Simple Minds

[fox69]

"Changeling"

"Changeling"



Overground
Underground
Pulsating through
Street Parade
Day arcade
No cloning you
Uniform
Won't conform
Hero who dies
Find a boy
Kill a toy
Get no reply
Changeling
Well changeling for you
They're coming out of you

Vision
Lost
Out of control
Lost

Down in the club
Beau bells can ring
Look good in blue
Help me to sing
Expose
Fade away
Contact erased
Call a friend
Tailor made
Do as I say

Changeling
Well changeling for you
They're coming out of you

Vision
Lost
Out of control
Lost

Overground
Underground
Overground
Underground

Down in the club
Down in the club
Down in the club
Club

 

[fox69]

"Chelsea Girl"

"Chelsea Girl"



And now the sound of time is getting fast
It's getting late
Don't know if I can take much more
The way you talk I often wondered
If I heard the words somewhere
Someplace before
I got so nervous when I called
And found that lately
You had gone and changed your name
But I've got something on my mind
I want you here
I want you now
You better explain
Is it true you're running round
Now is it true they're calling you
The Chelsea Girl
Is it true you're running round
Now is it true they're calling you
The Chelsea Girl

Your best friend never calls you up
But you don't mind
'Cause lately things are all the same
Ain't it strange how people always seem
To know your face
But just don't know your name
Well I don't care there's no-one there
That even turn around and say get out of this place
Last night I saw a shooting star
When morning comes
She hides away
A real disgrace

Is it true you're running round
Now is it true they're calling you
The Chelsea Girl
Is it true you're running round
Now is it true they're calling you
The Chelsea Girl

Oh Chelsea Girl
You got me caught up in a whirl
I want you here now Chelsea Girl

 

[fox69]

"Christine"

"Christine"



She tries not to shatter,kaleidoscope style
personality changes behind her red smile
every new problem brings a stranger inside
helplessly forcing one more new disguise

Christine-the strawberry girl
Christine-banana split lady
Christine-the strawberry girl
Christine-banana split lady

singing sweet savages lost in our world
This big eyed-girl sees her faces unfurl
Now's she's in purple
Now's she's the turtle

Disintegrating

Christine-the strawberry girl
Christine-banana split lady
Christine-the strawberry girl
Christine sees her faces unfurl

Now's she's in purple
Now's she the turtle

Disintegrating

Christine,Christine

Christine-the strawberry girl
Christine-banana split lady
Christine-the strawberry girl
Christine sees her faces unfurl

Christine,Christine,Christine,Christine turn into faces

Disintegrating

Christine,Christine,Christine

Disintegrating.......

 

[fox69]

"Citizen (Dance Of Youth)"

"Citizen (Dance Of Youth)"



Citizen
A cure to kill the east
A disease of the west
Romance is no escape
But I'll escape you
The manufacturing sound
Complaining to ourselves
You're cutting up our friends
Making love to our sisters
Another endless day
Another daze
But I'm losing track
The train goes off the rails
Dance Of The Youth
Youth want to dance

Citizen
The tribal war begins
But radio's a God
Industrial money
God is industry
Dance of youth
Citizen you know what we're after
Know what we're after
Know what we're after

Citizen
The state that we've come to love
Love's a crime against the state
I hate the sound of bells
Communications lost
Something we're after
I hate democracy
One more contact lost
Love
A crime against the state
The state we've come to love
Oh electric candle light
What time is it over there
We got to wear a badge
We're losing track of days

Dance of the youth
Youth want to dance

Citizen
I'll share a room with you
You're getting so very thin
Did we ask for this
Are you rationing our water
Dance of the youth
Our food is getting cold
And you're getting colder
I see you
I'm not so unaware
Citizen

Citizen
An American
Got got a camera
Takes a picture
Citizen
Drum
Citizen
Drum
Citizen
Drum
To drum to drum

 

[fox69]

"Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel"

"Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel"



"Belle"
Never turn your back
Great times attack
Inexpensive thrills

And I said Belle
Of all the friends who care
Some should be seen
But never heard

Colours Fly and Catherine Wheels
Poor girls cry
In the beauty of both worlds

Catch a boy Fell Falling
Fall in love Fell Falling
Catch a boy Fell Falling
Fall in love Fell Falling
Catch a boy Fell Falling
Out of the Sky

"Belle"
When the pulses rise
Love will tranquilize
Just before it kills

And I said Belle
You turn them on
With your reflection
I know so well

Colours Fly and Catherine Wheels
Poor girls cry
In the beauty of both worlds

Catch a boy Fell Falling
Fall in love Fell Falling
Catch a boy Fell Falling
Fall in love Fell Falling
Catch a boy Fell Falling
Out of the Sky

Catch a boy Fell Falling
Fall in love Fell Falling
Catch a boy Fell Falling
Fall in love Fell Falling
Catch a boy Fell Falling
Out of the Sky
Out of the Sky

Colours Fly and Catherine Wheels
Some girl cry
Over her boyfriend
When Colours Fly and Catherine Wheels

So when the colours fly
And when the catherine wheels...

