When pale turns to pink, with the 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 another's world
We stand or fall, when your town is not your own
White China, white China
When crimson takes a hold, 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, oh, when the freedom slips away
White China, white China
White China, white China
You give me exaltation
Like a rush from the morning air
All the endless roads we've taken
Don't mean a thing I swear
Destiny brought us together
Chorus:
We've all that we need
As long as we're side by side
We are sanctified
I'll be the air that you breath
And you'll bring me life
Tonight we are unified
You're stronger than emotion
Surrounding me inside
This is the perfect time
I feed on your devotion
The eternal flame of life
This is the reason I
Feel destiny brought us together
(Chorus)
Face in the window in the night
Caught for a second by the light
Ashes of memories still aglow
Only for you
Portraits and pictures you once saw
Visions in blue
Read while the letters still remain
Sip from the wine of youth again
Oaths made in silence still return
Only for you
Cast like a shroud you're clutching on
Visions in blue
Catch aimless smiles from passers by
Blistered and broken in reply
Breath seems to mist the hazy view
Only for you
Tears coat your lifeless eyes with dew
Visions in blue
Visions in blue
Ashes of memories still aglow
Portraits and pictures you once saw
Ashes of memories still aglow
Portraits and pictures you once saw
Ashes of memories still aglow
Portraits and pictures you once saw
Face in the window in the night
Caught for a second by the light
Ashes of memories still aglow
Only for you
Portraits and pictures you once saw
Maximise your potential
Utilise the influential
Come take my hand
I'll make you a true believer
Fantasize you're in heaven
Realise your religion
Fall into line
Pay for your redemption
Chorus:
Got to be a true believer
Burning up inside with fever
One with God
You've got to pay for your devotion
Feel a little true emotion
One with God
Moralise your obsession
Authorise your donation
It could be so divine
Give your life direction
Try to buy your salvation
Sanctify the TV nation
Be a part of it all
Join the corporation
Someone stood beside me for a moment in the rain
A silhouette, a cigarette, and a gesture of disdain
I felt a dark door open, saw a sudden ghost come through
A spark leapt from my fingertip and I knew it must be you
Ain't you the man who dies every day?
You're the man who dies every day
You're the man
We never saw you walk in, we never saw you leave
You flick the ashes off a lap on everybody's sleeve
You always play that funny pack of cards without an ace
And every street you ever walked is mapped out on your face
'Cause you're the man who dies every day
You're the man who dies every day
You're the man
You always kept a sunset behind your lonely shoulder
You never showed on photographs and you never grew much older
You flicker like a shaky shadow, moving like a thief
You never drop your facade and you never seek relief
'Cause you're the man who dies every day
You're the man who dies every day
You're the man who dies every day
You're the man who dies every day
You're the man
Welcome to
Welcome to
Welcome to the song
Hear the words of the syncopated rhythms
Welcome to the song
And when it calls you, time to move on
We go
Welcome to
Welcome to
Welcome to the song
Feel the strength of a hundred thousand heartbeats
Cry welcome to the song
And as it lifts you, time to move on
We go
Welcome to
Welcome to
Welcome to the song
Drawn from the inside
Time to move on
We go
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 a white world and the moon
I feel a soft exchange taking place
Merging with the people on the page
Blurring my face and 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
And we held each other close in the night
While we wheeled away in our own light
And some of us found another time
And drifted away
Slow motion
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
Color 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 [Incomprehensible] stumbles
There dosent seem to be any lyrics for The Ascent, unless those lyrics are
slowed or sped up greatly. The Ascent seems to be entirely music. I have the Rage In Eden CD, and I've listened to the Ascent a dozen times, and still nothing
When everyone else is uncertain
And walls are closing in
There's no-one to hear you
No-one at all
Don't tell me what to believe in
Wake up and start again
Be part of the vision
Be part of it all
Don't you give me compassion
Just give me it all
Chorus:
Are you strong enough?
Can you stand above?
This is survival
Not systems of love
Don't you give up
It's never enough
Live for survival
Not systems of love
One way conversation
Won't you let me in
Don't let indecision
Ruin it all
Inside information
What a fool I've been
I spend every moment
Regretting it all
Just reliving the moment
That I heard the call
(Chorus)
Be my disciple
All I ask is put your faith in me
There's a better way, you know it
Don't be afraid of divine technology
We sit and watch these lifeless forms stark and petrified
The high suspense of an empty stage drawing, in clutching to its breast
With murmured words we sigh and focus on the main facade
Beyond the hard reluctant windows news from magazines
We wrote their names on books we'd borrowed as if to bring us closer still
And threw it all away to focus on the main facade
Rage in Eden jigsaw sequence, but no one could see the end
And they were the new gods and they shone on high
Their heavy perfume on the night sucked them down in red tide
All is through the looking glass focus on the main facade
Rage in Eden jigsaw sequence, but no one could see the end
Disciples of the new way, portraits in the new sand
See when they run their longest mile holding caps in wet hands
Eyes upon them try to focus on the main facade
I see it every day
As children play
There's a future, watching, waiting
No-one can deny
The reasons why
We are hurting
Much more than believing
You're deceiving with all these bitter lies
I've just got to let you know this time
That we've seen through your disguise
Politically motivated total mind control
Just as I predicted
The innocent grow stronger through it all
Chorus:
It's no lie, it's a revelation
Open your eyes to the revelation
Visions in your mind
Unfolding in our time
There's a new world out there calling
We are justified
Almost hypnotised
We are leading
Somehow we are changing
Rearranging the lexicon of life
And there's nothing left to change this time
Here we all stand unified
Together we have motivated absolute control
And just as I imagined
We all realised we had it all
(Chorus)
Side by side, to the revelation
All the boys are wearing blue tonight
We'll thrive, we'll dive, how can you 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
And these are 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
You think you're so safe and secure with your kind
But don't be surprised if you're losing this time
Learn to stand on your own
Realise, and believe in yourself
'Cause I won't be waiting
Chorus:
I hate to leave
But there's no turning back
You may think that I'm wrong but hear what I'm saying
You have to believe
There's no turning back
I know where I belong, I can't go on waiting
I watch as the tears fall colliding down your face
Stand up to your fear now before it gets too late
I won't be here at your side I pray
Get a hold on yourself
'Cause I won't be waiting
Visions of men never known
Never seen, never heard, never
shown
Characters lying in wait
Responsible figures of
fate
With memories and faces as long as their hate
Paths and the angles of light
Find their way into my
Recorded and logged for a time
Some living, some
loving, some dying
There are factors rearranged every
time
The phrases, the angles, so fine
Sunken valleys
and decades of crime
Distant seasons
A smile that was
quoted as mine
Paths and the angles of light
Find their way into my eye
Recorded and logged for a
time
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
Give us this day all that you showed me -
The power and the glory
till my kingdom comes.
