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

Memories, how they fade so fast
Look back, that is no escape
Tied down, now you see too late.
Lovers, they will never wait

I am a camera

Take heart, I could never let you go
And you, always let the feeling show
Love us all, how you never broke your heart
How you lose them
If you feel the feeling start

I am a camera, camera, camera

And you, may find time will blind you
This to just remind you
All is meant to be

There, by the waterside
Here, where the lens is wide
You and me
By the sea
Taken in tranquility

Taken, taken so easily
To pass into glass reality
Transform, to transfer, to energy

Take heart, I could never let you go
And you, always let the feeling show
Love us all, how you never broke your heart
How you lose them
If you feel the feeling start

I am a camera, camera, camera

Taken, taken, so easily
To pass into glass reality
Transformer, transferring energy

And you, may find time will blind you
This to just remind you
All is meant to be

I am a camera, camera, camera

Here, by the waterside
There, where the lens is wide
You and me
By the sea
Taken in tranquility

I am a camera, camera, camera

Memories, how they fade so fast
Look back, that is no escape
Tied down, now you see too late.
Lovers, they will never wait

I am a camera

Take heart, I could never let you go
And you, always let the feeling show
Love us all, how you never broke your heart
How you lose them
If you feel the feeling start

I am a camera, camera, camera

And you, may find time will blind you
This to just remind you
All is meant to be

There, by the waterside
Here, where the lens is wide
You and me
By the sea
Taken in tranquility

Taken, taken so easily
To pass into glass reality
Transform, to transfer, to energy

Take heart, I could never let you go
And you, always let the feeling show
Love us all, how you never broke your heart
How you lose them
If you feel the feeling start

I am a camera, camera, camera

Taken, taken, so easily
To pass into glass reality
Transformer, transferring energy

And you, may find time will blind you
This to just remind you
All is meant to be

I am a camera, camera, camera

Here, by the waterside
There, where the lens is wide
You and me
By the sea
Taken in tranquility

I am a camera, camera, camera

Part I

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 life
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 II

Friends make their way into systems of chance
(reply- 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, 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 III

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.

I asked my love to give me shelter
And all she offered me were dreams
Of all the moments spent together
That move like never ending streams.

Run to the light
Everything is alright
Run thro' the light of day
You run to the light of night

And every movement made together
Till every thought was just the same
And all the pieces fit forever
In the game.

Welcome to the light
Now everything is okay
Run thro' the light of night
You run to the light of day.

I asked my love to give me shelter
And all she offered me were dreams
Of all the moments spent together
That move like never ending streams.

Run to the light
Everything is alright
Run thro' the light of day
You run to the light of night

And every movement made together
Till every thought was just the same
And all the pieces fit forever
In the game.

Welcome to the light
Now everything is okay
Run thro' the light of night
You run to the light of day.

Tempus Fugit
Downes/Horn/Howe/Squire/White

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
Of 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 traveled
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 . . .)

Tempus Fugit
Downes/Horn/Howe/Squire/White

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
Of 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 traveled
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 . . .)

I see a man in a white car
Move like a ghost on the skyline
Take all your dreams
And you throw them away
Man in a white car.

I see a man in a white car
Move like a ghost on the skyline
Take all your dreams
And you throw them away
Man in a white car.

Memories, how they fade so fast
Look back, that is no escape
Tied down, now you see too late.
Lovers, they will never wait

I am a camera

Take heart, I could never let you go
And you, always let the feeling show
Love us all, how you never broke your heart
How you lose them
If you feel the feeling start

I am a camera, camera, camera

And you, may find time will blind you
This to just remind you
All is meant to be

There, by the waterside
Here, where the lens is wide
You and me
By the sea
Taken in tranquility

Taken, taken so easily
To pass into glass reality
Transform, to transfer, to energy

Take heart, I could never let you go
And you, always let the feeling show
Love us all, how you never broke your heart
How you lose them
If you feel the feeling start

I am a camera, camera, camera

Taken, taken, so easily
To pass into glass reality
Transformer, transferring energy

And you, may find time will blind you
This to just remind you
All is meant to be

I am a camera, camera, camera

Here, by the waterside
There, where the lens is wide
You and me
By the sea
Taken in tranquility

I am a camera, camera, camera

The door swings open but you won't go it
You hate the movie that you haven't seen
You couldn't see what I have in mind
I see you laughing but you're
Cutting it, cutting it fine

You never should have done those things to me
There's one thread left 'tween you and history
And while our temperature is rising high
I'm warning you that you are
Cutting it, cutting it fine

Cutting it, cutting it fine...

