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Navigator

by Adrian T. Bell

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1.
Back In Town 04:17
Back In Town So I hadn’t seen you in a long time We’d split up and you had gone to New York On some wild adventure with that artist What’s his name ? I ended up on the boat not knowing where I was going. I had couple of girlfriends in but it wasn’t the same I was having a few drinks with some friends when I heard your name Well I heard that you were back in town. Yeah I heard that you were back in town. Yeah I heard that you were back in town. Well my head was spinning around My heart jumped a beat but I didn’t say anything at all Well I heard that you were back in town. Well I heard you were back in town. Then I heard you were back in town. Well my head was just a spinning around I try to play it cool but you know what it’s like I’m such a fool for love I try to play it cool but you know what it’s like I’m such a fool for love I try to play it cool but you know what it’s like I’m such a fool for love I try to play it cool but you know what it’s like I’m such a fool for love I was having a good time with my friends just drinking maybe a little too much Then I saw you walk in with your friends. You were laughing Then you looked at me and whispered I miss you Bitch Well I heard you were back in town. Well I heard you were back in town. Well I heard you were back in town. Well my head was spinning around
2.
Sleeper Agent I’m hiding in the shadows Invisible in my disguise I’m lying in wait Ready for to act Planning my escape Mind clandestine You pass me on the street You can’t tell I live a double life You think he’s an angel But he’s really a stranger He moves like a ninja And his middle name’s danger You’re former life will self-destruct in Five, four, three, two, One day soon You’ll find out I’m not who I say I am The dossier from the heart said Leave this life behind I’ve got one chance And now’s the time To peel off the mask And finally reveal Who I am You think he’s a saint but he’s really a stranger He moves through the shadows And his middle name’s danger Waiting for so long Just to bang the drum The mission started I know I’m not the only one I know that nothing’s going to stop me I cannot fail Because I’ve been waiting in the shadows for too long You think he’s an angel But he’s really a stranger He moves like a ninja And his middle name’s danger I’m the sleeper agent
3.
Mr Cat broke from hell Rules the world with his own free will Lives his life from day to day Nothing gets in his goddam way What he paid for the price of love He lost his faith in God above He met a girl on the road today It was dynamite Black mustang, roaring gun A red sunrise, well kingdom come Three cigarettes to start the day Cassette deck loaded He just pressed play The wind is a blowing heart Tearing his mind apart A one handed joint Sun drenched highway And not a care in the world he says Partners in crime fit like a glove Riding the wind with his onetime love Roadkill behind. The vultures above. la la la la la Cactus trail like a boulevard Open a pack pull out a card Kissing the lips of a phantom babe Rattlesnake hum on a poisoned grave The heat and the dust just now Makes them feel real somehow They make love down a dusty lane The wheels them spinning tumble weed Partners in crime fit like a glove Riding the wind with his onetime love Road kill behind. The vultures above. Hiding out in this grim motel Shake me down better off in hell Woke up sweating in the night Red lights flashing morning light Never thought I’d see the light Can’t sleep at night because it’s dynamite Never thought I’d break away Never thought I’d break away From mundane humdrum here you stay Never thought I’d getaway Gonna rule rule the world in my own way Gonna rule rule the world Gonna make the play Road kill behind. The vultures above. Gonna rule rule the world in my own way Gonna rule the world Gonna make the play
4.
Will I see you once again Will I see you once again? I don't think I’ve had enough of you Every time you walk away I would rather that you stayed Will you be round here tomorrow? I will greet you on the way If you lead then I will follow and release me from this sorrow You’ll never take me in your arms Or hold me for a moment Placate me with your charms And make me feel important I am tortured every day I could call maybe tomorrow For the fourteenth time I say You would not answer any way From a distance I can see you walking past You think that you’re all your own There’s a certain grace when you undress at night Please don’t close the curtains I’m in love When will I see you again? When will I see you again? When will I see you again? Will I see you once again? All the full of photos of you I took when you were unaware The pain you put me through By simply not being there I don’t know when I will see you again I know that you don’t care all my thoughts on you collide Well here’s a fact if I can’t have you then nobody will When will I see you once again? Nobody will
5.
Call My Name 05:13
Call my Name The graveyard is filling With men as they drop like flies The widows are loading Their shotguns in the night The children are weeping as the wolves howl at the moon Then you call my name You call my name The bandits wait in ambush As the storm clouds fill the night The screams of their victims Can be heard for many miles As nightmarish whispers Float across the blood red sky Then you call my name In the shadows, somethings coming And you know it will be here soon The horses have bolted Your last chance left to ride You're cornered and desperate With no place left to hide Then you call My name In the distance Force of thunder Sends shudders through the room And the help that you wanted Well you know it could be here soon The light from west comes Flooding through the gloom Then you call my name You call my name You call my name You call my name
6.
Nail Me Baby 05:08
Nail me Baby I’ve been like this for a million years working outside in the damn cold air and all my plans and dreams are gone when you caught me with your whispered song You look at me and you softly sigh as you walk away then make me high I fall into your arm as you say three little words that make my day Nail me baby Nail me baby Nail me baby Nail me down To lose my friends or to lose my mind all of this I can leave behind I’ll risk it all cause the dream’s still mine I want to go all the way this time A magnetic force I can’t pull away The soft whisper in my ears you say Three little words that a man wants to hear Nail me baby Nail me baby Nail me baby Nail me down The wolves the beasts I can take them all The dirt the pain and the manic world as long as you look at me and say Those three words that I want to hear I cannot refuse when Venus calls I cannot resist the Siren’s charms Just whisper softly in my ear Nail me baby Nail me baby Nail me baby Nail me down
7.
Life Sentence Mosely was in a corner After leaving the Grey Bar Hotel He thought he would get parole but you know what? He couldn’t get out He’s been taking some pills But that didn’t work too much And now he’s just walking around the streets Like his mind’s gone The Black Dog depression took over And now he’s just looking for a new beginning Well it’s difficult for him man, It’s difficult. He was walking out to the west towards the sunset and he’d been walking that way for three days He’s been watching some beggars on the street trying to get some food from a bin He doesn’t know how to get fed these days man So he asked them for some money They laughed and he’s looking and he’s looking at these places where he used to hang out and where the girls were man and they’re not there anymore and there’s an old whore there and she’s got black eyes She’s crying and she might have slept with him at some point but now she does not recognise him He’s been gone too long Anyway he stopped at these traffic lights and these cops came up to him and they were asking him What you doing here? Mosely just ignored them and walked straight through them They left as quickly with the sirens behind Then a man walked up to him and looked at him strangely And he didn’t notice that the man had pulled a gun from his pocket and was sticking it in his face Mosely just looks at him for a minute and says Hey son do you want to think about this? Do you know where I have been? I’ve been 25 years in jail Do you know what that means? I’m not giving you my money man I’m not going inside again I’m not going to lose my friend I’m not going to walk out in the big black dawn I’m not going out for a You’re not gonna put me down but You’re not going to take me away from I’ve spent too long inside I’m not walking out in the hot dawn Just put that gun away so you don’t want to go to that hole You don’t want to go the hole my friend You don’t want to walk the road again The tattoos on your back will bleed you dry You know there’s no point just getting high You’re stuck in a cage walking around Two meter s by two meters around Heartbeat you’d be out of that place and you’re making such a big mistake Yo just walk away just walk away and everything is going to be ok just walk on by just walk on by
8.
Part Of Me 03:15
Part of Me Part of you Here we are human Fragile and pale in the morning light Confused and naked we stand and look up at the stars in wonder All this is part of me All this is part of you All this is part of me All this is part of me All this is part of you All this is part of me Here we stand And tremble to the sound of thunder I feel your pain, it's so insane The circumstance that drives us under All this is part of me All this is part of you All this is part of me All this is part of me All this is part of you All this is part of me
9.
Navigator 04:19
Navigator I’ll steer you through this frightening storm Of monstrous seas and dreadful skies Emotional troughs and wind swept highs I’ll take us through to calmer seas where clouds will part and sun sublime And lightest breeze Calms troubled minds I’ll point us to the brightest star It seems so far but light will shine and leave dark memories far behind I’ll be the navigator I’ll be the navigator I’ll be the navigator I’ll be the navigator I’ll hold the wheel And take the waves And keep us free from Shipwrecked shores And guides us through the maelstrom here I’ll be the navigator I’ll be the navigator I’ll be the navigator I’ll be the navigator And as the wind of fate it blows I’ll trim the sails see how it goes And take us through the shark filled night to safer shores I’ll be the navigator I’ll be the navigator I’ll be the navigator I’ll be the navigator And as we reach the distant shore I’ll lay you down in soft white sand and sail away to troubled lands goodbye I’ll be the navigator I’ll be the navigator I’ll be the navigator I’ll be the navigator