 

[fox69]

"Come A Long Way"

"Come A Long Way"



Swing low, could be the last call for two of us
I said swing high, reach out and touch the sky
But don't cry yet, it's not time yet
See this race is wrong
Come see, this race is right
See millions of years pass with no end in sight
Sleep tight, you couldn't count the cost through the night
'Cause it's not right, it never was right

Come a long, long
Come a long, long way
Come a long, long
Come a long, long way
Come a long, long
Come a long, long way
Come a long, long
Come a long, long way

Up on May day, and there is a carnival on my street tonight
I hear them dancing, I hear them dancing
But on a clear day
If this thing don't move here
Then this thing just don't have no heartbeat
Get on the street, I say
Sweet hours to live, I got no time to kill
I said hold back those arms raised hold back the bill
Sleep tight, you couldn't count the cost through the night
'Cause it's not right, it never was right

Come a long, long
Come a long, long way
Come a long, long
Come a long, long way
Come a long, long
Come a long, long way
Come a long, long
Come a long, long way

Swing low, could be the last call for two of us
I said swing high, reach out and touch the sky
But don't cry yet, it's not time yet
Come a long, long
Come a long, long way
Come a long, long
Come a long, long way
Come a long, long

 

[fox69]

"Concrete And Cherry Blossom"

"Concrete And Cherry Blossom"



I'm on the rooftop

People circle round the atomical sun,
Mid the concrete shapes and the cherry blossom.
Walking up and down, over Moonacre Square,
It was aeons ago, still I feel there.

I'm on the rooftop, yeah, yeah,
I got my sunshades on, I'm feelin' fine.
I'm on the rooftop, yeah yeah,
I'm in a sun-spot, thinkin', I won't be left behind

Sometimes I am there, in the cool morning mist
In the tower block dreams, that I cannot resist
Feel like heading back where the magic begun
Mid the concrete squares and the cherry blossom

I'm on the rooftop, yeah, yeah,
I got my sunscreen on, I'm feelin' fine.
I'm on the rooftop, yeah yeah,
I'm in the sun-spot, thinkin', I won't be left behind

La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la lo

High above the clouds, where I have no cares
With the rainbow curls, and the smoky air
When I settle down to the deepest clear
I'm back in Tokyo, in a neon street.

Back on the rooftop, yeah, yeah,
I got my sunshades on, I'm feelin' fine.
I'm on the rooftop, yeah yeah,
I'm in a sun-spot, thinkin' I won't be left behind

Yeah yeah

Back on the rooftop, yeah, yeah,
I'm on the rooftop, yeah, yeah,
I'm on the rooftop, yeah, yeah,
I'm on the rooftop, yeah, yeah,
I'm in the sun, yeah, yeah,
I'm in the sun, yeah, yeah,

Got my sunscreen on, leaving this world behind.

 

[fox69]

"Constantinople Line"

"Constantinople Line"



Hey Waiter
I'm first class
Hey Waiter
Where are we now?
Am I last
Am I last
Hey Waiter
Don't talk back
These tenants speak
A traveller's language
Caucasian talk
They're saying nothing
I see a land
As we crawl by night
I see a face
In the window in front

These stations are useful
These stations we love them
Newspaper
Encounter
Confusion

Hey Waiter
I'm first class
Hey Waiter
What state is this?
These reptiles scream
A violent party
All art and jazz
And League of Nations
I see a land
As we crawl by night
I see a face
In the window in front
The east is calling
I'm feeling nervous
I love the western
Style and change

These stations are useful
These stations we love them
These stations are useful
These stations we love them
Newspaper
Encounter
Confusion

Constantinople
Red
Red star
Red
Constantinople
Red
Red star
Red

 

[fox69]

"Criminal World"

"Criminal World"



I look for the answer
I look for the light
I walk on every highway
Still I need you tonight
So let it be love
Lonely love
Let it be love
It's a criminal world

It hits like a bullet
It screams and it hurts
Is it my fascination
Or does love come inspired

Don't hand me down, don't push me down
Don't leave me lying on the frozen ground
You can shelter me with your sweet action
This world is splitting up and it's a chain reaction

It's a criminal world

You move like a vampire
Risen from dust
Is it my fascination

Don't hand me down, don't push me down
Don't leave me lying on the frozen ground
You can shelter me with your sweet action
This world is splitting up and it's a chain reaction
And when you point me to another place
I can turn my back upon this wilderness
And I'll step inside
Step inside
And find you waiting on the other side

It's a criminal world

 

[fox69]

"Cry"

"Cry"



It's difficult to love you when you do the things you do
Time and time again.
And when I try to turn it off, you turn from smooth, you play it rough,
Once again.

Pride that pulls me into this ocean subsides again
So high and so dry with these bitter emotional lies again.

You make me CRY, You make me CRY again,
You make me CRY, And the tears roll by again.

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