Mike Oldfield’s bass player, Phil Spalding made an uncredited appearance on the album, substituting for Paul Webb on “The Last Time” – “Paul was exclusively a fretless bass player and they needed a fretted bass on this particular track.”
Phil admits to having played the whole session while disastro...
[Verse 1]
One by one
Every courtesy is gone
And the show begins
Bring on the clowns
Pain is quiet
I've laughed at silence
For the last time
[Chorus]
Let the show begin
For the last time
[Verse 2]
Sometimes one
Sometimes each of us is wrong
But the show begins
Bring on the clowns
Blind to reason
These eyes are dreaming
For the last time
[Chorus]
Let the show begin
For the last time
Let the show begin
[Instrumental]
[Bridge]
Bring on the clowns
Smiling sweetly
Doubt may leave me
For the last time
[Chorus]
Let the show begin
For the last time
Let the show begin
Let the show begin
For the last time
For the last time
Let the show begin
For the last time
For the last time
For the last time
For the last time
For the last time
The Last Time was written by Mark Hollis & Ian Curnow.
The Last Time was produced by Tim Friese-Greene.