| Sator Codex
Scales to Skin Format: 7" Release date: December 1986 No.: RA 021 |
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Line-Up:
Michael Olsson -drums, programming, vocals Hans Gäfvert -keyboards, samples, vocals Chips Kiesbye -guitar, vocals, e-bow Kent Norberg -bass & vocals |
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A side: Scales to Skin (Chips Kiesbye/Kent Norberg/Hans Gäfvert/Michael Olsson)
B side: Crusade (Gonna Start a Fire) (Chips Kiesbye/Kent Norberg/Hans Gäfvert/Michael Olsson)
Recorded at Music-A-Matic studio, Gothenburg, Sweden September
14 - October 22 1986.
Produced by Henryk Lipp & Sator Codex
Engineered by Michael Ilbert & Henryk Lipp.
Sequencer & sampling manipulation by Ilbert.
Harmonica by Freddie Krüger.
Radium 226.05 Records
Distributed in Scandinavia by EMI.
Coverart by Laurie Dammert.
Made in Sweden.
Comment:
This was Sator Codex' third single. It was Sator Codex first recordings after
Björn Clarin had left the band. It sold out in two weeks. "Scales to Skin"
was re-recorded in 1987 and ended up on the "Slammer!"
album. "Crusade (Gonna Start a Fire)" was remixed by Chips Kiesbye and Michael
Ilbert in February 1989 and found it's place on the reissue of "Slammer!"
in 1992. Hans Gäfvert is referred to as "Dikko" on the cover. A video to
"Crusade" was filmed on October 24th 1986. "Crusade" was covered by The Mobile
Mob Freakshow on the "Guldskivan -Svenska Band Hyllar Sator & Sator Codex"
tribute CD.
Lyrics:
Scales to Skin
Chips Kiesbye/Kent Norberg/Hans Gäfvert/Michael
Olsson
You're so warm and I'm so cold
But heart to heart we're melting stone
They say our love is taboo
But we make love like flowers do
I don't mind if you're red or blue
I'm a reptile man. I'm not like you
Heart to heart
Scales to skin
Heart to heart
Scales to skin...my skin...AAH!
Warm affections in cold wars
Living on each sides of the wall
The say our love will never last
Passion is fuel, burning fast
Heart to heart
Scales to skin
Heart to heart
Scales to skin...my skin...AAH!
Under the spell of eagerness
Between the sands of east and west
The torch of malice will it ever go out
We're the last of lovers in a world going down
I'm the candles on your cake
And if you're Eve then I'm the snake
Heart to heart
Scales to skin
Heart to heart
Scales to skin...my skin...AAH!
Crusade (Gonna Start a Fire)
Chips Kiesbye/Kent Norberg/Hans Gäfvert/Michael
Olsson
A fallen angel with a loaded gun
Crusader from vengeance found
A king a son of a king
A flame a son of a flame
My only wish my one desire
Is to see my name in fire
I know my had forsake of a wish
A life of what's been fallen to bits
You will remember my name
I'm gonna start a fire
You will remember my face
I'm gonna start a fire
Tomorrow will be yesterday
And you're the one who has to pay
You did some things you will regret
I will forgive but not forget
I'm gonna get you for that
I'm gonna start a fire
You will remember my name
I'm gonna start a fire
I'm gonna get you for that
I'm gonna start a fire
You will remember my name
I'm gonna start a fire
The taste of shame is bitter, sour
And (coalition?) make a fool out of me no more
Oh I really get my kicks
On route 666
You will remember my name
I'm gonna start a fire
I'm gonna get you for this
I'm gonna start a fire
You will remember my face
I'm gonna start a fire
I'm gonna get you for this
I'm gonna start a fire
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