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The lights went out (The last fuse blew).
The clocks all stopped (It can't be true). The program's wrong (What can we do?). The printout's blocked (It relied on you). The turbine cracked up. The buildings froze up. The system choked up. What can we do? Please remember to mention me, In tapes you leave behind. Chorus : We stood still. We all stood still. Still stood still. We're standing still. The screen shut down (There's no reply). The lifts all fall (A siren cries). And the radar fades (A pilot sighs). As the countdowns stall (The readout lies). The turbines cracked up. The buildings froze up. The system choked up. What can we do? Please remember to mention me, In tapes you leave behind. (Chorus) The black box failed (The codes got crossed). And the jails decayed (The keys got lost). Everyone kissed (We breathe exhaust). In the new arcade (Of the holocaust). The turbine cracked up. The buildings froze up. The system choked up. What can we do? Plese remember to mention me, In tapes you might leave behind. (Chorus - Repeat 2 times). |
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I found the perfect picture, of a perfect stranger.
It looked as if, it were taken in the forties sometime, Judging by the style. He could be a killer or a blind man with a cane, Perhaps he died in a car crash, years ago. Right now, it's impossible to tell. I almost thought I saw him, standing, whistling on a bridge. I asked him the time, but when he turned around, I saw it wasn't him at all. I'm still searching. I'm still searching. I saw him in an airport, while he was sitting on a wing. And I waved to him, but I don't think he noticed me. I've got a funny feeling I know who he is. Mr. X (Repeat 14 times and fade) |
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In a quiet street washed by the rain, the room within the home.
A lonely man sits cheek to cheek, with unique designs in chrome. The mellow years have long gone by, but now he sits alone. He has a brand new radio, but never turns it on. Chorus: New Europeans. Young Europeans. New Europeans. A photograph of lovers lost, lies pressed in magazines. Her eyes belong to a thousand girls, she's the wife who's never seen. Their educated son has left, in search of borrowed dreams. His television's in his bed, he's frozen to the screen. (Chorus) On a crowded beach washed by the sun, he puts his headphones on. His modern world revolves around the synthesizer's song. Full of future thoughts and thrills, his senses slip away. He's a European legacy, a culture for today. (Chorus) Young Europeans. |
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We were so young, we were too vain.
Dance in the dark, sing in the rain. Time on our hands, hope in our hearts. Chorus: We were talking, passing strangers. Moments caught across an empty room. Wasted whispers, faded secrets. Quickly passes, time goes, time goes by too soon. We stood alone, silent and proud. Moments unknown, lost in a crowd. Running through memories like thieves in the night. Clutching emotions, holding too tight. Hold turns to dust, shattered by light. (Repeat chorus 3 times and fade) |
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All the boys are wearing blue tonight.
We'll thrive, we'll dive, how can we lose? All the strangers walk like you tonight. So tall, we fall for every move. We'll laugh and talk, Don't stop for breath, In these our private lives. We dance 'til dawn, As they beat the drums, For all our private lives. Close your eyes and use the melody, Who cares who stares under the light? See the shadow tailing me again, It shows, it glows, and it grabbed so bright. |
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Sleepwalk. (Repeat 3 times)
Rolling and falling, I'm choking and calling, Name after name after name. Sleepwalk. (Repeat 3 times) Naked and bleeding, the streetlights stray by me, Hurting my eyes with their glare. Sleepwalk. (Repeat 3 times) Helplessly breaking, exchanging my faces, Destined, we had to collide. Sleepwalk! Taut on the outside, I'm crumpling and crawling, Watching the day drag away. Spiralling deeper, I can't feel my fingers, Rip round my throat as I dream. Dream! Sleepwalk. (Repeat 12 times and fade) |
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from Ultravox - Vienna (1994)
We walked in the cold air.
Freezing breath on a window pane, Lying and waiting. The man in the dark in a picture frame, So mystic and soulful. A voice reaching out in a piercing cry, It stays with you until The feeling has gone only you and I. It means nothing to me. This means nothing to me. Oh, Vienna. The music is weaving Haunting notes, pizzicato strings, The rhythm is calling. Alone in the night as the daylight brings, A cool empty silence. The warmth of your hand and a cold grey sky, It fades to the distance. The image has gone only you and I. It means nothing to me. This means nothing to me. Oh, Vienna. This means nothing to me. This means nothing to me. Oh, Vienna. |
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from Ultravox - Vienna (1994)
Hai!
Oh mystical East, on old postcards, Your childhood dreams and energies. Your temples' gardens, old world charm, An ancient culture, torn and scarred. This is my Western promise. Oh mystical East, you've lost your way, Your rising sun shall rise again. My Western world gives out her hand, A victor's help to your fallen land. This is my Western promise. Hai! Mystical East, all taxi-cabs, All ultra-neon, sign of the times. Your Buddha Zen and Christian man, All minions to messiah Pepsi can. This is my Western promise. |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
: Dangerous rhythm Dangerous rhythm Dangerous rhythm in the air Stranger to stranger We're both dressed for danger Something is generating here Oh, take off your halo For the all-night inferno Something is happening in the air It's not like anything I've ever known before And I don't care Surging and merging Urgent and urging Soft as a footstep on the stair The red light is on now My gravity's gone and how I can feel something in the air It's not like anything I've ever known before And I don't care ( twice and fade) |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
: Dangerous rhythm Dangerous rhythm Dangerous rhythm in the air Stranger to stranger We're both dressed for danger Something is generating here Oh, take off your halo For the all-night inferno Something is happening in the air It's not like anything I've ever known before And I don't care Surging and merging Urgent and urging Soft as a footstep on the stair The red light is on now My gravity's gone and how I can feel something in the air It's not like anything I've ever known before And I don't care ( twice and fade) |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
I found the bones of all your ghosts
