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Where Have I Known You Before

This song started my collaboration with Neville Potter.

 
Music: Michael Strand © 1979, lyrics: Neville Potter © 1972 – All rights reserved
Do not copy or redistribute the song or the lyrics without explicit and written permission. For enquiries send mail to Michael Strand:

Where Have I Known You Before  
Right-click link to download the song. (For duet version, see info and link below.)
 

1. Where have I known you before
   Where did we play among galaxies bright
   Laughing and dancing, creating each night
   Deciding the course, to then venture on out
   Love, you, space and I
   Free from fear, free from doubt
   Where have I known you before
2. Where have I hurt you before
   Where did I hurt you so deep - so deep
   To hear you say you knew me not
   When you alone could save me there
   And free me from that tyrant's keep
   Defender of the Vulcan worlds
   Where filled my mind with blackened sleep
   Where have I hurt you before
3. Where have I loved you before
   Was it just yesterday
   Or millennia ago
   I kissed, touched, held and needed you so
   Your face is so different
   Yet you, you're you, just you
   Still glowing and silvery bright
   Wondrous dancingly bright
   I knew you the moment you entered my room
   That infinite eternal night
   Where have I loved you before
4. Where did I lose you before
   Was it when you gave your life
   To save that pharaoh king
   Or when our golden mothership took flight
   Far away from Saturn's rings
   Was it when we made the pact
   Then drifted into violet space
   So certain we would meet the other side
   But there was no such place
   Where did I lose you before
5. Where have I known you before
   The moment I saw you I knew
   I had found again the singer of a
   Thousand songs
   That haunted every dream
   The painter of the colors of my mind
   Reminding me of places we had been
   I'm seeing clearer now - the truth unfolds
   The past all drifts away
   You're back again my dearest friend
   You never went away

Where Have I Known You Before – (Duet)

I got the idea that this song could be very nice as a duet.
Here I sing the additional 2nd and 3rd voice.
This duet only has the three verses: 1, 3, and 5.

Where Have I Known You Before – (Duet)  
Right-click link to download the duet version .

• First demo recorded June 26th 1981 at Cosmic City Studio in Lohhof (near Munich), Germany.
  Musicians:
  Terry McCullough – Lead vocals
  Dieter Lich – Bass
  Michael Strand – Guitar, 2^nd and 3^rd voice (Voices recorded later at home.)

You don't always need expensive top gear for a demo.
Here's a little background information, which might be interesting for home recorders:
When I recorded my vocals of the 2^nd and 3^rd voice, I used a very cheap condenser microphone, plugged into my guitar amp, a solid state Lab Series L7 – the only device with a reverb in the house.
The amp was recorded with a vintage Sennheiser MD421.