Geoff Downes [,The Buggles, Yes, Asia, Glenn Hughes, New Dance Orchestra, John Wetton, ICON]

I Cord of Life

A man conceived a moment's answer to the dream
Staying the flowers daily, sensing all the themes
As a foundation left to create the spiral aim
A movement regained and regarded both the same
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you

Changed only for a sight of sound, the space agreed
Between the picture of time behind the face of need
Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid
Emotions revealed as the ocean maid
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you

Coins and crosses
(Turn round tailor, assaulting)
Never know their fruitless worth
(all the mornings of the interest shown,
presenting one another to the cord)
Cords are broken
(All left dying, rediscovered
Of the door that turned round)
Locked inside the mother Earth
(To close the cover, all the
interest shown)
They won't hide, hold, they won't tell you
(To turn one another, to the
sign at the time float your climb)
Watching the world, watching all of the world
Watching us go by

And you and I climb over the sea to the valley
And you and I reached out for reasons to call

II Eclipse

Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid
Emotions revealed as the ocean maid
As a movement regained and regarded both the same
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you

III The preacher, the teacher

Sad preacher nailed upon the coloured door of time
Insane teacher be there reminded of the rhyme
There'll be no mutant enemy we shall certify
Political ends as sad remains will die
Reach out as forward tastes begin to enter you
Oooh, ooh

I listened hard but could not see
Life tempo change out and inside me
The preacher trained in all to lose his name
The teacher travels, asking to be shown the same
In the end we'll agree, we'll accept, we'll immortalize
That the truth of man maturing in his eyes
All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you

Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid
As a moment regained and regarded both the same
Emotion revealed as the ocean maid
A clearer future, morning, evening, nights with you

IV Apocalypse

And you and I climb, crossing the shapes of the morning
And you and I reach over the sun for the river
And you and I climb, clearer towards the movement
And you and I called over valleys of endless seas

And in the ruins of the balloon
Stood a man with glasses held high
Wondering when to do it again
Have another fly into the sky
Somewhere flying high

Astral traveller
Leaving without her
Wondering where lights go
Leave out the body load

Once in the air, people who dare
Get a great respect in the end (astral traveller)
Heavenly flight, wonderous night
And all the sights worth seeing
Just believe in

Astral traveller
Leaving without her
Wondering where lights go
Leave out the body load

Once in the air, people who dare
Get a great respect in the end (astral traveller)
Heavenly flight, wonderous night
And all the sights worth seeing
Just believe in

Astral traveller
Leaving without her
Wondering where lights go
Leave out the body load

Loves comes to you and you follow
Lose one on to the Heart of the Sunrise
Sharp distance
How can the wind with its arms all around me

Lost on a wave and then after
Dream on on to the Heart of the Sunrise
Sharp distance
How can the wind with so many around me
Lost in the city

Lost in their eyes as you hurry by
Counting the broken ties they decide
Love comes to you and then after
Dream on on to the heart of the sunrise
Lost on a wave that you're dreaming
Dream on on to the Heart of the Sunrise
Sharp distance
How can the wind with its arms all around me
Sharp distance
How can the wind with so many around me
I feel lost in the city

Lost in their eyes as you hurry by
Counting the broken ties they decided

Straight light moving and removing
Sharpness of the colour sun shine
Straight light searching all the meanings of the song
Long last treatment of the telling that relates to all the words sung
Dreamer easy in the chair that really fits you

Love comes to you and then after
Dream on on to the Heart of the Sunrise
Sharp distance
How can the sun with its arms all around me
Sharp distance
How can the wind with so many around me
I feel lost in the city

I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
so satisfied I'm on my way
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
so satisfied I'm on my way

Take a straight and stronger course to the corner of
your life
Make the white queen run so fast she hasn't got time
to make you a wife

'Cause it's time is time in time with your time and
its news is captured...for the queen to use!
Move me on to any black square
Use me anytime you want
Just remember that the goal
Is for us all to capture all we want
(Move me on to any black square)

Don't surround yourself with yourself
Move on back two squares
Send an instant karma to me
Initial it with loving care
(Don't surround yourself)

'Cause it's time is time in time with your time and
its news is captured...for the queen to use!

Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda
(Don't surround yourself with yourself)

Don't surround yourself with yourself
(Don't surround yourself)
Move on back two squares
Send an instant karma to me
(Send an instant karma to me)
Initial it with loving care
(Don't surround yourself)

'Cause it's time is time in time with your time and
its news is captured...for the queen to use!

Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda (All we are saying)
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda (Is give peace a chance)
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda (All we are saying)
Diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit diddit didda (Is give peace a chance

'Cause it's time is time in time with your time and
its news is captured...

II All good people

I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
So satisfied I'm on my way

I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
So satisfied I'm on my way...

PART 1

Run down a street where the glass shows that summer has gone
Age in the doorways, resenting the pace of the dawn.
All of them standing in line
All of them waiting for time.
From time, the great healer,
The machine messiah is born.

Cables that carry the life to the cities we build
Threads that link diamonds of light to the satanic mills
Ah, to see in every way
That, we feel it every day, and know that
Maybe we'll change
Offered the chance
To finally unlearn our lessons and alter our stance.

PART 2

Friends make their way into systems of chance
(Friends make their way of escape into systems of chance)
Escape to freedom, I need to be there
Waiting and watching, the tables are turning
I'm waiting and watching
I need to be there.

I care to see them walk away
And, to be there when they say
They will return.

Machine, machine messiah
The mindless search for a higher controller
Take me to the fire and hold me
Show me the strength of your singular eye.

PART 3

History dictating symptoms of ruling romance
Claws at the shores of the water upon which we dance
All of us standing in line
All of us waiting for time
To feel it all the way
And to be there when they say they know that
Maybe we'll change
Offered the chance
To finally unlearn our lessons and alter our stance.

