Sphinx and Time (EP)

Recorded as a live Jam in summer 1991 at Sevenoaks Prep School - Music rehearsal rooms.
Recorded from 8 track mixing desk to Hifi chrome cassette.
Remastered in 1998 and digitally enhanced to DAT at Kingston Gateway 24 track studios by studio engineer, Steve Lowe, using super dynamic analogue spring reverb.

Musicians:
1/ Alastair James Thompson: Vocals, Guitars;
2/ Nigel Gill: Keyboards;
3/ Stuart McMorran: Saxophone, Rattle percussion;
4/ Tez Cousins: Bass Guitar;
Lyrics (Poem): written by J. Alan Thompson, Egypt 1941.
Music: written by 1-4 above, joint collaboration, July 1991.

Recorded at House in the Woods 24 track Studio in 1994.

Remastered by Richard Borsey, Collision Studio, France 2012.

Lyrics: Alastair James Thompson.

Initial poem: J Alan Thompson, July 1941.
Except from ‘Military Honours War Poems‘ (War Museum: Published 1946).

Music: Alastair James Thompson / Stuart McMorran.

Instruments:
Alastair James Thompson: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming;
Stuart McMorran: Keyboards, Saxophone, Drum Programming;
Emily McMorran: Vocals, Violins;
Clare Geldart: Backing Vocals;
Engineer: Simon Milton;
Mixed by Simon Milton and Tenth Planet (The Seeds of Time)

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Lyrics

Do you think the Sphinx is sad?
Because he cannot find a rhyme for lunatic.
Or is it that he first saw man make time
And wisely knew that timeless happiness was gone
And living would never again be quite the same?
Quite the same!

You think that weight of the world
Lies forever upon your shoulder
But I have been here a long time
For such a long time
And believe me I know

How to feel colder
Than cold...

I will forgive and forget
And I would like to try and understand
Because the more I learn
The less I regret
So please tell me more,
Please tell me how it was
And how it could have been?

You like to watch me
Live in this desert
Of sand, as the dust of time
Passes through my hands
You with your future
And me with my endless guilt
You with your hate
And me with my raging thirst.

I will forgive and forget
Because I can feel the brightness
Of the sun
And the more I learn
The less I regret
As the change that's in my heart
Has now begun.

Uncertain in the dark
So sure in the day
Afraid in the night
Braver in the light
Aware of the cost
And the price you buy
To end all this hurting
And learn to find a way.

I am a dark and hungry man
I am alive and I feel the sun
I am a dark and hungry man
I am alive with fear in my blood!

I am a dark and hungry man
I am alive as I feel the sun
I am a dark and hungry man
But time will teach us
To talk to one another
..........in Time!