This song is just sheer genius. The opening of the fanfare of the gladiators entering the arena and the screaming crowd that morphs into synth violins, the roaring lions, the "Mediterranean Motifs" weaved throughout, sheer genius.
Hi Jerome.... I too have been trying to figure out a lot of the lyrics to psi-fi,... and I'm Ken Eliott's sister!!! The lyrics to "Things To Come" were on the original sleeve, but the lyrics to "psi-fi" had never been transcribed before. t transpires many of us have been singing the wrong lyrics for many years. Anyhow, both the 7th Wave albums have recently been reissued by Cherry Red records (see post above)....and I had the job of transcribing the lyrics, which was no easy task. I initially did a draft... I sat and listened to the album intently and left lots of blanks where I wasn't sure. Then when Ken came to visit, I played the album, sat him down and asked him to fill in the blanks. There were many times I asked Ken... "are you sure that's what you're singing?" and kept replaying to make sure. I got quite a few surprises myself. Ken said he liked some of my wrong lyrics better ;) Anyhow, I'm going to post the lyrics after this... 2 at a time, Enjoy
SEVENTH WAVE - PSI-FI LYRICS ******************************************************* RETURN TO FOREVERLAND You blow my mind with your amazing graces You've no illusions in high places We'll be a ricochet of laughing harmonies Pushing upwards into an empty city At night, alright who cares Return to Foreverland Shall I never understand Why I always feel this way Could you see yourself in my electric dream Drinking a glass of mesca wine We'd fly to Rio Become a whole charade Of glitter dust charm And sunshine vanity Black Knight bronzed and gold in Rio Return to Foreverland Take off now and never land Where my dreams are starry eyed Where this idea hit me Think of all the people you ever knew Think of the message they laid on you Lady of the river of the light We have too much to say Just tell me it's alright And that we can do anything We like it's nice with kisses Return to Foreverland Shall I never understand Why I always feel this way Return to Foreverland Return to Foreverland Take off now and never land Return to Foreverland ************************************************************ ROADS TO ROME
Alice swayed her head like a rattle snake She said hey come and have some joy I'll take you to a party like the last days of Rome I said I'd be obliged walked by her side Along the pebble beach mascara eyed
Her bright and lucid tongue played with her life's experience enticing Little sister sang the virgin song in vain he came Her brothers were all ravaged by the fear dogs She didn't cry she's satisfied She'll spend her days in Rome until she dies
Strangers of the roads to Rome [Onomatopoeia] The girls and the guys lay with jaded Juke box eyes They spend their last days in Rome
Put your money in the old Rock-ola Roma-roller rocko-la-la [last days in Rome] In Caligula's vanilla villa Roma-roller rocko-la la Emporium deco nickelodeon [oh Antonio telephonio]
[Viva fatali inferno denari] [ampitheatre etcetera derarium natura necrophelia psychedelia]
Last days in Rome I hope you make it as a gladiator Roma-roller rocko-la-la
I'd love to see you there I'd love to see you there in Rome She was so very young I wondered how she'd fare Rocko-la-la
Emperor (or so you'd like to think or feel or be she said) I should have ripped the eyes of her head And spat them at the skies To look out and see Rome burn In a desert of blue sound 500 years the spirit flies Time to be civilised To realise to prophesise
There's a red shadow of earth On the moon see a crescent of light Like a celestial sundial For the star gods of night Shadows of doom Weave a strange astral spell [moonbeams] Like a symphony [a sacrificial rite] A sight of such awesome might Manifestations of the moon and the sun
Lost temple of science in a terrestrial night The Pharaoh’s magician been playing with zionite Tonight look up to the skies [stargazer] With a philosophy [strangers in the night] A sight of such awesome might Manifestations of the moon and the sun
Terrestrial night a change of your reality has come See the demons of darkness in the night Hear the trumpets of madness as I wait for the dawn
Close your eyes Dreamer of decadence Lay still as death
Across the valley the demons come [cheek to cheek] People gather under a blood red sun And the moon brother's strange evil glaze [lunar] Ringing cacophony (ethereality] A sight of such awesome might Manifestations of the moon and the sun
Manifestations of the moon and sun Manifestations of the moon and sun
Listen the day lies still The night is yet to begin Stage lights glancing at the shadows Night shades disappear You sense and catch the smell of fear
You're getting emptier day by day Your wall's collapsing to inside You say is my mind into infinity Can't take those starry eyes Or transcendental suicides