Machine, machine messiah
Take me into the fire.

Hold me, machine messiah
And show me
The strength of your singular eye.

Contained in everything I do
There's a love I feel for you
Proclaimed in everything I write
You're the light
Burning brightly
Onward through the night
Onward through the night
Onward through the night of my life

Displayed in all the things I see
There's a love you show to me
Portrayed in all the things you say
You're the day
Leading the way
Onward through the night
Onward through the night
Onward through the night of my life

Onward through the night
Onward through the night
Onward through the night of my life

Move yourself
You always live your life
Never thinking of the future
Prove yourself
You are the move you make
Take your chances win or loser

See yourself
You are the steps you take
You and you - and that's the only way

Shake - shake yourself
You're every move you make
So the story goes

Owner of a lonely heart
Owner of a lonely heart
Much better than an
Owner of a broken heart
Owner of a lonely heart

Say - you don't want to chance it
You've been hurt so before

Watch it now
The eagle in the sky
How he dancin' one and only
You - lose yourself
No not for pity's sake

There's no real reason to be lonely
Be yourself
Give your free will a chance
You've got to want to succeed

Owner of a lonely heart
Owner of a lonely heart
Much better than an
Owner of a broken heart
Owner of a lonely heart

Owner of a lonely heart

After my own indecision
They confused me so (Owner of a lonely heart)
My love said never question your will at all
In the end you've got to go
Look before you leap (Owner of a lonely heart)
And don't you hesitate at all - no no

Owner of a lonely heart
Owner of a lonely heart
Much better than an
Owner of a broken heart
Owner of a lonely heart

Owner of a lonely heart
Owner of a lonely heart
Much better than an
Owner of a broken heart
Owner of a lonely heart

Owner of a lonely heart

Sooner or later each conclusion
Will decide the lonely heart (Owner of a lonely heart)
It will excite it will delight
It will give a better start (Owner of a lonely heart)

Don't deceive your free will at all
Don't deceive your free will at all (Owner of a lonely heart)
Don't deceive your free will at all
Just receive it

I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out 'n' out
I spend the day your way
Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley

The music dance and sing
They make the children really ring
I spend the day your way
Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
One mile over we'll be there and we'll see you
Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too
Twenty four before my love you'll see I'll be there with you

I will remember you
Your silhouette will charge the view
Of distance atmosphere
Call it morning driving thru the sound and even in the valley

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
One mile over we'll be there and we'll see you
Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too
Twenty four before my love you'll see I'll be there with you

Along the drifting cloud the eagle searching down on the land
Catching the swirling wind the sailor sees the rim of the land
The eagle's dancing wings create as weather spins out of hand

Go closer hold the land feel partly no more than grains of sand
We stand to lose all time a thousand answers by in our hand
Next to your deeper fears we stand surrounded by a million years

I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out 'n' out
I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out 'n' out

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
Twenty four before my love and I'll be there

I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out 'n' out
You spend the day your way
Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
One mile over we'll be there and we'll see you
Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too
Twenty four before my love you'll see I'll be there with you

Da, da, da, da, da, da, da
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da

Sing, bird of prey
Beauty begins at the foot of you, do you believe the manner?
Gold stainless nail
Torn through the distance of man as they regard the summit

Even Siberia goes through the motions, hold out and hold up
Hold down the window (outbound, river)
Hold out the morning that comes into view (bluetail, tailfly)
River running right on over my head

How does she sing?
Who holds the ring and ring and you will find me coming?
Cold reigning king
Hold all the secrets from you as they produce the movement

Even Siberia goes through the motions, hold out and hold up
Hold down the window (outbound, river)
Hold out the morning that comes into view (bluetail, tailfly)
River running right over the outboard, river
Bluetail, tailfly
Luther in time
Dood'ndoodit, dah, d't-d't-dah

Hold down the window
Hold out the morning that comes into view
Warm side, the tower
Green leaves reveal the heart spoken Khatru

Gold stainless nail
Torn through the distance of man as they regard the summit
Cold reigning king
Shelter the women that sing as they produce the movement
River running right on over
Then over my head outboard, river

Bluetail, tailfly
Luther in time
Suntower asking
Cover, lover
June cast, moon fast
As one changes
Heart gold, leaver
Soul mark, mover
Christian, changer
Called out, saviour
Moon gate, climber
Turn round, glider

A river, a mountain to be crossed
The sunshine in mountains sometimes lost
Around the south side
So cold that we cried

Were we ever colder on that day, a million miles away
It seemed from all of eternity

Move forward was my friend's only cry
In deeper to somewhere we could lie
And rest for the day
With cold in the way

Were we ever colder on that day, a million miles away
It seemed from all of eternity

The moments seemed lost in all the noise
A snow storm, a stimulating voice
Of warmth of the sky
Of warmth when you die

Were we ever warmer on that day, a million miles away
It seemed from all of eternity

The sunshine in mountains sometimes lost
The river can disregard the cost
And melt in the sky
The warmth when you die

Were we ever warmer on that day a million miles away
It seemed from all of eternity

Sister bluebird flying high above
Shine your wings forward to the sun
Hide the myst'ries of life on your way
Though you've seen them, please don't say a word
What you don't know, I have never heard

Starship trooper, go sailing on by
Catch my soul, catch the very light
Hide the moment from my eager eye
Though you've seen them, please don't tell a soul
What you can't see, can't be very whole

Speak to me of summer
Long winters longer than time can remember
The setting up of other roads
To travel on in old accustomed ways
I still remember the talks by the water
The proud sons and daughter
That knew the knowledge of the land
Spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways

Mother life, hold firmly on to me
Catch my knowledge higher than the day
Lose as much as only you can show
Though you've seen me, please don't say a word
What I don't know, I have never shared

