From
Sleepwalking (1982) by
Gerry Rafferty
Standing at the Gates (Rafferty) - 6:48
Well the jury found you guilty, as you stare into a world that’s without love
But you keep a wall around you, and you wait for help to come down from above
Now the wisdom of your ways has finally caught you up, and left you to your fate
So you end up like a refugee, all alone and standin’ at the gates.
Now the truth is slowly dawning, but you don’t get any warning here within
And you swear that you can change your ways, you promise that tomorrow you’ll begin
But the phases of the moon still come and go, and now you’ve left it much too late
So you end up like a refugee, all alone and standin’ at the gates.
All aboard the roundabout like the biggest fool you’ve ever seen
And all the time you know what’s comin’ down (it’s comin’ down)
Up and down on the roundabout while you’re sittin’ right on dynamite
And any fool can see what’s comin’ down.
You can run with the wind, you can laugh at the rain, and pretend
It’s just some bad weather
There’s a storm comin’ up, and it’s headin’ your way.
Now the spirit doesn’t move you, you’re so empty, you’ve got nothin’ left to give
Yes you know by now that nothin’ you have ever learned has taught you how to live
But the phases of the moon still come and go, and now you’ve left it much too late
So you end up like a refugee, all alone and standin’ at the gates.
All aboard the roundabout like the biggest fool you’ve ever seen
And all the time you know what’s comin’ down (it’s comin’ down)
Up and down on the roundabout while you’re sittin’ right on dynamite
And any fool can see what’s comin’ down.
You can run with the wind, you can laugh at the rain, and pretend
It’s just some bad weather
There’s a storm comin’ up, and it’s headin’ your way.
Well the jury found you guilty, as you stare into a world that’s without love
Yes you keep a wall around you, and you wait for help to come down from above
Now the wisdom of your ways has finally caught you up, and left you to your fate
So you end up like a refugee, all alone and standin’ at the gates.
Yes you end up like a refugee, all alone and standin’ at the gates
Yes you end up like a refugee, all alone and standin’ at the gates.
Drums: Liam Genockey
Bass: Mo Foster
Piano: Kenny Craddock
Hammond Organ: Kenny Craddock
Electric Guitar: Hugh Burns
Percussion: Maurice Pert
Synthesizers: Kenny Craddock
Saxophone: Mel Collins
Vocals: Gerry Rafferty
Good Intentions (Rafferty) - 4:12
I asked my heart to talk to my mind
They said don’t worry, oh well you’re doin’ fine
I went to the doctor, I said I’m misunderstood
He said �Don’t worry, why your intentions are good.’
Now life is a hard school, when you’re living a lie
Tell me who’ll bring you water, when your well runs dry?
Ah but there’s always tomorrow, you’ll do the things that you should
You’re just a sad eyed dreamer, but your intentions are good.
I am a man who keeps his head down in the sand
If the spirit doesn’t move you what’s the use in making plans?
I’ve been to the mountain, I’ve been out in the rain
I’m a long way from home but I can make it back again.
I asked my heart to talk to my mind
They said don’t worry, oh well you’re doin’ fine
I went to the doctor, I said I’m misunderstood
He said �Don’t worry, (oh well you know) why your intentions are good.’
(fade)
Your intentions are good (yeah)
Your intentions are good (yeah)
Organ and Piano: Alan Clark
Synthesizer: Ian Lynn
Drum Synthesizer: Christopher Neil
Vocals: Gerry Rafferty
A Change of Heart (Rafferty) - 4:10
One life, and you’re on your own, and you don’t ever find a way back home
One road and you travel alone, you keep on even when your hope is gone
Now somethin’ touches you with a different rhythm
But all your life, you’ve been playin’a part
And nothin’s gonna make you have a change of heart.
Change of heart. Change of heart.
Change of heart. Change of heart.