You gambled all on one important game
Now take the debt and don't complain
Your game was up, I saw it all the time
I saw that vice, girl, you're
Cutting it, cutting it fine

Your sole advisor watch out for yourself
You never listen to anyone else
You were the one who ignored the signs
Dancing on a fine line
Cutting it, cutting it fine

Cutting it, cutting it fine...

I never meant to be
so bad to you
One thing I said that I
would never do
One look from you and I
would fall from grace
And that would wipe this smile
right from my face
Do you remember when
we used to dance
And incidence arose
from circumstance
One thing lead to
another we were young
And we would scream together
songs unsung
It was the heat of the moment
Telling me what your heart meant
Heat of the moment
shone in your eyes
And now you find yourself in 82
The disco hotspots
hold no charm for you
You can't concern yourself
with bigger things
You catch the pearl and
ride the dragon's wings
It was the heat of the moment
Heat of the moment
Heat of the moment
shone in your eyes

And when your looks are gone
and you're alone
How many nights
you sit beside the phone
What were the things
you wanted for yourself
Teenage ambition
you remember well
It was the heat of the moment
Telling me what
your heart meant
Heat of the moment
shone in your eyes
It was the heat of the moment
Heat of the moment
Heat of the moment
shone in your eyes

Heat of the moment
Heat of the moment
Heat of the moment

All through the winter I thought I'd never see you again
Oh God where were you when I needed you
I know that you, no, you would never have betrayed me
I thought I'd die, why? All the reasons still evade me
But you're back

{chorus}
Now I can see you
Now I can feel you
Now that I want you
Now I can touch you
Next to me
Here it comes

Here comes the feeling
Here comes that same old feeling
Here comes the feeling
Here comes that same old feeling

This is for real, I never felt so good before
I see the world through different eyes
Now that you're back, nothing in the least can overcome me
Misery gone, plus all the doubt that overran me
But you're back

{chorus}

{repeat first verse}
{chorus}

Loneliness, a constant friend and lover
I know well
Crowded rooms the iron bar
That surround me
Trying hard to catch your eye
Just once, you see
Knowing from this moment if you did
We could be

{chorus}
One step closer
Closer than we are
One step closer
Closer than before

So many lines, you've heard them all
A lie in every one
From men who never understand
Your personality
And though we never even met
No talking needs to be done
The hum of conversation will disolve you
Into me

{chorus x2}
{chorus}

* You're leaving now
It's in your eyes
There's no disguising it
It really comes as no surprise
To find that you planned it all along

I see it now
Become so clear
Your insincerity
And me all starry-eyed
You'd think that I would have known by now

** Now, sure as the sun will cross the sky
This lie is over
Lost, like the tears that used to tide me over

Only time will tell
One thing is sure
That time will tell
Only time will tell
If you were wrong
The brightest ring around the moon
Will darken when I die

Now sure as the sun will cross the sky
The lying's over
Gone, like the tears that used to tide me over

( * Repeat )

Only time will tell
I see it now
Become so clear
Only time will tell
Your insincerity
And me all starry-eyed
You'd think that I would have known by now

( ** Repeat )

Only time will tell
You're on your own
Inside your room
Only time will tell
You're claiming victory
You were just using me
And there is no one you can use now
Only time will tell
One thing is sure...

