Impressions

Released : March 1995

Contributors
Peter Nuttall - Music/Lyrics/Vocals
Christine Pinder - Music/Lyrics
Douglas Hunter - Lyrics
Darren Spark - Music

 

Ghost Town is still one of my favourite Fox songs.  ‘Bedrock’ was another song we’d written in those initial sessions in 1992 but hadn’t included on an album so it appeared here.  There were a few recycles here and a good deal of cover versions to pad out the run-time.  The whole thing was written and recorded in about three weeks. Looking back, it should have had all the covers removed and replaced with the highlights from the next album 'Reflection'. Then it might have been half-decent.

- Peter

 

Track Listing

Side 1
1. Ghost Town – Nuttall
2. The way that only Lovers do – Nuttall/Pinder
3. “I Do” – Nuttall
4. Someday ‘95 – Hunter/Nuttall
5. Bloodletting Go – Orzabal/Griffiths
6. Double or Nothing – Hunter/Nuttall
7. Impressions – Nuttall

Side 2
1. Stand Tall – Hunter/Nuttall
2. Bedrock ‘95 – Hunter/Nuttall/Spark
3. Midnight Rain – Hunter/Nuttall
4. Broken Coccyx – Nuttall
5. I Believe – Orzabal
6. Piano Song – Clarke/Bell
7. Famous Last Words – Orzabal/Holland

Lyrics

I maybe on the bottom and I know
I’ve got a long ladder to climb
But there’s one thing I got on my side
I got plenty of time
I may have to wash cars for a living
While others are spreading it around
But I know I’m gonna make it,
I’ll be the talk of the town

Remember my name, in years to come ‘cause
I’m going to go far
There’ll be no stopping me once I’ve begun
Because I’m gonna be a star!

Chorus
Someday, somehow
Gonna be someone but I don’t know how

Right now I guess you’d call me a no one
Heading for nowhere and getting there fast
Me and opportunity ain’t exactly partners
But this situation ain’t gonna last
Just wait to see me make it big
From the bottom I can only rise
And I’m gonna work hard to make it
I’ve never been the type to just fantasize

Everybody’s got to start somewhere
And make a start is what I’m gonna do
Got no talent but do you think that I care
Any way they say it’s 90% attitude!

Lyrics – Hunter
Music – Nuttall
17/01/95

I remember when I first saw you
I remember your eyes so blue
I remember the first time you touched me
The way that only lovers do

I remember our first walk together
I remember how you held my hand
I remember the first time you kissed me
You helped me to understand

Chorus
Think of me when you go away
Think of me when I’m old and grey
Think of me in that special way
The way that only lovers do

I’m thinking of you can’t you see
But I’ll forget you when I’m old and blue
I’ll wish you were here with me
To do things that only lovers do

I remember our first dance together
I remember how you held me true
I remember how we made love all night
The way that only lovers do

Now I know that you have to go
I should have known from the start
I had always been in your head
But never really in your heart

Lyrics – Pinder
Music – Nuttall
02/03/95

The Immortal can breathe
Why can’t we?
All the days we have seen
Cut me and I will bleed

I can’t hide in this place
I need to hide from your face
Bored and tired from the chase
Forgotten most of our yesterdays

Chorus
Where are we when we all fall down?
Lost my way in the old Ghost Town
Making plans for what will be
Empty hands bring the past back to me

Young and old, it’s all the same
Teach yourself not to take the blame
Sorry but I forgot your name
I called for you but no one came

Blind was the man who laughed
He couldn’t see what we had done
Was it real or just a dream
You hold the gun

Lyrics/Music - Nuttall
5/3/95

Affection, out of the blue
Selection, do I need you?
Impression of hate, love, tears and passion.
Depression in hate, love, tears and no passion.

I know I’ve felt so alone
A spell to relight my desire
How could pure flesh and bone
Be enough to quench paranoid fire?

Impression of you was all I could take
A life so unreal could make your heart break
Time was too short but time never ends
I never thought that we could be friends.

Lyrics/Music – Nuttall
6/3/95

Young dreamer dares to dream his dream
In a world that would rob him of what might have been
Wants to be somebody, someone that’s known
If no one wants to help him he’ll do it on his own
May not have sense or plans but he’s got heart
In a world that wants so much at least it’s a start

Living on a razors edge, walking a high wire
Every day’s a thrill dancing close to the fire
Gets knocked down twice, gets up three or four
Take the best that everyone’s got the scream out for more

Chorus
Double or nothing, let the dice roll
Don’t want a piece of the action he wants it whole
Nothings gonna take away any opportunity he’s got
Double or nothing, he wants the lot

Young man dares to stand up for what he believes in
In a world of darkness, hatred and deceiving
Wants to be someone people recognise right away
Doesn’t wanna be another face

Wants it all and wants it now just like the song
With desire that makes you believe it’s burning strong
So strong like a light shining inside
Never to be put out never to be denied
The world tries to rob him of what might have been
So he takes the fight to the world
To keep alive his dream.

Lyrics – Hunter
Music – Nuttall
5/4/95

Stand tall like you always have done
Never let anybody get the best of you
Never say die, fight on until the war is won
That’s what you always used to do

Stand tall, say a prayer
Left me cold standing there
To make you happy is my only crime
I wanna be with you for all time

Chorus
Stand tall, ain’t no sin
Using words? Where do I begin?
If god don’t answer my prayer at all
(There’s no way I can stand tall)

Now it don’t take away hurt
I had the heart of a lion
That’s what you told me
But now I feel like dyin’

If I lost you
I couldn’t survive at all
I’ve been lonely before
But then I could stand tall

Lyrics – Hunter
Music – Nuttall
14/04/95