- Camino Royale
Highly Strung
Released April 1982
Recorded 1982
"Camino Royale"
(Hackett, Magnus)
Walking along the Camino Royale
- Cast Adrift
Bay Of Kings
Released: October 1983
Recorded: 1980–1983
Is the seventh solo album from former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett. It is Hackett's first full album of classical guitar music, completely instrumental.
Musicians:
Steve Hackett – guitar, keyboards
- Days Of Long Ago
When I wasn't looking I found you
And the nights they don't seem so long
There are moments when I just can't believe
That I've waited so long
So take me and love me don't ever let me go
Oh take me and hold me you know I want you so
Cause you're so precious like the days of long ago
- Every Day
Can you light a fire in Winter's face
Or say why a life has gone to waste
Pleasure Island was an overcrowded place
Cleopatra's Needle conquered fear
One more nail in your coffin dear
Endless torture for at least two thousand years
- Fire on the Moon
I feel like I've been the finest fool
Hanging on by my fingertips
The ground gives way beneath my feet
A black cloud descends
I lose my grip
Buried in the mud
Lying here with no relief
- Fly On A Windshield
There's something solid forming in the air,
The wall of death is lowered in Times Square.
No-one seems to care,
They carry on as if nothing was there.
The wind is blowing harder now,
Blowing dust into my eyes.
The dust settles on my skin,
Making a crust I cannot move in
- Hope I Don't Wake
Cured
Released August 1981
Recorded 1981
(Hackett)
Hope I don't wake in the morning
Find you running right away
- Hoping Love Will Last
Please Don't Touch
Released: May 1978
Recorded: November 1977 - February 1978
"Hoping Love Will Last" (Steve Hackett)
Vocal: Randy Crawford
Ther are many friends that I once knew
who felt the same special thing that I share with you
- Man Overboard
We'll sit and watch the sun go down
See the waves wash to and fro
The world runs by sailboat slow
We'll anchor at the sight of land
Never doing all the things we planned
The sun sinks down way below
- Picture Postcard
Cured
Released August 1981
Recorded 1981
(Hackett)
Don't want a picture
To pin upon my wall
- Sentimental Institution
Defector
Released June 1980
Recorded Spring 1980
(Steve Hackett and Peter Hicks)
I'll tell you a story
About a girl who came my way
- The Ballad Of The Decomposing Man
Spectral Mornings
Released: May 1979
Recorded: January - February 1979
In a very large factory I belong
And I work the night shift all year long
Old Freddy on a chainsaw lost his feet
Thinking 'bout a blonde he'll never meet
- The Fundamentals Of Brainwashing
History’s a vinyl record stuck in a groove
A hundred warring sects claiming to have the truth
Blessed robots with so much to prove
You could say so much to lose
The scorching air
The slumbering mass
Of forgotten things
- This World
I watched you walk out
Into the world,
More like a woman
And less like a girl.
All the words
In my ear,
Everything you said,
Everywhere you tread.
- Tigermoth
(1...2...3...4...)
Just like his old father before him
Who served in the great war would sing
We're proud to serve Kaiser or King
They'll always find someone who's willing
To take Tigermoth chances alone
- Turn Back Time
Cured
Released August 1981
Recorded 1981
(Hackett)
I'm not on the ball
Living in a world of so much change
- Watcher of the Skies
(vocal by John Wetton)
Watcher of the skies, watcher of all,
His is a world alone no world is his own.
He whom life can no longer surprise,
Raising his eyes beholds a planet unknown.
Creatures shaped this planet's soil,