There are two bands by this name. The first was a UK underground freakbeat band from the 1960s psychedelic scene. In 2006 alternative group The Flies formed in Bristol UK. Their debut album is “All Too Human”.

The mid 60s Flies are most well-known for their debut single,”(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone”, which is a hard rock treatment with plenty of crunching fuzz guitar of a number more associated with the Monkees. They were notorious for their sometimes outrageous live performances, particularly their appearance at the 14-Hour Technicolour Dream psychedelic festival in April 1967 in London, where they arranged to have hundreds of bags of flour explode and cover the audience at the end of their set.

The current group of this name is lead by vocalist Sean Cook, who played bass with Spirtualized for 8 years before forming and fronting his own band Lupine Howl. He also sessioned for Jesus and Mary Chain, Massive Attack and Dr John. During this time he got to know Bob Locke and Tim Norfolk AKA ‘The Insects’. The Insects are well known for having worked with Massive Attack on their ‘Protection’ album (writing ‘Karma Coma’ and Eurochild). They also worked with other luminaries from the ‘Bristol’ scene – notably Tricky, Goldfrapp and various members of Portishead (Adrian Utley contributed guitar for our album).

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Back in the day you had been part of the smart set
You’d holidayed with kings, dined out with starlets
From London to New York, Cap Ferrat to Capri
In perfume by Chanel and clothes by Givenchy
You sipped camparis with David and Peter
At Noel’s parties by Lake Geneva
Scaling the dizzy heights of high society
Armed only with a cheque-book and a family tree

You chased the sun around the Cote d’Azur
Until the light of youth became obscured
And left you on your own and in the shade
An English lady of a certain age
And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
You’d say with a conspiratorial wink
“You wouldn’t think that I was seventy”
And he’d say,”no, you couldn’t be!”

You had to marry someone very very rich
So that you might be kept in the style to which
You had all of your life been accustomed to
But that the socialists had taxed away from you
You gave him children, a girl and a boy
To keep your sanity a nanny was employed
And when the time came they were sent away
Well that was simply what you did in those days

You chased the sun around the Cote d’Azur
Until the light of youth became obscured
And left you on your own and in the shade
An English lady of a certain age
And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
You’d say with a conspiratorial wink
“You wouldn’t think that I was sixty three”
And he’d say,”no, you couldn’t be!

Your son’s in stocks and bonds and lives back in Surrey
Flies down once in a while and leaves in a hurry
Your daughter never finished her finishing school
Married a strange young man of whom you don’t approve
Your husband’s hollow heart gave out one Christmas Day
He left the villa to his mistress in Marseilles
And so you come here to escape your little flat
Hoping someone will fill your glass and let you chat about how

You chased the sun around the Cote d’Azur
Until the light of youth became obscured
And left you all alone and in the shade
An English lady of a certain age
And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
You’d say with a conspiratorial wink
“You wouldn’t think that I was fifty three”
And he’d say,”no, you couldn’t be!

Don’t fade away
My brown-eyed girl
Come walk with me
I’ll fill your heart with joy
And we’ll dance through our isolation
Seeking solace in the wisdom we bestow
Turning thoughts to the here and everafter
Consuming fears in our fiery halos

Say what you mean
Mean what you say
I’ve heard that innocence
Has led us all astray

But don’t let them make you and break you
The world is filled with their broken empty
dreams
Silence is their only virtue
Locked away inside their silent screams

But for now
Let us dance away
This starry night
Filled with the glow of fiery stars
And with the dawn
Our sun will rise
Bringing a symphony of bird cries

Don’t bring me down now
Let me stay here for awhile
You know life’s too short
Let me bathe here in your smile
I’m transcending
The fall from the garden

Goodnight

Carlos Santana is a Latin, Rock and Blues guitarist born in Mexico in 1947. Most of his musical career has been spent with Santana, the band he formed in San Francisco in 1966. His music underwent large changes in 1973 when he was introduced to the spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy, by fellow guitarist “Mahavishnu” John McLaughlin . After this he adopted the title “Devadip” which he still uses. In 1998 he formed the Milagro Foundation along with his wife Deborah, which supports disadvantaged children