When I ran from the hounds of hell
Twist my foot, I nearly fell
I was lucky I was alive
One look back I could have died

{chorus}
I was the sole survivor
Sole survivor
Sole survivor
Solitary fighter

When I saw it I was amazed
One time glory right in my gaze
I saw the sorrow, I saw the joy
Right in the darkness none could destroy

{chorus}

And from the wreckage I will arise
Cast the ashes back in their eyes
See the fire, I will defend
Just keep on burning right to the end

{chorus}

Fate looks certain but there's nothing guaranteed
Want for nothing, but is nothing what you need?
Always pushing but you're never satisfied
I did believe you 'til I found out that you lied

{chorus}
Time and time again
Time and time again again

For what I give you I get nothing in return
Can't forgive you watching all your bridges burn
All day long I sat and watched you do it wrong
Have to say that's how you did it all along

{chorus}

But others wouldn't see things you could only see
And someone showed you, then why was it always me
You knew the limit you were always out of bounds
How could I trust you when I caught you messing 'round

{chorus}

They decorated all the generals
Who fought the wars behind the lines
They had forgotten all the soldiers
The brandy put them way behind the times

Insanity has found its way to TV screens
Vision seems impossible to me
They fight {they fight} for king {for king} and country
I never would have thought this in my

{chorus}
Wildest dreams
Wildest dreams
Wildest dreams
Wildest dreams

The evening comes, we sit and watch the VJs
Clips and rushes come from who knows where
From Washington across to California
With fighting breaking out in Leicester Square

We see the soldiers moving on to victory
And children trampled under marching feet
They fight {they fight} for king {for king} and country
How many millions will they put to sleep?

{chorus}
Fly away...

No, not in this world
No, not in the next
No, not in my wildest dreams

They recommended euthanasia
For non-conformists anywhere
Some men's dreams for others turn to nightmares
This never would have happened in my

{chorus}
Fly away...

No, not in this world
No, not in the next
No, not in my wildest dreams

Gazing at our sunrise
Reflected in your clear eyes
Misty morning forest smoke fires

Make our way through the broken day
I couldn't stand to stay
Without you

We must keep moving
While the light is clearing
Leaving your dark world behind you

You have to run
Life is just begun
I'll never be alone
Without you

One chilling thought
Come screaming through the dark
I saw a yellow moon at midnight

And now you woke
Glowing in the smoke
I'm suddenly alone
Without you

Wanting things the way they used to be
You don't know what that can do to me
One more day, maybe never
Might as well be forever

Outside the light,fading as I write
And another night reminds me

As I sleep, memory that I keep
It's just another night
Without you

It seems so long
I've been holding on
Since I felt my arms around you

Time will go, both of us will know
Never be a day
Without you

Hard times you had before you
I knew when I first saw you
You girl youve always been mistreated, cheated

So leave it all behind you
It took so long to find you
I know that we can last forever, ever and more, more, oh

Dont Cry now that Ive found you
Don Cry take a look around you
Dont Cry it took so long to find you
Do what you want, but little darling please Dont Cry

I knew Id never doubt it
I was so sure about it
Dont think of all thats been before

Ill hear you when youre calling
Ill catch you when youre falling
Dont worry I will always be there, like never before, or, oh

Wetton/Downes)

I don't want to see your picture
On a faded video
I don't want to turn the clock back
To the way it used to go

Can you give me any reasons
Why I made this sacrifice?
When you thought you walked on water
You were skating on thin ice

'Cause we don't see EYE TO EYE
'Cause we don't see EYE TO EYE

I don't want to be memory
Just another Anglophile
I would never learn your language
Could it be there's no more time?

