Henry Cow & Robert Wyatt : Bad Alchemy

Extrait de l'album live «Henry Cow concerts», Bad Alchemy et Little Red Riding Hood Hits the Road.

Lindsay Cooper – Basson, flute, oboe, piano.
Chris Cutler – drums, piano.
Dagmar Krause – Voix, piano.
Fred Frith – Guitare, piano, violín, xylophone
John Greaves – Basse, voix, celesta, piano.
Tim Hodgkinson – Orgue, clarinette, saxo alto.

Robert Wyatt – Voix on Bad Alchemy & Little Red Riding Hood Hits the Road.

Bad Alchemy

I dream Hermaphrodite and I sit up
all night our eyes on the horizon
of a wobbling bowl.
Heads in hands we ponder dregs
the bowl contains
a liquid's left putrescence
after being drained.
(What we feel we have to solve
is why the dregs have not dissolved)
When I wake I wonder what it means
am I bad alchemy? It seems
I image Self unmixed, a risk,
in a dish for drinking
Fluid with a strongly stinking
sediment - is that what it meant?
Am I hermaphrodite?
Neither one nor quite the other?
(What we feel we have to solve
is why the dregs have not dissolved)