Artists
Musicians featured in this piece are:
Pete Sinfield – lead vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar and synthesizer
John Wetton – fuzz bass
Mel Collins – saxophone and flute
Richard Brunton – acoustic and electric guitar
B.J. Cole – pedal steel guitar
Phil Jump – piano, electric piano and Hammond organ
Min (Alan John Mennie) – drums and percussion
Chris Pyne – trombone
Greg Bowen – trumpet
Stan Roderick – trumpet
Robin Miller – cor anglais
The song’s words and lyrics were written and performed by Peter Sinfield. The album Still was produced by Peter Sinfield, with Mel Collins and Greg Lake serving as associate producers.
Pete Sinfeld – Envelopes Of Yesterday Lyrics
I feel like a rusty key I don’t fit any door
You stole my cloudy castles but you didn’t say what for
You said I didn’t have the eyes to paint out in the street
Without a standard martyr’s hat and neon sloganned feet
To eat, it seems, I needed you for crumbs your need was me
We cheered and passed the sanguine flask till the iceman made me see
At five o’clock you could never wash your printer’s stain away
So I count you lost and your words I’ve tossed
In the bleary envelopes of yesterday
I feel like a tumbling kite there’s no hand on my reel
I dived aboard your star-bright ship to find you’d left the wheel
To hunt some upstart passengers who had gambled with their fare
Then trumpeted the hull with holes and laughing gone by air
Whilst most of us who stayed aboard slipped brandy to the crew
John Purser locked his iron box and pointed at the queue
Still working out the price of time no echoes will we lay
So I’ve burnt the till and I’ve thrown the bills
In the weary envelopes of yesterday
I need to suck the breasts of time and freeze her milk in ink
To juggle cruets full of dreams and balance on the brink
Don’t blame me if my smoke and steam obscured your rutted track
I only meant to startle you not offer you my back
To ride upon and overload with your jars of unbaked clay
You can find your guide to the pulpit ride
In the dreary envelopes of yesterday
To listen to other songs from the Teleskop 1 program and the full program, click here.