Is there any reason talking
'Bout your crazy point of view?
You can't even try to answer
The questions that I put to you

'Cause we don't see EYE TO EYE
'Cause we don't see EYE TO EYE

As far as the eye could see
From the horizon to infinity
Static forces down the line
Connecting voices talking rhymes

Can’t decode nor can define
The signal’s perfect indicates a sign

Midnight Sun
Guiding light
Take the eye
Go skimming
Across the sky

As far as the eye could see
Communications were all down
Connecting voices in the air
New formations moving sound
Then came what I could not explain
I felt a hand turned ‘round and saw a face

Walking through the snow kicking my heels
Seems that sunlight never felt so good before
Bet you really don't know how it feels
I don't have to answer to no one no more
And better I've never felt
Nothing to show, but nothing to lose,
I'm on my own
Cast your mind back not so long ago
I was always busy playing by the rules
Bet you thought I really didn't know
You were double dealing, now you're back at school
Something you didn't learn
Faith in myself
Gives me the strength to carry on
I'll do what I want to anyway
I'll do what I want and I'll do it in
My Own Time
Don't give that same old pack of lies
I'll tell you the story how it really is
You think you always had me under ties
Someone better tell you that the table's turned
Getting your fingers burned, how does it feel?
Now it's for real this is the deal
I'll do what I want to anyway
I'll do what I want and I'll do it in
My Own Time is on my side again
And one thing I intend
Is to do it in My Own Time

Plain evil, I know what's on your mind
Never say you're leaving me behind
No trouble, get that from the start
You know the cost of loving is your heart
I would never leave you
I would never go
I would never leave you
Never in a million, never in a million
NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS
Pure pleasure, the love that's in your eyes
You never give me feelings in disguise
Same fever, it comes on all the time
Always lets me know what's on my mind
( ^^ sure sounds like 'your' )
Live angel, you come to me and cry
Like tears of joy come raining from the sky
I'd never leave you, you knew that from
the start
I'll give it to you now straight from the heart
I would never leave you
NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS
I would never go
NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS

What on earth are you doing here, in the
western world?
Another situation, yeah you're a different girl
You have lived your life dreaming you were
someone else
Succeeding's believing in yourself
OPEN YOUR EYES
And see the world that stands before you now
OPEN YOUR EYES
And see the world that stands in front of you
You have spent your days trying for
something new
You have looked at magazine girls, wishing
that they were you
Do you see in photographs an angel that once
was you?
Does she tell you stories that are true?
OPEN YOUR EYES
And see the world that stands before you now
OPEN YOUR EYES
And see the world that stands in front of you
If I could stand with you right now and speak
my mind
I would tell you no lies
I would shoot straight between the eyes
You have stared a thousand times, right into
the lens
Have you ever thought just once, does it all
make sense?
Your beauty is eternal so don't just pretend
Got to wake up girl, or it's the end...

Wetton/Downes)

You walk tall, got your head in the clouds
You talk soft, but you're thinking aloud
And you know, exactly what you want

You box shy, you're hard to get
You got the face that I can't forget
And I know, I know the heat goes on

I know that THE HEAT GOES ON
I know that THE HEAT GOES ON

You play tight, you're nobody's fool
Not cold, but I know that you're cool
Look at you, I know the heat goes on

Now tell me, with your hand on your heart
That you knew, you were right from the start
And you know, you knew it all along

You know that THE HEAT GOES ON
You know that THE HEAT GOES ON

Times to decide
Times that I've lied
Problems will never be solved
Which way is wrong?
Which could be right?
This heat will always go on
On and on

2nd

BETA (Side two begins

Wetton/Downes)

Standing alone in solitude
Holding your head in your hands
Tears play like rain on your fingertips
Who but yourself is to blame?
How could I offer sympathy
When all I feel is pure rejection

I was the first one to really know your name
And you were the first one for me
But everyone knew but me
You were the first one to ever let me down
And I was just THE LAST TO KNOW

I was the fool who trusted you
No evil thoughts in my mind
When I see you standing there with him
( actually, "When I saw you going out with him" )
Who can I blame, for this deception?