Locked in the wishing well While birdsong gourmets dragged empty nets I slumbered in my shell In mitternacht, die mensch-maschine Kissed me on my eyes I rose and left the fire-ladies Glowing lonely in the night With all the pornographers Burning torches beneath the sea: I want to be a machine I want to be a machine I want to be a machine I want to be a machine I stole a cathode face from newscasts And a crumbling fugue of songs From the reservoir of video souls In the lakes beneath my tongue In flesh of ash and silent movies I walked at boulevards again A nebula of unfinished creatures From the lifetimes of my friends I hope your innocence has depraved me Broadcast me, scrambled clean Or free me from this flesh Let the armchair cannibals take their fill In every cell across wilderness We'll trip such a strangled tango We'll waltz a wonderland affair Let's run to meet the tide tomorrow Leave all emotion dying there In the star cold beyond all of your dreams Ah! |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
I found the bones of all your ghosts
Locked in the wishing well While birdsong gourmets dragged empty nets I slumbered in my shell In mitternacht, die mensch-maschine Kissed me on my eyes I rose and left the fire-ladies Glowing lonely in the night With all the pornographers Burning torches beneath the sea: I want to be a machine I want to be a machine I want to be a machine I want to be a machine I stole a cathode face from newscasts And a crumbling fugue of songs From the reservoir of video souls In the lakes beneath my tongue In flesh of ash and silent movies I walked at boulevards again A nebula of unfinished creatures From the lifetimes of my friends I hope your innocence has depraved me Broadcast me, scrambled clean Or free me from this flesh Let the armchair cannibals take their fill In every cell across wilderness We'll trip such a strangled tango We'll waltz a wonderland affair Let's run to meet the tide tomorrow Leave all emotion dying there In the star cold beyond all of your dreams Ah! |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
Streets I knew were raining, changing
Addresses were rearranging The cold boy from the suburbs he left there He'd read the book of no return And me, I burnt your picture For the ashes of the lords For you had played your games too well As the martyr and the boss: I suppose I chose a good introduction From a formerly trusted friend A good introduction to life at rainbow's end Life at rainbow's end Life at rainbow's end Here I am a millionaire Sown into these dreams I burnt all the maps that lead here So no-one can ever follow me Only lonely parties start At the dark side of this world The gangster with the broken (?) arm Plays deaf cards for the girls I saw the final vicar make confession to a dancer He stood upon the bridge at dawn And the dancer kissed my cancer |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
Streets I knew were raining, changing
Addresses were rearranging The cold boy from the suburbs he left there He'd read the book of no return And me, I burnt your picture For the ashes of the lords For you had played your games too well As the martyr and the boss: I suppose I chose a good introduction From a formerly trusted friend A good introduction to life at rainbow's end Life at rainbow's end Life at rainbow's end Here I am a millionaire Sown into these dreams I burnt all the maps that lead here So no-one can ever follow me Only lonely parties start At the dark side of this world The gangster with the broken (?) arm Plays deaf cards for the girls I saw the final vicar make confession to a dancer He stood upon the bridge at dawn And the dancer kissed my cancer |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
My sex
Waits for me Like a mongrel waits Downwind on a tight rope leash My sex Is a fragile acrobat Sometimes I'm a novocaine shot Sometimes I'm an automat My sex Is often solo Sometimes it short circuits then Sometimes it's a golden glow My sex Is invested in Suburban photographs Skyscraper shadows on a carcrash overpass My sex Is savage, tender It wears no future faces Owns just random gender My sex Has a wanting wardrobe I still explore Of all the bodies I knew and those I want to know My sex Is a spark of electro flesh Leased from the tick of time And geared for synchromesh My sex Is an image lost in faded films A neon outline On a high-rise overspill My sex ( and fade) |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
My sex
Waits for me Like a mongrel waits Downwind on a tight rope leash My sex Is a fragile acrobat Sometimes I'm a novocaine shot Sometimes I'm an automat My sex Is often solo Sometimes it short circuits then Sometimes it's a golden glow My sex Is invested in Suburban photographs Skyscraper shadows on a carcrash overpass My sex Is savage, tender It wears no future faces Owns just random gender My sex Has a wanting wardrobe I still explore Of all the bodies I knew and those I want to know My sex Is a spark of electro flesh Leased from the tick of time And geared for synchromesh My sex Is an image lost in faded films A neon outline On a high-rise overspill My sex ( and fade) |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
My sex
Waits for me Like a mongrel waits Downwind on a tight rope leash My sex Is a fragile acrobat Sometimes I'm a novocaine shot Sometimes I'm an automat My sex Is often solo Sometimes it short circuits then Sometimes it's a golden glow My sex Is invested in Suburban photographs Skyscraper shadows on a carcrash overpass My sex Is savage, tender It wears no future faces Owns just random gender My sex Has a wanting wardrobe I still explore Of all the bodies I knew and those I want to know My sex Is a spark of electro flesh Leased from the tick of time And geared for synchromesh My sex Is an image lost in faded films A neon outline On a high-rise overspill My sex ( and fade) |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
(Right..)
Fat guy jets by, bony in a Zodiac Picking up trouble, maybe looking for a heart attack All-night boys in the Piccadilly Arcade Boozy losers cruising maybe trawling for some rough trade Sat'day night Sat'day night Sat'day night in the City of the Dead Can you feel the time bomb ticking in your head? Too many memories are waiting in your bed Sat'day night in the City of the Dead Stands in the dole queue, face like a statue Laugh like a maniac, walk like a king too Spiked hair, don't care, Oxfam outlaw Rap band rips it out, you're buzzing like a chainsaw High-rise reptile sucking on a cigarette Ripped suit, zip boots, dancing like an insect Tottenham Court Road litter skitters in the wind The city's pretty dead but the nights are still alive Sat'day night Sat'day night Sat'day night Sat'day night in the city of the dead Sat'day night |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
(Right..)
