1981 · Fun In Space - Roger Taylor

Vinyl L.P · U.K · EMI Records · EMC 3369.

 Back cover.

 Inner sleeve.

 Inner sleeve.

 Labels.

Album Lyrics:

No Violins.

(Taylor)

We were talkin’ ’bout the old times 

We went walking down the streets we used to run 

Remember when you were angry 

About every cause to be had 

We weren’t all bad…

I’m not talkin’ ’bout security complex 

I ain’t talkin’ ’bout some monochrome duplex 

I ain’t talkin’ ’bout some new kinda weird sex 

I’m just talkin’ ’bout – you and me 

The way we used to be – hey 

I’m just talkin’ ’bout you and me brother 

I’m just talkin’ ’bout another time and place 

We were hungry we were mad 

We were angry we were glad 

We were really Jack the lad 

We weren’t all bad

We went down we cruised around 

We went down down down in the violence 

We went around we went around and round and round 

We didn’t hear no violins 

Where’s the madness where’s the fire 

With the flames gettin’ higher 

Where’s the saints and the liars

I’m not talkin’ ’bout security complex 

I ain’t talkin’ ’bout some monochrome duplex 

I ain’t talkin’ ’bout some new kinda weird sex 

I’m just talkin’ ’bout – you and me 

The way we used to be – oh 

I’m just talkin’ ’bout you and me brother 

I’m just talkin’ ’bout another time and place 

We were hungry we were mad 

We were angry we were glad 

We were really Jack the lad 

We weren’t all bad

We went down we cruised around 

We went down down down in the violence 

We went around we went around and round and round 

We didn’t hear no violins 

Where’s the madness where’s the fire 

With the flames gettin’ higher 

Where’s the saints and the liars

We went down we cruised around 

We went down down down in the violence 

We went around we went around and round and round 

We didn’t hear no violins

We went down we cruised around 

We went down down down in the violence 

We went around we went around and round and round 

We didn’t hear no violins.

Laugh Or Cry.

(Taylor)

This ain’t no tragedy 

This ain’t no addiction 

This ain’t no comedy 

This ain’t no fiction 

But baby you make me laugh 

And baby you make me cry 

I don’t mind either way 

Now I don’t care why 

You just gotta laugh – or cry 

Right till the day you die

Just open up your heart 

Or open up your eyes 

Laugh or cry 

So anytime you wanna laugh 

Anytime you wanna cry 

Just open up your heart 

Or open up your eyes 

And baby laugh – or cry

And baby I know 

That you’ll thank me some day 

(Don’t hide your emotions) 

And baby I know 

That you’ll see it my way 

(Forget all these notions) 

So anytime you wanna laugh 

Anytime you wanna cry 

Just open up your heart 

Or open up your eyes 

And baby laugh – or cry 

Right till the day you die.

Future Management.

(Taylor)

You won’t need nobody else but me……

You’ll find 

I’m gonna invite you to try my machines 

Programme an offer you just can’t refuse 

I’m gonna invite you to share all my dreams 

You’ve got nothing to lose

You won’t need nobody else but me……

You’ll find 

I’m gonna invite you to try my machines 

Programme an offer you just can’t refuse 

I’m gonna invite you to share all my dreams 

You’ve got nothing to lose

Recycle your thoughts 

I’ll rewire your mind 

I’ll punch in some new points of view 

To make sure you find 

You’ve got nothing to lose

You don’t need nobody else but me…

Let’s Get Crazy.

