Take A Look

from Art & Illusion by Twelfth Night

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    The double CD is an expanded version consisting of the original album, contemporary demos and live material, including the first ever released version of Andy singing East of Eden.

    It has some absolutely fantastic new artwork, which has been completely reworked / re-interpreted by Paul Tippett at Vitamin P (with help from our own in-built creative, Senor Sears).

    All the lyrics have been lavishly illustrated with some stunning images, and there are brand new sleeve-notes from Andy Sears, Mark Hughes and Andy Wild. Here are just a couple of the pages from the booklet, a couple of live photos, and a publicity shot for the original release in 1984.

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Recorded at Granny's Basement Studios, London - May 1984.

lyrics

Synthesised, programmed and synchronised
Detailed, computerised – no room for error
Specified, labelled and classified
Free mind has paralysed imagination

Educate, break down and formulate
Dictate don’t speculate – don’t be a failure
Parasite – know, sense, think, read and write
Translating black and white, hungry for logic

Stand fast
Take a look at yourself
In a moment, realise
We are thinking today
Take control

Clinical, useful and practical
Always fanatical – controlled existence
Generate, design and integrate
But never simulate human reaction

Stand fast
Take a look at yourself
In a moment, realise
We are thinking today
Take control

Take control
Control
Control

Doters on the silicon
Enslaved by self-design
Dependant on the life-blood
And body of their Son
Each cry for understanding
Begins and ends at the grave
From cradle to grave

Null and void emotion
Break free of the system
Opening eyes finding release
Each breath of inspiration
Begins and ends at the grave
From cradle to grave

Synthesised, programmed and synchronised
Detailed, computerised no room for error
Specified, labelled and classified
Free mind has paralysed imagination

Stand fast
Take a look at yourself
In a moment, realise
We are thinking today
Take a look, take a look
Take control of yourself
For a moment, realise
We are thinking today, today, today
Take a look at yourself
For a moment, realise
We are thinking today
Take a look, take a look
Take control of yourself
In a moment, in a moment
Realise, we are thinking today, today, today, today
Take a look at yourself, for a moment
Realise, we are thinking today
Take control

We are thinking, thinking
Today, today, today
Take a look
Take a look
Take a look
Take a look, at yourself
At yourself

You’ve got to take, take, take
Take control of yourself.

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from Art & Illusion, released October 12, 1984

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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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