Twelfth Night - The Ceiling Speaks (live)

from Mannerisms: A Celebration Of The Music Of Geoff Mann by Various Artists

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Recorded at Guildford University 11 February 1983
Second ever live performance with different lyrics and, as yet, without a title
Written by: Twelfth Night

"Although the guitars are not always in tune here ;-) it's powerful impact shows why it became an immediate favourite, and subsequently our opening number... it also has a short keyboard solo from Rick that I had completely forgotten about, as it was subsequently dropped as the track was developed". Brian

lyrics

I am the ceiling
You are the floor above me
Rising into real
I am deceiving
You are the honesty
I wish that I could feel

Forming a function
All of the qualities within you make the deal
Stand at the junction
You are the crossing point through which no thief may steal

Some may say it's all unreal
That's not the way I feel
My heartbeat dance and play
Nothing more to say...

How well you know me
How much you show me
As you lead me to my goal
... you tow me
Across the Styx
To where the ...

I am delivered
I am a baby born
Into your sacred peace
I am delusion
You are every fact that offers me release

Some may say it's all unreal
That's not the way I feel
My heartbeat dance and play
Nothing more to say...

Taking a different kind of course
Instead of my eyes I see through yours
A change of heart
Another place to start
Secret steps within your dance
Offer me a second chance
Another start, a different point of view
No longer need a careful plan
No longer be the also-ran
Another freedom
Is the point I feel

Freedom
Don't you know
Is just a place inside you
A place where you may go
Freedom
Don't you know
Is just a place inside you
A place where you may go

I am the ceiling
You are the floor above me
Rising into real
I am deceiving
You are the honesty
I pray that I could feel

Some may say it's all unreal
That's not the way I feel
My heartbeat dance and play
Nothing more to say...

Some may say it's all unreal
That's not the way I feel
My heartbeat dance and play
Nothing more to say...

credits

from Mannerisms: A Celebration Of The Music Of Geoff Mann, released July 1, 1994
Rick Battersby: keyboards
Brian Devoil: drums
Geoff Mann: vocals
Clive Mitten: guitar
Andy Revell: 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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