Loneliness is a power that we possess to give or take away forever
All I know can be shown by your acceptance of the facts there shown before you
Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is all confusion
As I see a new day in me, I can also show it you and you may follow

Speak to me of summer
Long winters longer than time can remember
The setting up of other roads
To travel on in old accustomed ways
I still remember the talks by the water
The proud sons and daughter
That knew the knowledge of the land
Spoke to me in sweet accustomed ways

(Yes, yes)
(Yes, yes)
(Yes, yes)

Born in the night, she would run like a leopard
That freaks at the sight of a mind close beside herself
And the nearer I came, how the country would change
She was using the landscape to hide herself

More in the mind than the body this feeling
A sense at the end like a circular line
That is drawn at an angle I see when I'm with you
To navigate waters and finally answer to yes

If you were there you would want to be near me
Innocence, you could hold the materials
And though nothing would really be living
It would shock your fall into landing light

In the north sky, time flies fast to the morning
The cold of the dawn, it meant nothing to us
You were keeping your best situation, an answer to yes

(Yes, yes) And the moment I see you
(Yes, yes) It's so good to be near you
(Yes, yes) And the feeling you give me
(Yes, yes) Makes me want to be with you
(Yes, yes) From the moment you tell me...
YES!

If you could see all the roads I have travelled
Towards some unusable last equilibrium
Run like an athlete and die like a dead beaten speed freak
An answer to all of your answers to yes

In the north sky, time flies faster than morning
The cold of the dawn it meant nothing to us
You were keeping your best situation, an answer to yes

(Yes, yes) And the moment I see you
(Yes, yes) It's so good to be near you
(Yes, yes) And the feeling you give me
(Yes, yes) Makes me want to be with you
(Yes, yes) If we wait for an answer
(Yes, yes) Will the silence be broken?
(Yes, yes) Should we wait for an answer?
(Yes, yes) Do we leave it unspoken?

(Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes . . .)

Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face
Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human race
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place
If the summer changed to winter, yours is no disgrace

Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are
Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are
Lost in summer, born in winter, travel very far
Lost in losing circumstances, that's just where you are

Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face
Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human, silly human race
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place
If the summer changed to winter, yours is no, yours is no disgrace
Yours is no disgrace
Yours is no disgrace

Death defying, mutilated armies scatter the earth
Crawling out of dirty holes, their morals, their morals disappear

Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face
Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human, silly human, silly human race
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place
If the summer changed to winter, yours is no, yours is no disgrace
Yours is no disgrace
Yours is no disgrace

Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are
Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are
Lost in summer, born in winter, travel very far
Lost in losing circumstances, that's just where you are

In the dark
While the obvious
Isn't clear
Can't believe
Just what can
Interfere

Remember what has been achieved
Keep trying it's the hour of need

What's the cost?
Can the end justify the means?
There's a need
So many mouths to feed

Remember what has been achieved
Keep trying it's the hour of need

Still hoping we can succeed
In this hour of need

Words unwriten
Mistrust suspicion
Stuck in this wilderness
For everyone
Water to drink
Either we sink or swim

Something not so superficial
Like something I can really do without
Need a hand to hold onto
Help me understand

What's the point in preparation now
You've just got to make that leap somehow
Into the storm

All the stories you've been telling
You must know some day they'll find you out
Through this life you've been propelling
Now you're spinning out

Time to make your reparations now
You've just to make that leap somehow
Come on and make it now
Into the storm

Armies of angels are starting to form
Bathed in the light of the break of the dawn

Armies of angels are leading me on
Take me away from the heart of the storm

Take me away
Take me away

One thing learnt from all these years
As stupid now as we were at first
Maybe that's the way it goes
When you try to change the world

Sending pointless invitations out
You always knew what this was all about
Somewhere a fire is breaking out
Into the storm

Armies of angels are starting to fall
Bathed in the light of the break of the dawn

Armies of angels are leading me on
Take me away from the heart of the storm

Take me away
Take me away

All the poems of my neighbours
That drift across the sand
Are just the tendrils
Of a vast
But gentle plant which they command

The headdress of a goddess
You wore the night we came
Is only one small symptom
I'm really not to blame

You're riding a tiger
Riding a tiger

Heaven sent the mortals
Raged upon the wall
And likewise all the missiles
Shot to make them fall
Effortlessly moving
Picture into frame

Riding a tiger
(You're) Riding a tiger
Riding a tiger

Over the beaches
Into the sky
Into the reach of some
Last goodbye

Key grip was crying
Best boy was made
Here in the shelter
No one afraid
We were there

Follow the road
That leads to the sun
Look for the leader
He is the one
Who will

Offer the silence
You must beware
Using the danger
No one can share

Riding a tiger
Riding a tiger
Riding a tiger
Riding a tiger

Out of the morning
Into the day
On to the evening
No where to stay
We were

Always together
Always the same
Into the future
No one to blame

Riding a tiger
Riding a tiger
Riding a tiger
Riding a tiger

Riding a tiger
Riding a tiger

What have I become?
What am I running away from?
I used to see
Things in a very different way

What am I to do?
I have changed my point of view
I was lost
Now I've found myself in you

From some other part of me
I'll summon the strength to see me through
From deep in the heart of me
To be everything you want me to
And that's when I start to be
The man you've always seen in me
The man you've always wanted me to be

What have we become?
What are we running away from?
We need to see
Life in a very different way

Learning what to do
After all that we've been through
No longer lost
We have found ourselves anew

From some other part of me
I'll summon the strength to see me through
From deep in the heart of me
To be everything you want me to
And that's when I start to be
The man you've always seen in me
The man you've always wanted me to be

Ee Yeah, Ee Yeah, Ee Yeah, Ee Yeah
Ee Yeah

The man you always wanted me
To be

Through the fields that have changed with time
The spirit still grows stronger
I can see the boy inside
I can feel the hunger

