Ultravox

[fox69]

"Hello"

"Hello"


Hello, hello, hello
Welcome to this world you made
Hello, hello, hello
It's raining through your sad parade

If you always do
What you've always done
Then nothing good will ever come
If you always get
What you've always got
You'll find that love's what you forgot

Hello, hello, hello
Welcome to this world you made
Hello, hello, hello
It's raining through your sad parade
Free to bite your bitter pill
Sorry now, at least until
Someone is but never will
Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello

There's no one to blame
'Cause this was your goal
You gave your life, your heart, your soul
Wrapped in deceit
Loving the lie
To find that life has left you dry

Hello, hello, hello
Welcome to this world you made
Hello, hello, hello
It's raining through your sad parade
Free to bite your bitter pill
Sorry now, at least until
Someone is but never will
Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello

Hello, hello, hello
Welcome to this world you made
Hello, hello, hello
It's raining through your sad parade
Free to bite your bitter pill
Sorry now, at least until
Someone is but no one will
Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello

Hello, hello

 

[fox69]

"Herr X"

"Herr X"


Ich fand ein vollkommenes Bild
Von einem vollkommenen Fremden
Nach dem Namen auf dem Bild
Müsste es in den Vierzigern aufgenommen sein

Er könnte ein Irrer sein oder
Ein Blinder mit einem Stock
Vielleicht starb er vor Jahren
In einem Autounfall
Heute kann man es unmöglich wissen

Danach glaubte ich, ich hätte ihn pfeifend
Auf einer Brücke stehen gesehen
Ich fragte ihn nach der Zeit
Aber als er sich umdrehte, sah ich
Dass er es gar nicht war

Ich suche ihn immer noch
Ich suche ihn immer noch

Ich sah ihn am Flughafen
Wo er auf einem Stuhle saß
Ich winkte ihm, aber ich glaube nicht, dass er mich bemerkte
Ich habe das komische Gefühl
Dass ich weiß, wer er ist

Herr X...

 

[fox69]

"Hiroshima Mon Amour"

"Hiroshima Mon Amour"


Somehow we drifted off too far
Communicate like distant stars
Splintered voices down the 'phone
The sunlit dust, the smell of roses drifts, oh no
Someone waits behind the door
Hiroshima, mon amour

Riding inter-city trains
Dressed in European grey
Riding out to echo beach
A million memories in the trees and sands, oh no
How can I ever let them go?
Hiroshima, mon amour

Meet beneath the autumn lake
Where only echoes penetrate
Walk through polaroids of the past
Features fused like shattered glass, the sun's so low
Turns our silhouettes to gold
Hiroshima, mon amour

 

[fox69]

"Hymn"

"Hymn"


Give us this day
All that you showed me
The power and the glory
'Til my kingdom comes

[Chorus:]
Give us this day
All that you showed me
The power and the glory
'Til my kingdom comes
Give me all the
Storybook told me
The faith and the glory
'Til my kingdom comes

And they say that in our time
All that's good will fall from grace
Even saints would turn their face
In our time

And they told us that in our days
Different words said in different ways
Have other meaning from he who says
In our time

[Chorus]

And they say that in our time
We would reap from their legacy
We would learn from what they had seen
In our time

And they told us that in our days
We would know what was high on high
We would follow and not defy
In our time

[Chorus]

Faithless in faith
We must behold the things we see

[Chorus]

[Chorus]

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"I Am Alive"

"I Am Alive"


I, I'm moving through time
Being human by design
Life
Unfulfilled but divine
Never ending
How could I be so blind?
What is this world
Doing to me?
Notwithstanding the lies
All the tears I have cried
I've opened my eyes

[Chorus:]
I am alive
I am who I want to be
Walls are falling
I am alive
And this is my destiny
The king is calling
I am alive

Far from the maddening crowd
Playing mind games
Way out loud
Pictures of heroes
Lined up one by one
Embracing the future
I have begin

[Chorus]

Passing strangers
Artificial life
Slowly falling
Look out for me
I am alive

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"I Can't Stay Long"

