Sarah Brightman
Fly (re-released version)
In 1995 a CD by Sarah entitled Fly was released. After the enormous
succes of the duet Time to say goodbye with
Andrea Bocelli, Fly was re-released in 1997. It is that re-released
version I have bought and of which you find the track list and a link to the
lyrics here; some notes on the songs are given below the track list.
For some remarks regarding a double CD called "Fly-II", that includes
a disk with "rare tracks", see further down.
There are also some notes here on remix versions of
Question of Honour.
Contents
- TIME TO SAY GOODBYE (CON TE PARTIRÒ)
(featuring Andrea Bocelli)
L. Quarantotto / F. Sartori, F. Peterson
- THE FLY
Peterson / Brightman, Peterson
- WHY
Peterson / Brightman, Peterson
- MURDER IN MAIRYLAND PARK
Stina Nordenstam
- HOW CAN HEAVEN LOVE YOU
(featuring Chris Thompson)
Peterson, Christensen / Dorell
- A QUESTION OF HONOUR
Peterson
- GHOST IN THE MACHINERY
Peterson / Ravenhill, Peterson
- YOU TAKE MY BREATH AWAY
Peterson / Brightman, Peterson
- SOMETHING IN THE AIR
(featuring Tom Jones)
Peterson, Christensen / Peterson, Filz
- HEAVEN IS HERE
Peterson, Schwarz, Meissner / Brightman, Schwarz
- I LOVED YOU
Peterson, Schwarz, Meissner / Brightman, Schwarz
- FLY
Peterson / Brightman, Peterson
===> All lyrics on a single page and translations (20.4 kb)
Thanks first of all to Jens Cornely,
who supplied me with track list and lyrics before I had the CD myself.
The lyrics have been corrected here and there to fit the songs as Sarah
sings them, with thanks to Bjorn Handeland
and Chantelle Duxbury for helping me with this.
Notes on some songs :
- 1.
-
This song did not appear on the original version of the CD from 1995, as
mentioned above.
The lyrics as given on the single page with all
lyrics are copied from the page with the
lyrics of the "Timeless" version; the
CD-booklet of "Fly" gives the same lines but without the names of the
singers dividing the stanzas.
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- 4.
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Murder in Mairyland Park is written by Stina Nordenstam.
Bjorn Handeland wrote me that Stina is a little-known Swedish singer
who is supposed to be very mysterious: no one seems to know more about
her than that she is Swedish. The music of that original version is very
much like Sarah's version, Bjorn wrote.
There are some Latin lines in the song and in the original they are quite
clear, and they read:
-
Agnus, agnus
Dei
Agnus, agnus
Qui tollis peccata mundi
I thought that Sarah sings "Dominus, dominus" instead of "Agnus, agnus"
(which would make sense: "Lord, who takes a way ..."), but it can well
be that Sarah stretches the "agnus" making it sound a bit like "dominus":
Latin lines like this, originating from the Roman-Catholic liturgy, are
sung rather solemnly and thus often unclear.
All in all, I now think Sarah sings "Agnus, agnus", so I put that in
the lyrics (after having had "dominus" there
for a while).
By the way, "mundi" is absent from Sarah's version"
Sarah seems to stretch "peccata", fading away in the background music.
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-
The original Latin lines of the Agnus of the Roman-Catholic
liturgy are:
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Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: miserere nobis
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: miserere nobis
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: dona nobis pacem
- Translation:
-
Lamb of God, who takes a way the sins of the world, have mercy on us
Lamb of God, who takes a way the sins of the world, have mercy on us
Lamb of God, who takes a way the sins of the world, grant us peace
[Thanks to Christophe Deconinck for help and info on all of this.]
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- 5.
-
This is the "video version" of the duet; on the original 1995-release
there is a more ballad-like version -- see the remarks on this made
below regarding the Fly-II album, which also has
a third version.
The lyrics of all these versions are the same, and in all cases
the song is a duet with Chris Thompson.
[Thanks to Joe Muscolo for info.]
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- 6.
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The four lines of lyrics of A question of honour given in the
CD-booklet are by no means complete: the song has much more text, which
are, thanks to Bjorn Handeland, complete on the lyrics page.
