across the universe

"Across The Universe" new album is out! also new compilation "Jazz For Bentley" a best off collection with previously unreleased material on Candid Record's 50th anniversary edition!

Thursday 7 October 2010

"Across The Universe" album lyrics and line up


1. Ooh Child 6:57
(Stan Vincent)
Dimitri Vassilakis vocals/tenor sax/arrangement, Theo Hill piano, Essiet Okon Essiet bass, Sylvia Cuenca drums, Juliet Kelly vocals/backing vocals, Christos Rafalides vibraphone, George Kontrafouris hammond, Enrique “Kiki” Bu percussion

Ooh child things are gonna get easier
Ooh child things will get brighter
Ooh child things are gonna get easier
Ooh child things will get brighter

Someday we'll get it together and we'll get it undone
Someday when the world is much brighter
Someday we'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Someday when the world is much lighter…

2. Deed I Do 3:29
(Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose)
Dimitri Vassilakis vocals/tenor sax/arrangement/backing vocals, Theo Hill piano, Essiet Okon Essiet bass, Sylvia Cuenca drums, Juliet Kelly vocals

Do I want you
Oh my do I
Honey deed I do

Do I need you
Oh my do I
Honey deed I do

I'm glad that I'm the one who found you
That's why I'm always hangin' round you (hangin’ around you)

Do I love you
Oh my do I
Honey deed I do

Babe deed I do
Honey deed I do
  
3. Nature Boy 5:14
(Eden Ahbez)
Dimitri Vassilakis vocals/soprano sax/arrangement, Theo Hill piano, Essiet Okon Essiet bass, Sylvia Cuenca drums, Kostis Christodoulou keys

There was a boy a very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far very far over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye but very wise was he

And then one day a magic day he passed my way
And as we spoke of many things fools and kings
This he said to me
The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return

Is just to love and be loved back in return
Is just to love and be loved back in return
There was a boy…

4. Fool On The Hill 4:09
(John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
Dimitri Vassilakis vocals/saxes/arrangement, Theo Hill piano, Essiet Okon Essiet bass, Sylvia Cuenca drums, Rex Richardson trumpets, Andonis Andreou trombones, George Kontrafouris hammond, George Priniotakis theremin, Enrique “Kiki” Bu percussion

Day after day alone on a hill
The man with the foolish grin is keepin’ perfectly still
Nobody wants to know him
They can see that he's just a fool
He never gives an answer but the
Foo-ool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round yeah


Well on his way his head in a cloud
The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud
Nobody ever hears him
Or the sound he appears to make
He never seems to notice but the
Foo-ool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round yeah


Day after day alone on a hill
The man with the foolish grin is keepin’ perfectly still
Nobody wants to know him
They can see that he's just a fool
He never gives an answer but the
Foo-ool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round yeah
Spinning round, spinning round, spinning round
etc…
 
5. Across The Universe 5:31
(John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
Dimitri Vassilakis vocals/soprano sax/arrangement, Theo Hill piano, Essiet Okon Essiet bass, Sylvia Cuenca drums, Kamaria Ousley vocals/backing vocals, Christos Rafalides vibraphone, George Kontrafouris hammond, Kostis Christodoulou keys

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind
Possessing and caressing me…

Aah a a a a e e eh o o oh…

Nothing’ s gonna change my world
(Nothing’s gonna change it)
Nothing’ s gonna change my world
(Nothing’s gonna change it)
Nothing’ s gonna change my world
(Nothing’s gonna change it)
Nothing’ s gonna change my world

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes
They call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letterbox
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe

Aah a a a a e e eh o o oh…

Nothing’ s gonna change my world
(Nothing’s gonna change it)
Nothing’ s gonna change my world
(Nothing’s gonna change it)
Nothing’ s gonna change my world
(Nothing’s gonna change it)
Nothing’ s gonna change my world

Sounds of laughter shades of earth are ringing through my opened ears Inciting and inviting me…
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns
And calls me on and on across the universe

Aah a a a a e e eh o o oh…

Nothing’ s gonna change my world
(Nothing’s gonna change it)
Something’ s gonna change my world
(Nothing’s gonna change it)
Nothing’ s gonna change my world
(Nothing’s gonna change it)
Something’ s got to change my world
(Nothing’s gonna change it)
Nothing’ s gonna change my world
(Nothing’s gonna change it - nothing’s gonna change it)
Something’ s got to change my world
(Nothing’s gonna change it)
Nothing’ s gonna change my world
(Nothing’s gonna change it - nothing’s gonna change it)
Something’ s got to change my world
(Nothing’s gonna change it)

Nothing’ s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change
Nothing’s gonna (a a a ah) change my world
  