But there's a shadow that is thrown upon us
Like a thief come in the night
They still try and put us down
We stand and fight

I believe
We're gonna rise and steal the thunder
I believe
We're gonna hold this flame forever
I believe

Like an arrow from a burning bow
It's aim once born of anger
Like a river that forever flows
The years our only danger

The water washes over me
But I still can breathe the fire
Oh Lord, I'm just a man
No longer giving it all away

I believe
We're gonna rise and steal the thunder
I believe
We're gonna hold this flame forever
I believe

You give your innocence so easy
All too soon you'll know
Lose your fragile independence
Then you're on your own

No matter what it is
Be sure it can be fixed
Letting go of yesterday
Might, just might light the way

I keep on searching ever more
For what I just can't see
Now I look and find the answer
Right in front of me

No matter what it is
Be sure it can be fixed
Letting go of yesterday
Might, just might light the way

No matter what it is
Be sure it can be fixed
Letting go of yesterday
Might, just might light the way

No matter what it is
Be sure it can be fixed
Letting go of yesterday
Might, just might light the way

Invisible sun cast your shadow over me
As wind cuts like a knife
Catapulting me from life with you
Waiting on an empty street, hiding from the sun

And in one place or another
All my memories still remain
You've been taken from my eyes
But you're running through my veins

Down corridors of rocks and sand
It's littered and it's torn
The wear and tear from dusk till dawn
Waiting on an empty street, hiding from the sun

And in one place or another
All my memories still remain
You've been taken from my eyes
But you're running through my veins
You've been taken from my eyes
But you're running through my veins

This treasure can be anyone's
To believe in only one
It's not a foolish thing, there's no comparison
Waiting on an empty street, hiding from the sun

And in one place or another
All my memories still remain
You've been taken from my eyes
But you're running through my veins

You've been taken from my eyes
But you're running through my veins
You've been taken from my eyes
But you're running through my veins

Through my veins, through my veins
Through my veins, through my veins
Through my veins, through my veins
Through my veins

This time, you know just what I'm saying
But you could never give a damn
Or so it seems

It's a fine line with this game that you're playing
And you could always turn around
Go running for home

Chorus
Alibis, little lies
Procrastination
Secrecy, duplicity
The end of your alibis

Something I could always believe in
Then suddenly just disappeared
It's all over now

Chorus

Goodbye your tiny whispers of comfort
Never the victim of circumstance
You had me deceived

So, Jodie, maybe this is the last time
That I will ever speak your name
I'm going home

Chorus

Chorus

A perfect day, or so I say
From where I'm standing
This rollercoaster ride, fate will decide
The ending

Love everlasting, or lost on the way

The smiles and the frowns, the ups and downs
Of fortune turning
The twists and turns, the lessons learned
The bridges burning

Nights to remember and never forget

CHORUS
Go, seize the day
Wake up and say
This is an extraordinary life, oh
Enjoy today
Come what may
This is an extraordinary

I gave it all, my cards have fallen
But I'm still alive
And in the end, believe my friend
I will survive

Glory or heartache and some of the joy

CHORUS

All of the good times, all of the bad
Responsibility is totally mine I know
I rightly stand accused
But I believe that I can change
Yes, I can change my world

CHORUS

CHORUS

I hold the razor blade up to my face
I feel the pulse beneath my skin
The crimson line describes the outer trace
Of my broken heart within

I thought I was invincible
Until the sky fell down on me

You are my heroine, do with me what you will
This is no time to die, no time to kill
My heroine, my lover to the end
You give me life again, you are my heroine

I turn my mind back not so long ago
When I was cast upon the ground
Then utter chaos rained into my life
What I had lost could not be found

And I thought I'd live forever
My time on Earth had ceased to be

You are my heroine, do with me what you will
This is no time to die, no time to kill
The gentle waves of rolling sea
Washing my demons from me
You are my heroine, all that matters to me

I may have loved you for a thousand years
But then you've known that all along
I always saw you as an eagle high in the sky
So tell me why
Only you hold the key to set me free

And I thought I saw eternity
With my own eyes too blind to see

You are my heroine, do with me what you will
This is no time to die, no time to kill
My heroine, my lover to the end
You give me life again with peace you send
The gentle waves of rolling sea
To wash all the demons from me
You are my heroine, all that matters to me

Somewhere I'll see you again
These words are true
Inside I carry a flame
It burns for you

Sometimes I reach for you
But you're not there
The place you take me to
I know not where

CHORUS
In dreams you come to me
I'm never free
For I know wherever I go, whatever I do
I will remember you

Locked in my memory
Your silhouette
The only face I see
I can't forget

CHORUS

BRIDGE
And if I should light a candle
For all the others I've known
No matter how I try
You're there before my eye
And the thought will never subside forever
I will remember you
These streets and these houses
All of the places I've seen
If I run from you, no matter what I do
The fire will always survive
The embers are still alive, and
I will remember you

BRIDGE

I saw the universe, I held it in my hand
The planets and the stars, merely grains of sand
The darkness that I knew, it is no more
The Sun will shine for me, of that I can be sure
This is the day, the day of my ascendance
A time for life, a time for independence

Chorus
Never again will I bear arms against my brothers
Never again will I dishonour anyone
Never again will I wish evil on another
Never again will I bear arms against my brothers

The age of Gemini, a dazzling creation
A new enlightenment, a great illumination
Dark acts of history must never be repeated
I know I must treat you the way I'd be treated
This is the day, the day of my ascendance
A time for life, a time for independence

Chorus

Never again
Never again

I'm climbing now, I'm gaining altitude
And now my hands can feel the grip
My head is spinning with a synergy
The power that takes me up and

