Level 42 - Turn It On (2000) by Level 42 (보컬) on maniadb.com

Our dad
would send us to our room
he'd be the voice of doom
he said that we would thank him later
all day
he was solid as a rock
but by eight o'clock
we'd be crumbling
one night
my brother Joe and me
climbed down the family tree
that grew outside our bedroom window
we ran
though we knew it couldn't last
running from the past
from things that we were born to be

Looking back it's so bizarre
it runs in the family
all the things we are
on the backseat of the car
with Joseph and Emily
we only see so far
- and we all have our daddy's eyes
looking back it's so bizarre

Dad rang
the officer in charge
a man so large
he barely fit his circumstances
he said
two kids out on the street
were picked up on the beat
and in the station
so there's me
with Emily and Joe
daddy driving home
all heading in the same direction
he knew
no matter what the breaks
we'd make the same mistakes
couldn't take his eyes of Joe and me

Looking back it's so bizarre
it runs in the family
all the things we are
on the backseat of the car
with Joseph and Emily
we only see so far
- and we all have our daddy's eyes
looking back it's so bizarre
it runs in the family
all the things we are
looking back it's so bizarre

Like a dream within a dream
we're all somewhere in between
like a drummer plays his drum
like a father like a son
- and your gonna have to face the music
- face the music

Hey hey
we keep it running in the family
hey hey
we keep it coming in the family
hey hey
we keep on running in the family
hey hey
we keep on coming in the family

Looking back it's so bizarre
it runs in the family
all the things we are
on the backseat of the car
with Joseph and Emily
we only see so far
- 'cause we all have our daddy's eyes
take me back into your arms
it's no longer a mystery
no cause for alarm
could have never come this far
with no sense of history
it always leaves a scar
- and we all have our daddy's eyes
looking back it's so bizarre, oh yeah
running in the family
running in the family
and we all have our daddy's eyes
looking back it's so bizarre

Take a journey back in time
Leave the western world behind
Cross the mountains to Peking
Where the paper laterns gently swing

The Chinese way
Who knows what they know
The Chinese legend grows

My eyes wide open
I feel a breeze
Words softly spoken
In Cantonese

Standing at the master's side
The with patience he confides
Secret knowledge - sacred ways
Paerls of wisdom from the dragon days

I could never lie
For honour I would lie
Following the Chinese way

So many years ago hero's ruled the world
(Some died for love in a cruel world)
They were the only ones in a cruel world

I could never lie
For honour I would lie
Following the Chinese way

From the mountains to Peking
Where the paper laterns gently swing

The Chinese way
Who knows what they know
The Chinese legend grows

I'm going nowhere
Gotta face up to it
Gotta wake up to it
I feel so guilty
Killing time is a sin
A dam burst of dreams flows thru' me
They show me where I could be
Flash point feelings flow
Thru' my mind moving

When my friends tell me
You just can't connect
You ain't got no respect
They tell me nothing
'Cos I know about that
Yes I know about that
I'm not gonna take what people say
Don't feel that I belong today
Sense of freedom and
Sense of pride

From the mountains to the sea
I'll run across this land
Looking out for strength and beauty
A diamond in the sand
And I will chase the four winds over
Trying to understand
And I won't stop until I'm holding
Heaven in my hands

I won't let nobody
Turn me off the track
Now there's no turning back
Won't let no worries
Turn my inside down
Now there's no room for doubt
I'm heading for my destiny
And it feels electric to me
Flash point feelings flow
Thru' my mind

I was lonely going nowhere
Drowning on dry land
I was almost stranded there a
Shipwreck on the sand
But now I'll chase the whole world over
Making my demands
And I won't stop until I'm holding
Heaven in my hands

From the mountains to the sea
I'll run across this land
Looking out for strength and beauty
A diamond in the sand
And I will chase the four winds over
Trying to understand
And I won't stop until I'm holding
Heaven in my hands
I was lonely going nowhere
Drowning on dry land
I was almost stranded there a
Shipwreck on the sand
But now I'll chase the whole world over
Making my demands
And I won't stop until I'm holding
Heaven in my hands

(Repeat

Life is a game where nothing is real - only you, only me
Right from the start we chase an ideal - fooling you, fooling me
Are you hearing what I hear
Are you feeling what I feel
You'r still no. 1 but they're coming up to get you
Young eyes burning bright they can see a better way
You won't sleep tonight but that's the price you pay
Out of the past the words to a song - calling you, calling me
Hope it will last but time pushes on - pullling you, pulling me
Are you hearing what I hear
Are you feeling what I feel
Every dream you had like balloons they burst around you
so you're on the phone trying to conjure up your past
But the damage has been done
We're too far apart and strangers we've become
And I wonder if it's true
Is the world a different place for me and you
Are you hearing what I hear
Are you feeling what I feel
In out hearts we're still the same
But the worlds we chose to live
In may have changed
And the damage has been done we trust no-one
We're too far apart and strangers we've become

I keep to myself
what I might share with others
but they don't seem to understand
I open my mouth
to rediscover
that I don't have the words at my command
holding out
for a world so much better
but I'm a stranger in a stranger's land
all my friends have sold out
couldn't handle the pressure
counting their blessings trying to salvage what they can