Give us this day all that you showed me -
The power and the glory
till my kingdom comes.
Give me all the storybook told me
The faith and the glory
till my kingdom comes.
And they said that in our time all that's good will fall from grace.
Even saints would turn their face in our time.
And they told us that in our days
Different words said in different ways
Have other meanings from he who says in out time:
Give us this day all that you showed me - . . .
And they said that in our time we would reap from their legacy
We would learn from what they had seen in our time.
And they told us that in our days
We would know what was high on high
We would follow and not defy in our time.
Give us this day all that you showed me - . . .
Faithless in faith
we must behold the things we see.
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, I'm moving through time
Being human by design
Life
Unfulfilled but divine
Never ending
How could I be so blind?
What is this world
Doing to me?
Notwithstanding the lies
All the tears I have cried
I've opened my eyes
Chorus:
I am alive
I am who I want to be
Walls are falling
I am alive
And this is my destiny
The king is calling
I am alive
Far from the maddening crowd
Playing mind games
Way out loud
Pictures of heroes
Lined up one by one
Embracing the future
I have begin
(Chorus)
Passing strangers
Artificial life
Slowly falling
Look out for me
I am alive
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
Features fused like shattered glass, the sun's so low
Turns our silhouettes to gold
Running down an empty street
Perhaps it was a railway station
Smell of eau de cologne
The sound of a celebration
Chorus:
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
(Chorus)
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
(Repeat chorus 3 times and fade)
Just a swimmer growing dimmer in the glimmer of a summer
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
(Chorus)
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
See the man on the 'phone,
With a gun in his hand,
Sipping courage from a crystal cup.
He's a man in the wrong,
With a gun at his head,
Pushes on and now it's time to cut and run.
Time, passing so slowly.
Still, as he sits and he watches the sand slip through his hands.
He demands something more,
Something strong,
Something savage and pure.
One more twist of the knife and it's time to cut and run.
(Chorus)
He smiles, as he draws on his last cigarette,
And he tries to forget all that forces every move.
He commands something new,
Something strong,
Something spiteful and true.
One more twist of the knife and it's time to cut and run.
Cries on his tape so they might understand.
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
Instrumental
The sound is on the visions move
The image dance starts once again
They shuffle with a bovine grace
And glide in syncopation
Just living lines from books we've read
With atmospheres of days gone by
With paper smiles the screenplay calls
A message for the nation
And those who sneer will fade and die
And those who laugh will surely fall
And those who know will always feel
Their backs against the thin wall
The thin wall, thin wall
Grey men who speak of victory
Shed light upon their stolen life
They drive by night and act as if they're
Moved by unheard music
To step in time and play the part
With velvet voices smooth and cold
Their power games a game no more
And long the chance to use it
And those who sneer will fade and die
And those who laugh will surely fall
And those who know will always feel
Their backs against the thin wall
The thin wall, thin wall
And those who dance will spin and turn
And those who wait will wait no more
And those talk will hear the word
And those who sneer will fade and die
And those who laugh will surely fall
And those who know will always feel
Their backs against the thin wall
Thin wall
And those who dance
The thin wall
And those who wait
The thin wall
And those who talk
The thin wall
And those who sneer
The thin wall
And those who laugh
The thin wall
And those who know
The thin wall
And those who dance
The thin wall
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
Lonely hunter
Lonely hunter
Lonely hunter
Lonely hunter
Lonely hunter
Lonely hunter
Lonely hunter
Lonely hunter
Lonely hunter
Check out some memories I don't recognize
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
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
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 love 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
We were so young, we were too vain
Dance in the dark, sing in the rain
Time on our hands, hope in our hearts
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
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 were talking, passing strangers
Moments caught across an empty room
Wasted whispers, faded secrets
Quickly passes, time goes, time goes by too soon
We were talking, passing strangers
Moments caught across an empty room
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
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, Mr. X
Mr. X, Mr. X
Mr. X, Mr. X
Mr. X, Mr. X
Mr. X, Mr. X
Mr. X, Mr. X
One last smile
As we turn away in wrong directions
Feeling the kick
From a multitude of cooled reflections
Me building on my life alone...
One last look
As we turn our backs on deeper feelings
This new release
And think ahead to all who see
Sleepwalk, sleepwalk, sleepwalk
Rolling and falling, I'm choking and calling
Name after name after name
Sleepwalk, sleepwalk, sleepwalk
Naked and bleeding, the streetlights stray by me
Hurting my eyes with their glare
Sleepwalk, sleepwalk, sleepwalk
Helplessly breaking, exchanging my faces
Destined, we had to collide
Sleepwalk
Caught on the outside, I'm crumpling and crawling
Watching the day drag away
Spiraling deeper, I can't feel my fingers
Rip round my throat as I dream
Dream
Sleepwalk, sleepwalk, sleepwalk
Sleepwalk, sleepwalk, sleepwalk
Sleepwalk, sleepwalk, sleepwalk
Visions of men never known
Never seen, never heard, never shown
Characters lying in wait
Responsible figures of fate
With memories and faces as long as their hate
CHORUS :
Paths and the angles of light
Find their way into my eye
Recorded and logged for a time
Some living, some loving, some dying
There are factors rearranged every time
The phrases, the angles, so fine
Sunken valleys and decades of crime
Distant seasons
A smile that was quoted as mine
CHORUS
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 reply
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
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
Try to understand
As I take you by the hand
Side by side
We'll begin again
Find a future in this land
If we try
And as we come together
We're guided by the light
This is more than just adventure
As destiny unfolds for you and I
Chorus:
We are not alone
We can build a better future
Way beyond the new frontier
We can overcome
Hear the bells of liberation
The days of independence will be won
Haunted by the pain
We will rise again, testify
The hand that turns the page
The child that came of age
It feels so right
As we set the world in motion
We cross the sands of time
There will be an answer
As destiny unfolds for you and I
Chorus 2:
We are not alone
We can build a better future
Way beyond the new frontier
Together we are one
Hear the bells of liberation
The days of independence have begin
As the line remains unbroken
We'll set sail tonight
There is cause for celebration
As destiny unfolds for you and I
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
New Europeans
Young Europeans
New Europeans
A photograph of lovers lost
Lies pressed in magazines
Her eyes belong to a thousand girls
She's a 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
New Europeans
Young Europeans
New Europeans
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
New Europeans
Young Europeans
New Europeans
Someone stood beside me for a moment in the rain
A silhouette, a cigarette, and a gesture of disdain
I felt a dark door open, saw a sudden ghost come through
A spark leapt from my fingertip and I knew it must be you
Ain't you the man who dies every day?