(
)

(

Wetton)

I saw you standing hand in hand
And now you come to me, the solitary man
And I know what made us live
Such ordinary lives
The where to go the who to see
No one could sympathize
THE SMILE HAS LEFT YOUR EYES
THE SMILE HAS LEFT YOUR EYES

And I've become a rolling stone
I don't know where to go or what to call my own
But I can see that black horizon looming
ever close to view
It's over now it's not my fault
See how this feels for you
THE SMILE HAS LEFT YOUR EYES
Now there's no one to sympathize
Now it's too late, you realized
Now that no one can sympathize, now that
THE SMILE HAS LEFT YOUR EYES

2nd

But I never thought I'd see you
Standing there with him
So don't come crying back to me

Wetton/Downes)

This evening really came as some surprise
It showed me just how little faith
I think back when you couldn't criticize
You sure were glad to see my face

But now your TRUE COLORS are giving away
^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ( not on album )
your lies
TRUE COLORS seeing them in your eyes

For you the tables
sic
turned full circle now
And all those people you call friends
See who defends you when you're down again
Don't count on money-spinners then

They could be my TRUE COLORS maybe
^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ( not on album )
you'll see them then
TRUE COLORS twisting the knife again

You did what you wanted to do
I lived to fight another day
I know what I want you to do,
just
pack your bags
( ^^^^ in song, not liner )
and get away

For those that are able
To go underground
Missiles disenable
They hit faster then sound
They're coming and you have no choice
The helpless with one human voice
You will categorically say
This underdog will have his day

One more dead is one more
Then it ought to be
A travesty oh oh

One more missed will be kissed
To eternity
Or purgatory oh oh

After the war
After the war

Red button he's pressing
But he knows not why
He's programming orders
War lights up the sky
He's on the hotline tonight
His mind is high as a kite
His fingers decide wrong or right
This man has it all in his sights

Used as tools to believe
In autonomy
Minorities are no more

Men are fools
One last cry to humanity
No sanity anymore

After the war
After the war
After the war

On my arm a tattoo for my sons to be
That numbers you and me
There's a scar on my face
That is photographed for all to see oh oh

After the war..

The night is cold, the sun is down
I see faces through the wire
No chance for them
No shoulder left to cry on

It's 4 am out on the street
Through the smoke I see the fire
It's a funeral pyre
For them to die on

{chorus}
Countdown to zero
Just begun
Coundown to zero
It's time to start the run

The city lights are fading now
As I climb into the plane
To shield me from
The stinging acid rain

And this is it, it's over now
As we taxi down Runway One
Tell me please
You'll wake me when it's over

{chorus}

Do you realize what's happening in Western Europe?
Norway, Finland, Scotland, England
We will be the first to go
Don't do it

{chorus}

Don't do it
Don't do it
Don't start the countdown to zero
We want to live
We want to live
We will live
You've got your finger on the trigger
Take it off
Let it go
Let it pass
Let it go

Go
by Asia



Dig for victory, go for gold
I don't wanna die before I get old
And I wonder where I'm going to
There's some way out, there's some way through
But I'm lost, I'm lost, I'm down again
My direction is changing, which way,
Which way can I go...

Get up and go

You start me up, you slow me down
No one can deny you get around
When you're hot, you're cold, you're in between
Asking myself what does it mean?
And I walk that tightrope, you should know
I'm losing my balance, maybe,
Maybe I should go...

Get up and go

Face to face in sympathy
But now you turn your back on me
Turn a card and win, but you may lose
Fate only has that right to choose
If you're right, leave me here, I'll die alone
You've got the time, you've just got time
You got the time just go...

Get up and go
Go

Just go...

A secret smile
Comes to my eyes like a bolt from the blue
It's not your style
But it leads me to dream about what we could do

Could it be the same
(Could it be the same)
Ever be the same
(When I call your name)
Could it be the same again
Ever the same again?

It's hard on me
And I know, nothing comes easy
But it's hard on you
Believe me, baby it's hard on me

A trick of light
Your face in the shadows alone in the night
You're in my sights
All I've been thinking I know that it's right

See you standing there
(See you standing there)
Magic in the air
(Magic in the air)
Now the smoke has cleared
Time has disappeared

It's hard on me
But you know, nothing comes easy
But it's hard on you
I need you, always believe me

Could it be the same?
(Could it be the same)
Ever be the same
(When I call your name)
Could it be the same
Ever the same again?

