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DISCID=62094508
DTITLE=Gentle Giant / Acquiring the Taste
TTITLE0=Pangruel's Nativity
TTITLE1=Edge of Twighlight
TTITLE2=The House, The Street, The Room
TTITLE3=Acquiring the Taste
TTITLE4=Wreck
TTITLE5=The Moon is Down
TTITLE6=Black cat
TTITLE7=Plain Truth
EXTD=<@ALBUM: Acquiring the Taste (1971)\nBy Gentle Giant\n\nVertigo/Pol
EXTD=ygram 842-917 2 (US/UK)\n(also released with the title _Motive_)\n
EXTD=\nAcquiring the taste is the second phase of sensory pleasure.  I
EXTD=f you've\ngorged yourself on our first album, then relish the fin
EXTD=er flavours (we\nhope) of this, our second offering.\n\nIt is our g
EXTD=oal to expand the frontiers of contemporary music at the risk\nof
EXTD= being very unpopular.  we have recorded each composition with t
EXTD=he one\nthought - that it should be unique, adventurous and fasci
EXTD=nating. It has\ntaken every shred of our combined musical and tec
EXTD=hnical knowledge to\nachieve this.\n\nFrom the outset we have aband
EXTD=oned all preconceived thoughts on blatant\ncommercialism.  Instea
EXTD=d we hope to give you something far more substantial\nand fulfill
EXTD=ing.  All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste.\n \n\n
EXTD=  Derek Shulman, lead and backing vocals, alto sax, clavichord, 
EXTD=cow bell;\n   Ray Shulman, bass, vocals, Spanish guitar, 12 strin
EXTD=g guitar, violin, \n   electric violin, viola, tambourine, bass p
EXTD=edals, organ, skulls; Phil \n   Shulman, tenor sax, alto sax, tru
EXTD=mpet, clarinet, piano, claves, maracas, \n   lead and backing voc
EXTD=als; Kerry Minnear, organ, mellotron, vibraphone, \n   moog, elec
EXTD=tric piano, harpsichord, cello, tympani, xylophone, piano,     \n
EXTD=   celeste, clavichord, tambourine, maracas, lead and backing vo
EXTD=cals; Gary   \n   Green, 6 and 12 string guitars, bass, 12 string
EXTD= Wah-Wah guitar, donkey's \n   jawbone and cat calls; Martin Smit
EXTD=h, drums, gong, tambourine, side drum.  \n   With Tony Visconti, 
EXTD=recorders, bass drum and triangle; Paul Cosh, \n   trumpet, organ
EXTD=.  Produced by Tony Visconti.\n\n
EXTT0=@SONG: Pantagruel's Nativity\n\nHow can I laugh or cry\nWhen my min
EXTT0=d is sorely torn?\nBadabec had to die\nFair Pantagruel is born\nSha
EXTT0=ll I weep, yes, for why?\nThen laugh and show my scorn\n\nBorn with
EXTT0= a strength untold\nForeseen to have great age\nSet in Gargantuan 
EXTT0=mould,\nJoyful laugh, yet quick to rage\nPrincely wisdom, habits b
EXTT0=old;\nPower, glory, lauded sage\n\nPantagruel born -- the earth was
EXTT0= dry and burning\nIn Paradise dear Badabec prays for him\nPantagru
EXTT0=el born -- the earth was dry and burning\nIn Paradise dear Badabe
EXTT0=c prays for him.\n\nPantagruel born -- the earth was dry and burni
EXTT0=ng\nIn Paradise dear Badabec prays for him\n\nHow can I laugh or cr
EXTT0=y\nWhen my mind is sorely torn?\nBadabec had to die;\nFair Pantagru
EXTT0=el is born\nShall I weep, yes, for why?\nThen laugh and show my sc
EXTT0=orn.\n
EXTT1=@SONG: Edge Of Twilight\n\nThe moon is down\nCasting its shadow ove
EXTT1=r the night-haunted town\nMystical figures under the silence of l
EXTT1=ight\n\nThe trembling air\nDrifts slowly unseen over the houses the
EXTT1=re\nAnd echoes changing into the voices of night\n\nOn the edge of 
EXTT1=twilight whispering\nWhisper, whisper, whisper, whisper,\nOn the e
EXTT1=dge of twilight whispering\nWhisper, whisper, whisper, whisper\n\nE
EXTT1=lusive time\nIn limbo active in never ending mime\nThe edge of twi
EXTT1=light into the darkness of day\n
EXTT2=@SONG: The House, The Street, The Room\n\nThe room and street are 
EXTT2=known only to me and a few\nI won't tell nobody\nA place to meet w
EXTT2=here no-one can tell you what to do\nI won't tell nobody\nHere,\nAw
