Roy Harper - Hope

The great band "Anathema" has made a cover of this song, but I think that this original version is...simply perfect :)
I love Roy Harper's music.
Enjoy it.
artist: Roy Harper and Jimmy Page
album: Whatever happened to Jugula
track: 3
Title: Hope
lyrics:
When you look at me
From your own century
I may seem to be
Strange archeology
But when the winds blow
From this direction
You may sense me there
In your reflection
I think I feel you
But I will never know
As the swallows leave
And the children grow
I wanted to live forever
The same is you will too
I wanted to live forever
And everybody knew
When I caught you there
In tomorrows mirror
I thought felt you
Jump out of my skin
Throwing oil into
My blazing memories
Filling empty footsteps
I was standing in
I wanted to live forever
The same as you will too
I wanted to live forever
And everybody knew
As the falling rain
Of the northern jungle
Hanging droplets on the leaves
Bombards my brain
I hear you
Across the room
A sea of daffodils spring into bloom
You are the mist
The frost across my window pane
And again
She moves her body
And her whispers weave
And the world spins
And tells me that I'll never want to leave
As I think of you
From this dark century
I will always be
With generosity
That we both may share
The hope in hearing
That we're not just
Spirits disappearing

[@dear-pixel-heart]

Amazing Anathema lead me here... had no idea this was an original of Roy Harper, so beautiful :')

[@Aenigmakil]

Same! Though I did know it was a cover. Have you listened to Duncan Patterson's post-Anathema works?

[@Richardclarke64]

Saw him live in Birmingham in the 80s - true genius!

[@ge2623]

Saw him at The Abbey Pub in Chicago with about 15 other people. Amazing.

[@davidarayam]

Thanks anathema i knew roy harper

[@smithpm81]

one of his very best

[@lgreen2475]

It's such a beautiful song. Words can't adequately express .

[@Aenigmakil]

Anathema took me to this place. Very nice ❤️

[@user-sd8sm5ye7u]

Bought the album as import the most expensive album I ever bought.. Jimmy and Dave and the king of spliffs Roy

[@captaincrash9286]

Mostly Roy, with Jimmy on guitar. Dave contributed one tune.

[@ge2623]

Worth every cent.

[@BadringerGronger]

Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd crossover didn’t expect that!

[@lgreen2475]

It's excellent to hear it.

[@BadringerGronger]

@lindsaygreen1723 Yeah coincidentally I’m making a full album vid of this album, mostly because I’m making a big huge Led Zeppelin playlist with music, interviews, movies, and the bands history.

[@lgreen2475]

@@BadringerGronger this album came into my life in 1988 - 89. It had a profound effect on me. I was 14 years and I still listen to this day.

[@BadringerGronger]

@@lgreen2475 I didn’t listen to Led Zeppelin until late 2022, because I wasn’t a music fan until on that time, now I’m doing a project where I’m making 100 playlists of 100 different artists careers.

[@ge2623]

Pete Townshend's White City first.

[@apparentesistenza]

David Gilmour ha composto la musica della terza traccia, "Hope", mentre Harper ha scritto il testo, e Nick Harper (il figlio allora sedicenne), ha suonato la chitarra solista in questo brano. Una versione suonata con ritmo più veloce e liriche differenti, compare con il titolo di "White City Fighting" nell'album White City: A Novel di Pete Townshend. Una cover di "Hope", con "Bad Speech" come introduzione, è presente nell'album Eternity del gruppo metal Anathema. (wikipedia)

[@billvrabel1502]

I'm raised on the Anathema version but the original is also amazing and Anathema did a really great cover. I just heard the Townshend version and eeks!

[@alvinlee2968]

the guitar intro is the same but the songs are entirely different. Eeks. I kinda feel like you pulled this comment out of your chute.

[@makeitthrough_]

White City Fighting is a way better use of the riff, sorry not sorry. I love Roy but White City is a killer album

[@inthroughtheoutdoor8621]

I was first introduced to the music and poetry of Roy Harper almost 44 years ago. His writing, singing and guitar playing has always invoked in my imagination a journey, story or biography. A great commentator, humanist, both highly political and spiritual, he will continue to influence my world view and hope for the future.