Never again will I bear arms against my brothers
Never again will I spill blood of any mother's son
Never again, oo
Never again, ah
Never again, oo
Never again, ah
Never again will I bear arms against my brothers
Never again will I dishonour anyone
Never again will I wish evil on another
Never again will I spill blood of any mother's son
Never again

Hold on to life, for in moments it can fade away

Last night, I roamed in San Francisco
Tomorrow ,Shibuya is my home
I will be waiting in the darkness in the pouring rain
And always I'm alone

Walking the streets of New York City
Light years away from where I'm born
I study the faces of the people while I'm standing
In the shadows of their final dawn

Chorus
You know that nothing's forever, it's just for today
Can't live for the future, forget yesterday
And hold on to life, for in moments it can fade away

Maybe I'm following too closely
Sometimes you feel you've had enough
Making the most of what you have today
Just hope and pray for those you really love

Chorus

Nothing's forever

Chorus

You know that nothing's forever, it's just for today
Can't live for the future, forget yesterday
Nothing from nothing is nothing, amen, so I say

Nothing's forever
Ashes to ashes
Nothing's forever
Ashes to ashes
Nothing's forever
Ashes to ashes
Nothing's forever

Don't taint this ground
With the colour of the past
Are the sounds in bloom with you?
'Cause you seem like
An orchard of mines
Just take one step at a time

CHORUS
Oh, and you seem to break like time
So fragile on the inside
You climb these grapevines
Would you look now
Unto this pit of me on the ground?
And you wander through these
To climb these grapevines

Vines

I'll say it to be proud
Won't have my life turned upside down
Says the man with some gold-forged plan
Of life so incomplete
Like weights strapped around my feet
Tread careful, one step at a time

CHORUS

BRIDGE
To know, to feel
To play me once again
Do you denote
From what we feel?
Do you not know?

BRIDGE

I see you've played the game
Do you denote?

If our only chance was in today
Let it lift us up above some way
As the evening shadows fall
I'll confide in you once more

Over, over and over again
We will resolve our true destiny
Only through Love, our passage guaranteed
Let it lift me up above

We are on a journey, to where we can't be sure
When we are as one, it opens every door
I don't want to take you across the great divide
This horizon's nearer, much easier to find

Let it lift me up above

> Theres a vision I see
A reflection of me
In a fragment

That is frozen in time
On a luminous line
For a moment

And somewhere deep in the night
Theres a girl
And she feels how I feel
Cause were living in PARALLEL WORLDS

Seems like shell never know
How my solitude grows
And I shudder

To think I cant touch
What Im craving so much
For I love her

Somewhere deep in the night
Theres a girl
And she feels how I feel
Cause were living in PARALLEL WORLDS

Words trip from my tongue
Saying, "be strong, always be strong"
Scenes flash past my eyes
Telling me here is the where we belong

If you believe what I believe
Then we're home, yeah, we're home

CHORUS
I should have seen it coming
I could have worked it out
Your feminine mentality
Reveals the things I cannot see
I should have seen it coming
I could have worked it out
The danger signs have left my mind
It's way beyond a shadow of a doubt

So it won't be long
Stay with me now, where you belong
It's our right to fly to the stars
Just for one night this world is ours

If you believe what I believe
Then we're home, yeah, we're home

CHORUS

CHORUS
CHORUS

It was a lie
Nothing was real
Just a disguise you're using
You're using still

When you meet preaacher man
Remind him of your fear
Over which you operate
Operate control

When the truth is recalled
The evidence resound
It's the price you'll pay
On the rebound

CHORUS
Wish I'd known all along
What you're running from
Wish I'd now all along
You can't choose between weak or strong

But you're not there
To turn the key
On your own two feet
Two feet on the ground

Get a grip right on
To the situation
Try to choose what
You choose to ignore

CHORUS

Your time has come
It's not too late
Don't hesitate
Hesitate
Hesitate

Wish I'd known all along
What you're running from
Wish I'd known all along
What you're running from

When the present destroys the past

CHORUS

When the present destroys the past
When the present destroys the past

Video Killed The Radio Star (드류베리모어의 영화 OST `Wedding Singer`) - Buggles I heard you on my wireless back in ''52 Lying awake, intent on tuning in on you If I was young, it didn''t stop you coming through Oh-Oh They took the credit for your second symphony Rewritten by machine on new technology And now I understand the supernova scene Oh-Oh I met your children Oh-Oh What did you tell them? Video killed the Radio star Video killed the Radio star 'Cause in my mind and in my car We can''t rewind we''ve gone too far Woah! Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh And now we meet in an abandoned studio You hear the playback and it seems so long ago And you remember the jingles used to go Oh-Oh You were the first one Oh-Oh You were the last one Video killed the Radio star Video killed the Radio star 'Cause In my mind and in my car We can''t rewind, we''ve gone too far Too far! Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Alright! Video killed the Radio star Video killed the Radio star 'Cause in my mind and in my car We can''t rewind we''ve gone too far Pictures came and broke your heart So put all the blame on VCR You are the radio staaaaar You are the radio staaaaar Video killed the Radio star Video killed the Radio star Video killed the Radio star Video killed the Radio star Video killed the Radio star Video killed the Radio star Video killed the Radio star Video killed that Radio star, Yes it did

So scared of the dark
Frightened now to close heavy eyes
Escape this dream
Haunts my every cell

Whenever I sleep
I wake into a world
After the war
Cities turned to sand

We live underground
Ever since the end of the fall
Nations erased
Programmed 20 years ago

I'm alive

Blue Moon Monday
Blue Moon Monday
I can't believe the scene
Some day, some day
So safe within my arms
One day, one way
We will return again
Blue Moon Monday

Again I awake
Into a perfect world
The sun always shines
Here I feel so safe

I'm living two lives
The darkness and the light
Heaven and Hell
I don't wanna die

Don't let me sleep
Why can't just you hear what I say?
Which is the dream
Now I don't understand

Am I alive?