Used to be so easy to give my heart away
But I found out the hard way
There’s a price you have to pay
I found out that love was no friend of mine
I should have known time after time

So long, it was so long ago
But I’ve still got the blues for you

Used to be so easy to fall in love again
But I found out the hard way
It’s a road that leads to pain
I found that love was more than just a game
You’re playin’ to win
But you lose just the same

So long, it was so long ago
But I’ve still got the blues for you

So many years since I’ve seen your face
Here in my heart, there’s an empty space
Where you used to be

So long, it was so long ago
But I’ve still got the blues for you

Though the days come and go
There is one thing I know
I’ve still got the blues for you.

I don’t want to be another big star
Picking at your cars
Stealing at your clothes
Finding out what you don’t know
You don’t know

I don’t want to be your big star
Picking your calls; saying I don’t know
I don’t want to be your suitor
Lacking at your feet
Trying to love the things you need

And you know I’ve heard this before
And you know I’ve heard it some more
Won’t you give me a chance
To break down your door
But I sit
Oh Oh
I still sit here

I don’t want to be a tailor
Pricking at your thumb
Washing all the tears away
Some words
Oh no I believe they don’t feel you
Picking up your dirt
Washing all your dreams away

Wish I was too dead to cry
My self-affliction fades
Stones to throw at my creator
Masochists to which I cater
You don’t need to bother;
I don’t need to be
I’ll keep slipping farther
But once I hold on,
I won’t let go ’til it bleeds

Wish I was too dead to care
If indeed I cared at all
Never had a voice to protest
So you fed me shit to digest
I wish I had a reason;
my flaws are open season
For this, I gave up trying
One good turn deserves my dying

You don’t need to bother;
I don’t need to be
I’ll keep slipping farther
But once I hold on,
I won’t let go ’til it bleeds

Wish I’d died instead of lived
A zombie hides my face
Shell forgotten
with its memories
Diaries left
with cryptic entries

And you don’t need to bother;
I don’t need to be
I’ll keep slipping farther
But once I hold on,
I won’t let go ’til it bleeds

You don’t need to bother;
I don’t need to be
I’ll keep slipping farther
But once I hold on:
I’ll never live down my deceit

There once was a woman
A strange kind of woman
The kind that gets written down in history
Her name was Nancy
Her face was nothing fancy
She left a trail of happiness and misery

I loved her
Everybody loved her
She loved everyone and gave them good return
I tried to take her
I even tried to break her
She said I ain’t for takin’ won’t you ever learn

I want you I need you I gotta be near you
I spent my money as I took my turn
I want you I need you I gotta be near you
Ooh I got a strange kind of woman

She looked like a raver
But I could never please her
On Wednesday mornings boy you can’t go far
I couldn’t get her
But things got better–she said
Saturday nights from now on baby you’re my star

She finally said she loved me
I wed her in a hurry
No more callers and I glowed with pride
I’m dreaming
I feel like screaming
I won my woman just before she died

I want you I need you I gotta be near you
I spent my money as I took my turn
I want you I need you I gotta be near you
Ooh I had a strange kind of woman

On another world by another star
At another place and time
In another state of consciousness
In another state of mind

Everything was almost perfect
Everything fell into place
That you may reach a different verdict
Before the judge dismissed the case

In a parallel universe
That’s happening right now
Things between us must be worse
But it’s hard to see just how

And everything could have been perfect
Everything in the right place
Then I wouldn’t have to play the suspect
Accused, abandoned and disgraced

I didn’t choose, I didn’t pull the trigger
It wasn’t me, I’m just a plain and simple singer
I heard the sound, I turned my head around
To watch our love shot down

In another lonely universe
We’re laying side by side
Where no one’s hurt and no one’s cursed
And no one needs to hide

And everything is almost perfect
Everything is almost right
There are never any conflicts
There are never any fights

Where are you tonight?
Wild flower in starlit heaven
Still enchanted in flight
Obsessions lament to freedom

A timeless word, the meanings changed
But I’m still burning in your flames,
Incessant, lustral mmasquerade,
Unengaged, dilit love didn´t taste the same

And I still wonder if you ever wonder the same
And I still wonder