Fat guy jets by, bony in a Zodiac Picking up trouble, maybe looking for a heart attack All-night boys in the Piccadilly Arcade Boozy losers cruising maybe trawling for some rough trade Sat'day night Sat'day night Sat'day night in the City of the Dead Can you feel the time bomb ticking in your head? Too many memories are waiting in your bed Sat'day night in the City of the Dead Stands in the dole queue, face like a statue Laugh like a maniac, walk like a king too Spiked hair, don't care, Oxfam outlaw Rap band rips it out, you're buzzing like a chainsaw High-rise reptile sucking on a cigarette Ripped suit, zip boots, dancing like an insect Tottenham Court Road litter skitters in the wind The city's pretty dead but the nights are still alive Sat'day night Sat'day night Sat'day night Sat'day night in the city of the dead Sat'day night |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
Enter me gently
I break in the light Cover my eyes With the rags of my life Was I dreaming? Or did you say The frontiers are falling It's time to be slipping away Let's slip away Let's slip away All things fall from me The bonds and the veils All things blow by me My sorrows have sails Was I dreaming? Or did you say The empires are fading It's time to be slipping away Let's slip away Let's slip away What am I to do? Don't leave me What is there to say? I really... We're just wasting time Let the night takes its place Colour my eyes With the dusk of this wonderful day Let's slip away Let's slip away Letters from lovers Are lining my grave Some came too early And some came too late Were you speaking? Or did I say The frontiers have fallen It's time to be slipping away As you call me My hands they fall open My mouth it is frozen The stumbles is I'm falling slowmotion Dissolve |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
Enter me gently
I break in the light Cover my eyes With the rags of my life Was I dreaming? Or did you say The frontiers are falling It's time to be slipping away Let's slip away Let's slip away All things fall from me The bonds and the veils All things blow by me My sorrows have sails Was I dreaming? Or did you say The empires are fading It's time to be slipping away Let's slip away Let's slip away What am I to do? Don't leave me What is there to say? I really... We're just wasting time Let the night takes its place Colour my eyes With the dusk of this wonderful day Let's slip away Let's slip away Letters from lovers Are lining my grave Some came too early And some came too late Were you speaking? Or did I say The frontiers have fallen It's time to be slipping away As you call me My hands they fall open My mouth it is frozen The stumbles is I'm falling slowmotion Dissolve |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
Enter me gently
I break in the light Cover my eyes With the rags of my life Was I dreaming? Or did you say The frontiers are falling It's time to be slipping away Let's slip away Let's slip away All things fall from me The bonds and the veils All things blow by me My sorrows have sails Was I dreaming? Or did you say The empires are fading It's time to be slipping away Let's slip away Let's slip away What am I to do? Don't leave me What is there to say? I really... We're just wasting time Let the night takes its place Colour my eyes With the dusk of this wonderful day Let's slip away Let's slip away Letters from lovers Are lining my grave Some came too early And some came too late Were you speaking? Or did I say The frontiers have fallen It's time to be slipping away As you call me My hands they fall open My mouth it is frozen The stumbles is I'm falling slowmotion Dissolve |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
Lonely hunter
Lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter I'm a lonely hunter, a hungry ghost When you call a passion you must pay the host Look upon me as I thunder, I wonder if you wonder How it feels to be the lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter The wind blows clouds across my cheek My collar's up and my coat is sleek Look upon me as I blunder, I wonder if you wonder How it feels to be the lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
Lonely hunter
Lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter I'm a lonely hunter, a hungry ghost When you call a passion you must pay the host Look upon me as I thunder, I wonder if you wonder How it feels to be the lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter The wind blows clouds across my cheek My collar's up and my coat is sleek Look upon me as I blunder, I wonder if you wonder How it feels to be the lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
I took a walk down New York avenue
Wearing my latest disguise Enjoying the perfume of utter dismay I was effectively anaesthetised Starving so arrogantly in jumble-sale clothes Evangeline hires out my throat We've got the streets of London wrapped in our beds Nagasaki in our own coats We're the wide boys Up on the streets Wide boys Ah, go on and meet me Wide boys Delightfully unpleasant With the foxy adolescent Tired of being put down Broken-hearted my life started Tired of being cut down All your illusions disillusioned Wide boys Up on the streets Wide boys Ah, go on and meet me Wide boys Delightfully unpleasant With the foxy adolescent We'll do some music plays the wrong side of nightmare Juke-box models collide The scent on the fire escaping blazing to the sun Embracing the old suicide pride I spent a few lifetimes making spinal connections Down on Einstein Boulevard I've to to walk a tightrope now the rampart is so high I swagger like a neon guitar With the wide boys Up on the streets Wide boys Ah, go on and meet me Wide boys Delightfully unpleasant With the foxy adolescent Wide boys Up on the streets Wide boys Ah, go on and meet me Wide boys Delightfully unpleasant With the foxy adolescent |
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from Ultravox - Ultravox! (2000)
I took a walk down New York avenue
Wearing my latest disguise Enjoying the perfume of utter dismay I was effectively anaesthetised Starving so arrogantly in jumble-sale clothes Evangeline hires out my throat We've got the streets of London wrapped in our beds Nagasaki in our own coats We're the wide boys Up on the streets Wide boys Ah, go on and meet me Wide boys Delightfully unpleasant With the foxy adolescent Tired of being put down Broken-hearted my life started Tired of being cut down All your illusions disillusioned Wide boys Up on the streets Wide boys Ah, go on and meet me Wide boys Delightfully unpleasant With the foxy adolescent We'll do some music plays the wrong side of nightmare Juke-box models collide The scent on the fire escaping blazing to the sun Embracing the old suicide pride I spent a few lifetimes making spinal connections Down on Einstein Boulevard I've to to walk a tightrope now the rampart is so high I swagger like a neon guitar With the wide boys Up on the streets Wide boys Ah, go on and meet me Wide boys Delightfully unpleasant With the foxy adolescent Wide boys Up on the streets Wide boys Ah, go on and meet me Wide boys Delightfully unpleasant With the foxy adolescent |
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from Ultravox - Vienna (2000)
The lights went out (The last fuse blew).
The clocks all stopped (It can't be true). The program's wrong (What can we do?). The printout's blocked (It relied on you). The turbine cracked up. The buildings froze up. The system choked up. What can we do? Please remember to mention me, In tapes you leave behind. Chorus : We stood still. We all stood still. Still stood still. We're standing still. The screen shut down (There's no reply). The lifts all fall (A siren cries). And the radar fades (A pilot sighs). As the countdowns stall (The readout lies). The turbines cracked up. The buildings froze up. The system choked up. What can we do? Please remember to mention me, In tapes you leave behind. (Chorus) The black box failed (The codes got crossed). And the jails decayed (The keys got lost). Everyone kissed (We breathe exhaust). In the new arcade (Of the holocaust). The turbine cracked up. The buildings froze up. The system choked up. What can we do? Plese remember to mention me, In tapes you might leave behind. (Chorus - Repeat 2 times). |
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from Ultravox - Vienna (2000)
I found the perfect picture, of a perfect stranger.
It looked as if, it were taken in the forties sometime, Judging by the style. He could be a killer or a blind man with a cane, Perhaps he died in a car crash, years ago. Right now, it's impossible to tell. I almost thought I saw him, standing, whistling on a bridge. I asked him the time, but when he turned around, I saw it wasn't him at all. I'm still searching. I'm still searching. I saw him in an airport, while he was sitting on a wing. And I waved to him, but I don't think he noticed me. I've got a funny feeling I know who he is. Mr. X (Repeat 14 times and fade) |
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from Ultravox - Vienna (2000)
In a quiet street washed by the rain, the room within the home.