Blue Moon Monday
Blue Moon Monday
I can't believe the scene
Some day, some day
So safe within my arms
One day, one way
We will return again
Blue Moon Monday

So
Do you believe?
The truth
Of who we are

Everyone must kneel
Everyone must bow
No matter how you feel
In the sacred hour

And the sun don't shine
Cos the moon won't fall
And the sun won't shine
Is there light at all?
Its darkness day

Ghost
I feel it to the bone
Enough
The messages in stone

Now the day has come
Everyone will see
A new age has begun
For eternity

And the sun don't shine
Cos the moon won't fall
And the sun won't shine
Is there light at all?
Its darkness day

I've been hearing voices
Voices in my head
Can't escape the noises
Lying in my bed

The winter nights grow colder
The darkness falls too soon
I will hide till morning
How silent is this moon?

Just one look and I will find
Someone else on the other side
A trick of light or the darker mind
Ghost in the mirror

And as the dawn is waking
The shadows burn away
The sun reborn the savior
The safety of the day

Just one look and I will find
Someone else on the other side
A trick of light or the darker mind
Ghost in the mirror

The darkness calls me
The shadows fool me
Is it safe on the other side?
Is this my future?
If it's a dream why can't I wake?

Just one look and I will find
Someone else on the other side
A trick of light or the darker mind
Ghost in the mirror

Kelly stands by the water
With a gun in her hand
She won't believe in the future
In a world made by man

There's nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
With so much to say and no time

Have we gone too far?
In a world so scarred
Have we gone too far?
Dream away

Joseph stands in the desert
With a gun in his hand
Brother still killing brother
Cold within this eastern land

There's nowhere to run
There's nowhere to hide
With so much to do and no time

Have we gone too far?
In a world so scarred
Have we gone too far?
Dream away

Gone too far
In a world so scarred
Have we gone too far?
Dream away

There must be some other way
A hundred years from green to grey
Close my eyes I'm safe today
Blindly fade away

Gone too far
In a world so scarred
Have we gone too far?
Dream away
Dream away

There's a black Siberian
Look a white guy in the sun
Miles away from where the quest begun

From the ice to the sand
Nations moved across the land
Ever since time designed the man

Someday to return
To the place of my birth

I'm a long way from home
But I know where I belong
It's a long way I know
But the heart will still carry me home

Firewater in the blood
Took away the livelihood
Giving thanks every single year

Who the hell
Owns this land?
Is it God or is it man?
With the blood we draw the line again

I'm called to return
To the place of my birth

I'm a long way from home
But I know where I belong
It's a long way I know
But the heart will still carry me home
I'm a long way from home
But I know where I belong
It's a long way I know
But the heart will still carry me home

They put away the DDT now
But gave metal to the sea
A hundred years can't wait
A hundred years can't wait another day

The only eagle, only tree
Within a desert that was green
A hundred years can't wait
A hundred years can't wait another day

Midnight
Draws ever near
Daylight
Is fading so fast
It's so close to midnight
Midnight

The melting ice will fuel the sea
By burning gold from ancient tree
A hundred years can't wait
A hundred years can't wait another day

This is progress, this is sin
Injecting poison in her skin
A hundred years can't wait
A hundred years can't wait another day

Midnight
Draws ever near
Daylight
Is fading so fast
It's so close to midnight
Midnight

Rise (Japanese Release)
(Payne/Downes)

Read in the papers
See on the screen
Oppressive behavior
A foreign regime

That don't happen here
That can't happen here

Rise
Legion of hope
Rise
Don't give in
Land of the sun
To where West was won
Rise
To the future

Political stranger
Under attack

Forever in danger
For stating a fact

So don't you speak your mind
You may lose you life

Rise
Legion of hope
Rise
Don't give in
Land of the sun
To where West was won
Rise
To the future

Shake the hand of time
With the builders of stone
Are you recognized?
You're not going home

Have to find a hideaway
So turn up the neighbors
The eagle is listening today

It's not up to me
To change what has been done
It's not up to me
A speechless world looks on
It just has to be!
Silent nation

No longer have a name
A number will do
Cutting the wires of doom
'Cos they're watching you

Raging in thought
Mouthless, the millions obey
So call off your dogs
You preachers of what we can say

It's not up to me
To change what has been done
It's not up to me
A speechless world looks on
It just has to be!
Silent nation
In a silent nation
We must change what has been done
It's a travesty
Silent nation

It's not up to me
To change what has been done
It's not up to me
A speechless world looks on
It just has to be!
In a silent?

He often wondered where he's from
The Holy Grail, the bloodline son
In his veins the answer comes
The Promised Land, Parisian

We sail today
Into the sun
To the place where life begun
From the sea
Into the soul
Tell Mother Earth to conquer all

Their temple stones will point the way
They kept their secret to the grave
A final journey he must run
The Promised Land, Parisian

We sail today
Into the sun
To the place where life begun
From the sea
Into the soul
Tell Mother Earth to conquer all

It crawls inside you
Like a strange disease
One time the giver
Next time the thief
I know what you know
So I won't let this go

You choose your brother
If he looks the same
You dirty white boy
It's all for gain
But I know what you know
So I won't let this go

What about love?
And the human race
What about love?
It's a different face
What about love?
Why can't we embrace?
I've got to know
I want to know

The start of reason
Is the end of hate
Progressive healing
For the corporate
But I know what you know
So I won't let this go

What about love?
And the human race
What about love?
It's a different face
What about love?
Why can't we embrace?
I've got to know
What about love?
And the human race
What about love?
It's a different face
What about love?
It's a big disgrace
I've got to know
I want to know

"the dawning of a brand new day
The waking of the whispers say:
That sleeping heavens will return
In deepest night the secret learned
And from these walls this city lies
The past will be our future
The journey will be over,
Awake!"
I saw the writing on the wall
The story of our birth then fall
Within their tombs of holy stone
The scrolls of life, one man alone
So if we try, we can live and learn
The sands will pull you under
Don't let them pull you under
Awake!

