Material
Bill Laswell’s New York downtown band Material teamed up with the then unknown Whitney Houston and jazz master Archie Shepp to make this fantastic, achingly beautiful version of a Hugh Hopper track her wrote in the 1960s for The Wilde Flowers, a band who are considered the predecessor to Soft Machine. Robert Wyatt’s version was on the b-side of his I’m A Believer single.
I know, I cannot leave this place for the memories,
Memories can hang you up and haunt you,
Get so you cannot stay,
And yet cannot go
You are here for ever
We stand together
Reaching beyond where there is sound
Farther than the eye can see
Forever…
Forever…
Forever…
I?ve got to choose between tomorrow and yesterday,
Can’t stop to think about my life, here today.
Memories can hang you up and haunt you,
Get so you cannot stay,
And yet cannot go.
You are here for ever
We stand together
Reaching beyond where there is sound
Farther than the eye can see
Forever…
Forever…
Forever…
I could find out where you?ve gone today,
I feel so unhappy,
Streets seem so empty now,
I want you, I want you with me,
Maybe I’ll find someone to get you
Off my mind
Take me away from here
Ohhhhh
Memories can hang you up
Memories… Memories…
Memories
Can hang you up
Ohhhhhhh
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