B i o g r a p h y (by MacKenzie Wilson)
Ex-Thieves instrumentalist Saul Freeman aimed for his own dream-pop aesthetic when he placed an ad in the now defunct music weekly, Melody Maker. He had already worked with David McAlmont, but wanted his own creative outlet. Searching for an ethereal voice similar to the likes of the Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser and Shara Nelson (Massive Attack, Presence), solo artist Nicola Hitchcock ended Freeman's search when answering his request. The two instantly clicked, for Hitchcock also had a debut album under her belt and the two formed Mandalay in the mid-nineties. Incorporating trip-hop loops similar to Portishead and Hitchcock's vocal perfections, the duo earned props throughout the latter part of the decade in their native U.K., specifically with the albums Empathy and Instinct. Madonna even called Mandalay her new favorite band in fall 2000. Mandalay had signed to V2 by mid-2000 and prepped for their stateside major-label release, Solace, in spring 2001.
Empathy - 1998-03-20 -
This life Flowers bloom Insensible Another Enough love All my sins Opposites This time last year Kissing the day Beautiful About you
Empathy
This life You couldn't even bring yourself To stay, oh no You had to go Spoil it all I know you had to go Now I find these endlessly Colourblind days To fill You never will (Take this life) Take this life Take it all In your hands You were mine I could smile You understand, fine Again I dream You come to me (Come back to me) And comfort me But now I dream Where did this time go Where did this time go Did your love go I know You have to go Spoil it all And now I know You never will (Take this life) Take this life Take it all In your hands You were mine I could smile You understand, fine (Take this life) Take this life Take it all In your hands You were mine I could smile Again Just what you said was cold advice I discovered sticks go with knives I discovered I could've died in your chains Still I feel, so won't you stay Oh, babe (Take this life) Take this life Take it all In your hands You were mine I could smile You understand, fine (Take this life) Take this life Take it all In your hands You were mine I could smile Again
*** Thanx a lot to Adrian, Vince, Kit, Vince for this one ***
Flowers bloom
Sometimes The reflection I see Bears no Resemblance to me Sometimes I look around the place I live And wonder How I came to choose the things I did In the morning He smiles At the start of another day He smiles Kisses my shoulder Cradles his body Behind mine Shin to toe to thigh to mind X5 Sometimes I wake and know the time will come The day unfolds Someday That everything will resonate Flowers bloom In desolate places In the morning He smiles At the start of another day He smiles Kisses my shoulder Cradles his body Behind mine Shin to toe to thigh to mind X4 Shin to toe to thigh to mind to mine Sometimes it seems All the birds are flying south While I am grounded One day I'll wake And everything will resonate Flowers bloom In desolate places In the morning He smiles At the start of another day He smiles Kisses my shoulder Cradles his body Behind mine Shin to toe to thigh to mind X4 Shin to toe to thigh to mind to mine Insensible
I pulled a loose thread I gathered you in Discovered I could A pivot for your sun You invited me in As if it's nothing We tread on old ground As if it's nothing now It's like I hardly see the sky some days It's like you hardly said a word It's like I hardly see the sky somedays And i'd do better if I turned my head Knowing you did I wouldn't be here If you could have said no I wouldn't have come here If ever I had known It's like I hardly see the sky somedays It's like you hardly said a word It's like I hardly see the sky somedays And I'd do better if I turned my head Knowing you did Knowing you called Knowing you held her Knowing you kissed Knowing you did all this It's like I hardly see the sky some days It's like you hardly said a word It's like I hardly see the sky somedays And I'd do better if I turned my head Knowing you did.
