Airconditioning
 

 

Album released 11/70; Reached # 8 UK Charts

  • It Happened Today (Francis Monkman/Sonja Kristina Linwood)
  • Stretch (Darryl Way/Francis Monkman)
  • Screw (Darryl Way/Sonja Kristina Linwood)
  • Blind Man (Darryl Way/Rob Martin)
  • Vivaldi (Darryl Way)
  • Hide and Seek (Darryl Way/Sonja Kristina Linwood)
  • Propositions (Francis Monkman)
  • Rob One (Rob Martin)
  • Situations (Darryl Way/Rob Martin)
  • Vivaldi (With Cannons) (Darryl Way/Francis Monkman)

    Personnel

  • Sonja Kristina -- Vocals
  • Rob Martin -- Bass
  • Francis Monkman -- Guitars, Keyboards
  • Florian Pilkington-Miksa -- Drums
  • Darryl Way -- Violin, Keyboards, Vocals

    Produced by Mark Edwards; recorded at Island Studios

    German Picture Sleeve

    Dutch Picture Sleeve

    Japanese Picture Sleeve

    Single released 1971

    It Happened Today (Francis Monkman/Sonja Kristina Linwood)

    Vivaldi (Darryl Way)

    What Happens When You Blow Yourself Up? (Francis Monkman/Sonja Kristina Linwood)

    It Happened Today

    Yesterday, you know it never really happened,
    tomorrow, you know it never really can.
    You, you're only what you think you might be,
    I am only what you think I am.

    It happened today...

    I know that you're afraid of what might happen,
    Uncertain what to give and what to take.
    Already you've forgotten why you came here,
    I can see exactly why you came.

    What I was I find it hard to be now,
    Now, I am and very soon you'll be.
    You, keep telling me that time is telling,
    I, tell you that time will tell in time.

    Stretch

    Stretched a mile this morning when I got me out of bed,
    Crazy dreams still floating in the mist around my head.
    This was meant for you, that was meant for me.

    I've seen sour men that frown, so others think they think,
    But me, I prefer those lovin' smiles and a dozen pints of pink.
    This was meant for you, that was meant for me.

    Screw

    See the screw slowly turn around, see it sink in without a sound,
    Feel your head split with every turn, feel the steel now begin to burn,
    All is lost now, it seems that way.

    Seeing a face through broken glass, seeing the patterns of your past,
    Feeling the earth shake, try to walk, losing your reason, try to talk,
    All is lost now, it seems that way.

    Blind Man

    I'll be yours if you'll be mine, said the blind man to his dog,
    If man's best friend will be my friend until the bitter end.
    Days and nights which I can't tell, won't matter then to me,
    All the time in the world can lend, I'll be in company.

    I will follow where you lead me, our paths will never cross,
    The sounds and smells of wind and rain, with help I 'll know, again.
    Loneliness the friend I knew has eased his grip at last
    The emptiness I always felt has been replaced by you.

    Vivaldi

    Madness music brings
    Music madness brings

    Hide And Seek

    Night-time, comin' playing hide and seek (I have got to find you),
    Streets deserted, I am here alone (frightened of the unknown).

    Walking the streets, I call your name, but no one comes,
    Running through the town, I call your name, but no, no one hears.

    Shadows forming, where can I begin? Darkness is closing in,
    Doors all closed and window curtains drawn (all the people have gone).

    Doors all closed and window curtains drawn (all the people have gone),
    Streets deserted, I am here alone (frightened of the unknown).

    Propositions

    See red button
    Blow myself up
    A paying proposition for the abandoned mind
    A paying proposition for the abandoned mind
    I've found a nice way to die...

    Situations

    Though I am no longer alone,
    Everybody seems to take my mind away.
    I love you but it isn't as I planned,
    I promise you I've done the best I can.
    Haven't touched any other man,
    Situations seem to have been kind to you.
    I've wished to be beside somebody else,
    But actions are the proof of love, not thoughts.

    See what a fool I've been,
    I haven't lived my dream.

    Seems that it will be a long time,
    'Fore my mind will take in the reality.
    That life is not as simple as it seems,
    And night's the only place to keep a dream.

    Soft green sun color still,
    Warm breeze, high-floating birds,
    Every year has brought more fear.

    Younger days seem to be easy,
    Full of fun and things to keep my mind awake.
    But now I have to think for someone else,
    Cannot even think straight for myself.

    What Happens When You Blow Yourself Up?

    Reason condemning my apparent insanity
    Reason condemning my apparent insanity
    Seems that the essence of creation is to destroy
    Seems that the essence of creation is to destroy
    Releasing blinding inhibition you can be free
    Releasing blinding inhibition you can be free

    Thinking on the Floor

    Trains run past my window
    Buses pass my car
    Taxis line the streets outside
    I'm thinking on the floor

    I think I'll take a journey
    Decision's almost made
    Nothing much to keep me here
    No reason for to stay

    "Air Conditioning" artwork by Mark Hanau, A. I. Multimedia (LA) aimulti@pacbell.net.

    Designed by Richard Wynne

     

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