It's hard on me
But I know, nothing comes easy
But it's hard on you
I need you, always believe me

It's hard on me
But you know, nothing comes easy
But it's hard on you
I've hurt you before
Now please don't make it hard on me

Now, the party's over
It's you and I, just you and I
Now, the guests have gone
It's one on one, one on one

Which way now, will the eagle fly?
Tell me how, will the starts shine in the sky

{chorus}
Love now till eternity
Shooting for the moon
To put your hand in mine and say
I vow to stay with you

{chorus}

You, you are my life
And so I give, all that I can
All, all that is left
That you are woman, I am man

Which way now, will the eagle fly?
Tell me how, will the starts shine in the sky

{chorus}

{chorus}
Rock and roll dream
Not what it seems
Who is the dreamer now?

When I see the faces from the limousine
No chance of our survival
Armed forces, guardians of the law
Awaiting our arrival

They all are young
We all were young
And I've seen this place before
Open up the door
Let us in

All the things I've seen
Words I said, I didn't mean
Feelings, I took for granted
But now reality
One thing we could never see
Everything, we always wanted

They all are young
We all were young
And I've seen this place before
Open up the door
Let us in

{chorus}

If I had the choice
Words came through my voice
I should have left unspoken
Now it's obvious
Clear to all of us
The dream that now is broken

Take the stage tonight
Go face the lights
With this image you should keep
You're crying in your sleep
Tonight

{chorus}

{chorus}
Rock and roll dream
Not what it seems
Who is the dreamer now?

When I see the faces from the limousine
No chance of our survival
Armed forces, guardians of the law
Awaiting our arrival

They all are young
We all were young
And I've seen this place before
Open up the door
Let us in

All the things I've seen
Words I said, I didn't mean
Feelings, I took for granted
But now reality
One thing we could never see
Everything, we always wanted

They all are young
We all were young
And I've seen this place before
Open up the door
Let us in

{chorus}

If I had the choice
Words came through my voice
I should have left unspoken
Now it's obvious
Clear to all of us
The dream that now is broken

Take the stage tonight
Go face the lights
With this image you should keep
You're crying in your sleep
Tonight

{chorus}

Too Late
by Asia




I say, no way
You've gone and stepped across that fine line
I cried, you lied
I tried, maybe a thousand times before
I can't take no more

{chorus}
Too late
You let the sun go down
Too late
You changed direction
Too late
For you to turn around
We tried everything

Move on, so long
Two side to every story
You told, good nights
bad days, time to go out separate ways
I can't say no more

I heard you on the radio
Some other time
From some forgotten studio
Way down the line
So long, so long I've waited now
To hear you again
That song, that song will still remain
Become an old friend
And now, the tears are in my eyes
The sound you can't disguise
The truth comes back from lies
And all I want to hear

Voice of America, ooh, America
Voice of America, ooh, America

And then you came in stereo
Calling to me
And so I watch the videos
Across the T.V.
That sound, still ringing in my ears
From a decade ago
Around, around my head, the sound from my radio
I thought, that after all these years
The tears, the growing fears
That I would never hear
Never again

Voice of America, ooh, America
Voice of America, ooh, America

Wishing, hoping
How can I keep coping
'Til I know your wish is to be with me

You go, I know
You were the one who told me so
I'm wishing you lying in my arms

Sad, so sad
It's written across my face
My tears leave no trace
They fall and disappear

Mad, so mad
Leaving you on your own
Your right to disown me
Will always be so clear

Wishing, so long
How can I keep holding on
When this song is wishing you home again

Sad, so sad
It's written across my face
My tears leave no trace
They fall and disappear

Mad, so mad
Leaving you on your own
Your right to disown me
Will always be so clear

Wishing
Wishing
Wishing

Wishing, so long
How can I keep holding on
When this song is wishing you home again

Wishing
Wishing
Wishing

In the dead of the night
On the wings of the wind
I hear the ocean bell
With a flash of the light
In the beat of the dark
The sound I know so well

I shall never forget you
It? been so long
I should never have left you
The call so strong

CHORUS
It? a far cry from a wild world
I want to get back to you
Such a long road, to the homeland
I must make my way to a far cry

