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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.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Fact And Fiction - The Definitive Edition via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Brian Devoil: “I asked Geoff if he could write something with more positive lyrics in order to provide an uplifting close to the album, especially after the lyrical intensity of Creepshow. The result was Love Song.”

Clive Mitten: “Love Song took as long to write as it takes to play. I was showing Geoff how to move fingers on a keyboard to progress between related chords, and how easy it can be to go between notes, when the chord sequence for Love Song emerged, complete. We thought ‘oh, that’s nice’ and Geoff went off to write some words to go with the music. It’s a coda to the rest of the album and stands alone from the messages inherent within the other songs. It’s a statement that we’ve gone on this journey from We Are Sane to Creepshow and that there is life beyond.”

Jane Mann: “Two of Geoff’s greatest phrases appear in this song; ‘skittering wind-blown leaves’ and ‘take a tip from the Carpenter, forgive and love again...and again’ … the latter clearly stating Geoff’s by then very strong Christian faith. It’s still an epic. Hope springs eternal...”

Andy Revell: “Love Song is the light at the end of the tunnel.”

lyrics

everybody has wisdom everyone understands
food when we are hungry
the touch of loving hands
no one is anyone's property
no one should be a slave
the joining of hearts in free will
begins a tidal wave

don't hold back
don't think that hope is pointless
love is a, love is a,
love is a, love is an open door
don't believe
that life is closed against us
love is a, love is a,
love is a, love is an open door

and it doesn't make any difference
the colour of anyone's skin
we need the rejection of prejudice
let peace come flooding in
jealousy is just a parasite hatred is disease
respect for human dignity
become skittering wind blown leaves

don't hold back
don't think that hope is pointless
love is a, love is a,
love is a, love is an open door
don't believe
that life is closed against us
love is a, love is a,
love is a, love is an open door

the time is surely coming when we could all be free
when eyes for so long blinded
in opening shall see
that children may grow happily
safe in the love of all
the earth a fertile garden where nobody need crawl

don't hold back
don't think that hope is pointless
love is a, love is a,
love is a, love is an open door
don't believe
that life is closed against us
love is a, love is a,
love is a, love is an open door

and if it seems that your hoping heart
has led you into pain
take a tip from the carpenter
forgive and love again
and again

credits

from Fact And Fiction - The Definitive Edition, released October 1, 1982
Brian Devoil: Drums, percussion.
Geoff Mann: Vocals, tape effects.
Clive Mitten Bass, keyboards, classical guitar.
Andy Revell: Electric and acoustic guitar.

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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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