STEVE HACKETT > Cured


     UK # 15, US #169

Steve Hackett > Cured

























Août 1981
Virgin CDSCDR4021 CD (2007 remaster)



Original release

01 Hope I Don’t Wake
02 Picture Postcard
03 Can’t Let Go
04 The Air Conditioned Nightmare
05 Funny Feeling
06 A Cradle Of Swans
07 Overnight Sleeper
08 Turn Back Time


Remaster (2005)

01 Hope I Don’t Wake
02 Picture Postcard
03 Can’t Let Go
04 The Air Conditioned Nightmare
05 Funny Feeling
06 A Cradle Of Swans
07 Overnight Sleeper
08 Turn Back Time

09 Tales of the Riverbank
10 Second Chance
11 The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (live version recorded at The Reading Festival)



John Acock : keyboards
John Hackettflute and keyboards
Steve Hackett : guitar, keyboards, vocals
Nick Magnus : synthesizer, keyboards
Kim Poor : vocals

All songs written by Steve Hackett
Produced by John Acock, Steve Hackett & Nick Magnus




Hope I Don't  Wake

Hope I don't wake in the morning
Find you running right away
Every hour I'm down and worried
Dream about it night and day

To many places you can go
When drowning in your sleep
But no one wants to lie awake
For hours counting sheep

I'm fine what about you
OK tell me the news
We all know how to fight
When there's something to lose
In my mind I feel elation

For many days I know you'll go
Surrounded by four walls
And by yourself you'll stay inside
Behind your own front door

Well I need to be on my way
Hope to get through another day
Well you know what shape I'm in
And it seems I can never win


Picture Postcard

Don't want a picture
To pin upon my wall
Just want someone to
Help me forget that's all

I don't want to be here on my own
Hungry as a dog without a bone

Don't want a postcard
Showing some distant view
Just want someone to
Laugh when I blow a fuse

And I don't want to be alone
I don't want to cry and moan

Nobody can hear
A single word I say

As I walk the floor
Seems there's nothing more
Time to go to sleep once more

But in my dreams there's a place
Where it's never too late
I see nothing has changed
And that's where you still remain


Can't Let Go

Your face is like angel
But what if you won't let me touch you
You can change into a dragon
But what if your flame is imagined

Feel like I'm lying on a bed of nails
You're taking the wind right out of my sails

Can't let go

I never hear you saying
I'm giving you all of my loving
I'm sure you've got a reason
But one day you know I'll get even

Yes I'm getting tired
Playing diplomat
Why is she always taking
The shirt off my back


Funny Feeling

Hey it's no surprise
That you are going tonight
Well alright         Had a funny feeling
I don't want to go on
Wasting your time
Well alright         Had a funny feeling
That came the whole morning through
It's not hard to do
I'm just not getting through

Don't live a lie
I'd rather say goodbye
Please don't explain
No use pretending it's the same

You don't have to tell me
I've known it all day
Well alright          Had a funny feeling
I don't see a happy ending
Coming our way
Well alright          Had a funny feeling


Overnight Sleeper

Beneath the scattered light
Across bare hills of night
I dreamt a train just missed me
Another came in sight

I ran across the track
Then had to turn right back
A new one came straight at me
The next behind my back

Nowhere else to turn to
There're walls on either side
Why must the embankment be so high
Beside myself with weakness
And faint from running wild
I could hear the sound of
Burning coal

They never seem to stop
But always get to smoke
Right out between two tunnels
I ran until I woke


Turn Back Time

I'm not on the ball
Living in a world of so much change
Thought that I might be much stronger
When I'm far away from you
What I'd give to learn to
Turn back time

Sometimes words are dancing
Like caterpillars moving on a page
I would send you all my letters
Feels like living in a cage
What I'd give to learn to
Turn back time

Your love is bound to see me through
Your warmth is bound to find a way
Your touch is all I really need
Your smile the one and only key