You're the man who dies every day
You're the man
We never saw you walk in, we never saw you leave
You flick the ashes off a lap on everybody's sleeve
You always play that funny pack of cards without an ace
And every street you ever walked is mapped out on your face
'Cause you're the man who dies every day
You're the man who dies every day
You're the man
You always kept a sunset behind your lonely shoulder
You never showed on photographs and you never grew much older
You flicker like a shaky shadow, moving like a thief
You never drop your facade and you never seek relief
'Cause you're the man who dies every day
You're the man who dies every day
You're the man who dies every day
You're the man who dies every day
You're the man
If I was a better man
Would fellow men take me to their hearts
If I was a stronger man
Carrying the weight of popular demand
Tell me would that alarm her
I'd never harm her at all
If I was a soldier
Captive arms I'd lay before her
If I was a sailor
Seven oceans I'd sail to her
If I was a wiser man
Would other men reach out and touch me
If I was a kinder man
Dishing up love for a hungry world
Tell me would that appease her
I want to please her again
If I was a painter
I'd paint a world that couldn't taint her
If I was a leader
On food of love from above I would feed her
If I was a poet
All my love in burning words I would show it
If I was her lover
Her eyes in kisses I would cover
Come here my baby
Oh they can't touch you now
I'll keep you safe and warm
I'll never leave you at all
Come here my baby
Oh they won't touch you
Dishing up love for a hungry world
Tell me would that appease you
I want to please you again
If I was a soldier
Captive arms I'd lay before her
If I was a sailor
Seven oceans I'd sail to her
If I was a painter
I'd paint a world that couldn't taint her
If I was a leader
On food of love from above I would feed her
If I was a poet
All my love in burning words I would show it
Tanze mit Tränen in meinen Augen
Um die Erinnerung eines vergangenen Lebens weinen
Tanze mit Tränen in meinen Augen
Um eine Erinnerung von einer verstorbenen Liebe zu überleben
Es ist um fünf (fünf, fünf) und ich fahre wieder nach Hause
Es ist schwer (es ist schwer, es ist schwer) zu glauben, dass es mein letztes Mal
ist
Der Mann (der Mann, der Mann) an der Leitung weint wieder
Es ist vobei, es ist vobei
Tanze mit Tränen in meinen Augen
Um die Erinnerung eines vergangenen Lebens weinen
Tanze mit Tränen in meinen Augen
Um eine Erinnerung von einer verstorbenen Liebe zu überleben
Es ist spät (spät, spät) und ich bin mit meiner Liebe allein
Wir trinken (trinken, trinken), um den kommenden Sturm zu vergessen
Wir lieben uns (lieben uns, lieben uns) zur Musik unseres Lieblingsliedes
Immer wieder
Tanze mit Tränen in meinen Augen
Um die Erinnerung eines vergangenen Lebens weinen
Tanze mit Tränen in meinen Augen
Um eine Erinnerung von einer verstorbenen Liebe zu überleben
Es ist Zeit (Zeit, Zeit) und wir liegen aneinander in den Armen
Es ist Zeit (Zeit, Zeit), aber ich denke nicht, dass wir uns wirklich sorgen
Tanze mit Tränen in meinen Augen
Um die Erinnerung eines vergangenen Lebens weinen
Tanze mit Tränen in meinen Augen
Um eine Erinnerung von einer verstorbenen Liebe zu überleben
Tanze mit Tränen in meinen Augen
Um die Erinnerung eines vergangenen Lebens weinen
Tanze mit Tränen in meinen Augen
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
Chorus:
Follow, follow, follow, follow your heart
There must be something to rely on
Follow your own way
Follow, follow, follow, follow your heart
There must be someone to depend on
Follow your own way
We were the listeners
Were believers of a thousand lies
Follow your heart
And it gave us what we have today
We heard the preachings
We heard the gospel
Tried to turn the tides
Follow your heart
Oh, as it washes our hopes away
(Chorus)
Don't ask the questions
Follow the leader
Just like a good boy will
Follow your heart
And I wonder what's in store for me
Don't need the prophets
Don't need the seer
Don't need the overkill
Follow your heart
And I wonder what could be
Desire
Desire
Desire
Desire
You live for love, I long for it
You give for love, I take from it
This friend of mine, desire
This lover's crime, desire
Emotion driving all the time
A burning need for things not mine
Desire
Desire
Desire
You need your love, I walk from it
You fight for love, I run from it
My enemy, desire
Caressing me, desire
The torch I carried burnt my hand
I can't control what I can't stand
Desire
Desire
Desire
You live for love, I lie for it
You give for love, I shy from it
And the pain, and the lust
And the want, and the hurt
And the lies, and the fear
And the urge, and the feel
And the touch, and it's all
A friend I call desire
You live for love, I lie for it
You give for love, I shy from it
And the pain, and the lies
And the touch, and it's all
Marching across our own screens
Our faces form all our needs
The future's not returning
All bridges built for burning
How can there be anything wrong?
Aren't we the frozen ones?
One day I'll just erase the tape, wave goodbye, and fade away
Get lost in the frost again
Clean the ashes of my face at the bottom of your suitcase
Find a sunset, turn away
How can there by anything wrong?
Aren't we the frozen ones?
The frozen ones
The frozen ones
We walk around inside each other visiting the empty rooms
Put me on, I'll put you on too
You knew I'd have to follow you because you saw I'm hollow too
But it's so nice being I too
How can there by anything wrong?
Aren't we the frozen ones?
The frozen ones
The frozen ones
Chorus:
We're nowhere
We don't care who led us here
No-one will care when we're gone
The frozen ones
The frozen ones
Too many pictures on my screen and all of them are screaming at me
Thought I had this insulation
The only way to stop the flood whenever feelings get too real
Is to cut the information
How can there be anything wrong?
