Cream

Songwriter: Jack Bruce Peter Brown (UK)

Producer: Robert Stigwood

Wrapping paper in the gutter
Moving slowly as the wind on the sea
(Faces calling, waves moving)
In your picture on a wall of a house of old times
(Can you hear me?) Can you hear me
(Can you hear me?) Wandering sadly?

In the city, feeling pretty
Down and out and making love to you on the shore
(Ruined buildings, faces empty)
In the picture as I gaze ahead and don't see
(That they're calling) that they're calling
(That they're calling) wandering sadly

Shattered windows, stairs to nowhere
(Hear you calling) hear you calling
(Hear you calling) as I wander so sadly

Wish I knew what you'd done to me
Turned me on to things I never knew
It's all broken; weeds are growing
Wish I was going home to the house by the shore
(Where you loved me) where you loved me
(Where you loved me) and loved me so sadly

Someday I'll get back; somehow, I'll do it
I'll arrive there, and you'll be there to meet me
(Walk together; tread the weeds down)
Kiss again in the picture on the wall
(Where I loved you) in the old house
(Where I loved you) loved you so well

The members of this power trio, formed in the autumn of 1966, were all veterans of the blues revival. Guitarist Eric Clapton was the same prodigy who revealed himself with the Yardbirds, and who had contributed to the legendary recording of Bluesbreakers with John Mayall. Drummer Peter “Ginger” Baker, skilled at many forms of percussion, had already played, in 1960, with the Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti, and in 1962 with Alexis Korner and the Graham Bond Organisation. Scottish bassist Jack Bruce had traveled some of the same roads as Baker, before joining Manfred Mann. Bruce and Clapton had met each other in the Powerhouse, a short-lived lineup put together by John Mayall, that also included Steve Winwood at the keyboard. With Cream these three virtuosos simply brought to fruition the experience that they developed in the London clubs, bringing to the rock concert stage long, electric, high volume improvisations.

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