From the chords of the earth
To the depths of the sea
I will return
As I look to the hill
Through the eyes of the storm
I touch the flame

I shall never forget you
It? been so long
I should never have left you
The call so strong

CHORUS

It? such a far cry

Wheels turn - smoke rise
Chrome wings - low ride
Freeway - red line
To city lights electric I glide
If there? escape from your illusion
You gotta break the whole constitution

Concrete - touch sky
Main street - dogs lie
Steel bird - black tie
Is this what they call the freedom you buy ?
Look at him behind the delusion
All you hear is the voice of confusion

CHORUS
The bad boy? back
The bad boy? back in town
The bad boy? back
Don? you shoot him down

Wheels spin - ace high
No win - no life
One world - truth lies
Love? just a word on a red neon sign
If there? escape from the conclusion
You gotta shake the whole institution

CHORUS

If there? escape from your illusion
You gotta break the whole constitution

CHORUS

Dreams that have melted now frozen like statues
Under the surface here lies the unknown
Love has a way of disguising it? purpose
Seeing your pain my hand goes out to you

You should have known better than to trust him
How the pain shines through your eyes

Nothing hits harder than a crime of the heart
It breaks you up and it tears you apart
You just want to die, you?e been so abused
Now you know how it feels to be used
Nothing hurts harder than a crime of the heart
I? such a fool, I should have known from the start
I saw it coming and I feel I? to blame
But love don? give in

I watch your face as you stare into distance
Eyes filled with tears that look so far away
Deep in your heart can you feel a resistance ?
Love it just happens there? no-one to blame

You should have known better than to sacrifice
The stained-glass soul you hide

Nothing hits harder than a crime of the heart
It? the kind of feeling that pulls you apart
There? nowhere to run, there? nothing to say
You never knew that you could feel this way
Nothing hurts harder than a crime of the heart
I could have told you he was wrong from the start
I? not guilty, but I feel I? too blame
My love won? give in

Crime of the heart

You know i'll never understand your reasons
I gave you all the love that i could give
Now i'm sitting on a plane to take me far away
I've got to find a new place to live

It used to feel so good when you stood beside me
How can you forget the words you said?
Things like: i'm gonna stay with you forever
Will always echo in my head

Don't call me, don't call me, no more

If this plane ride lasts forever
I couldn't quite get over you
We spent too much time together
I can't believe we're through

Don't call me, don't call me, no more

I am caught in the heat
Hold your head as you sleep
How can I close my eyes watching you
Such a fever inside from emotions within
Burning the night with the truth

Sweetest poison - positive attraction
Raging in my mind

CHORUS
Oh if you walk away
You?l take the life from me
Oh if you walk away
You?l take the air I breathe
Life would be lonely
More than you?l never know
?os you?e put all heaven on earth

I hear the sound of your voice
On the breath of the wind
I feel the touch of an angel
Next to my skin
It cuts so deep inside
It draws out the life
Harder with every time

Sweetest poison - positive attraction
Raging in my mind

CHORUS

We used to live in a better world
Where sky and water were free
We point the finger
We point the gun
Is that the way it should be ?

We rape the land
And we tear the skin
Burn the blood in the stone
To fuel the fire of a selfish mind
Do you want to live here alone ?

CHORUS
Lay down your arms - surrender
You know you?l never get out of here
Lay down your arms - remember
No force - you? better lay down your gun

Such are the sins of humanity
Dark is the air that we breath
A war to hide in society
Don? close your eyes to deceive

Too many promises
Too many tears
Where does the future lie
If we burn away the years

We can make this a better world
Where sky and water are free
So give the hand without the gun
That? the way it will be

CHORUS

Don? read 'Marx'
He? a clean cut guy
Just the dream
On a TV eye
If you swim
In the dark
You lose a hand
When you feed the shark

CHORUS
Little rich boy, she? gonna find you
Littl rich boy
Little rich boy, those claws will blind you
Just a little rich boy

She got hooks
In your veins
Feel the pleasure
Kill the pain
Drop a pearl
See the dragon fly
Crack the diamond
Do you still feel high ?