Another
If truth could speak I need another I swear it's due I need another When I Get scared When I recover I'm sure that there Can be another And your life is chained Close to another Her shell is deep In laid with trouble A life for less A new removal You shed your skin And love another And your back isn't sore anymore And your feet touch the ground As you step from the wall And you gave all you could Given all that you saw But dappled with love Can you see who you are A lot gets said You lose another You shed a load And gain another You're back in deep You know it's over You find yourself And love another And your back isn't sore anymore And your feet touch the ground As you step from the wall And you gave all you could Given all that you saw But dappled with love Can you see who you are Still looking for more Must you love another Must you lie Must you judge Must you take another On you go in the dark One day you'll discover That you can't understand How to love another Dappled with love love love Can you see who you are Dappled with love love love love
Enough love
Come Like a baby to the breast Every inch of you to test my skin You Deepen cracks and pour in more Still standing at the door in tears And I feel And do you feel Enough love Or do you feel Or do you feel Enough love is too rare Still Leaving me untied in hands That you tied and locked away alive Here I can't stand another scene Can't face another day In here And I feel And do you feel Enough love Or do you feel Or do you feel Enough love is too rare Do I feel Do you feel Enough love Or do you feel Or do you feel Enough love is too rare You could weather me if I turned to stone If I turned to stone something like a statue You could keep me hidden in your garden Then no-one need ever know And I feel And do you feel Enough love Or do you feel Or do you feel Enough love is too rare Do I feel Do you feel Enough love Or do you feel Or do you feel Enough love is too rare
*** Thanx a lot to Kit who updated this one ***
All my sins
Taken that vow You know he's Taken by now Upset you Talked you all 'round In sympathy oh girl Walk by the sea Forgive me all my sins Sift through my memory And find where I begin Lie in the warm sand And dig in my heels Cry for my dead child Forget how that feels Closer to home He cuts you Close to the bone He won't leave you It's too far to crawl And everyone knows Walk by the sea Forgive me all my sins Sift through my memory And find where I begin Lie in the warm sand And dig in my heels Cry for my dead child Forget how that feels Walk by the sea Forgive me all my sins Sift through my memory And find where I begin Lie in the warm sand And dig in my heels Cry for my dead child Forget how that feels I can feel me rising I can feel me rising Walk by the sea Forgive me all my sins Sift through memory And find where I begin Lie in the warm sand And dig in my heels Cry for my dead child Forget how that feels ( Repeat X2 )
Opposites Three, four, three, four ... I want you now as then Don't tell me you want to stay Too much time now has passed Too too soon nothing to do I was only thinking I would do right Now and then I need a little sting I was only trying not to second guess Why you came but Since I left you I'm chasing opposites Things that you do Play on my mind till I so tired I can'tt I can't see when you go I can't see when you go Silencing me, telling me things No reason I should stay When you know what to say To taunt me Talk is cheap That look of yours Too too cold Now the cause Could you feel ( could you feel ) So ravaged and misunderstood Everything cha, cha, chained Nothing remains So consider now When it was easy Knowing what you do and what you gave I was silly knowing what was to be My mistake but Since I left you I'm chasing opposites Things that you do Play on my mind till I sets hard I can't I can't see when you go I can't see when you go Silence away, silence with things No reason why should stay When you know what to say To talk me That you will never see X6 That will never step on me A sense of, since i left you Since I left you I'm chasing opposites Things that you do Play on my mind till I sets hard i can't I can't see when you go I can't see when you go Silence away, silence with things No reason why should stay When you know what to say To talk me
*** Thanx a lot to Adrian for this one *** This time last year When when I met you Evidently You knew Underneath your kiss I was fooled Evidently Seems without you I'm folding This time last year, you were here This time last year, you were here This time last year, you were here Said I missed you How can I choose Tell me shut up and do something Without you here i'm in two Cutting into Scenes without you Unfolding This time last year, you were here This time last year, you were here This time last year, you were here In all my innocence I'm running 'round In circles you won't allow Against your bittersweet indifference tears I'm running 'round This time last year, you were here This time last year, you were here This time last year, you were here
*** Thanx a lot to Adrian for this one and Kit who helped us too *** Kissing the day Nothing you say Can hurt me now Into the space I fell, I fall A strange river is deep and I Into the dark I dive I took leave Kissing the day Took leave Kissing your mouth Supportively Kissing the day It took some time for me to try To learn to love this child of mine Not for nothing she survived Into this space I feel to find I took leave Kissing the day Took leave Kissing your mouth Supportively Kissing the day Your saddest hour Is too late so cry Your tears could be Your saddest now I took leave Kissing the day Took leave Kissing your mouth Supportively Kissing the day I took leave Kissing the day Took leave Kissing your mouth Supportively Kissing the day
*** Thanx a lot to Adrian for this one ***
Beautiful
You can depend On certainty Count it out and weigh it up again You can be sure You've reached the end And still you don't feel You know about anything Do you know you're beautiful Do you know you're beautiful Do you know you're beautiful You are, yes you are You can ignore What you've become Take it out and see it die again You can be here For who's a friend And still you don't feel You know about anything Do you know you're beautiful Do you know you're beautiful Do you know you're beautiful You are, yes you are Innermost thoughts Will be understood and You can have all you need Do you know you're beautiful Do you know you're beautiful Do you know you're beautiful You are, yes you are
About you
I counted down Just like you did before you said It's too short how long I said Is too short Who's to blame I contemplate if it's true I'm born to remain star-crossed seems He couldn't be respectable Discreet And if I found What she said was true What she said about you What she said trust you I should have known When you said that you'd choose me All that I want Is to see some truth reflected And to learn somehow And to be strong somehow In the state of mind I'm in And if I found What she said was true What she said about you What she said trust you I should have known When you said that you'd choose me Seperate stay strong Seperate be bold Seperate be brave Seperate you'll grow Seperate be brave Seperate stay And if I found What she said was true What she said about you What she said trust you I should have known When you said that you'd choose me.