A lonely man sits cheek to cheek, with unique designs in chrome. The mellow years have long gone by, but now he sits alone. He has a brand new radio, but never turns it on. Chorus: New Europeans. Young Europeans. New Europeans. A photograph of lovers lost, lies pressed in magazines. Her eyes belong to a thousand girls, she's the wife who's never seen. Their educated son has left, in search of borrowed dreams. His television's in his bed, he's frozen to the screen. (Chorus) On a crowded beach washed by the sun, he puts his headphones on. His modern world revolves around the synthesizer's song. Full of future thoughts and thrills, his senses slip away. He's a European legacy, a culture for today. (Chorus) Young Europeans. |
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from Ultravox - Vienna (2000)
We were so young, we were too vain.
Dance in the dark, sing in the rain. Time on our hands, hope in our hearts. Chorus: We were talking, passing strangers. Moments caught across an empty room. Wasted whispers, faded secrets. Quickly passes, time goes, time goes by too soon. We stood alone, silent and proud. Moments unknown, lost in a crowd. Running through memories like thieves in the night. Clutching emotions, holding too tight. Hold turns to dust, shattered by light. (Repeat chorus 3 times and fade) |
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from Ultravox - Vienna (2000)
Suddenly you find
Yourself walking for a long time Your back's to the wall But now you must go Painting scenes from magazines Sucking breath from nicotine Standing tall against the crowd we sigh Taking turns on telephones Living lives in other homes Listening for the passionate replies Suddenly we find Ourselves talking for a long time Our voices are low But now you must know Giving all you have to give Taking all you've got to live Plotting all mistakes along the way Find it hard to take it all Reading names on other walls Writing down the words we tried to sing |
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All the boys are wearing blue tonight.
We'll thrive, we'll dive, how can we lose? All the strangers walk like you tonight. So tall, we fall for every move. We'll laugh and talk, Don't stop for breath, In these our private lives. We dance 'til dawn, As they beat the drums, For all our private lives. Close your eyes and use the melody, Who cares who stares under the light? See the shadow tailing me again, It shows, it glows, and it grabbed so bright. |
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Sleepwalk. (Repeat 3 times)
Rolling and falling, I'm choking and calling, Name after name after name. Sleepwalk. (Repeat 3 times) Naked and bleeding, the streetlights stray by me, Hurting my eyes with their glare. Sleepwalk. (Repeat 3 times) Helplessly breaking, exchanging my faces, Destined, we had to collide. Sleepwalk! Taut on the outside, I'm crumpling and crawling, Watching the day drag away. Spiralling deeper, I can't feel my fingers, Rip round my throat as I dream. Dream! Sleepwalk. (Repeat 12 times and fade) |
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from Ultravox - Vienna (2000)
We walked in the cold air.
Freezing breath on a window pane, Lying and waiting. The man in the dark in a picture frame, So mystic and soulful. A voice reaching out in a piercing cry, It stays with you until The feeling has gone only you and I. It means nothing to me. This means nothing to me. Oh, Vienna. The music is weaving Haunting notes, pizzicato strings, The rhythm is calling. Alone in the night as the daylight brings, A cool empty silence. The warmth of your hand and a cold grey sky, It fades to the distance. The image has gone only you and I. It means nothing to me. This means nothing to me. Oh, Vienna. This means nothing to me. This means nothing to me. Oh, Vienna. |
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Move on as we step in time
Strange words from the other line Edging forward, feeling strong Syncopate with the marching song Thoughts and dreams flick across your mind Fade away as you wait for your time to go You're waiting, waiting, waiting Looking back as you head for home Unsure if you walk alone Friends call from an open door Strange voice as you cross the floor Thoughts of home flick across your mind Slip away as you wait for your time to go You're waiting, waiting, waiting |
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from Ultravox - Vienna (2000)
Hai!
Oh mystical East, on old postcards, Your childhood dreams and energies. Your temples' gardens, old world charm, An ancient culture, torn and scarred. This is my Western promise. Oh mystical East, you've lost your way, Your rising sun shall rise again. My Western world gives out her hand, A victor's help to your fallen land. This is my Western promise. Hai! Mystical East, all taxi-cabs, All ultra-neon, sign of the times. Your Buddha Zen and Christian man, All minions to messiah Pepsi can. This is my Western promise. |
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from Ultravox - Systems Of Romance (2000)
I thought I'd take the slide
I thought I'd be alright But when the details swam Oh no, the door got jammed Someone took the hand And we were out slow dancing In the blue light, blue light, uh-huh In the blue light, blue light, uh-huh In the blue light, blue light, uh-huh In the blue light, blue light Blue light, blue light There was a crowd below Swanning in the glow All the paste it shimmered In the swimmer's glimmer It was a sticky summer And I was diving under... The Blue light, blue light, uh-huh In the blue light, blue light, uh-huh In the blue light, blue light, uh-huh In the blue light, blue light Blue light, blue light Well nothing drove out behind me I was so glad Even the walls were turning round Well, someone said There was something wrong But I couldn't quite Put my finger on it What the... Well I thought I heard... And I tried to... Then we were just diving In the blue light, blue light, uh-huh In the blue light, blue light, uh-huh In the blue light, blue light, uh-huh In the blue light, blue light Blue light, blue light |
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from Ultravox - Systems Of Romance (2000)
I can feel the turning of the tidesPulling away the nightLike a sheet from over meIn summer timeI dissolve to a beachAnd everywhere seems to beJust a flicker on a silent screenBecause II can't stay longLet the sky roll onJust a flicker and the crowd moves onIn winterOvercoats close inAnd the snow tastes of tinOn the steps of any stationI'd like to glide in the long green lightOf a July afternoonSliding down a vague conversationBecause II can't stay longWhen the moment comesJust a glance and the glance is goneWatch closelyAs a man with a hatAnd a girl with a mapSynchronise with the trackAnd they go awayI need to drift through all the wallsAnd let the scenery dissolveInto some other lifeBecause II can't stay longLet the sky roll onJust a glance and the glance is goneII can't stay longWhen the right time comesI'll dissolve
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from Ultravox - Systems Of Romance (2000)
Running down an empty street
Perhaps it was a railway station Smell of ??? cologne The sound of a celebration: Oh-oh-oh dislocation Oh-oh-oh dislocation Just a swimmer growing dimmer in the glimmer of a summer Waving gladly, swimming madly, never never going under The sun was going down one quiet evening Someone came into the room while I was half-asleep We spoke for a while, I couldn't see his face Later on when he was gone, I realised I didn't catch his name ( 3 times and fade) Just a swimmer growing dimmer in the glimmer of a summer Waving gladly, swimming madly, never never going under |
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from Ultravox - Systems Of Romance (2000)
Talking in the window as the light fades