Aren't we the frozen ones?
The frozen ones
The frozen ones
(Chorus)
The frozen ones
(Repeat and fade)
Calling cards of madness
Pull the brass men from their knees
To petrify more images to dangle just outside the reach
Of the stunted and the dreamless ones who have nothing left to keep
For frozen dawns or nights as cold as these have been
Don't ask for explanations
There's nothing left you'd understand
You're one of the wild, the beautiful and the damned
The wild, the beautiful and the damned
We read the latest venereal journals
Flicked through some catalogues of fear
You tore some more pages from your old lovers hearts
Then we engineered a wild reunion in a Berlin alleyway
While your New York fuehrer (?) tore our universe apart
(Chorus)
Break my legs politely
I'll spit my gold teeth out at you
Your sores are almost big enough to step right inside now
I'll send you truckloads of flowers from all the worlds that you stole from me
I'll spin a coin in the madhouse while I watch you drowning
(Chorus)
The wild, the beautiful and the damned
(Repeat and fade)
We came to dance
making moves from a passion play
The ties that bind us just slip away.
We came to dance
the piper calls out a different rhyme
He cracks the whip and we step in time.
Standing as the parade goes passing by
I hear a voice around my cry.
Like the sound of a distant drums
rejected and alone.
A heart without a home
then someone said:
We came to dance
making moves from a passion play
. . .
We came to dance.
Waiting as the panic grips my hand
hearing prose from high command
Like a million times before
no dignity or grace
It's the price and not the race
and someone said:
NVe came to dance
making moves from a passion play
. . .
We came to dance.
We came to dance
making moves from a passion play
The ties that bind us just slip away.
Take what you can
they said take it while you may.
But keep in mind penalty fits the crime
And it deals no softened blow.
We came to dance
making moves from a passiom play
. . .
We came to dance
making moves from a passion play
. . .
We came to dance
making moves from a passion play
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,
All the boys are wearing their utility drag
The girls slip identikits from their utility bags
Some refugees from suburbia are laughing
Examining each other's gags
Vibrate on sulphate when it gets late
And their velocity begins to sag
Chorus:
And it goes on all night, all night
And it goes on and on, the artificial life
Mary Mary got so confused
About the fusion game, what a game
Blunked on booze, she talks like a newsreel
She'll take up any kind of bleak exchange
She turned to perfection once
But realised she'd only turned to pain
She ran through divine light, chemicals, Warhol, scientology, her own sex
Before she turned away
(Chorus)
I've learned to be a stranger
I've learned to be a stranger
I've learned to be a stranger
I've learned to be a stranger
Stranger still
I should have left here years ago
But my imagination won't tell me how
This whirlpool's got such seductive furniture
It's so pleasant getting drowned
So we drink and sink and talk and stalk
With interchangeable enemies and friends
Trying on each other's skins
While we're dying to be born again.
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 recognize
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
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
Chorus:
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
I took a walk down Rue Morgue Avenue
Wearing my latest disguise
Enjoying the perfume of utter dismay
I was effectively anaesthetised
Starving so arrogantly in jumble-sale pearls
Evangeline hires out my throat
We've got the streets of London mapped in our beds
Nagasaki under our coats
With the wide boys, up on the streets
Wide boys, ah, come on and meet me
Wide boys, delightfully unpleasant
With our foxy adolescent sneers, oh
Tired of being put down
Broken hearted my life not started
Tired of being cut down
All your illusions disillusion me
Wide boys, up on the streets
Wide boys, ah, come on and meet me
Wide boys, delightfully unpleasant
With our foxy adolescent sneers, oh
Open sore music plays the wrong side of nightmare
Juke-box models collide
The saint on the fire escaping bleeds into the sun
Embracing the old suicide bride
I spent a few lifetimes making spinal connections
Down on Einstein Boulevard
I'm proud to walk a tightrope, now the gravity's so high
I swagger like a neon guitar
With the wide boys, up on the streets
Wide boys, ah, come on and meet me
Wide boys, delightfully unpleasant
With our foxy adolescent sneers
Wide boys, up on the streets
Wide boys, ah, come on and meet me
Wide boys, delightfully unpleasant
(And we talked)
Just the two of us
(All the time)
Nothing serious
(We pretend)
Time is on our side
('Til the end)
When the scream subsides
Yes, we had it all, had the key gripped in our hands
We could see the fall as a martyr understands
When the chorus calls there's no room for hope inside
Lose it all when the scream subsides
(And we talked)
Just the two of us
(All the time)
Nothing serious
(We pretend)
Time is on our side
('Til the end)
When the scream subsides
Yes, we took the role of the lovers and the friends
And we played the parts 'til the words came to an end
But the tongues were tied in the passion and the pride
Wasted all when the scream subsides
(And we talked)
Just the two of us
(All the time)
Nothing serious
(We pretend)
Time is on our side
('Til the end)
When the scream subsides
(And we talked)
Just the two of us
(All the time)
Nothing serious
(We pretend)
Time is on our side
('Til the end)
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
We walked in the cold air
Freezing breath on a window pane
Lying and waiting
A 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 gray 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
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
The look and the sound of the voice
They try, they try
The shape and the power of the voice
In strong low tones
Forceful and twisting again
Wasting the perfect remains
I've felt it once before
Slipping over me
The look and the sound of the voice
They try, they try
The shape and the power of the voice
In strong low tones
Sweetly the voices decay
Draw on the lines that they say
I'd lost it once before
Now it cries to me
The look and the sound of the voice
They try, they try
The shape and the power of the voice
In strong low tones
The look and the sound of the voice
They try
The shape and the power of the voice
In strong low tones
Marching across our own screens
Our faces form all our needs
The future's not returning
All bridges built for burning
How can there be anything wrong?
Aren't we the frozen ones?
One day I'll just erase the tape
Wave goodbye and fade away
Get lost in the frost again
Clean the ashes of my face
At the bottom of your suitcase
Find a sunset, turn away
How can there by anything wrong?
Aren't we the frozen ones?
The frozen ones
The frozen ones
We walk around inside each other
Visiting the empty rooms
Put me on, I'll put you on too
You knew I'd have to follow you
Because you saw I'm hollow too
But it's so nice being I too
How can there by anything wrong?