Instinct
Not seventeen
You're not seventeen To be missing him like You do Knowing him like You do He said how can I Still be missing you I'll be missing you 'Till you're missing me How can I feel I'm not innocent And I know that I could I'm not seventeen And I know that you're not To blame And if I could Reason I'd settle this thing Still be missing you I'll be missing you 'Till you're missing me How can I feel 'Till you're touching me alone Still be missing you 'Till you talk to me alone I'll be missing you 'Till you talk to me eternal 'Till you're missing me Come to me yourself How can I feel Still be missing you This is how I'll be missing you 'Till you're missing me How can I feel ...
Don't invent me
I won't know another 'Til i know I won't know another 'Til i know Even though I keep on telling you But still oh no no I won't know another 'till i know Here Only love Don't invent me 'Till you need me Will i fall in now Only love Don't invent me 'Till you need me I won't love another 'Till I learn I won't love another 'Till I learn Even though I keep on telling you But still oh no no I won't love another till i learn Here Only love Don't invent me 'Till you need me I fall in now Only love Don't invent me 'Till you need me (X4)
Like her
Can't we talk Set it right Can't we talk Anymore All this time Only you Nothing more All this time It looks like You won't be staying round Given the time And your mood You look a lot like her And you look so like You won't be staying around Here in this half light You look a lot like her Is it all Lost and gone Could you give Me some room Room to be Room to heal Worth as much You will be It looks like You won't be staying round Given the time And your mood You look a lot like her And you look so like You won't be staying around Here in this half light You look a lot like her You decide What I meant What is right You decide Please believe I will be Here for you I will be It looks like You won't be staying round Given the time And your mood You look a lot like her And you look so like You won't be staying around Here in this half light You look a lot like her (x3)
Deep love
Now I can trust you now As I feel at ease How lost in you Should I be Now I can see you clear As the day begins How lost in this Should we be Share And say you'll bring To me deep love You can't say that it's too soon to say how you feel Share and say you'll bring To me deep love Just don't say that it's too soon to say how you feel Now As I touch you here As the day begins How lost in this Should I be Share And say you'll bring To me deep love You can't say that it's too soon to say how you feel Share and say you'll bring To me deep love Just don't say that it's too soon to say how you feel ... Share You say you'll bring To me deep love You can't say that it's too soon to say how you feel Share and say you'll bring To me deep love Just don't say that it's too soon to say how you feel Share And say you'll bring To me deep love You can't say that it's too soon to say how you feel ...