I heard my voice break just for a moment Talking by the window as the light fades I felt the floor change into an ocean We'll never leave here, never Let's stay in here forever And when the streets are quiet We'll walk out in the silence Listening to the movement that the night makes I let the room fade just for a moment Sitting in the shadows that the leaves make I felt the floor change into an ocean We'll never leave here, never Let's stay in here forever And when the streets are quiet We'll walk out in the silence Listening to the music the machines make I let my heart break just for a moment Listening to the music the machines make I felt the floor change into an ocean We'll never leave here never Let's stay in here for ever And when the streets are quiet We'll walk out in the silence |
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from Ultravox - Systems Of Romance (2000)
I thought you knew me by now
Let the lights go on roaring Someone's hand on my shoulder Then whip past the turning point There's time for the taking: Maximum acceleration Maximum acceleration Maximum acceleration A face that goes slowly A signal close by me The landscapes are changing And some of us flipped a coin And shimmered away You really were aching It's turning to twilight Moving over and under Then a couple of figures Shook their heads of the high lines |
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from Ultravox - Systems Of Romance (2000)
Waiting, we were waiting
As the traffic moved through all our hearts and our heads But things were different then For the quiet men Shifting, things were shifting Through the walls and hall, there were no walls at all For the quiet friends Of the quiet men Oh, the quiet men Oh, the quiet men Springtime, there was sunshine Through the window panes, down all the English lanes Where they walked again The quiet men Talking, they were talking Of the times to come, and all the time that's gone And they smiled again The quiet men Oh, the quiet men Oh, the quiet men - 연 주 중 - Listening, they were listening As the season changed and all the reasons changed And people came and went By the quiet men Walking, they were walking Through the rainy days, looking at all the faces But no-one ever noticed them The quiet men Oh Oh, the quiet men |
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from Ultravox - Systems Of Romance (2000)
No reply
I'm trying hard to somehow frame a reply Pictures, I've got pictures, and I run them in my head When I can't sleep at night Looking out at the white world and the moon I feel a soft exchange taking place Merging with the people on the brains (?) Whirling my face in conversation Slow motion Slow motion Hush, can you feel the trees so far away? Hush, can you feel the breeze of another day? When we held each other close in the night While we wheeled away in our own light Stepping sideways into our own time Such a simple way Slow motion Slow motion - 간 주 중 - And we held each other close in the night While we wheeled away in our own light And some of us from another time And drifted away Slow motion Slow motion |
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from Ultravox - Systems Of Romance (2000)
Some of them are changing day to day
Some of them flicker then they fade Some of them are triggered off by any crazy thing Some of them are all that's left Some of them are just dead regrets Some of them are shining out through everything I see Some of them Some of them Some of them Some of them are brittle, some are sad Some of them are aching, some are glad Some of them are gone so long they're hard to recognise - 연 주 중 - Stand close to the long parade Watch them passing by in their million ways Walk on through the evergreens Pass from scene to scene through all these yesterdays Some of them are friends just as they were Some of them are gentle, some can fret Some of them are crowding closer every passing year Some of them live in photographs Some of them still give me a laugh Some of them I've out-absorbed as they're changing me Some of them Some of them Some of them |
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from Ultravox - Systems Of Romance (2000)
Check out some memories I don't recognise
Another country and another life Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh I find I'm strolling on a distant shore To meet someone I've never seen before Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh oh I'm wearing someone else's clothes again Walking in the streets I know again Back in the old familiar glow again I'm wearing someone else's clothes Painting quiet pictures in my ear We're driving past without a wish to steer Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh Driving underneath the deep blue sea I'm always surfacing in summer sheets Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh oh I'm wearing someone else's clothes again Walking in the streets I know again Back in the old familiar glow again I'm wearing someone else's clothes - 간 주 중 - I'm wearing someone else's clothes again Walking in the streets I know again Back in the old familiar glow again I'm wearing someone else's clothes - 간 주 중 - Transfer me into a Saturday crowd Or merge me back into a factory town Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh I'm opened up for such a splendid move I'm making with someone, I don't know who Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh oh I'm wearing someone else's clothes again Walking in the streets I know again Back in the old familiar glow again I'm wearing someone else's clothes |
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from Ultravox - Systems Of Romance (2000)
It's warm tonight
It rained tonight The windows are all open wide Can't see the clock to check the time Nothing is moving When you walk through me I turn around To switch the scene The room dives like a submarine I cross the carpet trying to leave Sometimes I can do it When you walk through me: When you walk through me I almost lose me It's so confusing When you walk through me When you walk through me Locations change The angles change Even the streets get rearranged While I'm swimming out Someone waves across a ??? room I take the train Or shine a shoe A dark horizon comes to view I get lost in the crossword clues Or check the time again It's warm tonight It rained tonight The windows are all open wide Can't see the clock to check the time Nothing is moving When you walk through me |
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from Ultravox - The Island Years (2001)
: Dangerous rhythm Dangerous rhythm Dangerous rhythm in the air Stranger to stranger We're both dressed for danger Something is generating here Oh, take off your halo For the all-night inferno Something is happening in the air It's not like anything I've ever known before And I don't care Surging and merging Urgent and urging Soft as a footstep on the stair The red light is on now My gravity's gone and how I can feel something in the air It's not like anything I've ever known before And I don't care ( twice and fade) |
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from Ultravox - The Island Years (2001)
Sometimes I find I drift away
Behind a distant smile Light years ago I think someone spoke Quizzical glances behind cigarette smoke She drew the curtains at the end of the day And then we laughed because the room sailed away Fancy glitter in the summer arcades Then autumn leaves fall by a winter lane Piano echoes and the perfume still lingers But you fell through my fingers like sand With a distant smile A distant smile A distant smile Somehow I always seem to be Adrift in other times with a distant smile (???) the sound of the streets The city's glittering like diamonds in heat Our secret destination, touch down in the haze As the cameraman pans away Hey look, it's a long lost horizon Private oceans you can surface a sunrise in Hearts well ? dodging logic But nevertheless still permanently surprised Behind a distant smile A distant smile A distant smile Somehow I always seem to be Adrift in other times behind a distant smile You will see (?) |
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from Ultravox - The Island Years (2001)
Somehow we drifted off too far
