Ultravox

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

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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Written By CURRIE, WILLIAM SIMON, ROBIN ALLEN, CHRISTOPHER CANN, WARREN LEIGH, DENNIS
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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

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

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

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!

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

:
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)

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

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)

(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