No reality
Metalic voice All turning back to your life All in vain All coming back here to me All in vain All knowing all innocence All in vain All giving all suffering All in vain Here love is all you need Here love is all you need Here love is all you need Here love is all you need Keep hearing your inner voice Only dear Keep hearing your inner thoughts Only dear Keep selling your inner life Only dear Keep telling your little lies Only dear Here love is all you need Here love is all you need Here love is all you need Here love is all you need Here love is all you need Here love is all you need Here love is all you need Here love is all you need Metalic voice Here love is all you need Here love is all you need Here love is all you need Here love is all you need
You forget
Give to you Only so you'll believe And my desire I'm dead without Your rush and pull Hard to forget It numbs the soul I need to know Relishes fear That you wear so well It leaves me colder Hating this thing I always see I'm always saying something I always said It's not the end of something I'll stand alone I never meant to hurt you I always do It makes no sense But you forget This time it's clear To you I'm here but Your love's the same and Intent aside We're night and day Still you forget How it numbs the soul I need to know Only with you that I keep myself from all I know Hating this thing I always see I'm always saying something I always said It's not the end of something I'll stand alone I never meant to hurt you I always do It makes no sense What I do I never mean Je sais je sais Je sais je sais I always see I'm always saying something I always said It's not the end I understand What I did I never meant to hurt you I always do It makes no sense what I do
Simple things
I'm trying to think this through I'm trying to make this my best And finding it makes no sense I'm trying to live through this Incredible and bleak sky Incredible undertow I'm I'm trying to make this my Endeavour to hold on to the time My heart is on the line You'll find The simple things The time reveals Will heal your mind In simple things The time reveals You will be mine Remember the truth will out Remember the truth will find you Remember the truth will out Remember the lies you fed us Incredible oversight Incredible time to tell I'm Trying to live with this Endeavour to get through all of this My heart is on the line You'll find The simple things The time reveals Will heal your mind In simple things The time reveals You will be mine It's close, It's near It's close, It's near It's close, It's near It's close, It's near The simple things The time reveals Will heal your mind In simple things The time reveals You will be mine (x4)
Too much room
See love She knows Will leave her See how it leaves her Her love Her love won't heal She warned you See how it feels now She won't take up too much room 'Till you're sure She loves you I won't give up on your truth 'Till you're sure she loves you She knows no truth Or reason See how it leaves her It's too late to prove Your heart lies Her love is deeper She won't take up too much room 'Till you're sure She loves you I won't give up on your truth 'Till you're sure she loves you Any time you Find me out So many good reasons Haven't I said enough She knows no truth Or reason See how it leaves her She won't take up too much room 'Till you're sure She loves you I won't give up on your truth 'Till you're sure she loves you
What if I
Her words Have left me Discharged like A space She stepped in to Reveal The doubt I've felt What if I Take a little more Than you need What if i Say i believe in me Adequate for qualified Oh to be All that i say i can be Her world Has shown me It's not just me Who needs more Just to be this And need no more Must be so much relief Must be all What if I Take a little more Than you need What if i Say i believe in me Adequate for qualified Oh to be All that i say i can be But what if I need her Her words Have left me What if I Take a little more Than you need What if i Say i believe in me Adequate for qualified Oh to be All that i say i can be But what if I need her
It's enough now
You know You know There's still a sense I Have you've stolen these days All your love is here If love is given in to Hope you're fooling yourself It's as if you knew knew knew all along It's enough now It's your loss now It's just that I'm low It's enough now It's your loss now It's just I don't know You know You steal the sunlight How you steal your own scene still Oh no no you're reasonable If hope is given in to How we need to be now It's as if you knew You knew all along It's enough now It's your loss now It's just that I'm low It's enough now It's your loss now It's just I don't know (x3)
Believe
Similar not the same You will allow a low light Will the sunlight heal the core of your body And the sound I hold so dear Who wouldn't sing for love And who wouldn't do all of that Looks like I've been the sole nobody And now I couldn't follow this I believe I believe now See you a lot near the site And to you I throw a low light And the sight of you is so in my body And the sight I hold so dear Who wouldn't sing for me now And who wouldn't have done all of that Looks like I've been a friend to nobody And now I couldn't lead you home I believe I believe now I believe I believe now And the sight of you is so in my body And the sight I hold so dear Looks like I've been a friend to nobody And now I couldn't lead you home I believe I believe now I believe I believe now The sunlight heal the core of your body And the sound I hold so dear I believe I believe now I believe I believe now ...