EXTT2=ake in sleep\nTogether\n\nMy time is spent in chains and confusion 
EXTT2=in my head\nI don't tell nobody\nI keep my pains and swallow the h
EXTT2=arsh tears that I shed\nI don't tell nobody\nHere,\nIn reverie\nToge
EXTT2=ther\n\nI find escape in the street, in the house, in the room\nI b
EXTT2=ecome somebody\nI cast my die and leave all my troubles in the ro
EXTT2=om\nI become somebody\nHere,\nAwake in sleep\nTogether\n
EXTT3=@SONG: Acquiring The Taste\n\n     [Instrumental]\n
EXTT4=@SONG: Wreck\n\nThe ship's rising up from the sea to the sky heyeh
EXTT4=eh Hold on\nJust one sorry scream and a desperate cry heyeheh Hol
EXTT4=d on\nTheir lives pass before them before they die heyeheh --\n\nTh
EXTT4=e sea yawns around like a boiling hell heyeheh hold on\nAnd souls
EXTT4= disappear with the toll of that bell heyeheh hold on\nThe arms o
EXTT4=f the sea they are dragging them down heyeheh hold on\nAnd sorrow
EXTT4=s and sins they are lost as they drown heyeheh --\n\nHow strange w
EXTT4=hen you think that the sea was their way;\nAnd a meaningless deat
EXTT4=h is the price they pay\nFor their living was made from the deep\n
EXTT4=To their people in comfort and keep\nKeep all their people and pl
EXTT4=aces there\nNever to be seen again, never to be loved and their l
EXTT4=ast embrace\n--\nAnd the kiss has a salt bitter taste\n\nNow all tha
EXTT4=t remains is the deep cruel sea heyeheh hold on\nAnd wreckage of 
EXTT4=things that used to be heyeheh hold on\nNo stone marks the place 
EXTT4=of that watery grave heyeheh hold on\nTogether they die both the 
EXTT4=weak and the brave heyeheh hold on\n\nThe arms of the sea.... etc.
EXTT4=\n
EXTT5=@SONG: The Moon Is Down\n\nAnd the horse riding up through the red
EXTT5= skies\nThe moon is down\nWith a gold coloured bird through the cl
EXTT5=oud flies\nThe moon is down\nLook East to the Sun, Oh where do the
EXTT5=y run\nLook East to the Sun, Oh where do they run\nThey live in my
EXTT5= dreams,\n  in my dreams, in my dreams\n\nAnd the Moon and the Eart
EXTT5=h they were mating\nThe moon is down\nAnd the Angels of hell they 
EXTT5=were waiting\nThe moon is down\nOh bride of the winds, Reward for 
EXTT5=their sins\nOh bride of the winds, Reward for their sins\nThey liv
EXTT5=e in my dreams,\n  in my dreams, in my dreams\n\nThere's a chaos of
EXTT5= visions and voices\nSad is the laugh of the clown\n  now the old 
EXTT5=moon is down.\n
EXTT6=@SONG: Black Cat\n\nThere's a cat prowling through the streets at 
EXTT6=night\nAnd she's black and her eyes are burning yellow\nfierce and
EXTT6= bright\nThe lights are darkened;\nSenses sharpened;\nWide awake\n\nA
EXTT6=s she acts out her past of Jungle days\nWhen the night was her fr
EXTT6=iend in many other\ndifferent ways\nIt gave protection\nOf detectio
EXTT6=n\nBy her prey\n\nWith a sway and swing she walks away\nAnd the look
EXTT6= in her eye it never seems\nto say\nThe way she's feeling\nNo revea
EXTT6=ling,\nBlack Cat Ways\n
EXTT7=@SONG: Plain Truth\n\nWhy do you question\nWhen there's no answer t
EXTT7=old?\nPlain truth is nothing\nYou can't buy it when it's sold\n\nSav
EXTT7=e all your money\nAnd they won't reason why\nWhy all the worry?\nTh
EXTT7=ey'll spend it when you die\n\nChorus:\nDon't look for something\nPl
EXTT7=ain truth is nothing,\n  nothing but the plain truth\n\nYou stand a
EXTT7=nd wonder\nJust let it warm your skin\nTake all the living\nLive li
EXTT7=fe and let it win\n\nPlain truth means nothing\nCry, laugh and cry 
EXTT7=again\nYou question answers\nBorn, live and die, Amen\n\nChorus:\nDon
EXTT7='t look for something\nPlain truth is nothing,\n  nothing but the 
EXTT7=plain truth\n\n[Repeat first and second verse and chorus]\n
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