I'm singing of the agony of living Sleep work talk eat sleep monotony But this is only the beginning I can't realise Think I'll take a walk in the skies
Something I can't remember Is it a kiss a word of truth or nursery rhyme Is this the final curtain on the stage Or just swinging racy showbiz all the time
Got to reach my mind out for miles and miles
Across the windswept planes of time
This is only the beginning This is only the start This is only the beginning Each beginning has an end Each end is a time to begin
This is only the beginning This is only the start This is only the beginning Each beginning has an end Each end is a time to begin Time to begin
Listen... chic
Built like a lazer High velocity phaser A catastrophic stereotype
Sharp as a razor Elocution eraser Like a dream alright Sit tight
Get a hit - get up
Sees your point of view You know what I mean It's a dream scene scheme
To take your sensuality And tie it to the skies
Someone help me climb these [and it's all in the mind] Helter-skelter memories
This is only the beginning This is only the start This is only the beginning (don't look back) Each beginning has an end Each end is a time to begin
This is only the beginning This is only the start [so be there] This is only the beginning [and remember] Each beginning has an end [everything has an end] Each end is a time to begin
ASTRAL ANIMAL I've been around about 10 billion years Never get sick and tired of pain and fear About 4 in the morning I noticed you dreaming My astral bestiality a fire serpent
Feel my vibrations start at the knees I've got love and it's eager to please Silky soft explosions free as a breeze Ripe as a raisin so give it a squeeze
I am the astral animal I move slow [it's like torture] And I never let you forget I am the astral animal I move fast [it's like fire] Through the spider webs of your back street eyes
Hey don't tell me lies 'Cos you know you think about me
Feel the rotation Of my vital emotion As I sink into motion And drink your sweet lotion Do you know there are 10,000 religions That worship my spear I can turn you on or destroy you with fear
Seems kind of evil you know what I mean This operation on a living machine Insatiable desire sending waves up your spleen A little ting-a-ling agony That is like a living dream
I am the astral animal I move slow [it's like torture] And I never let you forget I am the astral animal I move fast [just like fire] Through the back streets of your spider web disguise
********************************************************************* CAMERA OBSCURA Plastic palace Alice Through the looking glass
Hearts of darkness set me free Please release this grip of madness
As the cabaret of life unfolds before your very eyes Remember there's a fall for every rise In the skies a multitude of stellar fire flies Seem to harmonize
With their centrifugal appetites for parody As you ride a space time wheel through eternity
Realisation of a what you think or feel or be Your reflection of a reality Anything you see
Upon the sands of time perceive a bird with broken wing For her the dream of life shall be unmade Someone tell me a reason why it must be this way Death arrives at the feast of life Eating fools paradise He wields a scythe her last illusion fades
Realisation of a reality The reflection anything you see Who are you to be You count the seasons and the reasons in eternity way When you're left to love alone You realise it's in your mind to be a magician You are your own soul's physician
Realisation She touched my soul with soothing lies [harmonised] And the beat played
The orchestra played a dream serenade Palm court finite
Huh Alice's jaded golden grenade Shines with promise tonight She said they kill me with their dreams
Champagne on ice
Alice is dancing Enticing entrancing
Crystal cafe in the bright white day
Alice is dancing [a dream serenade]
Realisation of what you think or feel or be Your reflection of someone somewhere Anyone you see
Hi Phil, well as the whole country/world has gone massively eccentric , I really hope it gets posted. he is not forgotten at all. I was completely amazed when 7th wave did a social secs conference at Sheffield in err 74? They were absolutely electric. I tried to get them to Exeter Uni but Terry Kings lot wouldn't have it.
This song is just sheer genius. The opening of the fanfare of the gladiators entering the arena and the screaming crowd that morphs into synth violins, the roaring lions, the "Mediterranean Motifs" weaved throughout, sheer genius.
WOW! great to hear the music and see pics of the band too! I'll pass the link on to Ken Eliott :-)
About time albums like these were re-issued !
still miss them xxx
A bit of Prog and Glam combined. Very Arty
Just sold my two SW vinyl albums so that I can move house. Still crying....
www.esotericrecordings.com/newreleases.html
can anyone understand all the lyrics or post them. I have been trying to figure them out for over half my life!