6. Time After Time 3:36
(Jules Styne, Sammy Cahn)
Dimitri Vassilakis vocals/soprano sax, Theo Hill piano, Essiet Okon Essiet bass, Sylvia Cuenca drums

Time after time I tell myself that I’m
So lucky to be lovin’ you
So lucky to be the one you run to see
In the evening when the day is through

I only know what I know
The passin’ years may show
You’ve kept my love so young so new
And time after time I tell myself that I’m
So lucky to be lovin’ you
(So lucky to be lovin’ you…aah)

7. Bye Bye Blackbird 4:46
(Ray Henderson, Mort Dixon)
Dimitri Vassilakis vocals/saxes/arrangement, Theo Hill piano, Essiet Okon Essiet bass, Sylvia Cuenca drums, Rex Richardson trumpets, Andonis Andreou trombones

Pack up all my cares and woes here I go swinging low
Bye bye blackbird
Where somebody waits for me sugar's sweet so is she
Bye bye blackbird
No one here can love or understand me
Only hard luck stories they all hand me
Make my bed and light the light
I'll arrive late tonight
Blackbird bye bye
(Blackbird…blackbird…tah rah hey hey
Blackbird bye bye…) 

8. God Bless The Child 6:32
(Arthur Herzog, Billy Holiday)
Dimitri Vassilakis vocals/tenor sax/arrangement, Theo Hill piano, Essiet Okon Essiet bass, Sylvia Cuenca drums, Kamaria Ousley vocals, George Kontrafouris hammond

(Shoobap doobap etc…)

Them that's got shall get
Them that's not shall lose
So the Bible said and it still is news
Your mama may have, and your papa may have
But God bless the child that’s got his own
That’s got his own…

Well the strong gets more
While the weak ones fade
Empty pockets don't never ever make the grade
Your mama may have (oh you mama may have)
Your papa may have (and your papa may have) but
God bless the child that’s got his own
That’s got his own…

Well money, you got lots of friends
Hanging around your door
Well when their comin’ you ain’t got no ends
They don't come around no more

Rich relations give
Crusts of bread and such
You can help yourself
But don’t take too much
(Ooh) mama may have (ooh)
And your papa may have (ooh) but
God bless the child that’s got it’s own
That’s got it’s own…

Ooh money, you've got lots of friends
Crowding around your door
When money’s gone and spending ends
No one comes round no more

Rich relations give
Crusts of bread and such
You can help yourself
But don’t take too much
(Ooh) your mama may have (oh your mama may have)
And your papa may have (and your papa may have) but
God bless the child that’s got it’s own
That’s got it’s own…

(Shoobap doobap etc…)
  
9. Light My Fire 4:54
(Robbie Krieger, John Densmore, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek)
Dimitri Vassilakis vocals/soprano sax/arrangement, Theo Hill piano, Essiet Okon Essiet bass, Sylvia Cuenca drums, Juliet Kelly vocals, George Kontrafouris hammond, Kostis Christodoulou keys

(Aah pah poum tira houm paah pah poum tirah poum etc…)

You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl we couldn't get much higher

Come on baby light my fire
Come on baby light my fire
Time to set the night on fire

The time to hesitate is through
No time to wonder where we are
Girl now we could only lose
And our love becomes a funeral pyre

Come on baby light my fire
Come on baby light my fire
Time to set the night on fire

(Aah pah poum tira houm paah pah poum tirah poum etc…)

10. Four Women 7:00
(Nina Simone)
Dimitri Vassilakis vocals/saxes/arrangement, Theo Hill piano, Essiet Okon Essiet bass, Sylvia Cuenca drums, Kamaria Ousley vocals/backing vocals, George Kontrafouris hammond, Rex Richardson trumpets, Andonis Andreou trombones, Enrique “Kiki” Bu percussion

My skin is black my arms are long
My hair is woolly my back is strong

Strong enough to take the pain…
Inflicted again and again and again…
What do they call me…

My name is... (piano solo)

My skin is yellow my hair is long
Between two worlds I do belong

Strong enough to take the pain…
Inflicted again and again and again…
What do they call me…

My name is... (bass solo)

My skin is tanned my hair is fine
My arms invite you my mouth like wine

Strong enough to take the pain…
Inflicted again and again and again…
What do they call me…

My name is... (tenor sax solo)

My skin is brown my manner is tough
I’ll kill the first brother I see
My life has been rough

Strong enough to take the pain…
Inflicted again and again and again…
What do they call me…

My name is... (band solo)

(Four Women lyrics edited by Dimitri Vassilakis
A different solo - every time the song is played live - evokes each wo-man’s story, depending on the soloist’s spirit and mood…)

Dimi_Trees
October 2010