Children say - children say
we open our minds as one
but one more day slips away
why don't the dreams of the young never come to be

When I overhear
my parents conversations
well I'm struck by the things they say
it seems they traded the years
for mere complications
who ever thought it could end this way
they close the door
but they can't lock it
'cause something of their childhood remains
and they've felt it before
when the man in their pocket
counted the cost of their material gains

Children say come what may
be strong for the friends you've known
but one fine day far away
will we remember the love we used to own
Children say - children say
we open our minds as one
as one more day slips away
why don't the dreams of the young never come to be

Well you knew what I was saying
but did you know what it meant
when you saw that look in my eye
did you know it was heaven sent
was it all a waking dream
all that time we must have spent
well I guess it must have been
somehow that feeling came and went

Children say come what may
be strong for the friends you've known
but one fine day far away
will we remember the love we used to own
Children say - children say
we open our minds as one
as one more day slips away
why don't the dreams of the young never come to be

And our children say

Hear children say

I was living in a daydream
Letting time of day pass by
I didn't know what I was missing
Until you came into my life
When I saw you pretty girl
I felt a glowing inside
When I kissed you pretty girl
I felt you light up my life Oh I'm flying up on the wings of love
And I know that you come from him above
Holding hands we walk together
Nothing's gonna make us part
That our love will last forever
Is the song that's in our heart
Making love is oh so sweet
We're locked in each other's arms
And our bodies feel this heat
That's the answer to love
(

)
Now I'm living in a love dream
Time and days are passing by
Now I really know how love feels
Can't help smiling all the time
When you're with me pretty girl
I feel your warmth by my side
When you touch me pretty girl
Dreams of joy I can't hide

I leave as I enter, another boy caught in-between
Now all I can muster are whispers to your screams
Don't you remember how you eased my disgrace?
Don't you remember the love you saw in my face?

Perfected in silence
A physical presence

I sought affection, but now I realize
A cold rejection, the movement in your eyes
But I can rememeber when you shook against me
I can remember when I saw what love could be

Perfected in silence
A physical presence

Ain't what she did, it's the way that she did it
When I couldn't give, only she could forgive it
Ain't what she did, it's the way that she did it
As long as I live, it's for me to relive it...
... silence ...

Part of the answer is that there's really no escape
Part of the answer is that life can have such perfect shape
Don't you remember all the nights you shared in my disgrace?
Don't you remember that the love that filled this empty space
was...

... perfected in silence?
A physical presence
Perfected in silence
A physical presence

Reaching to another day
And the world is just one step away
Making money, aiming blind
It's time to change - leave it all behind
Turn it on - whenever you can
Turn it on - you know that you can
Hear the echo's in you heart
turn your mind in - then - make a start
Anything you want to be
Will soon become reality - then you'll see
Turn it on - whenever you can
Turn it on - you know that you can
You're out of touch - so turn it on
You don't need much - to burn it on
Take a different point of view
And discover just what you can do
Getting closer every day
Now the world is just a step away - (dont'delay)
Turn it on - whenever you can
Turn it on - you know that you can
You hit the top - so turn it on
You'll never stop - just burn it on
Turn it on (turn it on) - whenever you can
Turn it on (groovin'on) - you know that you can
Turn it on (turn it on, yeah) - whenever you can
Turn it on (just movin'on) - you know that you can
Turn it on
Turn it on
Turn it on
Turn it on

Summer nights making love
Together we're as one is love's light
We have found our way through another day
So tonight we'll stay
Drunk on the sweet wine
Heaven yours and mine
Love meeting love sweet lady
Take my soul
Keep it in its place through the night
Hold me in your arms and take me in
And we'll start again
To look into the fire
Sipping our desire
Love meeting love yeah yeah
Then floating lost in love
Your body soft and warm next to mine
Time is standing still for you and me
So silently talking with our eyes
Knowing no goodbyes
Love meeting love yeah yeah

stuck inside my harvard box
behind the door the bauhaus locked
I'm wrestling with a new ideal
I'm working out the way I feel
I just came back from Cultureburg
where I tried to learn the painted word
people there were so convinced
it's kept me thinking ever since

crazy, but true
I want to believe like you

"come with me", the teacher said
"no side-to-side, look straight ahead
'cause if you want true confidence
you'd best forget your common sense.
go find yourself a point of view
and if you need some help to choose
just dance the dance named after me
if you believe then you will see"

crazy, but true
now I believe in you

there was a time
when we could make head nor tail of the story
now it's sublime
and we're not afraid anymore
'cause we're all

true believers

solo.

so tell me it's true
I want to believe in you
crazy, but true
I want to believe in you

blind faith makes such strange demands
sometimes a think I'll never understand
answers on a postcard, please
I'd like to know what you believe

true believers ...

are you
a true believer

(I wanna believe in you)

Sold in silence
I never thought I could ever fall so deep
now I need to know how you feel
and with a kiss
I steal the silence from your lips
hearts colliding
making waves that will echo through the years
never thought I would find a love so real
and I know this
I want the life that love can give
now I know what it means

a love so rare
in years of wasted promises
a love to care
only love can make some sense of it
a love affair
and though it's only just begun
a love to share
when two hearts collide and beat as one
now I know you care

and I'll provide you
with a dream that will never disappear
with the words that I know you want to hear
without end
I've found a love I will defend
now you know what I mean

(repeat Chorus)

The time has come for dreaming
Don't feel tired but I feel a need to sleep
'cause my life takes on new meaning
When I close my eyes and you reveal yourself to me
That's our time, time for changes
A time for reason, something only you can see
All my life I have waited
For a chance to give the love only you demand of me

Fame and success are poor relations
The more I get, the less I need it
Happiness is an unknown sensation
My heart has a hunger and only you can feed it.