CHORUS

Love under fire
We stand in the flame
Now and forever
After the rain
When is forever ?
You can take it from me
It may be never
C?st la vie

Love under fire
And we stand in the flame
Now and forever
After the rain
When is forever ?
You can take it from me
It may be never
Just wait and see

You can hide in the jungle
You can climb up a tree
You can scan the horizon
Tell me what do you see ?
As cold as a mountain
With a heart that can freeze
There? a storm on the water
With every heart that she sees

Love under fire

Don? want to live in another world
Don? want to dream of another girl
That? the way it was meant to be

I couldn? sleep through the lonely night
I just cried till the morning
It? not the way it was meant to be

CHORUS
Someday you may find somebody else
Someday love may shine on you
Someday you may find the one

You didn? leave me, you ran away
Couldn? face what you had to say
It? not the way it was meant to be

Now you can live in your other world
Me, I?e found me another girl
And that? the way that it has to be

CHORUS

When I dream, I dream of one world
But I know there? no such place
If I could ever find that one girl
In my world, in my world

CHORUS

Nothing ventured nothing gained
Tired and washed out by the pain
Do we share this problem, will it slip away ?
Or do we fight another day ?
Was I looking for a friend ?
One I count on ?ill the end
Is there something that I didn? do ?
Does it all begin with you ?

CHORUS
So how did I, Oh I
Give you reason ?
But how did I, Oh I
Give you reason ?

After all the fallen tears
When we wake the taken dream
Who let the water slowly draw away ?
All the colours that we made

CHORUS

To give you reason, to change the river? flow
To give you reason, to point the bone
To give you reason, go set your spirit free
I don? know, I don? know why

Is there nothing I can say ?
Is there nothing I can do, girl ?
Didn? mean to break your life
Didn? mean to burn your world, no

CHORUS

You can keep the silver band
You can have the memories, girl
Now as 'Pilate' cleans the hands
It? no more to do with me, no

CHORUS

So how did I, Oh I
Give you reason ?
Let the voice of reason say:

This problem is insoluble
The answers seem impossible
The logic ceases to exit
Emotion is the beat we miss

I stand on a world
Where dreams, realities, existence are the same
We take from our mother? skin
But the world is not to blame

Who tells the wind which way to blow ?
I wonder who will stop the rain
The rocks that hold the secrets, they don? know
So who can stop the rain ?
We?e lost the path for all we know
Now tell me when will it start again ?
And as the old man lifts his hands
Please can you stop the rain

Stars fall far away
Like they never did before
A new moon shining
Like it never will again

Desert white cloud
Spirits they sing
Rain falls from the big sky
Onto broken wing

There is no sense in turning back
To wash the d?bris from the track
World without reason without rhyme
We fought for peace within our time

As a child, we played the game
Fought the war, but felt no pain
Arm to arm, we left the skin
THen said the words, remember them

Oh, never a moments doubt
Oh, feel it, scream it loud

Chorus:
Anytime that you call
Anytime if you fall
Anytime I'll be there for you
Any moment of fear
Anytime say the prayer
Swear that our word is true

Should I go
Should I stay?
I won't turn my head away
Cross the line, the great divide
So kill the silence, where we hide

Oh, never a moments doubt
Oh, feel it so scream it loud

Chorus

If clouds fall, stand tall
As mountains climb from endless sea
Call out, fear not
Bring back that memory

Chorus

Walked the streets at night
Head low
To cross the borderline
That only you know
Then inside your room
You'll show
The man you did not want to be

Chorus:
Are you big enough?
Are you losing your touch?
And if you walk away
Don't you know you'd better change

From these early days
Don't want to let go
You'd climb the stairs of change
To her room
Held those clothes so soft
Was it so good
To paint the face the scars of youth?

Chorus

As I look back
In that last act
Far beyond the call of duty

Did I stay strong?
Did I give more?
Far beyond the call of duty

And I know, you know... now