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Cat's Eye / Yellow Fever (Running)

from Rightovers by Mikayel Abazyan and Friends

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about

There are so many things which meet each other in this choice of ours. One of them is that ‘The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome’ was my very first LP, and I got it from Ash as a gift many years ago. It was him again who insisted on including it, and carried this one until the end, checking, correcting, demanding and inspiring the rest of us. “But can we get such a violin?”, I asked him before we started. “Just wait and you will see!”, he replied.
I consider this track to be a double tribute to both the creative geniuses of Peter Hammill and Graham Smith, and the brilliance of Nic Potter’s performance.

lyrics

(Lyrics by Peter Hammill)

I was walking in the evening,
I was looking for something good, clean,
fine, pure, straight, but instead I found
the bunker wall and gate.
It was open: I was free. I gave
a token guarantee, though I later knew I
had promised more, with an I.O.U. I could
scarcely score my way...but I herald Apoc-
alypse anyway!
(I was a prime believer in the faith of 'I' -
yellow fever in the cat's eye.)
And it's everything you want/
own/love/hate/touch/dream/trust.
And it's everything you need.
I got a heart like a rocket, I was out of control,
I'd cleaned out my pockets for some luck to show....
Really looking like a hopeless case, I found it
in my hand, it was the Angry Ace.
He wants to talk to me, one on one, he wants to
give me his professional opinion...but
I'm running, I just can't wait, I haven't
got a moment to anticipate; yes, I'm run-
ning, I just can't stop, I've got to get
to the bottom just to get to the top, I've
got the dark alleys and the open skies -
I got the yellow fever from the cat's eye.

I'll let you know how it goes in the ninth life.

Taken from Peter Hammill's Sofa Sound web-page at
https://www.sofasound.com/vdgcds/qzlyrics.htm#6

credits

from Rightovers, released May 22, 2021
Written by Graham Smith / Peter Hammill.

Mikayel Abazyan – lead and backing vocals, electric guitars, bass
Ashot Korganyan – drums, heavy electric guitar segment
Rima Mirzoyan – violins

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Mikayel Abazyan Yerevan, Armenia

Born on July 9, 1971.
Self-trained playing piano, guitar and later - bass, which allowed me playing and making a few recordings with various bands in Yerevan.
In 2014, joined a special project dedicated to the music of Peter Hammill and Van der Graaf Generator, which brought me back to studio work. Having released yet another successful solo tribute, started producing my own music.
And I like it! ... more

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