Robert Wyatt - Sea Song, Alifib live on piano 1975
Robert Wyatt sings Sea Song and at 5:24 Alifib from his ’Rock Bottom’ album, his first after the accident that confined him to a wheelchair. Sea Song was covered by Tears for Fears in 1985, later appearing on their Saturnine Martial & Lunatic album. Alifib and its reprise Alifie (& Sea Song) are believed to reference his partner and collaborator, the artist Alfreda ’Alfie’ Benge. Filmed for French TV, May 24 1975 - interview segments in French are edited out; they can be found elsewhere. Lyrics to the recorded versions:
Sea Song lyrics by Robert Wyatt
You look different every time
You come from the foam-crested brine
It’s your skin, shining softly in the moonlight
Partly fish, partly porpoise
Partly baby sperm whale
Am I yours?
Are you mine to play with?
Joking apart
When you’re drunk you’re terrific
When you’re drunk
I like you mostly late at night
You’re quite alright
But I can’t understand the different you
In the morning, when it’s time
To play at being human for a while
Please smile!
You’ll be different in the spring
I know, you’re a seasonal beast
Like the starfish that drift in with the tide
With the tide
So until your blood runs
To meet the next full moon
Your madness fits in nicely with my own
With my own
Your lunacy fits neatly with my own
My very own
We’re not alone
Alifib lyrics by Robert Wyatt
Not nit not nit no not
Nit nit folly bololey
Alifi my larder
Alifi my larder
I can’t forsake you or
Forsqueak you
Alifi my larder
Alifi my larder
Confiscate or make you
Late you you
Alifi my larder Alifi my larder
Not nit not nit no not
Nit nit folly bololy
Burlybunch, the water mole
Hellyplop and fingerhole
Not a wossit bundy, see?
For jangle and bojangle
Trip trip
Pip pippy pippy pip pip landerim
Alifi my larder
Alifi my larder
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