I travelled to a foreign land
Through stormy seas and burning sand
Led by the stars the ancient stream

The call of treasures yet unseen
So if we climb to the rocks of kings
Together we'll discover
The source of all our wonder
Awake!

Someday we're going to go back to the stars
And find the answer, who we really are
A traveller through the lonely mists of time
Creation from the sky

The dawning of a brand new day
The waking of the whispers say:
That sleeping heavens will return
In deepest night the secret learned
From these walls this city lies
The past will be our future
The journey will be over
Awake!

Someday we're going to go back to the stars
And find the answer who we really are
A traveller through the lonely mists of time
Creation from the sky

Someday we're going to back to the stars
And find the answer who we really are
If we try, we can live and learn
Together we'll discover
The source of all our wonder
Awake!

We saw the writing
We read the story
Awake!

Music & lyrics by: geoff downes & john payne

Silent wave coming down on me
Washing out the lie
Living inside me
Life's not hard
Now i'm on tv
This sudden twist of fate

I am direct salvation
Just send in your donation
I can promise that you'll be saved

Forgive me, world
I'm just a man who's lost his way
Forgive me, these two words i pray
It's time to make a change

Yesterday was a different day
Thought i knew the answer
A vision in my mind

Search my soul
And then you will find
A shelter for my pain

The truth is in the open
And now my heart has spoken
Hoping maybe you'll hear my cry

Forgive me, world
I'm just a man who's lost his way
Forgive me, these two words i pray
It's time to make a change

Forgive me, world
I'm just a man who sins today
Forgive me, these two words i pray
My faith is still the same

Maybe i can't change the past
Maybe love can bring us back
Maybe we can try and start again.

Forgive me, world

Music & lyrics by: jimmy santis/richard tancredi/geoff downes & john payne

Look into the distance, you're living in a cage
A fire burns inside you, that fuels all the rage
You're thinking of the outside, and dream of the past
The gates to freedom lie within your grasp


They're changing the system, rewriting the laws
Renaming religion, reshaping your cause
You always be lonely, walking with fools
The shadows in the doorways make the rules
Because you're free, this time
Don't be scared of who you are
Free, to find
There's no hiding in the dark

A new day is dawning, a new age begun
Nobody told you which way you should run
Wait for the thunder, break from the shell
Is this the gate to freedom from this hell?

Because you're free, this time
Don't be scared of who you are
Free, to find
There's no hiding in the dark
Free, this time
You can learn to live again
Free, to find
There is shelter from the rain
Free

They're razing the fences in the pastures of doom
The fields of our heroes, the land won by few
The call of a new world, dream to transcend
Now it's time to fight and start again

Because you're free, this time
Don't be scared of who you are
Free, to find
There's no hiding in the dark
Because you're free, this time
You can learn to live again
Free, to find
There is shelter from the rain

Music & lyrics by: geoff downes & john payne

Heroes of the future
The keepers of the past
And objects of our beauty
Remaining till the last
Walking on the water
The oceans at our feet
The passage of our nature
The taste of bitter-sweet

So shall we be kings?
Born just to win
Proud voices sing
And we wish that this life would go on and on

Looking in the distance
The fever on the street
Cast away the covers
Let my people see

Rulers of the network
Leaders from the dark
Embrace a generation
The first will be the last

So shall we be kings?
Born just to win
Proud voices sing
And we wish that this life would go on and on

Shall we be kings?
Born just to win
Proud voices sing
We will never give up till the day is done

Shall we be kings?
Born just to win
Proud voices sing
And we hope that the word will live on and on

Time waiting
Time taking
Life

Music & lyrics by: geoff downes & john payne

Do you remember years ago?
All our hopes would ebb and flow
We thought we'd find a promised land
Our footprints in the sand

The mysteries, the twists of fate
Have changed the path from love to hate
But won't erase sins of the past
They hide behind the mask
If i could conquer all our fears
Can forgiveness dry the tears?
If i falter, my soul i'll sell
On the coldest day in hell

I'll never let you down
How can i tell you now?
But only heaven knows
I won't let you go

I dream of demons through the night
A restless fever till morning light
My body's cold, my head's on fire
Give me back my life

Kill this ghost inside of me
Let me sail on deep blue seas
A new beginning, another page
Dawn gives in to day

I will conquer all our fears
Let forgiveness dry the tears
If i falter my soul i'll sell
On the coldest day in hell

I'll never let you down
How can i tell you now?
But only heaven knows
I won't let you go
I swear i'll stand my ground
How can i turn this round?
As this time heaven knows
I won't let you know

When i'm dreaming, i'm dreaming of you
When i'm breathing, i'm breathing with you

But only heaven knows
I won't let you go

Music & lyrics by: geoff downes, john payne & ben woolfenden

On the street below these walls
Where i used to walk
Now i can barely crawl
All this darkness rising tall
Lord, shine a light for me
I'm waiting to be called
I'm ready to go home
I'm ready to receive
Forgiveness for my sins
I'm ready to begin

Take this river to the sea
Where the delta flows
The tide is washing over me
Guide this soul to heaven's door
Show me where tomorrow lies
I'm waiting to be home

I'm ready to lay down
I'm ready now to sleep
A promise i must keep
I'm ready to go home

Sometimes i lay down with these memories
Breathe shallow, deep inside of me
Time has run its course with me
And i'm ready to go home

When the evening shadows fall
When the time has come
I let defences fall
To surrender's to survive
I will give up everything
To those i leave behind