A worried mind, and a heart full of pain, you drag it around just like a ball and chain
It doesn’t matter where you go, there’s no runnin’ away from everything you know
The writing’s on the wall, but still you won’t surrender
You won’t give up, you won’t make a start
And nothin’s gonna make you have a change of heart.
Change of heart. Change of heart.
Change of heart. Change of heart.
Rain clouds blowin’ away, taking you back again to yesterday
Bad moon on the rise, now you’re runnin’ out of alibis
But somethin’ touches you, with a different rhythm
All your life, you’ve been playin’a part
And nothin’s gonna make you have a change of heart.
(fade)
Change of heart. Change of heart.
Don’t let this cold world tear you apart.
Drums: Liam Genockey
Bass: Mo Foster
Electric Guitars: Kenny Craddock / Frank Bogie
Synthesizers: Kenny Craddock
Sequencer: Ian Lynn
Lead Vocals: Gerry Rafferty
Backing Vocals: Gerry Rafferty / Christopher Neil
On the Way (Rafferty) - 3:52
Driftin’ along with the wind, telling yourself you can’t win
It’s over and now we begin, oh yeah we are on the way
Light shining down from the east, bringing a love that won’t cease
Yeah now we are finally released, oh yeah we’re on the way.
I used to think that I was doin’ all right, but now I know that I was just hanging on
I used to wake up in the dead of night, and see the road that I was travellin’ on.
Only one woman one man, just doing the best that we can
There’s so much we don’t understand, oh yeah but we’re on the way
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Yeah Yeah Yeah
I used to think that I was doin’ all right, but now I know that I was just hanging on
I used to wake up in the dead of night, and see the road that I was travellin’ on.
Only one woman one man, just doing the best that we can
There’s so much we don’t understand, oh yeah but we’re on the way
Light shining down from the east, bringing a love that won’t cease
Yeah now we are finally released, oh yeah we’re on the way.
(fade)
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Drums: Pick Withers
Bass: Mo Foster
Hammond Organ: Alan Clark
Synthesizers: Alan Clark
Electric Guitar: Hugh Burns
Synthesizer: Ian Lynn
Percussion: Frank Riccotti
Vocals: Gerry Rafferty
Sleepwalking (Rafferty) - 3:53
Out on the street and the rain is fallin’, I got nowhere to go
Here in my heart I can hear you callin’ maybe I should come back home
I don’t know what keeps us together, but I can’t break the chain
I don’t mind a little stormy weather, but I just can’t stand the rain.
Sleepwalkin’, deep sleep talkin’, reelin’ and rockin’, wailin’ at the moon
Sleepwalkin’, deep sleep talkin’, reelin’ and rockin’, wailin’ at the moon.
Sleep won’t come so you lie there waitin’, lookin’ at the silvery light
Tellin’ yourself there’s nothin’ new, so whatever gets you through the night
Meanwhile back in the music business the beat goes on and on
I sell my soul to the company man, when there’s nothin’ else to lean upon.
Sleepwalkin’, deep sleep talkin’, reelin’ and rockin’, wailin’ at the moon
Sleepwalkin’, deep sleep talkin’, reelin’ and rockin’, wailin’ at the moon.
People come and people go, friends they disappear
There’s only one thing that I wanna know, tell me where do we go from here
Everybody’s on the make, everybody’s tryin’ to get ahead
In a world like this you just exist to feed the walkin’ dead.
Sleepwalkin’, deep sleep talkin’, reelin’ and rockin’, wailin’ at the moon
Sleepwalkin’, deep sleep talkin’, reelin’ and rockin’, wailin’ at the moon.
Lookin’ out on a world gone crazy, waitin’ for the fun to begin
The race is on yeah they’re gettin’ ready, Jesus what a state we’re in
Meanwhile down in my backyard I’m sittin’ doin’ solitary
Now that I’ve milked the sacred cow, I just worry �bout the military.
Sleepwalkin’, deep sleep talkin’, reelin’ and rockin’, wailin’ at the moon
Sleepwalkin’, deep sleep talkin’, reelin’ and rockin’, wailin’ at the moon.
