Artists

Greg Lake – vocals, guitar
Gary Moore – guitar
Tristram “Tris” Margetts – bass
Tommy Eyre – keyboards
Ted McKenna – drums

Written by Greg Lake. Produced by Greg Lake.

ProgArchives describes “Slave to Love” as an appealing acoustic pop ballad with AOR overtones, with Gary Moore adding tasteful, understated guitar work in a style reminiscent of his own instrumental “Empty Rooms.” A later retrospective on Lake’s career singled it out as “achingly beautiful,” pairing it with “Haunted” as the two standout tracks from Manoeuvres. The album marked Lake’s final solo studio release, closing out a brief run of records for Chrysalis before he moved on to a short stint with the band Asia.

Greg Lake – Slave To Love Lyrics

You may be a king,
or just a common man.
Some high fashioned model
with a Hollywood tan.
It just don’t matter
who you think you are.
You’ll be a slave to love tonight.

You may have a dream,
or second sight.
Yesterday’s hero,
or a star over night.
Walkin’ on the water,
there’s no land in sight.
You’re just a slave to love tonight.

You may wear a gun
and a badge for the FBI.
A Soho stripper,
or a Soviet spy.
You think you’re the devil,
but with those angel eyes
you’re just a slave to love tonight.

You may need a war
to get you high.
The media sellin’ madness
to the naked eye.
Starving in the ghetto,
or with money to burn.
You’ll be a slave to love tonight.

And you can hold the world
in the palm of your hand.
But it all adds up to nothing
if you don’t understand.
Only love can make the world go ’round
so be a slave to love tonight.

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Artists

Greg Lake – vocals, guitar
Gary Moore – guitar
Tristram “Tris” Margetts – bass
Tommy Eyre – keyboards
Ted McKenna – drums

Written by Greg Lake. Produced by Greg Lake.

Closing out Manoeuvres, this orchestrated ballad has been described as a dramatic finale to the record, with a notable guitar contribution from Gary Moore set against Greg Lake‘s vocal. ProgArchives calls it an atmospheric piece in the vein of the album’s other slower numbers. Manoeuvres turned out to be Lake’s final solo studio album, released without any accompanying tour or significant promotion, after which he moved on to a brief stint with the band Asia.

Greg Lake – I Don’t Know Why I Still Love You Lyrics

I don’t know why I still love you,
and I don’t know why I should care.
You must have some magical power,
somethin’ is keeping me there.
I remember a time in my life
when I was living in loneliness.
Your good love made it better, I confess.
Never be another,
it’s you for me forevermore.

I don’t want nobody else,
it’s you that I want,
it’s you that I want for sure.
Oh baby, it’s you that I’m living for.

You’re the only love I ever had in my life,
who ever meant anythin’ at all.
The rest were just a passin’ fancy
in places I find so hard to recall.
I could tell you in a very few words
just how much you mean to me.
But if my love don’t reach you,
then you gotta set me free.

Don’t keep me hangin’ on here
like some poor misguided fool.
I’m helplessly in love with you.
It’s all or nothing, don’t be cruel.

Love is the only solution.
It’s all you need to light your way.
If I could only find the right words to tell you,
I know it sounds cliché,
but I love you so bad.
If you don’t love me, baby,
stop driving me mad.
‘Cause I’m into you so much,
but I can’t survive on promises
that I can’t even touch.
Oh baby, I need your love so much.

So I don’t know why I still love you.
Some people would call me insane.
They don’t know how much
you mean to me, baby,
and I don’t know how to explain.
Everytime I see you,
my heart starts beatin’ boom, boom, boom.
Even a fool can see that I’m out of control.

I’m just so hung up on you, baby.
I’m addicted and I can’t let go.
Somehow I gotta find the key to your heart,
nothing could stop me, ’cause baby I love you so.

‘Cause I love you so bad.
If you don’t love me, baby,
stop driving me mad.
‘Cause I’m into you so much,
but I can’t survive on promises
that I can’t even touch.

To listen to other songs from the the Teleskop 19 program click here.

Artists

Greg Lake – vocals, guitar
Gary Moore – guitar
Tristram “Tris” Margetts – bass
Tommy Eyre – keyboards
Ted McKenna – drums

Written by Greg Lake, Tristram Margetts & Tony Benyon. Produced by Greg Lake.

“Haunted” was written by Greg Lake together with longtime friend and bassist Tris Margetts and rock cartoonist-artist Tony Benyon, who also contributed cover concepts and artwork to Lake’s solo records. Described by one retrospective as having a late-night, smoochy feel with a wind-instrument break, the song was one of the more subdued ballads on the album’s second side, alongside tracks like “I Don’t Know Why I Still Love You.” A live version, recorded in 1981 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, was later released on the 1995 live album King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Greg Lake in Concert. Manoeuvres turned out to be Lake’s final solo studio album.

Greg Lake – Haunted Lyrics

Rainy days, closed cafes,
drifting, haunting.
Hollow eyes, numb inside,
lonely and empty.
I’m searching for laughter,
for memories brought alive.
Places and faces and traces of you.

Darkened skies, spot lit lies,
aching, awaking.
Words return, why can’t we learn?
Love is forgiving and taking
and living in honesty.
Truth and affection
not cast to the sea.

Oh, oh what a fool I’ve been.
My pride let you go.
The eye of the storm remains.
Chillingly cruel, silently screaming your name.
Silence is pain.

Rainy days, closed cafes,
drifting, haunting.
Hollow eye, numb inside,
lonely and empty.
I’m searching for laughter,
for memories brought alive.
Places and faces and traces of you.

Oh, oh what a fool I’ve been.
My pride let you go.
The eye of the storm remains.
Chillingly cruel, silently screaming your name.
Silence is pain.

Rainy days,
forever and always
haunted by you.

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Artists

Greg Lake – lead vocals

Written by Gary Moore. Produced by Greg Lake.

“A Woman Like You” was written by Gary Moore, who had played a major role on Lake’s previous solo album, though Moore himself doesn’t appear as a performer on this particular record — the song was written for Greg Lake, not with him. In a 2013 interview, Lake reflected on recording it, noting that comparisons of his vocal performance on the track to Marvin Gaye reflected his effort to bring a soulful quality to the song. Manoeuvres marked the end of Lake’s brief run of solo albums for Chrysalis Records and was his final solo studio album.

Greg Lake – A Woman Like You Lyrics

Darlin’, I’d do anything for you.
Anything you want me to,
because I love you.
Baby, you are everything to me.
The only one I’ll ever need,
because I love you.

It’s so hard to find a love like yours,
so don’t you ever leave me, darlin’.
If you ever turn to walk away,
then I just have to say.

It takes a woman like you,
it takes a woman like you,
it takes a woman like you,
to take the love from a man like me.

Darlin’, I would never let you down.
Just as long as you’re around,
I’ll always love you,
I’m always thinkin’ of you.
Baby, you are all the world to me.
I want all the world to see
how much I love you.

It’s so hard to find a love like yours,
so don’t you ever leave me, darlin’.
If you ever turn to walk away,
then I just have to say.

It takes a woman like you,
it takes a woman like you,
it takes a woman like you,
to take the love from a man like me.

It takes a woman like you,
it takes a woman like you,
it takes a woman like you,
to take the love from a man like me.

It takes a woman like you.
It takes a woman like you.
It takes a woman like you.
It takes a woman like you.

It takes a woman like you.

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