Ultravox

[fox69]

"Building"

"Building"


One last smile
As we turn away in wrong directions
Feeling the kick
From a multitude of cooled reflections
Building on my life alone

One last look
As we turn our backs on deeper feelings
This new release
And think ahead to all who see
May building on my life alone

Building on my life alone...

 

[fox69]

"Change"

"Change"


I am the road I walk alone
Exposed and turned to stone
A heart without a home
Walk for miles to walk away
A new life every day
To welcome come what may

Turn around and make the change
Turn it round and love will happen
You took a lifetime to find
The change

I am the wall I built along
The line that I have drawn
So cold and dark and strong
Resistant to all love and hate
So tragic and so great
No heart to penetrate

Turn around and make the change
Turn it round and love will happen
You took a lifetime to find
The change

Leave you standing on my shore
To watch this ocean roar
A sea you can't cross over
A raging tide to wash away
The gift of better days
With words that you might say

Turn around and make the change
Turn around and make the change
Turn it round and love will happen
You took a lifetime to find
The warmth
The love
The change

 

[fox69]

"Contact"

"Contact"


What's wrong, who's right?
Sad machines won't talk to me tonight
No questions looking for answers
No voices except inside my mind

Talk to me, somebody
Talk to me, talk to me
Just looking for contact, my friend

React, rewind
Relive this conversation one last time
Just me in this endless forever
Just me and the sound of a heartbeat, distant drum

Talk to me, somebody
Talk to me, talk
Just looking for contact, my friend

What's wrong, who's right?
Sad machines won't talk to me tonight

Just looking for contact, my friend

 

[fox69]

"Cross Fade"

"Cross Fade"


Where are you, you're waving, the windows were ablaze
We're driving and we're drowning and we're drifting in a daze
We're smoking, we're talking, we re-invent the view
And we're occupying places just as they get removed

Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade
Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade

Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade
Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade

The journey was crazy, I'm trying to close my eyes
We're bypassing some places as they're editing the time
Wake up, you're kneeling, some young man's just gone down
There's a flicker and a flutter and the film is running out

Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade
Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade, cross fade, cross fade

Pictures into structures and structures into motion
Cross over into action, over airways, over ocean

Cross fade, cross fade, cross fade, cross fade...

 

[fox69]

"Cut And Run"

"Cut And Run"


[Chorus:]
See the man on the phone
With a gun in his hand
Sipping courage from a crystal cup
He's a man in the wrong
With a gun at his head
Pushes on and now it's time to cut and run

Time, passing so slowly
Still, as he sits, and he watches the sand slip through his hands
He demands something more
Something strong
Something savage and pure
One more twist of the knife, and it's time to cut and run

[Chorus]

He smiles as he draws on his last cigarette
And he tries to forget all that forces every move
He commands something new
Something strong
Something spiteful and true
One more twist of the knife, and it's time to cut and run

Cries on his tape so they might understand
Signs his farewell with a squeeze of his hand

[Chorus]

[Chorus]

[Chorus]

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Dancing With Tears In My Eyes"

"Dancing With Tears In My Eyes"


Dancing with tears in my eyes
Weeping for the memory of a life gone by
Dancing with tears in my eyes
Living out a memory of a love that died

It's five and I'm driving home again
It's hard to believe that it's my last time
The man on the wireless cries again
It's over, it's over

Dancing with tears in my eyes
Weeping for the memory of a life gone by
Dancing with tears in my eyes
Living out a memory of a love that died

It's late and I'm with my love alone
We drink to forget the coming storm
We love to the sound of our favourite song
Over and over

Dancing with tears in my eyes
Living out a memory of a love that died

It's time and we're in each other's arms
It's time but I don't think we really care

Dancing with tears in my eyes
Weeping for the memory of a life gone by
Dancing with tears in my eyes
Weeping for the memory of a life gone by

Dancing with tears in my eyes

 

[fox69]

"Dangerous Rhythm"

"Dangerous Rhythm"


Dangerous rhythm
Dangerous rhythm
Dangerous rhythm in the air

Stranger to stranger
We're both dressed for danger
Something is generating here

Oh, take off your halo
For the all-night inferno
Something is happening in the air

It's not like anything I've ever known before
And I don't care

Dangerous rhythm
Dangerous rhythm
Dangerous rhythm in the air

Surging and merging
Urgent and urging
Soft as a footstep on the stair

The red light is on now
My gravity's gone and how
I can feel something in the air

It's not like anything I've ever known before
And I don't care

Dangerous rhythm
Dangerous rhythm
Dangerous rhythm in the air

Dangerous rhythm
Dangerous rhythm
Dangerous rhythm in the air

Dangerous rhythm
Dangerous rhythm
Dangerous rhythm in the air

 

[fox69]

"Dislocation"

"Dislocation"


Running down an empty street
Perhaps it was a railway station
Smell of eau de cologne
The sound of a celebration

[Chorus:]
Oh-oh-oh, dislocation
Oh-oh-oh, dislocation

Just a swimmer growing dimmer
In the glimmer of a summer
Waving gladly, swimming madly
Never, never going under

[Chorus]

The Sun was going down
One quiet evening
Someone came into the room
While I was half-asleep
We spoke for a while
I couldn't see his face
Later on when he was gone
I realized I didn't catch his name

[Chorus]

[Chorus]

[Chorus]

Just a swimmer growing dimmer
In the glimmer of a summer
Waving gladly, swimming madly
Never, never going under

 

[fox69]

"Distance"

"Distance"


You make to much of the way I am
Like my heads in another land
Break my back on a second chance
Saying I don't wanna make it last

Won't distance you
Don't resistance too
The track I distant you

My getting hungry doesn't need to end
Thinking I do something underhand
Another life couldn't live without
Will I ever keep you satisfied

Won't distance you
Don't want resistance too
The track I distant you

Destroy....distance.. Destroys...
All this...connected to me...
me.....
me!.....
me!!.....

Won't distance you
Don't want resistance too
The track I distant you

You make to much of the way I am
Like my heads in another land
Too much talking about the past
Now you seem to understand...

 

[fox69]

"Distant Smile"

"Distant Smile"


Sometimes I find I drift away
Behind a distant smile

Light years ago I think someone spoke
Quizzical glances behind cigarette smoke
She drew the curtains at the end of the day
And then we laughed because the room sailed away

Fancy glitter in the summer arcades
Then autumn leaves fall by a winter lane
Piano echoes and the perfume still lingers
But you fell through my fingers like sand

With a distant smile
A distant smile
A distant smile
Somehow I always seem to be
Adrift in other times with a distant smile

Hey copper, put the sound on the streets
The city's glittering like diamonds in heat
Our secret destination, touch down in the haze
As the cameraman pans away

Hey look, it's a long lost horizon
Private oceans you can surface a sunrise in
Hearts well [?] dodging logic
But nevertheless still permanently surprised

Behind a distant smile
A distant smile
A distant smile
Somehow I always seem to be
Adrift in other times behind a distant smile

You will see [?]