Hi Jerome.... I too have been trying to figure out a lot of the lyrics to psi-fi,... and I'm Ken Eliott's sister!!! The lyrics to "Things To Come" were on the original sleeve, but the lyrics to "psi-fi" had never been transcribed before. t transpires many of us have been singing the wrong lyrics for many years. Anyhow, both the 7th Wave albums have recently been reissued by Cherry Red records (see post above)....and I had the job of transcribing the lyrics, which was no easy task. I initially did a draft... I sat and listened to the album intently and left lots of blanks where I wasn't sure. Then when Ken came to visit, I played the album, sat him down and asked him to fill in the blanks. There were many times I asked Ken... "are you sure that's what you're singing?" and kept replaying to make sure. I got quite a few surprises myself. Ken said he liked some of my wrong lyrics better ;) Anyhow, I'm going to post the lyrics after this... 2 at a time, Enjoy
SEVENTH WAVE - PSI-FI LYRICS
*******************************************************
RETURN TO FOREVERLAND
You blow my mind with your amazing graces
You've no illusions in high places
We'll be a ricochet of laughing harmonies
Pushing upwards into an empty city
At night, alright who cares
Return to Foreverland
Shall I never understand
Why I always feel this way
Could you see yourself in my electric dream
Drinking a glass of mesca wine
We'd fly to Rio
Become a whole charade
Of glitter dust charm
And sunshine vanity
Black Knight bronzed and gold in Rio
Return to Foreverland
Take off now and never land
Where my dreams are starry eyed
Where this idea hit me
Think of all the people you ever knew
Think of the message they laid on you
Lady of the river of the light
We have too much to say
Just tell me it's alright
And that we can do anything
We like it's nice with kisses
Return to Foreverland
Shall I never understand
Why I always feel this way
Return to Foreverland
Return to Foreverland
Take off now and never land
Return to Foreverland
************************************************************
ROADS TO ROME
Alice swayed her head like a rattle snake
She said hey come and have some joy
I'll take you to a party like the last days of Rome
I said I'd be obliged walked by her side
Along the pebble beach mascara eyed
Her bright and lucid tongue played with her life's experience enticing
Little sister sang the virgin song in vain he came
Her brothers were all ravaged by the fear dogs
She didn't cry she's satisfied
She'll spend her days in Rome until she dies
Strangers of the roads to Rome
[Onomatopoeia]
The girls and the guys lay with jaded
Juke box eyes
They spend their last days in Rome
Put your money in the old Rock-ola
Roma-roller rocko-la-la [last days in Rome]
In Caligula's vanilla villa
Roma-roller rocko-la la
Emporium deco nickelodeon [oh Antonio telephonio]
[Viva fatali inferno denari]
[ampitheatre etcetera derarium
natura necrophelia psychedelia]
Last days in Rome
I hope you make it as a gladiator
Roma-roller rocko-la-la
I'd love to see you there
I'd love to see you there in Rome
She was so very young
I wondered how she'd fare
Rocko-la-la
Emperor (or so you'd like to think or feel or be she said)
I should have ripped the eyes of her head
And spat them at the skies
To look out and see Rome burn
In a desert of blue sound
500 years the spirit flies
Time to be civilised
To realise to prophesise
MANIFESTATIONS
There's a red shadow of earth
On the moon see a crescent of light
Like a celestial sundial
For the star gods of night
Shadows of doom
Weave a strange astral spell [moonbeams]
Like a symphony [a sacrificial rite]
A sight of such awesome might
Manifestations of the moon and the sun
Lost temple of science in a terrestrial night
The Pharaoh’s magician been playing with zionite
Tonight look up to the skies [stargazer]
With a philosophy [strangers in the night]
A sight of such awesome might
Manifestations of the moon and the sun
Terrestrial night a change of your reality has come
See the demons of darkness in the night
Hear the trumpets of madness as I wait for the dawn
Close your eyes
Dreamer of decadence
Lay still as death
Across the valley the demons come [cheek to cheek]
People gather under a blood red sun
And the moon brother's strange evil glaze [lunar]
Ringing cacophony (ethereality]
A sight of such awesome might
Manifestations of the moon and the sun
Manifestations of the moon and sun
Manifestations of the moon and sun
************************************************************
LOVED BY YOU
Don't give me any fooling
Don't look away from me child
I don't need any schooling
I found out today
That I wanna stay loved by you
That I wanna stay loved by you
Don't look away from me
In my world the whole show changes
When you're around
You to me are the only thing that's real
You're my life in this old cold grey town
That's why I wanna stay loved by you
That's why I wanna stay loved by you
Don't slip away from me
That's why I wanna stay loved by you
'Cos you fit in my world
That's why I wanna stay loved by you
**************************************************
ONLY THE BEGINNING
