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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Disc One is the original album + other tracks recorded at Revolution studios in 1982. Disc Two has live versions of all the tracks featuring all 3 ‘TN’ singers + 1982 demos. Disc Three has covers/interpretations by many different artists, all remastered & presented in a sumptuous 3CD digipak format. Many of the 39 tracks are previously unreleased. Also includes a comprehensive 24-page booklet with new artwork, lyrics (including some scans of Geoff's original handwritten versions) , extensive sleevenotes (with contributions from all the band members, plus Jane Mann, Andrew Wild and Michael Anthony) and contemporary photos of Geoff and the band.

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Pendragon's version of Human Being was originally recorded and released on the Mannersims album in 1994. If you're not familiar with their work check them out at pendragon.mu

lyrics

tremulous and quivering such victims as there are
contend with emotions under skin
without wearing water wings
the strike against the stream
hopelessly believing they might swim

here they all come rushing down again
here they all come rushing down again
time has hardly swallowed up the evidence
how is it they say they did not know

that history grows up like a weed
doctrine pinned upon it
bars across the window destroy human being

static mind solidifies
can no longer flow
up against it's borders and unable to pay
much attention to...
human being, human being
human being, human being

when in doubt you turn to find a scapegoat on the wall
gaze into the mirror begging pardon
if everytime we tell a lie a little fairy dies
they must be building death-camps in the garden

Pacing back and forwards
conscience in a box
barred in from the sunlight getting pale
and losing every sense of...
human being, human being
human being, human being

the forces of oppression
forge links around the earth
ordering our faces to the floor
the wilful non-involvement
by hirelings of the crimes
is futile and inhuman as before

the sum of our best efforts
shouldn't lead us back to here
on the road to murder
where we can no longer admit to any
human needing, human feeling
human living, human loving
human fragile, human being

credits

from Fact And Fiction - The Definitive Edition, released October 1, 1982
Nick Barrett: guitar, vocals.
Peter Gee: bass.
Clive Nolan: keyboards.
Fudge Smith: drums.

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Twelfth Night are an English progressive rock band of the 1980s, reformed between 2007 and 2012 and again in 2014.

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