Aren't we the frozen ones?
The frozen ones
The frozen ones
We're nowhere
We don't care who led us here
No one will care when we're gone
The frozen ones
The frozen ones
Too many pictures on my screen
And all of them are screaming at me
Thought I had this insulation
The only way to stop the flood
Whenever feelings get too real
Is to cut the information
How can there be anything wrong?
Aren't we the frozen ones?
The frozen ones
The frozen ones
We're nowhere
We don't care who led us here
No one will care when we're gone
The frozen ones
The frozen ones
The frozen ones
Serenade, in rhythm and swing
Serenade, the gift that we bring
Serenade, youth runs wild with the beat in their hearts
Dance a wild dance, be torn apart
Voices ringing in their heads
Their crashing hands in time
In sequence and in rhyme
The chant of a thousand-fold
The song of a million strong
Echoes their perfect praise
Serenade, in rhythm and swing
Serenade, the gift that we bring
Serenade, youth runs wild with the beat in their hearts
Dance a wild dance, be torn apart
From the mouths of babes and fools
Hunted melodies
With gracefulness and ease
Compose their gifted words
Orchestrate their moves
Echo the perfect praise, serenade
Serenade, in rhythm and swing
Serenade, the gift that we bring
Serenade, youth runs wild with the beat in their hearts
Dance a wild dance, be torn apart
Prophets tell the tale
The legend and the lies
The fable and the rhymes
The chant of a thousand-fold
The song of a billion strong
Echoes the perfect praise, serenade
Serenade, in rhythm and swing
Serenade, the gift that we bring
Serenade, youth runs wild with the beat in their hearts
Dance a wild dance, be torn apart
In rhythm and swing
The gift that we bring
Youth runs wild with the beat in their hearts
Dance the wild dance, be torn apart
Serenade, in rhythm and swing
Serenade, in rhythm and swing
Serenade, in rhythm and swing
Serenade, in rhythm and swing
Serenade, in rhythm and swing
Reap the wild wind
Reap the wild wind
Reap the wild wind
A finger points to show a scene
Take my hand, take my hand
Another face where mine had been
Take my hand, take my hand
Another footstep where I once walked
Take my hand, take it all
You take my hand and give me your friendship
I'll take my time and send you my slow reply
Give me an inch and I'll make the best of it
Take all you want and leave all the rest to die
Reap the wild wind
A footprint haunts an empty floor
Take my hand, take my hand
A fading coat that I once wore
Take my hand, take my hand
Oh, desolation where I once lived
I have seen in times gone by
I have felt a different shadow on the wall
A stranglehold on a certain feeling
You take my hand and give me your friendship
I'll take my time and send you my slow reply
Give me an inch and I'll make the best of it
Take all you want and leave all the rest to die
Reap the wild wind
Reap the wild wind
You take my hand and give me your friendship
I'll take my time and send you my slow reply
Give me an inch and I'll make the best of it
Take all you want and leave all the rest to die
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
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
Maximum acceleration
Maximum acceleration
Maximum acceleration
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
Maximum acceleration
Maximum acceleration
Taking shelter by the standing stones
Miles from all that moves
Breathing solitude, seeking confidence
A gift to me
Feeling spirits never far removed
Passing over me and I greet them with open arms
Hand fighting hand
As you turn to a man of two worlds
Taobh ri taobh tha sinn mar aon de dha shaobhail
Do lambh nam lambh gabhal aithne air leim a ghablh
Reading passages of ancient rhyme
Cut so deep so old
Telling tales of travellers and mystery
Hearing spirits never far removed
Call out aloud
When the time comes they'll talk to me
Hand fighting hand
As you turn to a man of two worlds
Taobh ri taobh tha sinn mar aon de dha shaobhail
Do lambh nam lambh gabhal aithne air leim a ghablh
Hand fighting hand
As you turn to a man of two worlds
Feel a presence moving into me
Painting pictures with fast words
Seeing places that I've never seen
Like a door thrown open on a life I've lived before
Taobh ri taobh tha sinn mar aon de dha shaobhail
Do lambh nam lambh gabhal aithne air leim a ghablh
Mar e shealbhaichis mi an tiodhlac seo ahonisa
S mo lambh n'ad lambh smuainich air na tireauu ceinne
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
(oh oh oh oh)
I spoke a million words
They didn't mean that much to me
They rang around my head
Like empty tuneless harmonies
Love's great adventure mine...
Lying side by side
It didn't mean that much to me
I started to enjoy
The poetry and symphonies
I took it in my stride
I hailed the Day i tried
Love's great adventure
(oh oh oh oh)
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 mine...
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
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
Chorus:
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
(Chorus)
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
(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
I can feel the turning of the tides
Pulling away the night
Like a sheet from over me
In summer time
I dissolve to a beach
And everywhere seems to be
Just a flicker on a silent screen
Because I
I can't stay long
Let the sky roll on
Just a flicker and the crowd moves on
In winter
Overcoats close in
And the snow tastes of tin
On the steps of any station
I'd like to glide in the long green light
Of a July afternoon
Sliding down a vague conversation
Because I
I can't stay long
When the moment comes
Just a glance and the glance is gone
Watch closely
As a man with a hat
And a girl with a map
Synchronise with the track
And they go away
I need to drift through all the walls
And let the scenery dissolve
Into some other life
Because I
I can't stay long
Let the sky roll on
Just a glance and the glance is gone
I can't stay long
When the right time comes
If I could feel some kind of feeling
Send a message to my soul
Tell my mind to lose control
If I could live a life with some meaning
One that love could not deny
From a shattered soul like me
Sometimes I'll try
And sometimes I'll fall
Sometimes I'll let it flow, let it flow
If I had a thought so hauntingly beautiful
To send a message through the sky
To fight your hate and lies
If I could grow one seed of belief in me
Something to permeate my mind
Like a virus through my system
Then I'll find
That sometimes I'd lose
And sometimes I'd let it flow, let it flow
Your picture of yourself is a media myth
Underneath this floor we're on the edge of a cliff
Someone told me Jesus was the Devil's lover
While we masturbated on a magazine cover
Chorus:
Dead in the streets
Who's that girl?