Communicate like distant stars Splintered voices down the 'phone The sunlit dust, the smell of roses drifts, oh no Someone waits behind the door Hiroshima mon amour Riding inter-city trains Dressed in European grey Riding out to echo beach A million memories in the trees and sands, oh no How can I ever let them go? Hiroshima mon amour Meet beneath the autumn lake Where only echoes penetrate Walk through polaroids of the past Future's fused like shattered glass, the sun's so low Turns our silhouettes to gold Hiroshima mon amour |
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from Ultravox - The Island Years (2001)
I found the bones of all your ghosts
Locked in the wishing well While birdsong gourmets dragged empty nets I slumbered in my shell In mitternacht, die mensch-maschine Kissed me on my eyes I rose and left the fire-ladies Glowing lonely in the night With all the pornographers Burning torches beneath the sea: I want to be a machine I want to be a machine I want to be a machine I want to be a machine I stole a cathode face from newscasts And a crumbling fugue of songs From the reservoir of video souls In the lakes beneath my tongue In flesh of ash and silent movies I walked at boulevards again A nebula of unfinished creatures From the lifetimes of my friends I hope your innocence has depraved me Broadcast me, scrambled clean Or free me from this flesh Let the armchair cannibals take their fill In every cell across wilderness We'll trip such a strangled tango We'll waltz a wonderland affair Let's run to meet the tide tomorrow Leave all emotion dying there In the star cold beyond all of your dreams Ah! |
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from Ultravox - The Island Years (2001)
Talking in the window as the light fades
I heard my voice break just for a moment Talking by the window as the light fades I felt the floor change into an ocean We'll never leave here, never Let's stay in here forever And when the streets are quiet We'll walk out in the silence Listening to the movement that the night makes I let the room fade just for a moment Sitting in the shadows that the leaves make I felt the floor change into an ocean We'll never leave here, never Let's stay in here forever And when the streets are quiet We'll walk out in the silence Listening to the music the machines make I let my heart break just for a moment Listening to the music the machines make I felt the floor change into an ocean We'll never leave here never Let's stay in here for ever And when the streets are quiet We'll walk out in the silence |
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from Ultravox - The Island Years (2001)
Streets I knew were raining, changing
Addresses were rearranging The cold boy from the suburbs he left there He'd read the book of no return And me, I burnt your picture For the ashes of the lords For you had played your games too well As the martyr and the boss: I suppose I chose a good introduction From a formerly trusted friend A good introduction to life at rainbow's end Life at rainbow's end Life at rainbow's end Here I am a millionaire Sown into these dreams I burnt all the maps that lead here So no-one can ever follow me Only lonely parties start At the dark side of this world The gangster with the broken (?) arm Plays deaf cards for the girls I saw the final vicar make confession to a dancer He stood upon the bridge at dawn And the dancer kissed my cancer |
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from Ultravox - The Island Years (2001)
My sex
Waits for me Like a mongrel waits Downwind on a tight rope leash My sex Is a fragile acrobat Sometimes I'm a novocaine shot Sometimes I'm an automat My sex Is often solo Sometimes it short circuits then Sometimes it's a golden glow My sex Is invested in Suburban photographs Skyscraper shadows on a carcrash overpass My sex Is savage, tender It wears no future faces Owns just random gender My sex Has a wanting wardrobe I still explore Of all the bodies I knew and those I want to know My sex Is a spark of electro flesh Leased from the tick of time And geared for synchromesh My sex Is an image lost in faded films A neon outline On a high-rise overspill My sex ( and fade) |
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from Ultravox - The Island Years (2001)
Waiting, we were waiting
As the traffic moved through all our hearts and our heads But things were different then For the quiet men Shifting, things were shifting Through the walls and hall, there were no walls at all For the quiet friends Of the quiet men Oh, the quiet men Oh, the quiet men Springtime, there was sunshine Through the window panes, down all the English lanes Where they walked again The quiet men Talking, they were talking Of the times to come, and all the time that's gone And they smiled again The quiet men Oh, the quiet men Oh, the quiet men - 연 주 중 - Listening, they were listening As the season changed and all the reasons changed And people came and went By the quiet men Walking, they were walking Through the rainy days, looking at all the faces But no-one ever noticed them The quiet men Oh Oh, the quiet men |
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from Ultravox - The Island Years (2001)
Enter me gently
I break in the light Cover my eyes With the rags of my life Was I dreaming? Or did you say The frontiers are falling It's time to be slipping away Let's slip away Let's slip away All things fall from me The bonds and the veils All things blow by me My sorrows have sails Was I dreaming? Or did you say The empires are fading It's time to be slipping away Let's slip away Let's slip away What am I to do? Don't leave me What is there to say? I really... We're just wasting time Let the night takes its place Colour my eyes With the dusk of this wonderful day Let's slip away Let's slip away Letters from lovers Are lining my grave Some came too early And some came too late Were you speaking? Or did I say The frontiers have fallen It's time to be slipping away As you call me My hands they fall open My mouth it is frozen The stumbles is I'm falling slowmotion Dissolve |
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from Ultravox - The Island Years (2001)
No reply
I'm trying hard to somehow frame a reply Pictures, I've got pictures, and I run them in my head When I can't sleep at night Looking out at the white world and the moon I feel a soft exchange taking place Merging with the people on the brains (?) Whirling my face in conversation Slow motion Slow motion Hush, can you feel the trees so far away? Hush, can you feel the breeze of another day? When we held each other close in the night While we wheeled away in our own light Stepping sideways into our own time Such a simple way Slow motion Slow motion - 간 주 중 - And we held each other close in the night While we wheeled away in our own light And some of us from another time And drifted away Slow motion Slow motion |
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from Ultravox - The Island Years (2001)
Playing the game
With the chips on my shoulder Checking in the mirror As my coffee cup gets colder Stagger and swagger Combing my hair If tomorrow's not there Then at least today's all mine [Chorus] While I'm still alive While I'm still alive While I'm still alive Strutting my stuff I'm blagging the damage From coupling with headlines I was suckled on salvage The fighting's exciting The age is dramatic I'm crackling with static Just jiving to survive [Chorus] Take a stroll down the side roads, I know you want to A shock in the dark can be good for your heart, oh yeah [Chorus] Scuffling along On the crest of a wave Laughing and grafting Or jerking and working Striking a match Where life is a gas I need the flash To make it all worthwhile [Chorus] |
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from Midge Ure And Ultravox - Finest (2004)
I was young and not deceived then
