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superman is dead

by lawrence collins

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1.
another sky 05:38
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I see the light shine on your face I watch your eyes light up with grace It’s up to me... to keep your sky pure, crystal clean just like the dawn when you were born- seemed like a dream... It’s up to me to stand and fight and carry on, and on, and on; to save this earth I took for granted for so long. Or you will grow to take my place when nothing’s left- I’m so ashamed for you to have to see Another Sky for you to have to dream Another Sky. You walk beneath a thousand stars that light the path to who you are if you can see with open eyes: your world’s alive- we live as one- when One is All then you’ll be free... It’s up to you to stand and fight and carry on, and on, and on; The wisdom learnt from my mistakes will make you strong. Or you will grow to take my place when nothing’s left- I’m so ashamed for you to have to see Another Sky for you to have to see Another Sky for you to have to dream Another Sky
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the volunteer 04:05
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When I set this world ablaze, will you dare to walk beside me through flame and pain? As I hide in fields of rain would you dare to lie beside me a gun in hand? I’m not quite sure anymore, I’m not quite sure what this is for… Sleep tight tonight, all alone, You are all the world to me Sleep tight tonight, all alone, Sleep tight tonight- you are all the world to me… If I leave these words in your hands, could you carry all their weight upon your fragile shoulders? Would you try to understand that what I do, I do for you, You are my home… I am so tired of Black and Tans, I am so tired, could you understand? Sleep tight tonight, all alone, You are all the world to me Sleep tight tonight, home alone, You are all the world to me Sleep tight tonight, all alone, You are all the world to me Sleep tight tonight, all alone… All alone… you are all the world to me your are all my life to me I would bring these walls crashing down, if you would ask I would tear this house down to the ground if you should ask… You’re all I’ve got… I would bring these walls crashing down, if you would ask I would tear this house down to the ground if you should ask… Don’t make me choose…I’m begging you… All alone… You are my life… You are my soul.
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christmas song 03:46
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Seems Christmas came early this year... I opened my eyes and saw you, and all my fears dissapeared so tell me now... I don’t know, but I’ve been told If you keep on dreaming, you never grow old… What can I say in your arms? I don’t know, but I’ve been told If you keep on dreaming, you never grow old… What can I say in your arms? All this time seems we never knew that only as lovers we’d find the answers to clues that tied us down... I don’t know, but I’ve been told If you keep on dreaming, you never grow old… What can I say in your arms? I don’t know, but I’ve been told If you keep on dreaming, you never grow old… What can I say in your arms? ...but You and I don’t change... ...but You and I don’t change... Seems Christmas came early this year and found me kneeling by your side... things become so clear… ...but You and I don’t change... Seems Christmas came early this year and found me kneeling by your side... things become so clear… ...but You and I don’t change... I don’t know, but I’ve been told If you keep on dreaming, you never grow old… What can I say in your arms? I don’t know, but I’ve been told If you keep on dreaming, you never grow old… What can I say in your arms? I’ve been dreaming…. Strange how Time seems to fly… Strange how you and I don’t change.
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feel love 04:48
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Do you feel love? Do you feel love washing over you? Do you feel love? Do you feel love cleansing you through and through... Do you feel love washing over you? Do you feel love cleansing you through and through? like a beacon in the dark when you’re far away from home, love reminds you that you’re never, never totally alone... Do you feel love sweeping over you like fresh air? it blows away all the ashes that have layed so still so long... Do yo feel love washing over you like cool water? it cleanses all the doubts and fears that burn inside your soul... do you feel love? Do you feel love? Do you feel love washing over you? Do you feel love? Do you feel love cleansing you through and through... Do you feel love blowing over you like fresh air on a mountain side... it blows through you and it cuts through your skin to your skeleton... She breathes you in, she gets you high, she makes you love her... She breathes you in, she gets you high, she makes you love her- how sweet it is to be trapped inside her arms, do you feel love? Do you feel love? Do you feel love washing over you? Do you feel love? Do you feel love cleansing you through and through... Do you feel love? Do you feel love washing over you? Do you feel love? Do you feel love cleansing you through and through...
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just the way you are 04:52
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If I walk The Walk; And if I talk The Talk- Would you follow me? Would you listen To me... Quite the way you do- Do you think? Quite the way you do... I’m not sure. So lay your head On my shoulder, And close your eyes To see Not the way Things were, But the way They could be... Just the way you are Is all I need; Just the way you are Is enough for me... Just the way you are Is all I need; Just the way you are Is enough for me.
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camille part 1 02:08
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camille part 2 05:02