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Adrian T. Bell, a British musician based in Prague, formerly the frontman of postpunk band The Prostitutes, releases his third solo album, simply called Navigator, on the 4th of September. It was created in collaboration with American Grammy award winning music producer Sylvia Massy, who collaborated with musicians like Johnny Cash, Prince, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The album originated in the spring of this year in the famous La Fabrique Studio in Saint-Remy de Provence and the Faust Studios in Prague.

After the two solo albums Different World (Apollo Award for the Album of 2014) and Night and Day, Adrian T. Bell and his band, The Sleeper Agents, give us an album that tells of the dilemmas of the contemporary man in the modern world. A man who would like to conquer or even save the world, but the reality of everyday life offers the routine to paying bills and permanently unclogging pipes and makes him want to escape the world instead. "My grandfather worked as a policeman during The Blitz in London and was busy working to save lives," says Adrian. "I went to the Navy at the age of sixteen, and travelled the world.” Such opportunities for fulfilling the male-minded self-realization are now ever more difficult in the reality of the European metropolis. Navigator adresses such thoughts and dilemmas and perhaps offers a moment of escapism. Every one of us dreams of doing something different and we as “sleeper agents” are waiting for that moment when one day we hear the phone ring and are given an order to perform some task that will truly fullfill us.


Collaboration with a new music producer has brought new experiences. Sylvia Massy says that the is trying to provide the artists she produces with a framework in which a masterpiece can stand out better. "Sylvia has a lot of ideas and very unconventional sound experiments, but the resulting sound preserves the authenticity of the demo recordings. That's exactly what I wanted, "Adrian says. "When I learned that Sylvia, a renowned and highly sought-after producer, agreed to my collaboration offer in January, it took me a while to believe it. Sylvia gave me the condition that I must write one song each day. And so I composed, under pressure, to achieve the best results. Most of those demo recordings eventually hit the record. "

The result is nine strong tracks, of which at least seven have the potential of a single. The genre is not clearly defined, but overall the album has a cinematic quality as if we were thrown into an adventure with elements of Motown, funk, pop, rock and country. The album takes its name from the title track Navigator, a song that was recorded in the studio and beyond - two Prague's churches are featured on it - the pipe organs are from Saint Salvatore and the bells from the Saint Vitus Cathedral.

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released September 4, 2018

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