(fade)
Get ready
Get ready
Drums: Liam Genockey
Electric Guitar: Hugh Burns
Percussion: Maurice Pert
Keyboards: Kenny Craddock
Lead Vocals: Gerry Rafferty
Backing Vocals: Gerry Rafferty / Christopher Neil
Cat and Mouse (Rafferty) - 5:02
As you crossed the room, I was all wrapped up in my cocoon
When you said hello, I had nowhere to run and I had nowhere to go
With a fool like you, I will say anything you want me to
With a fool like me, I’m amazed at how you take it all so seriously.
People come and people go, and people want to tell you just how much they know
But I’m runnin’ out of alibis, I got one thing left that I can’t deny
Yes I’m doin’ time, doin’ time, and it won’t be long �til I cross that line
Yes the day will come when it’s time to go, you better get ready, �cause now you know.
In a place like this, you abandon all hope, you just exist
You can’t break the spell, well you know you’re not in heaven, but you might be in hell.
People come and people go, and people want to tell you just how much they know
But I’m runnin’ out of alibis, I got one thing left that I can’t deny
Yes I’m doin’ time, doin’ time, and it won’t be long �til I cross that line
Yes the day will come when it’s time to go, you better get ready, �cause now you know.
As you crossed the room, I was all wrapped up in my cocoon
When you said hello, I had nowhere to run and I had nowhere to go.
(fade)
Yes I’m runnin’, runnin’, runnin’, runnin’
Yes I’m runnin’, runnin’, runnin’, runnin’
Drums: Pick Withers
Hammond Organ: Alan Clark
Synthesizers: Alan Clark
Piano: Kenny Craddock
Electric Guitar: Hugh Burns
Percussion: Frank Riccotti
Lead Vocals: Gerry Rafferty
Backing Vocals: Gerry Rafferty / Christopher Neil
The Right Moment (Rafferty) - 3:22
Spinning on another wheel, goin’ round in slow motion
Caught up in another dream, driftin’ on a blue ocean
When are you gonna reach out, only you can turn your world around
When will you surrender, and wake up to the real
But you don’t want to start out just yet, you watch the seasons come and go
You remember and then you forget, all along the way.
You can make a better life, you’re just waitin’ for the right moment
You can find another way, you’re just waitin’ for the right moment
When are you gonna let go, and forget about the life you knew
When will you surrender, and wake up to the real
Now you know that it’s all borrowed time, and still you waste another day
But you watch and you wait for a sign all along the way.
As Wise as a Serpent (Rafferty) - 5:16
Well we sit in empty rooms and dream our lives away
While the spirits come and go without a sound
And just like you and me, they’re tryin’ to find a way, find a way, find a way home.
There’s a full moon in the sky, but that don’t worry me
I don’t ever hang my soul out on the line
When the witchin’ hour comes, I always fly away, fly away, fly away home.
There’s a light in the city, that comes down from above
Leavin’ you as wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove
Don’t blow your tomorrows, don’t throw away your love
You’ve got to be as wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove.
Now you once asked me why we can’t communicate
But it doesn’t always pay to tell the truth
If I told you right now, you’d only run away, run away, run away home
So we sit in empty rooms and dream our lives away
While the spirits come and go without a sound
Yeah just like you and me, they’re tryin’ to find a way, find a way, find a way home.
There’s a light in the city, that comes down from above
Leavin’ you as wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove
Don’t blow your tomorrows, don’t throw away your love
You’ve got to be as wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove.
Acoustic Guitar: Gerry Rafferty
Synthesizers: Kenny Craddock
Banjo (on fade): Kenny Craddock
Bass: Mo Foster
Percussion: Maurice Pert
Electric Guitar: Hugh Burns
Lead Vocals: Gerry Rafferty
Backing Vocals: Gerry Rafferty / Christopher Neil