Up the Downstair

May 1993 (Delerium CD - DELEC CD020 / LP - DELEC LP020)

Tracks

1. What Are You Listening To& (0:58)

[instrumental]

2. Synesthesia (5:11)

I'm sending you a letter Because I don't think there's much time Time to lear the cobwebs Time to bear the crime

It's only a number It's only a death Another soldier died in action The telegram regrets

I'm lying on a stretcher They're lyring to my face There's no-one left to help me I'm just a waste of space

It's a matter of moments I'll be dead before you've read There's blood on the table And my back is full of lead

3. Monuments Burn Into Moments (0:20)

[instrumental]

4. Always Never (6:58)

I feel no pain Cos I'm an island I will remain In the deafness of your silence

I love you sometimes Always Never He said you're here Here with me now

I feel no gain When you're around me I'll try again In the darkness you astound me

It's growing cold I'm growing old Is this the only way to see the fire? It's raining...

5. Up the Downstair (10:00)

Sleep Until the colours dissolve Leave the dream to rain-soak forever In blessed moments Viewed from trains of half-truths

Monuments burn into moments Up into other worlds Other ascensions Without deep sorrow to endure

Black Sunday of sleep Open for small angel escapes Moved by buildings to tears They week in the rain Am I at home? Am I in heaven? Gentle Architecture

6. Not Beautiful Anymore (3:26)

[instrumental]

7. Siren (0:52)

[instrumental]

8. Small Fish (2:43)

The first thing that I saw as, the fisherman smiled at me Were empty people dressed in grey, floating out to sea The rain lashed down in darkness A lizard blinked an eye And time stopped in the silence The small fish gave a cry

The next thing that I saw as, things were fading fast Were dreams of children's laughter, smouldering to dust The rain lashed down in darkness A lizard blinked an eye And time stopped in the silence The small fish gave a cry

The last thing that I saw as, my life passed by Were fields of empty people, laying down to die The rain lashed down in darkness A lizard blinked an eye And time stopped in the silence To watch the burning sky.

9. Burning Sky (11:06)

[instrumental]

10. Fadeaway (6:20)

I sat in the room with a view The girl in the photograph knew Can't you see? Why is she laughing at me?

I stumbled through the dark unaware The face in the hall isn't there Tomorrow has gone Where do the voices come from?

Watching the leaves as they blew Lost in the room with a view Climb the walls You did not know me at all

I fell through a hole in the floor The audience cried out for more Fadeaway It's just another day

Hit heaven far too high.

Original mix reissued in repackaged and remastered form in November 1997.

Up the Downstair - Expanded / Re-recorded version

CD 1 - Up the Downstar (2004 version)

1. What You Are Listening To& (0:57)
2. Synesthesia (5:16)
3. Monuments Burn Into Moments (0:22)
4. Always Never (7:00)
5. Up the Downstair (10:14)
6. Not Beautiful Anymore (3:25)
7. Siren (0:57)
8. Small Fish (2:42)
9. Burning Sky (11:36)
10. Fadeaway (6:19)

CD 2 - Staircase Infinities

1. Cloud Zero (4:40)
2. The Joke's On You (4:17)

Riding on a unicorn Stranded in my mind Electric raven met me there To see what we could find

Strange days Incredible days Bring all my children to me Strange ways Incredible ways On a dark stars endless journey

Endless realms of fading dreams Lies stranded with the past We climb up on the wind of change We say "You know the joke's on you"

Strange days Incredible days Bring all my children to me Strange ways Incredible ways On a dark stars endless journey

Strange days Incredible days Strange ways Incredible ways

3. Navigator (4:49)
4. Rainy Taxi (6:50)
5. Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape (9:36)

Disc one is a completely remixed and partially re-recorded version with the sampled drums replaced by the real drum performances of Gavin Harrison, recorded in 2004. Disc two is a remastered version of the mini album containing left over material from the original Up the Downstair sessions.

Up the Downstair (Remastered 2LP Edition)

Side 1

1. What You Are Listening To& (0:57)
2. Synesthesia (5:16)
3. Monuments Burn Into Moments (0:22)
4. Always Never (7:00)
5. Up the Downstair (10:14)

Side 2

1. Not Beautiful Anymore (3:25)
2. Siren (0:57)
3. Small Fish (2:42)
4. Burning Sky (11:36)
5. Fadeaway (6:19)

Side 3

1. Cloud Zero (4:40)
2. The Joke's On You (4:17)
3. Navigator (4:49)
4. Phantoms (3:15)

Side 4

1. Rainy Taxi (6:50)
2. Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape (9:36)

Vinyl edition of the 2004 re-recording and remaster of Up the Downstair / Staircase Infinities, with Side 3 bonus track "Phantoms" recorded at the same sessions, and taken from "Stars Die - The Delerium Years 1991-97".

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