I believed in the heart of the country How the words sound, how the truth lies I was moved by the heart of the country Oh, oh, then I saw through The charade, the facade, Now I've had it all When they ask you who deprives you You reply your heart of the country I am older, I am wiser I despise the heart of the country Oh, oh, then I felt it All the tears and the grief I believed it all Taking bad times, by the handful Do what you can for the heart of the country They dish the dirt out too hard to swallow Just to follow the heart of the country Oh, oh, heed the words And learn the lines I'll be fine when I have it all |
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from Midge Ure And Ultravox - Finest (2004)
And just as my eyes start seeing
After all the pain The twist in my life starts healing Just to twist again In stillness, in sorrow Returns that softly sighing lament And just as the smile's returning After all the pain The fire inside stops burning Just to burn again In moments of madness Returns that softly sighing lament |
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from Midge Ure And Ultravox - Finest (2004)
Standing on my own,
It didn't mean that much to me. I thought I had it all, I didn't see the mystery. I stood the test of time, And took the step to find, Love's great adventure. I spoke a million words. They didn't mean that much to me. They rang around my head, Like empty tuneless harmony. Love's great adventure's mine! Lying side by side, It didn't mean that much to me. Or starting to enjoy, The poetry and symphonies. I took it in my stride, And hailed the day I tried, Love's great adventure. A fool who couldn't see. It didn't mean that much to me. I couldn't understand, That's how the game is meant to be. Love's great adventure's mine! My great adventure. Love's great adventure. Love's great adventure! Standing on my own, It didn't mean that much to me. I thought I had it all, I didn't see the mystery. I stood the test of time. I took the step to find. Love's great adventure's mine! |
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If the stack is high against you And the hammer's coming down And the time that's yours lies heavy in your hands Oh my sentimental friend The fast much reach an end Lying face down on the cold stone And they give their all to you But their all is slipping through your hands Oh my sentimental friend Your time will come again Chorus: One day where I didn't die a thousand times Where I could satisfy this life of mine One small day One day where every hour could be a joy to me And live a life the way it's meant to be One small day How many times has it turned against you How many times will they walk away How many times have you let depression win the fight Oh my sentimental friend We'll walk as one again (Chorus) How many times has it turned against you How many times will they walk away One day where I didn't die a thousand times Where I could satisfy this life of mine One day where every hour could be a joy to me And live a life the way it's meant to be One day where I wouldn't feel my senses die Where nothing made me hang my head and cry One day where I could see myself as others do Where I could feel the strength of love at hand One day where I didn't die a thousand times Where I could satisfy this life of mine One day where every hour could by a joy to me And live a life the way it's meant to be |
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from Midge Ure And Ultravox - Finest (2004)
We were so young, we were too vain.
Dance in the dark, sing in the rain. Time on our hands, hope in our hearts. Chorus: We were talking, passing strangers. Moments caught across an empty room. Wasted whispers, faded secrets. Quickly passes, time goes, time goes by too soon. We stood alone, silent and proud. Moments unknown, lost in a crowd. Running through memories like thieves in the night. Clutching emotions, holding too tight. Hold turns to dust, shattered by light. (Repeat chorus 3 times and fade) |
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from Midge Ure And Ultravox - Finest (2004)
Telling me the same old story
When the storm grows I find your face behind your helpless hands When the cracks show In your mirrored mirrored eyes When the words come round So splintered and predictable again Then I find you Telling me the same old story Stories of love Stories and lies Stories of love The same old story Telling me the same old story When the day goes I can hear you crying out behind your paper smile And the light that shines Won't give you strength to talk to me at all And the sound I hear Is not the sound I want to hear from you Cos you're always The same old story Telling me the same old story Telling me the same old story |
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Sleepwalk. (Repeat 3 times)
Rolling and falling, I'm choking and calling, Name after name after name. Sleepwalk. (Repeat 3 times) Naked and bleeding, the streetlights stray by me, Hurting my eyes with their glare. Sleepwalk. (Repeat 3 times) Helplessly breaking, exchanging my faces, Destined, we had to collide. Sleepwalk! Taut on the outside, I'm crumpling and crawling, Watching the day drag away. Spiralling deeper, I can't feel my fingers, Rip round my throat as I dream. Dream! Sleepwalk. (Repeat 12 times and fade) |
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When pale turns to pink With a soft unnerving ease And all you've built around May just tumble to the ground We stand or fall With your future in another's hands We stand or fall When your life is not your own When white turns to red In the not too distant days Will force and misery Be the life you have to lead? We stand or fall With your children in anothers world We stand or fall When your town is not your own Chorus: White China White China When crimson takes a hold When the lights go down on all you've ever known When all you'll ever do Is worked out for you We stand or fall When the thoughts you have are not your own We stand or fall When the freedom slips away (Repeat chorus 3 times) |
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from Ultravox - Rage In Eden (2008)
What is this phase that I am going through
O these precious years Please take my hand and let me breathe again Young depressive tears We stumble blindly chasing something new and something sinful You take my time you live my life for me What have I done to rate this penalty You suck me dry My body cries We stumble blindly chasing instant thrills and lasting memories Accent on youth Attention O Ascends on you O O I scream with frustration and lost control Open for the blows My hands fall limp and hang down at my side Take my soul and go We stumble blindly chasing dancing lights and others' wishes (Chorus) Just let me close my eyes and slip away Dream a dream alone You give me just enough rope for the task Let this man alone We stumble blindly chasing silhouettes and vacant faces So well rehearsed our moves once so grateful turn against us We stalk dark passages, we're looking for that sweet surrender (Chorus) |
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from Ultravox - Rage In Eden (2008)
What is this phase that I am going through
O these precious years Please take my hand and let me breathe again Young depressive tears We stumble blindly chasing something new and something sinful You take my time you live my life for me What have I done to rate this penalty You suck me dry My body cries We stumble blindly chasing instant thrills and lasting memories Accent on youth Attention O Ascends on you O O I scream with frustration and lost control Open for the blows My hands fall limp and hang down at my side Take my soul and go We stumble blindly chasing dancing lights and others' wishes (Chorus) Just let me close my eyes and slip away Dream a dream alone You give me just enough rope for the task Let this man alone We stumble blindly chasing silhouettes and vacant faces So well rehearsed our moves once so grateful turn against us We stalk dark passages, we're looking for that sweet surrender (Chorus) |
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The lights went out (The last fuse blew).