(Taylor)

Hey little mama 

Give me the keys tonight 

(Oooh watcha gonna do) 

Hey little honey 

You’re comin’ out with me tonight 

(Oooh watcha gonna do) 

Let’s jump in your wheels 

And see how it feels tonight 

Let’s get crazy let’s get crazy tonight 

Ooooh yeah 

Let’s get crazy let’s get riled 

Oh yeah 

Let’s get crazy let’s get wild tonight

You know that I told you I’d always be true 

You know that I could never tell a lie 

Well if you believe me the joke is on you 

I’ll always be crazy ’till the day I die

Hey little fruitcake 

Don’t wear no shoes tonight 

(Oooh watcha gonna do) 

We’ll get some action 

Nothin’ to lose tonight 

(Oooh watcha gonna do) 

Just play your part 

I’ll show you my heart tonight 

Let’s get crazy let’s get crazy tonight 

Ooooh yeah 

Let’s get crazy let’s get insane 

Oh yeah 

Tell ya baby 

You won’t feel no pain tonight 

Alright

Let’s get crazy let’s get crazy 

Let’s get crazy let’s get crazy tonight 

Let’s get crazy let’s get crazy 

Let’s get crazy let’s get crazy tonight 

Alright

Let’s get crazy let’s get crazy 

Let’s get crazy let’s get crazy tonight 

Alright…

My Country I & II.

(Taylor)

Something horrid….

Oh oh oh 

I would not fight for my country 

I would not work to no rule 

Don’t have no truck with no power game 

Won’t be some other jerk’s tool 

Don’t have no part of no partisans 

Won’t have no part ‘cos one party and another’s all the same 

(Workin’ for some other man) 

All the same 

Gonna play it 

(Workin’ for some other man) 

At my own game

Oh ee ooh 

Oi you

I would not fight for my country 

I would not work to no rule 

Don’t have no truck with no power game 

Won’t be some other jerk’s tool 

Don’t have no part of no partisans 

Won’t have no part ‘cos one party and another’s all the same 

All the same 

Gonna play it at my own game

Don’t wanna die for some old man’s crusade 

Don’t wanna hear what they feed 

Don’t wanna kill for some cause of the age 

Don’t wanna cry for somebody else’s need 

Don’t want no piece of no flag in the breeze 

Don’t want no part ‘cos one party and another’s all the same 

All the same 

Gonna play it at my own game

Ooooooh not me 

Oi you 

You don’t get me 

Oi you

Ooooooh not me 

Oi you 

You don’t get me 

Oi you.

Good Times Are Now.

(Taylor)

Across the street your smile broke 

Like a wave upon my face 

You didn’t notice me at all 

Across the street I saw you 

With some other pretty face 

I loved you then I love you now 

I loved you then I love you now 

I had to take a chance cos special moments 

Only tend to happen now and then

I had to take my chance and grab the moment by it’s ears 

Not be just some fly on your wall 

Had to take my chance there 

So I asked you out to dance there 

I loved you then I love you now 

I loved you then I love you now 

I had to take a chance cos special moments 

Only tend to happen now and then

Live for the present it’s the only one we have 

Nobody get’s out of here…alive 

Life in the future might never come to pass 

You know – good times are now

I loved you then I love you now 

I loved you then I love you now 

I had to take a chance cos special moments 

Only tend to happen now and then

Live for the present it’s the only one we have 

Nobody get’s out of here…alive 

Life in the future might never come to pass 

You know – good times are now

Across the street your smile broke 

Like a wave upon my face 

You didn’t notice me around 

Across the street I saw you 

With some other pretty face 

I loved you then I love you now 

I loved you then I love you now 

I had to take a chance cos special moments 

Only tend to happen now and then

You know – good times are now.

Magic Is Loose.

(Taylor)

Almost like Christmas 

But the calendar’s wrong 

The silence is deafening 

But the feeling is strong 

Magic is loose 

Magic is loose in the world tonight

The sky is too black 

The star’s are too bright 

The air is too still 

Funny business alright 

Honey can you feel it 

Honey can you feel it 

Magic is loose 

Magic is loose in the world tonight

All through the Occident 

Through the grey atmospheres 

All through the Orient 

Like a shroud around a sphere 

My feelings are bent 

It’s a strange kind of scene 

There’s a little distortion 

On my personal screen 

Honey can you feel it 

Honey can you feel it 

Magic is loose 

Magic is loose in the world tonight 

In the world tonight.

Interlude In Constantinopole.

(Taylor)

Good evening Constantinople 

The best audience in the world we’ve bin told 

We really hope the dope’ll 

Make you clap 

At all that crap 

That you’ve been sold.