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I close my eyes And try to shut it out, But all I see is her face- An angel, a devil, A life cut short for no other reason Than life itself. It doesn’t get more real than this- It doesn’t get more real than… It doesn’t get more real than this- We hold hands, we tremble, We hug and we kiss, But the pain just runs on Unleashed, vicious, Cutting my soul like a cold winter’s gust On naked skin… When it’s hot outside… It doesn’t get more real than this- It doesn’t get more real than… Sometimes I yearn for the release of dreams- No justice, no pain, No reason and no shame, Only a babe running free on a sandy beach- She’s just out of reach… So we turn to each other And seek comfort in love, Reason in chaos As we try to put the pieces back together Because, at the end of the day, The glimpse of a dream is better than no dream at all. And that Babe Will forever run her mischief, Will never age, Will forever bring us warmth Even on the coldest nights… Even on the coldest nights… (I say) Fuck reality. It doesn’t get more real than this- It doesn’t get more real than… I burn for her, I bleed for them, I fear for us As unwritten futures and magical pasts Blur together in a frenzied dance for her… Only to be wiped away In the blink of an eye. Why do we need to hurt to feel real? Why do we need to hurt to feel real? Why do we need to hurt to feel real. Camille…
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superman is dead 04:03
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the big bad bear was everywhere, things were so much simpler back then... The lines were drawn and Tony Blair was nothing but a baby in his pen... And you ruled my sky with words that seemed so right, you promised the Truth... The red, white and blue Came alive in you... only you... (but) Now... Superman is dead... The elephant stepped on the mule- he’ll do anything to rule and we just stood and let him do as he pleased- we still believed that Superman would rule the day, treason would find a way- I still had faith... But Superman never showed up, he stayed home that day, cowered in bed... Now... Superman is dead... he’s dead and gone… (I) woke up this morning only to find my faith was gone and I was blind; I chose to see only the lies That the elephant had fed me in disguise... Well, Superman has dissapeared inside all of us, the elephant has crushed the very freedom we revered shame on us... shame on ME! Now... Superman is dead...
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the one 04:06
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I dreamt I saw you like a breeze above the treeline; you changed the colors of the leaves as you passed by; with your caress, they learnt to breathe. I stood there suffocating in a hidden creek beneath- I watched you from a distance like a thief… Then opened up my soul and breathed you in… I close my eyes, open my heart, your secrets flow in from the dark, I must have dreamt you; I fell in love with the idea of you long before I even met you… so easy to hide within my skin, to hold the dreams I’ve dreamt, live the life I’ve lived, but lose the Time I’ve spent, still I can’ help but feel that you were… No, I can’t help but feel inside that you were… the one You, you are the one I was waiting for all these years, You, you are the one I was waiting for all these …(years) You, you are the one I was waiting for all these years, all these years. I woke up this morning, the pillow by my side was a valley already cold; But if I lost myself within I could still catch your scent lingering in it’s folds, and the words you whispered haunt me like an echo, “The heart is just a game, Love rules the pain,,,” You gave me back a hope I had forsaken… You, you are the one I was waiting for all these years, You, you are the one I was waiting for all these …(years) You, you are the one I was waiting for all these years… without even knowing it…
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falling snow 04:53
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The wind outside Finds its way inside And in your sleep, you toss and turn, you fight the demons and call my name… I stroke your hair And whisper softly in your ear The thousand sounds of silence That only dreamers can hear. While the storm rages through the trees, the silence calls, and as your breath grows deeper- you hear… the snowfall … So I hold you … tight In the cradles of my arms We rock gently In the cocoon of your room And our whispers slowly change The howling of the wind Into a lullabye of sights… No one can hurt you, I will watch you grow- In Time, I will teach you To hear the falling snow… When you wake up next to him And you find your turn has come, It’s the time for me to turn the page and dream of all those storms now gone… Only he will see, Only he will get to know what it feels like to dance with you to the sound of falling snow… No one will hear, No one will ever know The words that you will choose For him To calm his raging storms… and you will teach him how to hear the snowfall… hear the snowfall… to hear the snow fall… hear the snowfall.
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perfect world 04:51
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In a perfect world… I would spot you from afar Me- singing on a stage, You- drinking at the bar; And in a haze of note’s Words would flow to seal our fate- A melody to remind us That it’s never too late… In a perfect world We’d make love in a darkened pool, Where tears dance with sighs beneath a smiling wishful moon- one soul would leave while another would arrive- isn’t it strange how we’re just spokes on the wheel of life. In a perfect world, Her smile would be yours; In a perfect world, Her eyes would be mine She’d be our future, our past, our hope, and our Truth- ‘Cause when blood mingles with mystery It make reality sublime. I wake up everyday Next to you- A single touch, a caress, Your tangled hair Take my breath away breath… In a perfect world, In moments of doubt She shows us the truth; And smothers our shouts. In a perfect world Imperfection itself becomes a blessing As we turn to seek the warmth In each other’s arms. In a Perfect World….