The clocks all stopped (It can't be true). The program's wrong (What can we do?). The printout's blocked (It relied on you). The turbine cracked up. The buildings froze up. The system choked up. What can we do? Please remember to mention me, In tapes you leave behind. Chorus : We stood still. We all stood still. Still stood still. We're standing still. The screen shut down (There's no reply). The lifts all fall (A siren cries). And the radar fades (A pilot sighs). As the countdowns stall (The readout lies). The turbines cracked up. The buildings froze up. The system choked up. What can we do? Please remember to mention me, In tapes you leave behind. (Chorus) The black box failed (The codes got crossed). And the jails decayed (The keys got lost). Everyone kissed (We breathe exhaust). In the new arcade (Of the holocaust). The turbine cracked up. The buildings froze up. The system choked up. What can we do? Plese remember to mention me, In tapes you might leave behind. (Chorus - Repeat 2 times). |
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Chorus:
We turned the dial, we heard the news and laughed, we don't know why We drank the wine and spoke of times we knew of days gone by We flicked through photographs we had, somehow they made us sad Remembering the times we used to have, it made us cry Oh I remember death in the afternoon A silence fell about the room with harsh and heavy calm The lovers and the friends all felt the same, it kept us warm We raised our glass and drank to times we had, but'd see no more The pictures of the past would haunt us still, and there remains Oh I remember death in the afternoon (Repeat chorus 2 times) |
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Chorus:
We turned the dial, we heard the news and laughed, we don't know why We drank the wine and spoke of times we knew of days gone by We flicked through photographs we had, somehow they made us sad Remembering the times we used to have, it made us cry Oh I remember death in the afternoon A silence fell about the room with harsh and heavy calm The lovers and the friends all felt the same, it kept us warm We raised our glass and drank to times we had, but'd see no more The pictures of the past would haunt us still, and there remains Oh I remember death in the afternoon (Repeat chorus 2 times) |
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from Ultravox - Rage In Eden (2008)
All the boys are wearing blue tonight.
We'll thrive, we'll dive, how can we lose? All the strangers walk like you tonight. So tall, we fall for every move. We'll laugh and talk, Don't stop for breath, In these our private lives. We dance 'til dawn, As they beat the drums, For all our private lives. Close your eyes and use the melody, Who cares who stares under the light? See the shadow tailing me again, It shows, it glows, and it grabbed so bright. |
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from Ultravox - Rage In Eden (2008)
Native these words seem to me
All speech directed to me I've heard them once before I know that feeling Stranger emotions in mind Changing the contours I find I've seen them once before Someone cries to me CHORUS : Oh, the look and the sound of the voice Oh, they try, they try Oh, the shape and the power of the voice Oh, In strong low tones Forceful and twisting again Waisting the perfect remains I've felt it once before Slipping over me CHORUS Sweetly the voices decay Draw on the lines that they say I'd lost it once before Now it cries to me CHORUS Oh, the look and the power of the voice Oh, they try Oh, the shape and the sound of the voice In strong low tones |
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from Ultravox - Rage In Eden (2008)
Native these words seem to me
All speech directed to me I've heard them once before I know that feeling Stranger emotions in mind Changing the contours I find I've seen them once before Someone cries to me CHORUS : Oh, the look and the sound of the voice Oh, they try, they try Oh, the shape and the power of the voice Oh, In strong low tones Forceful and twisting again Waisting the perfect remains I've felt it once before Slipping over me CHORUS Sweetly the voices decay Draw on the lines that they say I'd lost it once before Now it cries to me CHORUS Oh, the look and the power of the voice Oh, they try Oh, the shape and the sound of the voice In strong low tones |
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from Ultravox - Rage In Eden (2008)
Light comes through a crack in the door
I tape up the windows once more Tight like a cold hand of steel Don't fear the stranger within Hands that petrify in the air Eyes catching things never there Sweet tension caught on my breath Don't fear the stranger within Watch every shape that escapes Scared to make the final mistake Speak to hear the sound of your voice Don't fear the stranger within Sit in the corner with your back to the wall Pray to your God with your head in your hands Your mask of fear is shrinking fast It's closing in more amour You stand on borrowed time, your sweating palms and chilling brow Your wide-eyed panic makes you laugh, you cry and laugh Freeze until the noise decays, a shuffle from behind a door Your throat is tight, it makes you choke and smoke and choke Eyes will grow accustomed to the dark, a stifled scream that won't come out There's nothing more to fear from the stranger within Don't fear the stranger within I feel the stranger within I see the stranger within Don't know the stranger within I am the stranger within I am the stranger within |
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from Ultravox - Rage In Eden (2008)
Light comes through a crack in the door
I tape up the windows once more Tight like a cold hand of steel Don't fear the stranger within Hands that petrify in the air Eyes catching things never there Sweet tension caught on my breath Don't fear the stranger within Watch every shape that escapes Scared to make the final mistake Speak to hear the sound of your voice Don't fear the stranger within Sit in the corner with your back to the wall Pray to your God with your head in your hands Your mask of fear is shrinking fast It's closing in more amour You stand on borrowed time, your sweating palms and chilling brow Your wide-eyed panic makes you laugh, you cry and laugh Freeze until the noise decays, a shuffle from behind a door Your throat is tight, it makes you choke and smoke and choke Eyes will grow accustomed to the dark, a stifled scream that won't come out There's nothing more to fear from the stranger within Don't fear the stranger within I feel the stranger within I see the stranger within Don't know the stranger within I am the stranger within I am the stranger within |
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from Ultravox - Rage In Eden (2008)
Light comes through a crack in the door
I tape up the windows once more Tight like a cold hand of steel Don't fear the stranger within Hands that petrify in the air Eyes catching things never there Sweet tension caught on my breath Don't fear the stranger within Watch every shape that escapes Scared to make the final mistake Speak to hear the sound of your voice Don't fear the stranger within Sit in the corner with your back to the wall Pray to your God with your head in your hands Your mask of fear is shrinking fast It's closing in more amour You stand on borrowed time, your sweating palms and chilling brow Your wide-eyed panic makes you laugh, you cry and laugh Freeze until the noise decays, a shuffle from behind a door Your throat is tight, it makes you choke and smoke and choke Eyes will grow accustomed to the dark, a stifled scream that won't come out There's nothing more to fear from the stranger within Don't fear the stranger within I feel the stranger within I see the stranger within Don't know the stranger within I am the stranger within I am the stranger within |
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