Airheads.

(Taylor)

Red light warning 

Break down coming 

Red light warning 

People round here call me an airhead 

People round here know I like a bottle of wine 

People round here think I’m better off dead 

The folks round here call me an airhead 

The folks round here ain’t too refined

Break – Down – Comin’ 

Raw – Nerve end – Tingle 

Cops – Bust – Run in 

Speed – Hurts – Keys jangle 

Airheads – Stick together 

Airheads – Till the end of time 

Airheads – Don’t know better 

Airheads – I feel fine

Red light warning 

People round here call me an airhead 

People round here know I like a bottle of wine 

People round here think I’m better off dead 

The folks round here call me an airhead 

The folks round here ain’t too refined

Brain – On – Bed – Where am I? 

Liverpool – Leeds – Miami 

Real nutcracker this morning 

Real nutcracker last night 

Airheads – Stick it together 

Airheads – Till the end of time 

Airheads – I don’t know better 

Airheads – I feel fine 

Oh yeah

Red light warning 

No panic station 

People round here call me an airhead 

People round here say I’ve got space for brains 

People round here are no better than junk food 

The jerks round here should go play with the traffic 

The folks round here should go play with the trains

Break – Down – Comin’.

Fun In Space.

(Taylor)

Strangers in a strange land 

In an alien heat 

Journeys made by no man 

In event of defeat 

This ship sings to the skies 

This ship sings to the skies 

For all you gals and guys 

Stranger than fiction 

The smile on your face 

Boy when we get there 

We’ll have fun in space

Our structure is battered 

But the corridors ring 

With little green stories 

Of this and these things 

This ship sings to the skies 

This ship sings to the skies 

For all you gals and guys 

Stranger than fiction 

The smile on your face 

Boy when we get there 

We’ll have fun in space

Ooooh yeah 

This ship sings to the skies – oh 

This ship sings to the skies 

For all you gals and guys 

Stranger than fiction 

The smile on your face 

Boy when we get there 

We’ll have fun in space.

Liner Notes:

INSTRUMENTS AND VOCALS: ROGER TAYLOR

APPROX. 50% OF KEYBOARDS: DAVID RICHARDS

PRODUCED, WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY ROGER TAYLOR

ENGINEERED BY DAVID RICHARDS

RECORDED AT MOUNTAIN STUDIOS, MONTREUX, SWITZERLAND.

MASTERED BY GEORGE MARINO AT STERLING SOUND

ALL INFLUENCES – CONSCIOUS, SUBCONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS.

P.S. HELLO LISTENERS. I HOPE YOU ENJOY AND HAVE FUN WITH THIS.

MY VERY OWN ALBUM. I LIKE IT. IF YOU DON’T, SOD YOU!

P.P.S. 157 SYNTHESIZERS.

THANK YOU:

CRYSTAL – FOR RIBALDRY, OAFISHNESS AND CARRYING ME HOME

RATTY – FOR HIS HELPFUL RODENT WAYS

DAVID RICHARDS – FOR HELP, ENCOURAGEMENT AND IDEAS

ALINE JACOTTET – FOR ORGANISING AND BAILING US OUT

ANDRE JAUCHET – FOR CO-ENGINEERING ‘AIRHEADS’ AND

MAINTENANCE

THANKS VERY MUCH TO WARREN PUBLISHING CO.

FOR THE USE OF CREEPY MAGAZINE AND ITS ILLUSTRATION.

“ALIEN” ILLUSTRATION BY JIM LAURIER

ALIEN MONSTER MADE BY ALISTER BOWTELL

SLEVE DESIGN: HIPGNOSIS

PHOTOGRAPHY: PETER CHRISTOPHERSON AND PAUL MAXON

GRAPHICS: IAN WRIGHT

ILLUSTRATION BY: COLIN CHAMBERS, JEFF CUMMINS, COLIN ELGIE

JILL FURMANOVSKY, GEORGE HARDIE, PAUL MAXON, IAN WRIGHT

1996 Remaster

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