Arriving somewhere but not here

Μάρτιος...

Τι υπέροχος μήνας για να κυκλοφορήσει κανείς δίσκο!

Ε ναι...

Ακόμα ένας αγαπημένος δίσκος κυκλοφόρησε αυτόν τον μήνα, και συγκεκριμένα σαν σήμερα πριν απο 6 χρόνια οι Porcupine Tree κυκλοφόρησαν τον όγδοο δίσκο τους με τίτλο "Deadwing"

Ο δίσκος βασίζεται σε μια ιστορία φαντασμάτων...-η οποία οι Steven Wilson -ιθύνων νους του συγκροτήματος- και ο Mike Bennion θέλουν να την κάνουν ταινία..-

Είναι ο δεύτερος -πλέον- μοσχοπουλημένος δίσκος του συγκροτήματος -στην Ελλάδα έφτασε μέχρι και στο νούμερο 19-

Δεν υπάρχει κάποια περίεργη ιστορία πίσω απο την δημιουργεί του άλμπουμ, παρα μόνο να αναφέρω ότι σαν guest artist είναι o Andrian Belew κιθαρίστας των King Crimson που σολάρει στα Deadwing και Halo και ο Mikael Akerfeldt των Opeth με τα δεύτερα φωνητικά του στα Deadwing, Lazarus και Arriving Somewhere Not Here στο οποίο σολάρει κιόλας...

Το track list είναι το εξής:

1. Deadwing
2. Shallow
3. Lazarus
4. Halo
5. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
6. Mellotron Scratch
7. Open Car
8. The Start Of Something Beautiful
9. Glass Arms Shattering

Όλα είναι υπέροχα τραγούδια -όπως όλα σχεδόν της δισκογραφίας τους- αλλά το Arriving Somewhere But Not Here είναι μίλια μακρυά απο όλα τα άλλα...

Για τους μη-μυημένους προτείνω τα Lazarus, The Start of Something Beautiful και Arriving...

Οι Porcupine Tree είναι οι Steven Wilson -φωνή κιθάρα πλήκτρα/πιάνο- Richard Barbieri -πλήκτρα (όταν δεν παίζει ο Wilson) Colin Edwin -μπάσο- και Gavin Harrison -τύμπανα-

n'joy



And something warm and soft just passed through here
It took the precious things that I hold dearer
It rifled through the grey and disappeared
The creeping darkness makes the small hours clearer

Like a cancer scare In the dentist's chair
Sucking in the air
Wire across the stair
Kicking down the door
At your local store
With the world at war
Voices through the floor
Unexpected news
Wearing high heeled shoes
Blowing out the fuse
Paying all your dues
Deadwing lullaby
Like a fracture tied
It's a worthless lie
To the public eye

I don't take waifs and strays back home with me
My bleeding heart does not extend to charity

Yes I'd have to say
I like my privacy
And did you know you're on closed circuit TV?
So smile at me

And a dream you had
Of your mum and dad
On a beach somewhere
And the poison air
With the cancer threat
In a cigarette
Deadwing lullaby
Find a place to hide

And from the yellow windows of the last train
A spectre from the next life breathes his fog on the pane
I look with you into the speeding black rain
Afraid to touch someone, afraid to ask her for her name

And in the morning when I find I have lost you
I throw a window open wide and step through



I don't remember
Did something in my past create a hole?
Don't use your gender
To drive a stake right through my soul

I live to function
On my own is all I know
No friends to mention
No distraction, nowhere to go

Shallow, shallow
Give it to me, give it to me
Scissors cutting out your anger
Shallow, shallow
No good to me, not if you bleed
Bite your tongue, ignore the splinter

This city drains me
Well maybe it's the smell of gasoline
The millions pain me
It's easier to talk to my PC



As the cheerless towns pass my window
I can see a washed out moon through the fog
And then a voice inside my head breaks the analogue
And says

"Follow me down to the valley below
You know
Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul"

I survived against the will of my twisted folk
But in the deafness of my world the silence broke
And said

"My David don't you worry
This cold world is not for you
So rest your head upon me
I have strength to carry you"

(Ghosts of the twenties rising Golden summers just holding you)



God is in my fingers
God is in my head
God is in the trigger
God is in the lead

God is freedom, God is truth
God is power and God is proof
God is fashion, God is fame
God gives meaning, God gives pain

You can be right like me
With God in the hole you're a righteous soul
I got a halo round me, I got a halo round me
I'm not the same as you
Cos I've seen the light and I'm gaining in height now
I got a halo round me, I got a halo round me
I got a halo round my head

God is on the cellphone
God is on the net
God is in the warning
God is in the threat



Never stop the car on a drive in the dark
Never look for the truth in your mother's eyes
Never trust the sound of rain upon a river rushing through your ears

Arriving somewhere but not here

Did you imagine the final sound as a gun?
Or the smashing windscreen of a car?
Did you ever imagine the last thing you'd hear as you're fading out was a song?

Arriving somewhere but not here

All my designs simplified
And all of my plans compromised
All of my dreams sacrificed

Ever had the feeling you've been here before?
Drinking down the poison the way you were taught
Ever thought from here on in your life begins and all you knew was wrong?

Did you see the red mist block your path?
Did the scissors cut a way to your heart?
Did you feel the envy for the sons of mothers tearing you apart?

Arriving somewhere but not here



Always in my thoughts you are
Always in my dreams you are
I got your voice on tape
I got your spirit in a photograph
Always out of reach you are

Cold inside my arms you are
Simple like a child you are
I remember when you took my hand and led me through the rain
Down inside my soul you are

The more I show the way
I feel the less I find you give a damn
The more I get to know the less find that I understand
Innocent, the time we spent, forgot to mention we're good friends
You thought it was the start of something beautiful?
Well think again.

Mother lost her looks for you
Father never wanted you
I trust to love and then I find you never really felt the same
There's something in your heart so cruel