I'm ready to go home
I'm ready to receive
Forgiveness for my sins
I'm ready to begin

I'm ready to lay down
I'm ready now to sleep
A promise i must keep
I'm ready to go home
Again

Music & lyrics by: andrew gold & graham gouldman

If you want it
Don't look at my face
It's the last time
It's not forever
The dust in the wind
It's the last time

One world, one dream
The stars in your hand
No light, no life
The scars are made by man
Heaven can't help you now

In this madness
Take it while you can
It's the last time

This holy water
Running away
For the last time

One world, one dream
The stars in your hand
No light, no life
So heal the scars of man
One chance, this night
To shine on this land
This time, with pride
Give back now while you can

All these fields, that once were green
Have turned to smoke and steel
The sun will fall, and the last moon rise
Don't turn this tide away

If you want it
So start it again
It's the last time
(the scars were made by man)

It's not forever
The dust is the wind
For the last time

One world, one dream
The stars in your hand
No light, no life
So heal the scars of man
One chance, this night
To shine on this land
This time, with pride
Give back now while you can

Music & lyrics by: geoff downes & john payne

"what passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, -
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires."

(wilfred owen, 1918)
Now the day has run
When the cover comes
But any fool can see
Ahead

Silence is my friend
But it has to end
Any fool can see
Ahead

It's the longest night
It's the longest night
Cold winds may blow
On the longest night

So we write our letters
To those far away
Any fool can see
Ahead

The distant sound of thunder
A choir of wailing shells
Any fool can see
Ahead

It's the longest night
It's the longest night
Cold winds may blow
On the longest night
I don't want to fight
I don't know who's right
Cold winds they blow
On this longest night

It's the longest night
It's the longest night
Cold winds may blow
On this longest night

Music & lyrics by: geoff downes, john payne & ben woolfenden

Whenever your shadow falls on stony ground
And there's not a hand for you to hold
Whenever the dreams you dream come crashing down
Every time you think of home
Remember that you're not alone
And we'll be with you heart and soul
Wherever you are

And if you should lose your path along the way
And find yourself walking in the dark
Whenever the ones you love seem far away

Every time you think of home
Remember that you're not alone
And we'll be with you heart and soul
Wherever you are

Whenever the fears you hide come reaching through

Every time you think of home
Remember that you're not alone
And we'll be with you heart and soul

Every time you think of home
Remember that you're not alone
And we'll be with you heart and soul
We'll be with you heart and soul
Wherever you are

We're with you heart and soul

Music & lyrics by: andrew gold, graham gouldman, geoff downes & john payne

Don't hang that sign on me
You're the stranger
Don't try to talk to me
You're the stranger
On the seas
They came from far away
From the skies
Their silver birds of prey

In one day
Ten thousand years could change
We are fools
To live your pilgrim ways

Don't hang that sign on me
You're the stranger
Don't try to talk to me
You're the stranger

And we drive
Five hundred miles this time
To the edge
Of crystal-cut blue sky

Silence breathes
South of the border line
Silent trees
Look back and wonder why

Did father and his holy son
Spread the word and point the gun?
And where the eagle used to fly
They carve their concrete in the sky
Tearing at our mother's skin
Taking all her blood within
Remember how it used to be?

Did father and his holy son
Spread the word and point the gun
And where the eagle used to fly
They carve their concrete in the sky
Tearing at our mother's skin
Taking all her blood within
Remember how it used to be?
Stand up again and say:

Don't hang that sign on me
You're the stranger
Don't try to talk to me
You're the stranger
Don't hang that sign on me
You're the stranger
Don't try to talk to me
You're the stranger

Music & lyrics by: geoff downes & john payne

All of those wild american bilinguals
Who talk to you in paris of their lonely lives
School days and last days out there in the midwest
They climb on their liners and rejoin their wives

Walking down boulevards electric eyes
Would gaze at the waveforms and gasp at their size
Let them be lonely and say you don't care

Astro boy, i'm watching the proles on parade
Astro boy, i'm watching the proles on parade

Una with long hair will stand by your side
And the friends who were hungry could swallow your pride
Chromium pets that video screens would show
Pictures of helplessness old kings and queens
Radio stations that fade as in dust

All their transmitters are crumbling with rust
Let them be broken and say you don't care

Astro boy, i'm watching the proles on parade
Astro boy, i'm watching the proles on parade
Astro boy, i'm watching the proles on parade
Let them be broken and say you don't care
Astro boy, i'm watching the proles on parade

oh go johnny kick me in the head
aimin for the floorboard but they pick me up instead
through the ringing from the night before
the engines running gotta pay a call

johnny drove the halftrack
cause we could not find the jeep
with me in the morning gotta get some sleep
driving all night out of fear
got in the ribs every time I changed gear

I'm gonna take a ride, gonna pick up the trail
gonna go where we've never been
I'm gonna pick up the tail
(pickin up, picken up the tail)
now you know how it's hard to keep the fighting clean
clean clean
clean clean
clean clean

oh go johnny gonna fight the war
shotgun in the morning at the local liquor store
oh go talking bout them diesel fules
johnny tell the captain go and polish his tunes
lying on the wasteground with a blanket on his face
indicating that he's left the human race
hell went open when the world came in
gotta keep your head if you wanna win

I'm gonna take a ride, gonna pick up the tail
gonna go where we've never been
I'm gonna pick up the tail
(picki8ng up, pickin up the tail)
now you know it's hard to keep the fighting clean
clean clean
clean clean
clean clean
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clean clean
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clean clean
clean clean
clean clean
clean clean
clean clean

lost our ???? in ???? attack
clean clean
don't you worry cause you know we'll get them back
clean clean
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clean clean
don't you worry cause you know we'll get them back