Ireland screams
Africa burns
Suburbia stumbles
The tides are turned
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western
The Western world
Mama's still on valium, Daddy puts the news on
TV orphans laugh at the confusion
The audience finds itself on the stage
Fifty million people in a state of decay
(Chorus)
The party goes on behind elevator doors
While the elevator plummets from the 69th floor
All the cars lost in the scrapyards of paradise
The newspaper photographs have all come alive
(Chorus)
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western
Dancing with tears in my eyes
Weeping for the memory of a life gone by.
Dancing with tears in my eyes
living out a memory of a love that died.
It's five and I'm driving home again.
It's hard to believe that it's my last time.
The man on the wireless cries again - it's over
it's over.
Dancing with the tears in my eyes
. . .
It's late and I'm with my love alone
We drink to forget the coming storm.
We love to the sound of our favourite song: over and over.
Dancing with the tears in my eyes
. ..
It's time and we're in each others arms
It's time but I don't think we really care.
Dancing with the tears in my eyes
. ..
Dancing with the tears in my eyes
Somewhere Sure, Somewhere Safe Inside
A World Where You Reside
Where chance and Trust Have Died,
A World Where You Can Hide Away
Hide Away
No Tomorrow, No Today
You, The Brilliant Thing You are
Outshine Your Brightest Star,
Too Distant And Too Far Away,
You, You Legend Deep inside,
Religiously Denied, denied
Step Out From Mask You Stand Behind,
Fearful Lost And Blind,
Time To Take The Time
The Pressure's On You
Hide Away, Hide Away,
No Tomorrow, Just Today
You, The Brilliant Thing You are
Outshine Your Brightest Star,
Too Distant And Too Far Away,
You, You Legend Deep inside,
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
What is this phase that I am going through
Oh 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 Oh
Ascends on you
Oh Oh
I scream with frustration and lost control
Open for the blows
My hands fall limp and hang down by 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 graceful turn against us
I know you're leaving
But it's to long overdue
For far too long
I've had nothing new
To show to you
Goodbye dry eyes
I've watched your plane
Fade off west of the moon
And it felt so strange
To walk away alone
CHORUS :
There's no regrets
No tears goodbye
I don't want you back
We'd only cry again
Say goodbye again
The hours that were yours
Echo like empty rooms
The thoughts I used to share
I now keep alone
I woke last night
And spoke to you
Not thinking you were gone
And it felt so strange
Strange how the change came all in a day
Counting down and counting down
And waiting for the minute
We could touch a world
Where every heart had love to offer
Heart-felt passion building around
Feel the love, feel the love
Sharing the strain
From where apathy reigns
For a dying world
All in one day
All in one day
When the hands reached out
Across an ocean
Everywhere
All in one day
All in one day
When the people came
And stood together
Everywhere
All in one day
All in one day
When the hands reached out
Across an ocean
Everywhere
All in one day
All in one day
When the people came
And stood together
Everywhere
Moments like this
I wish that you were mine
And I find that all the tears that you have cried were mine
How I long to hear you laughing now
And to feel the sun come breaking through the clouds
Chorus:
From each side of the world
We're calling
Watching the walls come falling down
And you know
Together we go on learning
Perfecting the art of common ground
I feel you within
Majestic and dignified
Dry your eyes as we go through the ritual of time
This is more than just survival now
Together we are guided through somehow
(Chorus)
How I long to hear you laughing now
And to feel the sun come breaking through the clouds
Ich fand ein vollkommenes Bild
Von einem vollkommen Fremden
Nach dem oder auf dem Bild
Müßte es in den 40er aufgenommen sein
Er könnte ein gerissener oder
Ein Blinder mit einem Stock
Vielleicht starb er vor Jahren
In einem Autounfall
Heute kann man es vermutlich wissen
Danach glaubte ich, ich hätte den falschen
Auf einer Brücke stehen gesehen
Ich fragte ihn nach der Zeit
Aber als er sich umdrehte sah ich
Dass er es gar nicht war
Ich suche immer noch
Ich suche immer noch
Ich sah ihn am Flughafen
Wo er auf einem Stuhle saß
Ich liebte ihn aber ich glaube nicht, dass er mich veränderte
Ich habe das komische Gefühl
Dass ich weiß, wer er ist
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.
We passed upon the stair
We spoke of was and when
Although I wasn't there
He said I was his friend
Which came as some surprise
I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died alone
A long long time ago
Oh no, not me
I never lost control
You're face to face
With the man who sold the world
I laughed and shook his hand,
And made my way back home
I searched for form and land
For years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazely stare
And all the millions here
We must have died alone
A long long time ago
Who knows? not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
Where are you? You're waving, the windows were ablaze
We're driving and we're drowning and we're drifting in a daze
We're smoking, we're talking, we reinvent the view
And we're occupying places just as they get removed
Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade
Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade
Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade
Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade
The journey was crazy, I'm trying to close my eyes
We're bypassing some places as they're editing the time
Wake up, you're kneeling, some young man's just gone down
There's a flicker and a flutter and the film is running out
Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade
Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade
Cross fade, cross fade
Pictures into structures and structures into motion
Cross over into action, over airways, over ocean
Cross fade, cross fade
Sitting on a train going round, round, get around
Looking at the same old places
Going up, down, to and fro, leave it all behind
It's a really good time
It's a really good waste of
Time for the taking
Turn it into something more than just
Time to kill
Driving down the road in a flip top motor car
Smiling at my strange reflection
Thinking buy one, have one, anyway you want one
It's a really bad time
It's a really bad waste of
Time for the taking
Turn it into something more than just
Time to kill
Watch those minutes turn to hours
Watch those hours turn to days
Watch those days turn into years
Time to kill
Talking with my friend on a seaside promenade
Whispering old conversations
Going chit chat, fancy that, going on for hours
It's a really good time
It's a really bad waste of
Time for the taking
Turn it into something more than just
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
New Europeans
Young Europeans
New Europeans
A photograph of lovers lost
Lies pressed in magazines
Her eyes belong to a thousand girls
She's a 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
New Europeans
Young Europeans
New Europeans
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
New Europeans
Young Europeans
New Europeans
oh, oh, oh, oh
oh, oh, oh, oh
oh, oh, oh, oh,
Time will find a way
A way to make your world go round
Present an empty day
A canvas for your words
To paint the things you see
A chapter still to come
Don't you know that every picture holds a story
Don't you know you'll learn to live again
Soon to find your road to everything
Don't you know you'll learn to live again
oh, oh, oh, oh
oh, oh, oh, oh
oh, oh, oh, oh...