[@lgreen2475]

I was 14 when I heard this album . That's was the early 80s. Its had such an impact on my youth.It's been burned onto my soul .

[@earthbeat15]

First listened to this when subletting a mansion in Surrey in the mid 1980s, I remember looking out of the wall of French doors across the grounds, absolutely superb, 1 year later I was living on the streets of London, times change this song is timeless, go and see the ice age exhibition at the British museum , sorts of puts things in perspective .outstanding song , cheers

[@Singingsnow1]

Roy Harper is a genius...I've loved his music since the early '70's. Thanks for this video since the first great video of this song has been removed!

[@brooke196]

This album is so powerful.

[@justjoan47]

What more could I want? Roy's lyrics his unbelievable voice and not forgetting Jimmy's guitar. Absolute heaven..

[@warrenvarker]

Pete Townsend's "White City Fighting" originated as a tune written by David Gilmour for his 2nd solo album About Face. He asked Townshend to supply lyrics, but he couldn't relate to them, so Townshend recorded the song instead, with Gilmour playing guitar. Gilmour also sent the same tune to Roy Harper, whose lyrics had the same effect on him. Harper used the result, "Hope", which has a markedly slower tempo.

[@KierRobins]

And this one is clearly better.

[@yemreozturk]

A flood of tears bonding my soul with my mind A dream of love, reality closing in behind As i close my eyes, the vision dies As i bid my last farewell to mankind

[@Thermidor007]

Just ... beautiful ...makes me not want to leave either.

[@GavinSteiner]

Most people don't realize that this song was given to both Harper and Pete Townshend to write Lyrics at the same time, and Pete came up with "White City Fighting". Gilmour didn't use either because he couldn't relate to either set of lyrics - and we ended up with two great songs written once by three great musicians!

[@entwistlefromthewho]

Pete Townshend did a better job IMO.

[@ge2623]

Next your going to tell us "Louie, Louie" has been done before?

[@jeffreygorey5540]

@@entwistlefromthewho I agree.

[@Okkvltify]

With all due respect to Gilmore - how could he not relate to these brilliant Lyrics... I guess we can say he had a "d'oh" moment.

[@Coonetta]

Depends on how high you are lol.

[@leostone4624]

That guitar riff is so powerful.

[@gwyndrasterry5305]

perfection !!! Nowt wrong with this man !!!!xx

[@slachetnostaduch]

i heard this song from anathema first and i didnt know about this for years. when i heard it, what the hell, i have to admit it, anathema are great but you have to give the credit to the right person. This version is in a simple way so...pure! its excellent! I will stick to anathema's version but, damn, it will never be the same after this...

[@ge2623]

Lest us forget that bass middle 8.

[@BrandonNevermind]

Looking back at you from this century...

[@gabrielrodarte000]

Beautiful song. Tnx Anathema

[@utubes4u]

What a powerfull song

[@sarpelecupene]

just wow !!!! great song unbelievable

[@Neueregel]

both versions are good. So, don't fight which is the best..

[@markgriffiths8118]

A meaningful connection with true words open up people and awake

[@marcosmillerilustrator]

Today is Earth Day (april 22) and I remembered that song. However, I first knew the version of Anathema.

[@helenbaldwin5708]

A Tune that stays with Ya!

[@KonstantinosKappa]

David Gilmour...gave the light to this.. it s just awsome!

[@resurgamresponses6214]

спасибо за оригинал, искал по cover version Anathema

[@electronicblack]

Conoci este tema gracias al cover de Anathema.... :D Gran CANCION....

[@Deborachieregatto]

Great song

[@bambihernandez4387]

I used to have this record but loaned it to a fried, and of course never got it back! I thought it had a pink cover...but point being that I loved this record! so thanks so much for sharing this rare and precious time capsule of pure poetical music...we're not just spirits disappearing.

[@bambihernandez4387]

ah, that is supposed to be "loaned to a friend", not fried! ;-)

[@234cheech]

it was an orange colour kinda not the colour on the avitar

[@mould75]

It must be always be with generosity

[@INgibitorify]

Yes.

[@frenkiebeats]

wow. I only knew the anathema version. which is already hauntingly beautiful. this is awesomee

[@joshcheck7532]

I wanted to live forever...

[@ge2623]

And everybody knew.

