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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...
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 Attent...
When I was a boy, there's a dream that I had That a war if it's fought was for good against bad And I woke up to find that the world had gone mad And we'd all fall down And I feel like a child again sitting observing You're toying with power, your fingers are burning You're pushing so hard that the worms won't be turning We'll all fall down While you try to pretend you're a God upon high With ...
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 d...
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 We stood still We all stood still Still stood still We're standing still The screen shut down There's ...
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 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, sh...
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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...
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 See the...
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 tears in my eyes Weeping for the memory of a life gone by Dancing with tears in my eyes Living out a m...
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 Dangerous rhythm Dangerous rhythm Dangerous rhythm in the air Surging and merging Urgent and urging Soft as ...
Running down an empty street Perhaps it was a railway station Smell of eau de 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 Oh, oh, oh, dislocation Oh, oh, oh, dislocation The sun was going down one quiet evening Someone came into the room while I ...
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 di...
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 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 W...
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 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 Then I felt it All the tears and the grief I be...
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 gray 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 ...
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 d...
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 o...
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...
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 w...
I found the bones of all your ghosts Locked in the wishing well While birdsong gourmets dragged empty nets I slumbered in my shell Mitternacht, die mensch-machine 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...
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 ...
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 Lament And just as the smile's returning After all the pain The fire inside stops burning Just to burn again In moments of madness Returns that softly sighing lament Lament Lament Lament Lament Lament Lament Lament
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 ...
Standing on my own It didn't mean that much to me I thought I had it all I didn't see the mystery I stood the test of time And took the step to find Love's great adventure I spoke a million words They didn't mean that much to me They rang around my head Like empty tuneless harmonies Love's great adventure's mine Lying side by side It didn't mean that much to me I started to enjoy The poetry an...
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 dee...
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...
A life as a stranger Hands through a wire Forbidden desires Are mine for life Looking from a spiral staircase At a man with a suitcase As he shades his eyes Watching from a stained glass shelter He bides his time and thinks There must be more to life than this A life as a stranger Hands through a wire Forbidden desires Are mine for life The poet reads his words out loud To a make-believe crowd...
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 searc...
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 car crash overpass My sex Is savage, tender It wears no future faces Owns just random gend...
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 The...
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...
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 friends, your time will come again One day, where I didn't die a thousand times Where I could satisf...
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,...
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 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...
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...
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 a...
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 halls, there were no walls at all For the quiet friends Of the quiet men The quiet men The quiet men Springtime, there was sunshine Through the window panes, down all the English lanes Where they walked again Th...
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, ...
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 ...
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...
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 Fck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark When it's wet and hot you want to rockwrok Rockwrok, rockwrok Rock...
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 i...
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, ...
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 ...
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'...
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? Whe...
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, the...
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 ea...
Light gets through a crack in the door I tape up the windows once more Tight like a cold hand of fear 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 that final mistake Speak to hear the sound of your voice Don't fear the stranger within S...
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 syste...
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
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...
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 ...
You stand out of the crowd You don't follow the shadows You've given me solid ground You rise above All that surrounds you And I can't believe what I've found Chorus: And I am falling through the hands of time As I discover within my mind That I, if I can leave the hurt behind Then what's mine is yours Save the great outdoors for another time You've opened my eyes To a world of intentions And ...
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 i...
Someone stood beside me for a moments 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 leap 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 ...
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 Haun...
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 We...
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...
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 befo...
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 ...
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 d...
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...
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 your clutching arm Visions in blue Catch aimless smiles from passers-by Blistered and broken in re...
Waiting Waiting Waiting 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 Waiting Waiting Looking back as you head for home Unsure if you walk alone Friends call from an open door Strange voice as you cros...
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 me cry Like the sound of distant drums Rejected and alone, a heart without a home And someone said We came to dance Making moves from a passion play The t...
The words played on around our heads Perhaps we went too far We'll soldier on until the end, again This clutching hand around my hand So pitiful and frail Makes bleeding hearts begin to beat again We stand in a different light That's cast upon, this gigolo and gigolette We stand with a different frame around us now But when we talk, we talk in time We'll shine with profiles so strong and so cl...
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,...
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 Ti...
So you think it's over So you think that down's the only way out A sad excuse for lovers With your head held high and your heart still full of doubt It's just like you to scorn The only one who'll mourn The day he doesn't love you When the time comes, I'll cry On the day that you cut the thread When my heart tears, I'll cry So you gave up giving And you sit and smile when the awkward silence f...
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 ...
Playing the game With the chips on my shoulder Checking in the mirror As my coffee cup gets colder Stagger and swagger Combing my hair If tomorrow's not there Then at least today's all mine While I'm still alive While I'm still alive While I'm still alive Strutting my stuff I'm blagging the damage From coupling with headlines I was suckled on salvage The fighting's exciting The age is dramatic...
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, w...
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 Wit...
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 damned The wild, the beautiful and...
Something stops me from seeing too clear A misty haze floats 'round the room The murmurs make it hard to hear The voices and the words The days seem to drag away My speech is sparse and tends to slur I wonder what happened to my friend today Can't hear the words Your name has slipped my mind again Your name has slipped my mind again It's hard to focus in this light I'm growing warm and feeling...

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