Non Albums Tracks
Blame it on the sun ( Stevie Wonder Cover / Deep Love EP ) Where has my love gone How can I go on It seems dear love has gone away Where is my spirit I'm nowhere near it Oh yes, my love has gone astray But I'll blame it on the sun The sun that didn't shine I'll blame it on the wind and the trees I'll blame it on the time That never was enough I'll blame it on the tide and sea But my heart blames it on me Who poured the love out What made this bitter doubt Is peace not here for me to see Wish I could tell you What I am feeling But words won't come for me to speak But I'll blame it on the sun That didn't fill the sky I'll blame it on the birds and the trees I'll blame it on the day That ended once too soon I'll blame it on the nights That could not be But my heart blames it on me
However wrong
In the last few days You have led me to the line To the opening up of the smallest change To a smile back to the line To the line again However wrong i feel the same as you However wrong it seems However wrong you feel the same as i do However wrong it seems It's the same instinct as a new day to the sun To the opening up of a small step down From a thin cloud to the ground To the ground again For the last year all amounts to this All of that cloud All of those people i'm not, i'm not What a little tenderness could do Bless me, bless you
*** Thanx a lot to Deniz for this one ***
I Don't Want The Night To End ( Snow Phoebe Cover )
Oh mommy mommy Oh mommy mommy, yeah I stood too near the gaslight and I cried The dirty city mist had seeped too deep inside It took me on some kind of heady ride It's only Charlie Parker died And I don't want, I don't want And I don't want the night to end Oh daddy daddy Oh daddy daddy, yeah Waiting half my life on platforms underground The other half I wasted as a desperate clown My problem now is that you're not around In dark delicious dreams of you I'll drown And I, I don't want I don't want the night to end Oh baby baby Oh baby baby baby baby baby, yeah Wrapped around your soul is where I wanna be But in the night blue music's all I seem to see The drunks out in the rain down on one knee And what, and what is to become of you and me And I don't want I don't want the night to end I don't want, I don't want I don't want the night to end I don't want the night to end I don't want the night to end
Imploded
Don't imagine I'll be losing sleep now it's done Waited so long Trapped, imploded, suspended at your feet Crooked but sure i'll shine like i did when i met you When i wrote on the steps down by the river Imagine, i've wasted more I would kiss you but won't take more Trapped, imploded, suspended at your feet Crooked but sure i'll shine like i did when i met you When i wrote on the steps down by the river About strength in shining armour About mirrors and rusting tears You and I You were never for me
Please
Speak low And I feel light I've fallen at your feet I raise my voice to hear you speak I'm lost to you High I feel alone X4 Say please And I go weak Your hands around my arms The strength you have to hold me down I'm asking you Why I feel alone X4 Come to me and speak low Come to me and speak low Please I go weak I've fallen at your feet I raise my voice to hear you Speak I'm lost to you I feel alone ...
Running down
Running down like you said All that I fought When you know that I should be One solitary flame you remain Been so long Shouldn't be the last to hear And a young love shouldn't be like this And you won't look the same to me And I don't know how long you'll remain One solitary flame my solitary flame
Safer Now
She happened to you A bright star A sentient beauty Ever lost in her light You kept her denied Everybody knows it's you I should leave you alone I should leave you to be I should learn to let go You'll be safer now everybody loves you Even now As i sleep now Am i losing the light Will i be denied Everybody knows it's you... All my fear Everybody sees all my fear Everybody knows it's you...
Sleep
You little thing my little thing you're bringing me no peace My little one been giving me no rest I've loved you all the ways that i know how I've loved you all the ways that i can now And i will come when you call and you will sleep while i cry Sweetheart All that i am all that i have is yours All of my love all of my life is yours To see you in my arms is all i know I've missed you in my arms is all i know And i will come when you call and you will sleep while i cry Sweetheart You've chosen my life All of me Fill up my life And i will come when you call and you will sleep while i cry
Sold
I need you conversation I need to see your eyes Cool rain warm me To shut you out Need your conversation I need some space Need to see your eyes Cool rain down on me All i need Should be told i can't give you self respect One of us should be told Can't make up for what you lack One of us should be told Can't protect you from yourself Now i know she was sold I though it out There was some intention You stood too still I am unafraid Stoop low 'Cause nothing now Is all i feel Should be told ... I'll admit i've given in You drive me to extremes All the same i'm here Want you to share some peace with me Think of the choices we make Salvaging Hoping the choices we make are salvaging
You say
You say i have but you've changed I'm so through turning it over Can't do anything to change all that i've done Here we are again I've lost the vision that i had I still need what it is i crave Can't do anything to change all that i've done Here we are again Doyou think i want to settle this with someone else Do you think i want to say all that and turn my back as soon as i leave you Here we are again