Come on - in my dreams tonight
Show me - where to start
Come on - I need to shed some light
I wanna sleep on my heart

In the past, for protection
When someone got too close
Yet another bridge would burn
But I can find no connection
Between the love that you propose
And the lessons that I've learned

I want to hear your explanation
You'll never know how much I need it
I want my tears to bear your reflection
'cause my heart has a hunger and only you can feed it.

Come on - in my dreams tonight
Show me - where to start
Come on - I need to shed some light
I wanna sleep on my heart

I'm sitting here surrounded by possessions
Objects that confront me night and day
The fruits of my material obsession
But it seems the more I earn, the more I have to pay

Yoy've made it clear that blind ambition
Leads nowhere and I don't need it
I've lost all my fear, all my inhibitions
My heart has a hunger, but I know you can feed it

Come on - in my dreams tonight
Show me - where to start
Come on - I need to shed some light
I wanna sleep on my heart

You're a rich girl we all know
daddy runs an airline,
mummy's eye is on the dough
and the butlers' on the bread-line

You're so bright you glide through school
brains run in the family
You've been taught the "how do you do"
and all your men are manly

I'm just a boy, not what you're used to

That is why I can't walk you home
that is why I can't walk you home
that is why I can't walk you home
that is why (Why) I can't walk you home

I don't want to run you down
I don't mind the money
but last time when you asked me round
you said I was funny

Pulling strings and pony tails
just to get to know me
The only time you'll ever fail
is when you try to own me

I'm not a toy, I'm no use to you

That is why I can't walk you home
that is why I can't walk you home
that is why I can't walk you home
that is why (Why) I can't walk you home

[Mike Solo]

I'm just a boy not what you're used to

That is why I can't walk you home
that is why I can't walk you home
that is why I can't walk you home
that is why (Why) I can't walk you home

on the border
there's disorder
now they've gone too far
wait for the coup d'etat
fragmentation
we don't know who we are
wait for the coup d'etat

no choice
look what we've become
world peace
at the point of a gun
the voice
that calls everyone
says fight
for a place in the sun

proud man's daughter
came through slaughter
but she still bears the scars
wait for the coup d'etat
declaration
'cross the nation
hailed as a rising star
wait for the coup d'etat

too late
to make any plans
the state
has met her demands
we wait
for the blood on her hands to dry

on the border
there's disorder
proud mans' daughter
came through slaughter

Are you ready?
(Yeah yeah)
Are you ready to rock?
(Yeah yeah)
Do you wanna do it?
(Yeah yeah)
Get down on it?
(Yeah yeah)

Marching clock now he don't stop,
Seen it quite a lot
And he says take care of yourself,
Old man sighs, shuts his eyes
And leaves behind another life
Take care of yourself,
Millstones swing, 'grind your thing'
Pay the tax and alimony.
Take care of yourself,
Raise that boy, he'll go far
'Cos he had a real good teacher.
Take care of yourself

Truth don't go, don't go far
Sell a lie to any paper.
Take care of yourself.
Sleep too deep, zombie sleep,
and all alone it has to be.
Take care of yourself.

Peace of mind is hard to find
But he don't mind like you don't mind y'all
Big t don't care that you don't mind
No she don't care and you don't matter
One nine nine Oh here we go
May the next ten break the mould
Take care of yourself
Mister good's gone away
Looking out for number one says
take care of yourself

Did she say where you'd have to stay
When the party's over?
Can you face the longest march to come
Now you know you're not the number one?

Yeah yeah
(Feel all right?)
Yeah yeah
(You know its 'packing in' your mind?)
Yeah yeah
(But the hero says)
Yeah yeah
(I get blind anyway)
Yeah yeah
(Doesn't matter to me)
Yeah yeah
(Whatever you say)
Yeah yeah
(I got more than yesterday)
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah

As I watch your face
I can see my life go by
You mean everyhing to me
Just can't take no more
Throw a smile my way
And the pain I feel inside
Turns to love for you
And I'm yours
Do lovers ever need to hide
The things they really fell inside
I simply need you yo need me
Can't you see
Once I hoped to be
Your lover and your friend
It just can't go on
Your love games
Your love games
Do lovers ever need to hide
The things they really feel inside
If you won't show your heart to me
Set me free
Now the time has come
To show you how I feel
The love I gave to you
I can't give no more
Even now I see
The salt tears n your eyes
But it can't go on
Your love games