I've seen it all before
The emptiness and empty heart
Belwildered and unsure
One moment and it's gone
Release and set you free
To cast away your ties
To radiate and shine to light your path to glory
Don't you know you'll learn to live again
Soon to find your road to everything
Don't you know you'll learn to live again
oh, oh, oh, oh
oh, oh, oh, oh
oh, oh, oh, oh...
Don't you know you'll learn to live again
Soon to find your road to everything
Don't you know you'll learn to live again
oh, oh, oh, oh
oh, oh, oh, oh
shine from above you satellite
follow your lead follow your light
libertine blue and angel white
free to release my dark tonight
oh, i defy you
let your light shine on me tonight
do, do what you know
know to be right
wondrous satellite
feed me with all the hope you find
lovingly laid but cruel, unkind
whisper to me with words so blue
feed mem your drug to see me through
oh, i defy you
let your light shine on me tonight
do, do what you know
know to be right
I am the road I walk alone
exposed and turned to stone
a heart without a home
Walk for miles to walk away
a new life every day
to welcome come what may
Turn around and make the change
turn it round and love will happen
you took a lifetime to find
the change
I am the wall I built along
the line that I have drawn
so cold and dark and strong
resistant to all love and hate
so tragic and so great
no heart to penetrate
Turn around and make the change
turn it round and love will happen
you took a lifetime to find
the change
Leave you standing on my shore
to watch this ocean roar
a sea you can't cross over
a racing tide to wash away
the gift of better days
with words that you might say
Turn around and make the change
turn around and make the change
turn it round and love will happen
you took a lifetime to find
what's wrong, who's right?
sad machines won't talk to me tonight
no questions looking for answers
no voices except inside my mind
talk to me somebody
talk to me, talk to me
just looking for contact, my friend
react, rewind,
relive this conversation one last time
just me in this endless forever
just me and the sound of heartbeat, distant drum
talk to me somebody
talk to me, talk
just looking for contact, my friend
what's wrong, who's right?
sad machines won't talk to me tonight
Pà issi cori chi sunniavanu
Di pace è sponde calme
Cù le so speranze appese
A isse tozze assuliate,
Pà issi venti chi scatinavanu
E mente di l'umani
Di lé so idee armate
Par un'antru lindumani
Senti cum'eo pregu, cum'eo pregu.
Hosanna, in excelsis
Oghje un'anima hà u fretu
Vedi un'anima hà u fretu
Pà isse vite accugliate
A e porte di u supranu
E le so quattru staghjoni
Di ricordi a e nostre labbre
Pà e stonde di a storia
Chi scrivianu isse mane
E tanti suspiri offerti
A lu sognu chi s'alluntana
Vedi ind'ù ni so li nostri tempi,
Duri so li nostri tempi
Hosanna, in excelsis
In unitate
Spiritus sanctis
Senti cum'eo pregu
Doro
Angels Never Die
Alles Ist Gut
Alles ist gut
Es wird schon immer irgendwie weitergehen
Alles ist gut
Wir werden nur nicht alle überleben
Was wird so sein wenn ich jetzt geh
Werd ich dich jemals lebend wiederseh'n
Es sieht so aus, als ob's ein kurzer weg war
Das alles irgendwie zu ende geht
Ich weiss nur ich will uberleben
Und werde mich niemals ergeben
Ich lieb dich besser jeden tag
Und hoff dass nicht auch schon alles war
Alles ist gut
Ich hange doch so sehr an diesem leben
Alles ist gut
Ich wurde darum alles dafur geben
Ich komm nicht druber weg mitanzusehen
Wie dunkle machte uber leben gehn
Alles ist gut
Vielleicht werd ich's ja gar nicht mehr erleben
Alles ist gut
Was ist denn schon mein kleines menschenleben
Es sieht aus wie ein kurzer weg
Ich hoff das er noch nicht zu ende geht
So lieb mich besser jeden tag
Und wenn es geht auch noch danach
Alles wird gut
Es wird schon immer irgendwie weitergehen
Alles wird gut
Ich hoffe nur ich werd es uberleben
Alles ist gut
Alles wird gut
Alles wird gut
Vielleicht gibt es ja danach noch ein leben
Alles wird gut
Vielleicht werd ich dich dann ja wiedersehen
(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
(Chorus)
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
(Chorus)
Sat'day night
Sat'day night
Sat'day night
Sat'day night in the city of the dead
Sat'day night
My sex
Waits for me
Like a mongrel waits
Downwind on a tightrope 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 car crash 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
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
hello, hello, hello
welcome to this world you made
hello, hello, hello
it's raining through your sad parade
if you always do
what you've always done
then nothing good will ever come
if you always get
what you've always got
you'll find that loves what you forgot
hello, hello, hello
welcome to this world you made
hello, hello, hello
it's raining through your sad parade
free to bite your bitter pill
sorry now, at least until
someone is but never will
hello, hello, hello, hello, hello
there's no one to blame
'cos this was your goal
you gave your life, your heart, your soul
wrapped in deceit
loving the lie
to find that life has left you dry
hello, hello, hello
welcome to this world you made
hello, hello, hello
it's raining through your sad parade
free to bite your bitter pill
sorry now, at least until
someone is but never will
hello, hello, hello, hello, hello
hello, hello, hello
welcome to this world you made
hello, hello, hello
it's raining through your sad parade
free to bite your bitter pill
sorry now, at least until
someone is but never will
It's hard to believe the time is come
For this one
For this one
Good fortune has breathed its breath upon
This one
This one
A handful of wanting, waitnig my turn
A mountain of past, a future to burn
A dream of tomorrows,
and what will become, become
With hope upon hope and blind desire
Empty horizons fuel my fire
Waiting for something
From lifes great liar
It's hard to believe the time has come
For this one
For this one
Good fortune has breathed its breath upon
This one
For this one
It's hard to believe the time has come
For this one
Binding my time till my time is due
Waiting in line as world looks through me
Right through
It's hard to believe the time has come
For this one
For this one
Good fortune has breathed its breath upon
This one
For this one
It's hard to believe the time has come
For this one, for this one
Good fortune has breathed its breath upon
This one
For this one
Rockwrok
Rockwrok
Rockwrok
Rockwrokrockwrok
Blast off, the walls are down
Cast off, the wolves are out
Come on, there's no time, I can't wait
Rip off my clothes, I'm stripping yours
Harder we're starred, wired and barbed
What a magnificent disgrace
Come on, let's tangle in the dark, dark
F*ck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
When it's wet and hot you want to rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrokrockwrok
Penetration boys in hotel lifts
Invitations on sinking ships
The whole wide world fits hip to hip
In aircraft, destroyers and cinema foyers
The chastened, the chasing, amazing the neighbours
Gay, wild and willing, stripped of grace
A sombre rumba in the dark, dark
F*ck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
The population's got to rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrokrockwrok
Rockwrok
Rockwrok
Rockwrok
Rockwrokrockwrokrockwrokrockwrok
A doodlebugger in the dark, dark
F*ck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
When they find the top you've got to rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrokrockwrok
A nimble mambo in the park, park
F*ck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
The population's got to rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrokrockwrok
An anal sailor in the bar, bar
F*ck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
When it's wet and hot you want to rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
A (?) in the car park
F*ck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
There's nothing left for us, just rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrokrockwrok
A willing waltzer in the car stark (?)