"I Can't Stay Long"


I can feel
The turning of the tides
Pulling away the night
Like a sheet from over me

In summer time
I dissolve to a beach
And everywhere seems to be
Just a flicker on a silent screen

Because I
I can't stay long
Let the sky roll on
Just a flicker and the crowd moves on

In winter
Overcoats close in
And the snow tastes of tin
On the steps of any station

I'd like to glide
In the long green light
Of a July afternoon
Sliding down a vague conversation

Because I
I can't stay long
When the moment comes
Just a glance and the glance is gone

Watch closely
As a man with a hat
And a girl with a map
Synchronize with the track and they go away

I need to drift
Through all the walls
And let the scenery dissolve
Into some other life

Because I
I can't stay long
Let the sky roll on
Just a glance and the glance is gone

I
I can't stay long
When the right time comes
I'll dissolve

 

[fox69]

"I Never Wanted To Begin"

"I Never Wanted To Begin"


Shadows cut across as stolen promises were broke
We wound our watch to stretch the time
In case that no-one got the joke
I never wanted to begin
Name that sin
Name that sin

Dim and distant kisses chill before I catch my death
Etch every name upon the door
And note the ones who never rest
We never knew who'd be within
Name that sin
Name that sin

Shattered captains climbing gates to hold new lamps of fame
For mad kings rowing over lakes
Connecting rooms in black sedans
They never wanted to begin
Name that sin
Name that sin

Evidence is stripped and torn and hidden in the minds
The negatives have all been fogged and blurred
Reduced a thousand times
We never wanted to fall in
Name that sin
Name that sin

 

[fox69]

"I Remember (Death In The Afternoon)"

"I Remember (Death In The Afternoon)"


We turned the dial, we heard the news and laughed, we don't know why
We drank the wine and spoke of times we knew of days gone by
We flicked through photographs we had, somehow they made us sad
Remembering the times we used to have, it made us cry

Oh I remember death in the afternoon

A silence fell about the room with harsh and heavy calm
The lovers and the friends all felt the same, it kept us warm
We raised our glass and drank to times we had, but'd see no more
The pictures of the past would haunt us still, and there remains

Oh I remember death in the afternoon

[Chorus x2]

 

[fox69]

"I Want To Be A Machine"

"I Want To Be A Machine"


I found the bones of all your ghosts
Locked in the wishing well
While birdsong gourmets dragged empty nets
I slumbered in my shell

Im Mitternacht, die Mensch-Maschine
Kissed me on my eyes
I rose and left the fire-ladies
Glowing lonely in the night
With all the pornographers
Burning torches beneath the sea

I want to be a machine
I want to be a machine
I want to be a machine

I stole a cathode face from newscasts
And a crumbling fugue of songs
From the reservoir of video souls
In the lakes beneath my tongue

In flesh of ash and silent movies
I walked that boulevard again
A nebula of unfinished creatures
From the lifetimes of my friends

I howled your innocence has depraved me

I want to be a machine
I want to be a machine
I want to be a machine

Broadcast me, scrambled clean
Or free me from this flesh
Let the armchair cannibals take their fill
In every cell across wilderness

We'll trip such a strangled tango
We'll waltz a wonderland affair
Let's run to meet the tides tomorrow
Leave all emotion dying there
In the star cold
Beyond all of your dreams

I want to be a machine
I want to be a machine
I want to be a machine

Ah!

 

[fox69]

"Ideals"

"Ideals"


The cryings over
The crying is done
We are believing someone
Predicting inspiration
Were never wrong

You make out you know how it feels
Surrounded by suffered ideals

But why is it over?
So why is it done?
When we start defending someone
Whose lost reason.. for the otherside

You make out you know how it feels
Discovered its not what it seems
Life you choose

Tomorrow will mean, will mean so much to you
So laugh, don't, cry
Behind the scheme, with endings no belief
You never would

These worries I've played
What is world worth mean here?

You make out you know how it feels
You strangle yourself with your..
The magic has lost its appeal
Discovered its not what it..
To make out you know how it feels
Surrounded your suffering ideals