and Peter Gabriel did on British TV of Roy Harper's "Another Day". I am completely blown away by this song. I've been looking for the lyrics in the archive, but they don't seem to be there. If anyone out ther in netland has the lyrics, could you send them to me, please? By the way, the first time I heard this song was a the 1990 KonvenTion when they showed a video of it from that TV program. Truly amazing Pablo pi@eng.cam.ac.uk PS. We've been ahaving many problems with our news feed lately, so if you could e-mail me the lyrics rather than posting them (or do both! :-) )
katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris Williams) (04/26/91)
Vickie here. Someone asked for this awhile back and if anyone posted
it I didn't see it. My apologies if this is a repeat.
Another Day written by Roy Harper
Peter:
The kettle's on, the sun has gone another day.
She offers me Tibetan tea on a flower tray.
She's at the door, she wants to score,
She dearly needs to say,
Kate:
I loved you a long time ago, you know,
where the wind's own forget-me-nots blow
but I just couldn't let myself go
not knowing what on earth there was to know.
But I wish that I had,
'cos I'm feeling so sad
that I never had one of your children.
Peter:
And across the room inside a tomb
a chance is waxed and wanes.
The night is young, why are we so hung up
in each others chains.
I must take her, I must make her
while the dove domains
and feel the juice run as she flies
run my winds under her sighs
as the flames of eternity rise
to lick us with the first-born lash of dawn.
Kate:
Oh really my dear
I can't see what we fear
sat here with ourselves in-between us.
Peter:
And at the door we can't say more
than just another day
Kate:
And without a sound
I turn around
and I walk away.
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Well, it's a bit obscure, but still very moving. For those who haven't
seen the video from the Kate Christmas Special, here's a discription:
When K&P did this live, they sat opposite each other at a kitchen table,
in character, wearing the most bored, ho-hum, who cares, expressions on
their faces. Between them, on the wall like a framed painting, is a video
screen showing the characters as feeling, hurting, anguished human beings
also sitting at a kitchen table. It's interesting. The foreground characters
are acting the way a lot of people act when they're hurt. Put on an act and
pretend it doesn't affect you. The background characters are acting out the
emotions that the foreground characters are keeping bottled up. Pride keeps
the couple from saying "I'm sorry" and trying to work it out. Love is lost.
It's all very wasteful and sad.
Vickie (one of Vickie'n'Chris)aruss@oucsace.cs.ohiou.EDU (Andrew Russ) (04/30/91)
The song originally appeared on Roy Harper's album Flat Baroque and
Berserk. The writer is listed as "H. Ash", who is credited with writing about
half the songs (Roy Harper is credited for the rest). I suspect H. Ash is a
pseudonym for Roy, but others more knowledgeable may contradict me.
The original lp is all folk songs, sometimes with string arrangements
(by David Bedford, i believe) with one rock and roll track, "Hell's Angels" and
one live track--the 12-minute long "i hate the white man", which is probably
the best song on he album, though the album as a whole is good.
The bootleg Wow! has a pink sheet that mentions the song as being by
"H. Asch and R. Harper". I didn't get it, so i haven't heard the KaTe version.
The lyrics Vickie posted seem identical to the original, excepting that the
original was sung entirely by Roy. The duet is an interesting innovation, and
the video concept seems great.
andrew russ