about

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The first spark for Superman Is Dead came in 2005 during a rehearsal in front of my daughter Minya, when I improvised what was to become the song Another Sky. After several years of doubts, soul searching and real life, Another Sky finally gave me the desire to make another album…
With over thirty new songs since The Mandala Sessions, the task of getting down to selecting, arranging and recording them was terrifying. Lady Luck, however, stumbled my way a couple years later in the form of a pizza at my egyptian friend Reda’s restaurant in my new hometown, Bordeaux. He introduced me to a young drummer called Joachim Bérose who, after having heard some of the demo songs, brought in Stéphane Dériau-Reine and Benoît Michalon, a production team based in Bordeaux. After some very effective advice, Benoît helped me select the tracks (you can thank him for Camille…) then handed me over to his partner. Stéphane is a producer/arranger/ keyboard player… from another planet. He has played with the likes of Simple Minds, Alexander O’Neill, and Light of The World.
In the span of 2 weeks in early June 2007, the creative madness set in and the songs came to life under his magical fingers. 
I brought some of my crew down to the studio- miss Constance for a duo on Falling Snow and Mr. Nico Baudino for his magical sax… We completely re-arranged Christmas Song, an old tune I had co-written with Marc Collin (from Nouvelles Vagues fame)… The craziest part was recording my boys Fly and Jon; Fly and I ended up flying out to Shanghai to record Fly’s vocals and Jon’s guitars because Jon couldn’t leave his work (even though he’s the boss… Go figure…) After adding a final recording session in Ramatuelle to get William’s lead vocal on Feel Love, the album was put into the hands of another madman, Albert “Speedy” Gruber, for the mix. Speedy is a 25 year old Austrian engineer who works with Stéphane; his magical ears made sense of an average of 100 tracks per song… Between live gigs, another month of mixing madness, and putting the graphics together with miss Céline (who also does my websites), the summer slipped by until, finally, in sept 2007, Superman Is Dead was born…


FRANCAIS
La première étincelle qui me donna envie d’enregistrer un nouvel album se manifesta lors d’une répétition devant ma fille, Minya, dans mon ancien studio à Paris, en Mai 2005. Le morceau que j’ai improvisé en la regardant devint Another Sky… Après plusieurs années de doutes, l’heure était venue de me remettre à la musique.
Avec plus de 30 nouvelles chansons depuis the Mandala Sessions, l’aventure était de taille. La chance me sourit 2 ans (et un déménagement) plus tard lorsque mon ami Egyptien, Réda, qui tient un pizzéria au bout de ma rue à Bordeaux, me présenta un jeune batteur nommé Joachim Bérose. Jo écouta quelques maquettes de travail et décida de les montrer à ses amis Benoît Michalon et Stéphane Dériau-Reine. Grâce à des conseils pertinents de la part de Benoît, et après une sélection acharnée des morceaux (je le remercie de m’avoir convaincu de mettre Camille…), les chansons se retrouvèrent entre les mains de Stéphane. Steph, un arrangeur/producteur/clavier qui a travaillé, entre autre, avec Simple Minds et Light of The World, et est définitivement d’une autre planête…. En l’espace de deux semaines en Juin 2007, il arrangea et enregistra les 11 morceaux de l’album - en jouant quasiment tout les instruments lui-même. Hmmm… Je fit descendre de Paris quelques membres de ma tribu- miss Constance pour un duo sur Falling Snow et mr. Nicolas Baudino pour son saxophone magique. Par contre, pour enregistrer les guitares de Jon, Fly est moi sommes partis à Shanghai - l’animal ne pouvait pas se libérer de son travail; on en a profité pour enregistrer les voix et la flûte de Fly ainsi que pour faire deux petits concerts dans un pub Irlandais, le Thirsty Monk… 
De retour en France, les dernières touches furent mises sur l’album à Ramatuelle courant Juillet avant que les enregistrements soient remis entre les mains d’ Albert “Speedy” Gruber, un jeune ingénieur du son Autrichien. Ses oreilles magiques ont permis de mixer des morceaux qui, en moyenne, contenaient plus de 100 pistes… Chacun. Après un mois d’aventure de mixage et de mastering, puis de graphisme avec miss Céline (qui fait aussi mes sites internet), Superman Is Dead vit le jour un bel aprés-midi de septembre 2007…

credits

released May 15, 2007

Lawrence Collins - Vocals and guitars
Stéphane Dériau-Reine - Keyboards, sampling, programming and all sorts of other madness...
Marc “Fly” Périmony - Back vocals, classical flute on “Just The Way You are”
Jonathan Dickinson - Lead guitar on “The 1”, “Superman Is Dead”, and “Falling Snow”
Nicoal Baudino - Saxophone
Joachim Bérose – drums on “Christmas song”, “Feel Love”, and “Just The Way You Are”
Constance Amiot- special guest vocals on “Falling Snow”
William Baldé - special guest vocals on “Feel Love”

Produced by Lawrence Collins
Arranged and engineered by Stéphane Dériau-Reine and Benoît Michalon
Recorded May-July 2007 at Chateauneuf Studios, Langon, France.
Additional recordings at Pit Stop Studio, Bordeaux (France), La Biche Niche, Ramatuelle (France), and RSA Studios, Shanghai (China).
Mixed and mastered by Speedy

CD artwork by LC and Céline Jarles.
Cover Logo “Superman Melting” by LC & Céline Jarles
Cover drawing “New York Skyline” by Tim Halpin

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Lawrence Collins is an american-egyptian singer songwriter, born in France and brought up in France, England, India, and the United States who speaks 4 languages fluently. His music reflects a life spent travelling and experimenting with different cultures, and he has produced 8 studio albums, a movie soundtrack, a live album, and played over 1700 shows during his 20 year career. ... more

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