Listen the day lies still
The night is yet to begin
Stage lights glancing at the shadows
Night shades disappear
You sense and catch the smell of fear
You're getting emptier day by day
Your wall's collapsing to inside
You say is my mind into infinity
Can't take those starry eyes
Or transcendental suicides
I'm singing of the agony of living
Sleep work talk eat sleep monotony
But this is only the beginning
I can't realise
Think I'll take a walk in the skies
Something I can't remember
Is it a kiss a word of truth or nursery rhyme
Is this the final curtain on the stage
Or just swinging racy showbiz all the time
Got to reach my mind out for miles and miles
Across the windswept planes of time
This is only the beginning
This is only the start
This is only the beginning
Each beginning has an end
Each end is a time to begin
This is only the beginning
This is only the start
This is only the beginning
Each beginning has an end
Each end is a time to begin
Time to begin
Listen... chic
Built like a lazer
High velocity phaser
A catastrophic stereotype
Sharp as a razor
Elocution eraser
Like a dream alright
Sit tight
Get a hit - get up
Sees your point of view
You know what I mean
It's a dream scene scheme
To take your sensuality
And tie it to the skies
Someone help me climb these
[and it's all in the mind]
Helter-skelter memories
This is only the beginning
This is only the start
This is only the beginning (don't look back)
Each beginning has an end
Each end is a time to begin
This is only the beginning
This is only the start
[so be there]
This is only the beginning [and remember]
Each beginning has an end [everything has an end]
Each end is a time to begin
Hey what time is this
Time to begin
***************************************************
ASTRAL ANIMAL
I've been around about 10 billion years
Never get sick and tired of pain and fear
About 4 in the morning
I noticed you dreaming
My astral bestiality a fire serpent
Feel my vibrations start at the knees
I've got love and it's eager to please
Silky soft explosions free as a breeze
Ripe as a raisin so give it a squeeze
I am the astral animal
I move slow [it's like torture]
And I never let you forget
I am the astral animal
I move fast [it's like fire]
Through the spider webs of your back street eyes
Hey don't tell me lies
'Cos you know you think about me
Feel the rotation
Of my vital emotion
As I sink into motion
And drink your sweet lotion
Do you know there are 10,000 religions
That worship my spear
I can turn you on or destroy you with fear
Seems kind of evil you know what I mean
This operation on a living machine
Insatiable desire sending waves up your spleen
A little ting-a-ling agony
That is like a living dream
I am the astral animal
I move slow [it's like torture]
And I never let you forget
I am the astral animal
I move fast [just like fire]
Through the back streets of your spider web disguise
*********************************************************************
CAMERA OBSCURA
Plastic palace Alice
Through the looking glass
Hearts of darkness set me free
Please release this grip of madness
As the cabaret of life unfolds before your very eyes
Remember there's a fall for every rise
In the skies a multitude of stellar fire flies
Seem to harmonize
With their centrifugal appetites for parody
As you ride a space time wheel through eternity
Realisation of a what you think or feel or be
Your reflection of a reality
Anything you see
Upon the sands of time perceive a bird with broken wing
For her the dream of life shall be unmade
Someone tell me a reason why it must be this way
Death arrives at the feast of life
Eating fools paradise
He wields a scythe her last illusion fades
Realisation of a reality
The reflection anything you see
Who are you to be
You count the seasons and the reasons in eternity way
When you're left to love alone
You realise it's in your mind to be a magician
You are your own soul's physician
Realisation
She touched my soul with soothing lies [harmonised]
And the beat played
The orchestra played a dream serenade
Palm court finite
Huh
Alice's jaded golden grenade
Shines with promise tonight
She said they kill me with their dreams
Champagne on ice
Alice is dancing
Enticing entrancing
Crystal cafe in the bright white day
Alice is dancing [a dream serenade]
Realisation of what you think or feel or be
Your reflection of someone somewhere
Anyone you see
Hearts of darkness set me free
magic.marie is ken around?
Hi Terry. Ken rents my old house from me in March, Cambs. Still composing and a lovely, but massively eccentric man.
Hi Phil, well as the whole country/world has gone massively eccentric , I really hope it gets posted. he is not forgotten at all. I was completely amazed when 7th wave did a social secs conference at Sheffield in err 74? They were absolutely electric. I tried to get them to Exeter Uni but Terry Kings lot wouldn't have it.
About time albums like these were re-issued !
came here from GESCOM's Seventh Ace Deuce which is the techno love letter to them that came before, pushing the boundaries... beautiful stuff.