Note that A question of honour includes parts
of the song (aria) La Wally which
Sarah also sings on the CD "Timeless", but
there are no credits in the CD-booklet of "Fly" for this.
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-
In June 2001 Angel Records released a 57 minute maxi-single
entitled "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (see cover on the right),
which has five versions of this song:
- 6. A question of honour - (radio edit)
- 7. A question of honour - (Pech remix)
- 8. A question of honour - (Knock Out mix)
- 9. A question of honour - (Damage Control remix)
- 10. A question of honour - (Tom Lord-Alge edit)
-
The version on the "Fly" CD is creditted Tom Lord-Alge, so it presumably
is the same as the last of these mixes.
-
These five mixes follow 5 versions of
A whiter shade of pale;
follow that link for more info on the single.
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The above five Question of Honour versions were already released
on the A Question of Honour - dance mixes edition (19??).
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Two versions were also released on
A Question of Honour - limited edition single (1995; cover shown
on the right), together with the song
On the Nile.
===> all lyrics of this single.
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- A slightly shorter version than the one on the "Fly" album, and
instrumentally also a bit different, can be found on the following
albums:
-
- 8.
-
See the page on
You take my breath away, made after
this song re-appeared on the US version of the CD
Harem.
-
- 11.
-
Thanks to Sergio Pérez Llanos for a correction.
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- 12.
-
Thanks to John Porter for a correction regarding
Neil Armstrong's immortal words in the 12th song [Armstrong was supposed to
say: "... small step for a man ..." but forgot the 'a'].
JPEG version of cover (36 kb)
Fly-II
At the concerts of Sarah's
La Luna World Tour in 2000
a double CD called "Fly-II" was on sale, a special tour edition with
on the second disk some "rare tracks": different versions of songs
from other CDs, left-overs and other loose numbers; for some notes
see below the track list.
The first disk of this set is the 1995-release of the Fly-CD mentioned
above.
The cover of the box is the same as that of the Fly-CD above, with a small
sticker on it (see picture on the right).
Contents
- ONCE IN A LIFETIME
-- 1996 remix
- FIRST OF MAY
-- 1999 live version
- HOW CAN HEAVEN LOVE ME
-- PeCh remix
- DESERT ROSE
- DO YOU WANNA BE LOVED
- HURRY HOME
- THE SAME THING TO YOU
- RAIN
- HE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIR
- STARSHIP TROOPER
-- 1998 remix = solo version
- ON THE NILE
- HOW CAN HEAVEN LOVE ME
-- video version
- ONCE IN A LIFETIME
-- 1996 ballad version
===> All available lyrics on a single page (19.6 kb)
- Notes:
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- --
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On the 1995-release of "Fly", disc 1 in this set, there is first of all no
Time to say goodbye, as that song
came only at the end of 1996.
- 1/13.
-
The lyrics of the two versions of Once in a lifetime on the
"rare tracks" CD are somewhat different from those of the
original lyrics
from Dive.
- 2.
-
See the First of May page
for details and other releases of this song.
- 3/12.
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The song How can heaven love me is a different
(more ballad-like) version then the song on the 1997-release --
the latter CD has the "video version" (no. 12) on the "rare tracks" CD.
Song 3 of the "rare tracks" CD is yet another version, more disco-like
version. In all cases, however, the lyrics are the same and featuring Chris
Thompson.
- 4.
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See the Desert rose page
for some background info on this song.
- 5.
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See the Do you wanna be loved
page for some background info on this song.
- 6.
-
See also the Hurry home
page.
- 7.
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See also the The same thing to you
page.
- 8.
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See the Rain
page for some background info on this song.
- 9.
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See the He moved through the fair page
for details and other releases of this song.
- 10.
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The 1998 remix of Starship trooper is a solo version,
lacking in effect the voices of the speakers that make up the story
in the original lyrics
of the single by Sarah and Hot Gossip.
- 11.
-
See the On the Nile page
for details and other releases of this song.
Thanks to Dennis O'Leary, Jaques van Harte for information and help
and to Joseph Muscolo for info, corrections of lyrics,
and one rdamocle for the lyrics of songs 5 through 8.
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