[@AdhamMGhaly]

Wonderful lyrics

[@resurgamresponses6214]

великолепная песня

[@TINGVELL]

this is the best version

[@guy3619670]

beautiful

[@NaturReise]

great song, very progressive

[@mthomas1973]

Page's lead guitar accents and fills are unmistakably him.

[@oblivion4lcf]

David Gilmour has provided and composed the guitars for this song! It was meant to go on his album "about face" and Gilmour asked Harper to provide the lyrics,but then he found they did not express him so Harper used this song on "Jugula" with gilmour playing the guitars!

[@BjrnOlavLeraand]

Thanos_Lcf Wrong Gilmour didn't provide any guitars at all for this track, he is merely the architect of the song but doesn't play on it. Quote Wikipedia: "Harper used the result, "Hope", which has a markedly slower tempo, on this album, with his son Nick Harper (16 years old at the time), playing the lead guitar (not Gilmour as is often mistakenly stated)."

[@leostone4624]

The guitar tone and overall sound sounds like page but ive never heard him saying wether he played on it or not.

[@deadringer28]

@@BjrnOlavLeraand I am holding the vinyl for this album in my hands as I type this. Jimmy Page and Roy are the only people credited with playing guitar on any of the tracks. So it is possible that Nick harper played on a version of this song somewhere but it wasn't on this one. I also agree with you 100% that Gilmore is not on this at all and merely credited with writing the song and not at all playing on it.

[@lellosoundchaser]

@@oblivion4lcf no he didn't play any guitars

[@apparentesistenza]

già :) ha collaborato anche con i Pink Floyd e lo stesso Gilmour ha partecipato alla realizzazione di diverse altre sue canzoni. I Led Zeppelin gli hanno dedicato una canzone (Hats off to Roy Harper). E' ingiustamente troppo poco conosciuto secondo me...è uno dei miei artisti preferiti.

[@utubes4u]

Great track

[@crystaliia]

I prefer the background music in the original ,but how I wish the vocals where done by anathema

[@DarkeningSkies1]

It is Jimmy playing. Gilmour wrote the music. Both Roy Harper & Pete Townshend used it for two completely different songs. Gilmour played on the Townshend album, Page on this one. Got it? ;)

[@alvinlee2968]

also Nick Harper, at age 16 played guitar on "Hope"

[@ge2623]

Pete's "White City" NICE.

[@mindrewinder]

enjoy this so much

[@maximilianotorres6851]

esta cancion por anathema, viena por celestial season y lay lady lay por ministry, superaron a sus versiones originales.

[@vinniplzak5549]

That's the White City riff? Did Pete Thompson lift it?

[@stewpot6998]

It's the same song. Even the bridge. It's different lyrics, tempo and production, but it was written by David Gilmour (he played on White City) and was used on two albums. Good catch. Two of know now.😂

[@mint525]

He has a point. Directing to us all to?

[@nanette20011]

@pigsontherun For more information, look at the site from RIZLA sigaret paper I think only to get in the Netherlands. Other numbers Roy did with Jimmy, David Gilmore was not on this album, and you're right, Roy sung at the pink-floyd album "Wish you were Here" have a sigar......

[@nanette20011]

@pigsontherun Yes he did, but the song "HOPE" is Roy, and his son played that background guitar. He came in an old citroën DS with a france jong girlfriend to vissit his son in Malbourough, Forrest Hill Lodge, which was my sisers, his son lived there, and I was there at the right moment.

[@TheTilly65]

@vampiroangelico Indeed it is. You should listen to his son. He is a genius.

[@douglasanderson8636]

Some riff, Jim

[@deoccultist]

I love Anathema, but I actually enjoy this version more.

[@konnykruka]

Gilmour played on this record, but not on this song. Harper sings on Have a cigar on Wish you were here.

[@234cheech]

he co wrote it mate anfd a few others short and sweet stuff from berliners

[@kurtizzyflush]

@SuperBeanson Definitely has the Hangman hanging at the end.

[@DarkeningSkies1]

I'll take your word for it, man. According to the liner notes on the CD I have, Nick plays some acoustic guitar on it, not the electric parts (which would include the lead part).

[@teacharm1446]

pink floyd should cover this one !