F*ck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
(?) you want to rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Oh yeah!
Oh - it's automatic (narcotic) let's ride
Four turkeys in a big black car
The road is shiny (black shine) the wheels slide
It all goes for a dangerous ride
The lacquer crackles (black car) the engine roars
A ship is turning, they come back to the shore
Splish splash I was raking in the cash
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface
King's lead hat was a mother to desire
It will come, it will come, it will surely come
King's lead hat put the innocence inside her
It will come, it will come, it will surely come
In New Delhi and Hong Kong
We all know that it won't be long
I count my fingers (here she comes) as night falls
And draw bananas on the bathroon walls
The killer cycles (hum drum) the killer hertz
The passage of my life is measured out in shirts
Time and motion (motion carried) time and tide
All I know and all I have is time and time and tide is on my side
King's lead hat was a poker in the fire
It will come, it will come, it will surely come
King's lead hat was a mother to desire
It will come, it will come, it will surely come
The weapon's ready, the gun's on
The satellite can toss and turn
The captain's here (sieg heil) but nobody hears
The king's hat fits over their ears
He dials zero (cold line) on every time
He tries to dial out 999999999
He dials reception, he's all alone
He's just a victim of the telephone
King's lead hat made the Amazon much wider
It will come, it will come, it will surely come
King's lead hat was a mother to desire
It will come, it will come, it will surely come
King's lead hat put the innocence inside her
It will come, it will come, it will surely come
King's lead hat was the poker in the fire
It will come, it will come, it will surely come
Couldn't you let it lie?
With a smile and subterfuge
you dances your savage dance
some hidden cause you cannot justyfy
a lie's a lie
Couldn't you let it lie
Couldn't you let it lie
Conscience clear and sanctified
you wash yooursins away
in god's name you start your holy war
who's it for?
Couldn't you let it lie?
Couldn't you let it lie?
Couldn't you let it lie?
Couldn't you let it lie?
i give to you the best of everything
i'm here to grow your little monuments
oh oh, don't dare to doubt me all the joy i bring
it's heaven sent
hold on, i've come to help you rise
with a handshake, big smile, good guy profile
take it now or leave it 'neath the flash of a neon sky
i'll cheat and lie
to give you all the things you need
to help you get the things i need for me
i bring you revelations openly
i set the word of god to make you pray
oh oh, don't think to thank my world for anything, anyway
hold on, i've come to help you rise
with a handshake, big smile, good guy profile
take it now or leave it 'neath the flash of a neon sky
i'll cheat and lie
to give you all the things you need
to help you get the things i need for me
hold on, i've come to help you rise
to give you all the things you need
no how or why
no live or die
fail to comply
red neon sky
hold on, i've come to help you rise
with a handshake, big smile, good guy profile
take it now or leave it 'neath the flash of a neon sky
i'll cheat and lie
to give you all the things you need
to help you get the things i need for me
take it now or leave it 'neath the flash of a neon sky
to give you all the things you need
First of all, do you all dream?
Yes, we do
The difference between our systems is that
Some of us remember our dreams better than others
Do you all dream, every night?
Yes, we do
It's part of a regular part of our sleep
Yes, it is
Does it affect the quality of our sleep?
Only if we wake up from the dreams
closing my eyes i slip away
i see the pictures play
of people been and gone
living in moments from the past
over much too fast
still longing to belong
just remembering
rememebring
closing my eyes i walked a while
a never ending mile
in avenues i've crossed
talking to people stood alone
in streets that i had known
to friends i've loved and lost
just remembering
rememebring
if i could gather all the moments so precious to stay with me
what would i be, what would i see?
just remembering
rememebring
just remembering
oh oh rememebring
just remembering
and i could never give in
and i could never feel small
and i could let it all go
now i've found somewhere to fall
wire and chain you cast upon me still remain
walk with your words within me
taking their toll upon me
hearing them still
running around inside until
time and again they remind me
no matter how distant you'll never be free
and i could never give in
and i could never feel small
and i could let it all go
now i've found somewhere to fall
look at me now
what can you hear
fierce conversations gone on for years
fighting back words with words of war
leaving you speechless but crying for more
talk to me now and try to explain
to someone who won't jump at shadows again
finding my feet and i'm standing
fighting a fight that i can win
and i could never give in
and i could never feel small
and i could let it all go
now i've found somewhere to fall
and i could never give in
and i could never feel small
and i could let it all go
Waiting, we were waiting
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
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, the quiet men
Oh, the quiet men
Oh, the quiet men
My obsession
Your desire
Come let me lead you
To the fire
Show some mercy
My pounding heart
Can't take much more of this
You've got play your part
Bodies yearning
Is this for real?
Words cannot express the way I really feel
Passion burning
You ignite the flame
We touch, we come alive
We'll never be the same again
Chorus:
The closer I get to you
The more I reveal is true
And something inside of me
Burns my reality
Use your imagination
Exorcise
See your future
Through my eyes
No salvation
Nowhere to hide
We're one dimension
We're one inside
Is this perfection
Taken to extreme?
We're drowning in a sea of possibilities
Pure emotion
You can't conceal
We touch, we come alive
We'll know that this time it's for real
(Chorus)
Bodies yearning
Is this for real?
Words cannot express the way I really feel
Passion burning
You ignite the flame
We touch, we come alive
We'll never be the same again