[@martinmorrison1669]

Why?

[@helenmcgarvey65]

Martin Morrison because it's brilliant

[@leemathewson1785]

AY media it was produced by gilmour .

[@234cheech]

@@leemathewson1785 yep

[@ZandrichMynhardt]

No.

[@vampiroangelico]

Roy Harper is the singer in "Have a cigar", right? Roy Harper canta nel pezzo "Have a cigar", giusto?

[@lgreen2475]

Yes. He is.

[@manderson143]

Who does the guitar loop? Nick or Jimmy? Not clear at all so far.

[@stersnevet77]

@YesOuiSi Also the lyrics "the daffodils spring into bloom..." is the same melody/riff of the bass solo on Townsends White City. I discovered this many years ago and played for my friends and they said "well, maybe it's the same..." I just shook my head in disappointment. Non-musicians...

[@Oscar301]

Is it the implication of the album artwork that many joints were smoked in the making thereof??

[@DrDoomTheOptimist]

spot of history, Nick actually recorded the electric guitars on Hope apparently as opposed to David Gilmour or Page.

[@nadacaren3270]

David Gilmour on guitar...…and some of the credits....l

[@bwjc89]

Jimmy doesn't play lead in this! Roy's son Nick does He was 16 at the time..

[@Neueregel]

Anathema was the most suitable band to cover this song. (and not some other random Indie idiots!)

[@herp_derp]

I would agree if Anathema's singer didn't sound like he had a flu all the time.

[@Neueregel]

Herp Derp too much rain in UK, so u get the flu more often

[@herp_derp]

***** Naturally most bands did and I am speaking of this one. Well that's your opinion, he sounds both nasal and throaty to me and to the other acquaintances that share my listening to the band.

[@diy-remont]

​​@@herp_derpnasal? lol, where? throaty maybe, hoarse yes, but not nasal. by the way Harper here had a huge nasal tones.

[@nanette20011]

Yes Jimmy played on some songs, not hope.....

[@nanette20011]

@pigsontherun You're completely wrong. Before this album came out I was with Roy in Forest Hill Lodge, played carts smoked and he took his guitar and played this song he wrote. The guitar you here is played by his son. I'm from the Netherlands, there we use shag to smoke with paper. His cover for the album is original a packet of RIZLA+ paper to make sigarets from, his idear, my packet of sigaret paper......

[@yesouisi2500]

The guitar track on this song is the exact same track used on Pete Townshend's song "White City Fighting" .... It is the exact same tape of guitar; not just the same notes played on two different recordings...The Same Recording for the guitar track.. Just an interesting fact.

[@coluro]

Alla chitarra c'è Gilmour

[@LightningSix]

The Anathema version is far superior.

[@gabrielsantamarina2473]

Your opinion and remarkable work is far superior.

[@EnosEverything]

nonsense... Roy Harper is God.

[@richardmiller3998]

Pure masterclass from Mssrs Harper and Page

[@stevendunn528]

No its not

[@draganpastrovic2157]

Far superior to your perception only.

[@ThePhobos100]

I think Anathema did a better version.

[@lemoth]

I don't want to diminish Anathema's achievements but... it seems to me (well, you know I am a great fan of this band) that they are great in performing covers ... my respect for this band after watching this video has slightly dropped down :/ Great song and this version is ... perfect!!!

[@diy-remont]

hope that after 13 years you realise what a stupid text you wrote.

[@BKG20110627]

It is so sad to hear how Pete Townshend stole this tune for his "White City" album... or was it the other way around?

[@hunsler1006]

+Valea Neagră Neither, Dave Gilmore wrote the tune then gave it to both of them to write their own songs with.

[@BKG20110627]

Thank you for your answer.

[@234cheech]

no one stole anything with that bunch thare all good freinds

[@lgreen2475]

No way was anathema better than this. Good, aye but not great. There. I said it.

[@PUZZOLAX]

Page's Les Paul sucks on this song, it's obviously a gilmourish song, it needs a light and bright sound. What about using a stratocaster?

[@user-mz6cq5ju4d]

묘하게 거슬리는 지미 페이지의 기타 리듬.

[@user-mz6cq5ju4d]

생각보다 별로네..

[@davidarayam]

Thanks anathema i knew roy harper